SelfStyled
Well-Known Member
Hey everryone,
Ladies, I am in need of encouragement/advice. I feel so sad and frustrated. After my last touchup and corrective, my hair has been breaking, breaking, breaking. At first I thought it was cause the stylist did the corrective with a no lye relaxer. But now I realize that my hair is breaking pretty much where the corrective was applied. The corrected hair seems overprocessed. My end look even thinner now because I am having so much mid shaft breakage. It also seems like I am doing having a loss of elasticity.
Any suggestions for breakage? How can I increase elasticity?
Right now I wash 1-2x a week. I alternate between Con Poo and Trader Joe's nourish spa. I have been DCing with Nexxus Humectress, and using the scarf method to air dry. I moisturize 1-2x a day with profective BreakFree or NTM and seal with Hot Six Oil or castor oil.
I just see all my length dreams going out the window...... I see a lot of trims in my future. Of course the underprocessed parts would have to be in the middle of my strands....
I have been upping the moisture because my hair feels as dry as the Sahara desert. When I do a strand test,my hair has very little stretch. It seemed over proteinated (if that's even a word), that's why I have been using the moisture. I did a henna treatment a month ago (before I realized my hair was breaking mid shaft)and my hair has been really dry ever since.
Would a light protein help or make matters worse?
The corrective was 8 weeks ago.
Thanks so much for any tips suggestion, you have.
Ladies, I am in need of encouragement/advice. I feel so sad and frustrated. After my last touchup and corrective, my hair has been breaking, breaking, breaking. At first I thought it was cause the stylist did the corrective with a no lye relaxer. But now I realize that my hair is breaking pretty much where the corrective was applied. The corrected hair seems overprocessed. My end look even thinner now because I am having so much mid shaft breakage. It also seems like I am doing having a loss of elasticity.
Any suggestions for breakage? How can I increase elasticity?
Right now I wash 1-2x a week. I alternate between Con Poo and Trader Joe's nourish spa. I have been DCing with Nexxus Humectress, and using the scarf method to air dry. I moisturize 1-2x a day with profective BreakFree or NTM and seal with Hot Six Oil or castor oil.
I just see all my length dreams going out the window...... I see a lot of trims in my future. Of course the underprocessed parts would have to be in the middle of my strands....
I have been upping the moisture because my hair feels as dry as the Sahara desert. When I do a strand test,my hair has very little stretch. It seemed over proteinated (if that's even a word), that's why I have been using the moisture. I did a henna treatment a month ago (before I realized my hair was breaking mid shaft)and my hair has been really dry ever since.
Would a light protein help or make matters worse?
The corrective was 8 weeks ago.
Thanks so much for any tips suggestion, you have.