prettygrl
New Member
Ladies,
I need your expertise.
1.) Is it normal for there to be some hair loss during the relaxing process?
2.) How do you know if you are allergic to relaxers?
In Feb 2004 I got an Affirm relaxer from my hair stylist.
When I came in to get my hair done, it had been about 4 months since my last touch up.
My hair stylist (of 10 years) just sighed, and was basically telling me that I should not try to extend my relaxers because my hair is extremly coarse and thick. I noticed she didn't apply the relaxer like normal, as far as parting the hair into sections and such. She just used her hands and put the relaxer on. I'm sure she overlapped. While she was doing it I had a bad feeling.
Anyway, when she was washing the relaxer out clumps and clumps of my hair started coming out. It was enough to make a small pony tail. She showed it to me, and told me that I should never try to extend b/c of my hair type.
After it was styled the damage was not really noticable, although it looked thinner to me. To my knowledge, this had never happened before, at least to this extent. I do remember a few times when my mom relaxed my hair at home I had some hair come out during the relaxer application. (but not a lot)
A few months after that happened, I exprienced extreme breakage. During this whole period I was under a tremendous amount of stress.
In September I moved, I went to my mom's hair stylist who applied an Affirm mild relaxer. She told me that no hair came out as she was rinsing the relaxer out.
Well, my mom's hair stylist moved! It has been almost 5 months since I've had a relaxer. I found a new stylist who has been washing my hair and straightening it w/ a Chi flat iron. I like the results....but I love to run so my hair reverts very quickly.
Now, I am terrified to get another relaxer for fear that my hair will start coming out again...but I crave the convenience...
What do you think?
TIA!
I need your expertise.
1.) Is it normal for there to be some hair loss during the relaxing process?
2.) How do you know if you are allergic to relaxers?
In Feb 2004 I got an Affirm relaxer from my hair stylist.
When I came in to get my hair done, it had been about 4 months since my last touch up.
My hair stylist (of 10 years) just sighed, and was basically telling me that I should not try to extend my relaxers because my hair is extremly coarse and thick. I noticed she didn't apply the relaxer like normal, as far as parting the hair into sections and such. She just used her hands and put the relaxer on. I'm sure she overlapped. While she was doing it I had a bad feeling.
Anyway, when she was washing the relaxer out clumps and clumps of my hair started coming out. It was enough to make a small pony tail. She showed it to me, and told me that I should never try to extend b/c of my hair type.
After it was styled the damage was not really noticable, although it looked thinner to me. To my knowledge, this had never happened before, at least to this extent. I do remember a few times when my mom relaxed my hair at home I had some hair come out during the relaxer application. (but not a lot)
A few months after that happened, I exprienced extreme breakage. During this whole period I was under a tremendous amount of stress.
In September I moved, I went to my mom's hair stylist who applied an Affirm mild relaxer. She told me that no hair came out as she was rinsing the relaxer out.
Well, my mom's hair stylist moved! It has been almost 5 months since I've had a relaxer. I found a new stylist who has been washing my hair and straightening it w/ a Chi flat iron. I like the results....but I love to run so my hair reverts very quickly.
Now, I am terrified to get another relaxer for fear that my hair will start coming out again...but I crave the convenience...
What do you think?
TIA!
. One time I was at the salon while my daughter was getting a touchup and after they rinsed out the relaxer the stylist took the hair that was in the sink strainer out and showed it to me... She said "This is what came out, and this is nothing!!" It was a ball of hair less than the size of a golf ball... I still went like this 
and it also made me wonder how much of MY hair comes out when they relax it... they've never shown me, and frankly, I'm afraid to ask! 
