ok ladies, I have read and read and I’m a bit confused on the whole heat, no heat, indirect-direct heat-hooded dryers vs. hand dryers..etc..etcerplexed The front top part and edges of my hair has been weaken by hair color-(blond) and way to tight sew-ins and I assume partial relaxers (since I only relaxed on the edges, top and nape since this was the hair keep out when I got a sew-in), so my hair has broken off in the top, edges and nape, but the rest of my hair is past shoulder length.
I want to save and restore my hair the best way possible, of course I have purchased many of the products mentioned on this board in the past month and I have gotten an 1/2 inch of growth on the broken part of my hair since I have been using the OCT, however I HAVE NOT had a relaxer in about 6 mths now, my roots are sooo tight is murder when I wash my hair so after I detangle and try to comb out they only way for me to-1.dry my hair is a hand dryer and 2. try to barely-straighten out the kinks is a hand dryer, I only wash my hair once a week or week in a half right now because of this. My edges are just nappy-no tightly coiled, nothing straightens them except a relaxer! Anyway I've been reading where it has been suggested to use a hooded dryer its less damaging on the hair, but if I did that then all I would be doing is drying a tightly coiled kinky not able to comb thru afro and that IS NOT the look I want be any means. I'm hesitant to put a relaxer in my head right now because I thought I needed to give my hair a break from the chemicals and I wanted to get it back healthy first. So is using a hand dryer after I wash my hair all that bad??? What else could I do? Since I do not have a nice texture of hair that does not get all beedeebee?
I want to save and restore my hair the best way possible, of course I have purchased many of the products mentioned on this board in the past month and I have gotten an 1/2 inch of growth on the broken part of my hair since I have been using the OCT, however I HAVE NOT had a relaxer in about 6 mths now, my roots are sooo tight is murder when I wash my hair so after I detangle and try to comb out they only way for me to-1.dry my hair is a hand dryer and 2. try to barely-straighten out the kinks is a hand dryer, I only wash my hair once a week or week in a half right now because of this. My edges are just nappy-no tightly coiled, nothing straightens them except a relaxer! Anyway I've been reading where it has been suggested to use a hooded dryer its less damaging on the hair, but if I did that then all I would be doing is drying a tightly coiled kinky not able to comb thru afro and that IS NOT the look I want be any means. I'm hesitant to put a relaxer in my head right now because I thought I needed to give my hair a break from the chemicals and I wanted to get it back healthy first. So is using a hand dryer after I wash my hair all that bad??? What else could I do? Since I do not have a nice texture of hair that does not get all beedeebee?
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