I have a friend that is natural with a texture of 3b/3c. She used to get her hair straightened a lot until I started educating her on how damaging heat can be to her hair. Her hair looks thinner than what I remember it being and she had straight ends. So, since then she cut off her damaged parts and started wearing her hair curly more often. Now her hair is healthier after nine weeks without heat. This past weekend she went back to the same hairstylist to get it straighten. I got a text from her and well guess what the stylist tells her about straightening her hair:
"My hairdresser said since my hair is so healthy and so naturally curly that I can afford to flat iron my hair every week. Ex. Wash and flat iron on a sunday and just wrap the other 6 days, then repeat on Sunday. She said the blogs are true but it depends on the person's hair and some people's hair is thinner and not as curly as others."
I know curly textures that are not as tight, require less heat for flat ironing, but I still think that once a week is too much stress on the hair and heat is heat. As far as i know she doesn't deep condition or anything unless she goes to a salon. I haven't flat ironed my hair for almost a year, because during my 10 month transistion I did every 2 weeks and had so much damage. My texture is 3c/4a. She even keeps pushing me to straighten my hair. I told her no, that my focus is on keeping my hair healthy and growing it out this year, hence the sew-ins.
I've given her advice numerous of times and even gave her websites to visit like this one and websites to natural products that are very good like Qhemet. I guess some people just have to learn on their own.
"My hairdresser said since my hair is so healthy and so naturally curly that I can afford to flat iron my hair every week. Ex. Wash and flat iron on a sunday and just wrap the other 6 days, then repeat on Sunday. She said the blogs are true but it depends on the person's hair and some people's hair is thinner and not as curly as others."
I know curly textures that are not as tight, require less heat for flat ironing, but I still think that once a week is too much stress on the hair and heat is heat. As far as i know she doesn't deep condition or anything unless she goes to a salon. I haven't flat ironed my hair for almost a year, because during my 10 month transistion I did every 2 weeks and had so much damage. My texture is 3c/4a. She even keeps pushing me to straighten my hair. I told her no, that my focus is on keeping my hair healthy and growing it out this year, hence the sew-ins.
I've given her advice numerous of times and even gave her websites to visit like this one and websites to natural products that are very good like Qhemet. I guess some people just have to learn on their own.
