I would try to give my roommate, from this past year, advice that I learned from the hair boards, but of course she didn't listen. When I started washing my hair more often, she'd say "Ashley, you are NOT White!" I would just dismiss her comments and go on about my merry way. She washes her hair maybe once every 10 days or so (which is completely fine with me), she doesn't protect her hair at night with anything, and she uses grease and curling irons on her hair EVERY MORNING. When I suggested to her that she should roll her hair at night so that she wouldn't have to put so much heat on it, she surprisingly took that advice. The only bad thing is that they were sponge rollers; they'd suck up all the moisture. Those things would always have pieces of hair stickin out of 'em from her hair breakage. After taking out the rollers, she would still put grease and curling irons on it...I don't get it, lol. Like I said, I tried giving her tips but she says that her damage was from a relaxer gone bad, which is understandable. But c'mon!!! That bad relaxer was like 2-3 years ago, and you've been sportin a very short cut ever since then. That "bad relaxer" should have grown out by now!!! She just wasn't properly taking care of her hair. Oh well, it's not my problem since she refuses to listen.