Self-Relaxing Questions

[ThinNnappy]

Salon Relaxers make my hair soft, sliky and nice-BUT THIN AND LIMP
(they used affirm in all my experinces)

Box perms my mom used in the past ( she tryed them all) made my hair thick ...but poofy and alittle dry

So heres my questions

1. Comming from affirm with dry type hair what would be a good box relaxer to use, and what about lye and no lye-does it matter?

2.What extra does anyone do and what can you do to make the results look better or not poofy?

 

[mblake8]

Sisclick(sp?) Helped me out alot with self relaxing about a week ago
http://p069.ezboard.com/fblackbeauty...ID =587.topic
is the link she gave me to look at. I used Minzani Regular relaxer( i think its lye but i could be wrong) I mixed it will olive oil and followed the rules in link i gave u and it came out GREAT!. I will NEVER go to a stylist again!

 

[ThinNnappy]

I just researched (i didnt know lye and no lye) and found out that the no-lye is what i was using and it kept my hair thick, didnt straighten it that much and the Calcium Hydroxide was making my hair dry.-and the lye relaxers are making my hair too thin, but with out the calcium it leaves my hair soft and shiny and straighter. I guess my question should have been

1. If lye is to strong, can you go back to no-lye
2. What can you do to a no-lye relaxer to make your hair soft and shiny

Its like i can either have healthy, thick and dry hair (no-lye box relaxer)
Or soft shiny, thinning hair (lye)

Or find a way to make the no-lye get the results of a lye relxer...
Is that impossible?

 

[ThinNnappy]

Sisclick(sp?) Helped me out alot with self relaxing about a week ago
http://p069.ezboard.com/fblackbeauty...ID =587.topic
is the link she gave me to look at. I used Minzani Regular relaxer( i think its lye but i could be wrong) I mixed it will olive oil and followed the rules in link i gave u and it came out GREAT!. I will NEVER go to a stylist again!

Thanks do you swith from lye to no lye relaxers with out problem?