I do love how thick hair looks. But the combing. A long time ago I was considering getting my hair thinned out. I don't know exactly how they do it, but someone recommended it to me. But she was over the 'net and I didn't really know what her hair was like and I didn't know about going to a salon (I hate those places; they hurt) and getting it constantly maintained. I'm just not sure how it would look if I had it done because I've never seen pictures of it done on someone with hair like mine. I think they just cut chunks of your hair out. My hair doesn't hang or have any shape other than a round afro, so I don't know what they'd do.
Don't do it girl. My thought is they would take one of those razor combs or thinning shears through your hair, similar to how some men get their hair cut/maintained. To me, thinning does one of two things...First, it "slices" each strand, like using a potato peeler so that each strand "thins" out, which can and will lead to split ends and splits all the way up the shaft. Second, thinning the density or bulk of the whole head of hair by cutting strands down to the root(like you said, cuts chunks of your hair out) which doesn't sound right either, being that hair WILL eventually grow longer and then it will look like you have an afro at the base of your scalp and longer, thinner strands growing out of it. I know it doesn't make sense, but I can see it in my head
. I had a friend in elementary school, we'll call her "D", a white girl, who I thought had the most gorgeous head of hair. It was fire red(her natural color), it was 3c coily, frizzy and big. We were drawn to each other(I understand it now) as I was the only black girl in the class and she was the only big haired, frizzy, redhead (the redheaded stepchild, if you will, as her sister was a natural, bone straight, blond). She was always teased by the other white girls that had the long, bone straight, blond hair, or permed hair that looked more like waves than curls. My goodness, I can't believe I remember it like it was yesterday, that was almost 20 years ago!
Anyway, I am getting off of the subject...she would straighten her hair w/a curling iron, she would wear it in a braid a lot, she even resorted to IRONING her hair with the iron on the ironing board! When she told me she did that(after I asked her what she did different to her hair), I knew she had a problem with her hair. At that time in my life, Mom kept me in plaits and cornrows so I had no hair issues back then, I was only 10/11 yrs old and wasn't even thinking of getting a relaxer(mainly because me, my cousin, and another little black girl who had a Jherri curl, were the only 3 black girls in the school so there was no peer pressure). I said all that to say, I couldn't understand why "D" never liked her hair, I thought it was gorgeous.
So one day, she told me she was going to get her hair thinned out. I was like, "Huh?" Then she told me they were going to go through hair and thin it out with a razor(like a typical 10 or 11 year would know how to explain such a thing). She came to school the next week or so with this "not so bulky" hair and I could definitely see the difference. She loved it but as the school year passed and we went into the 7th or 8th grade, I noticed her big hair coming back at the roots. She told me the parts that were cut shorter, on the inside, were growing back and she would have to get it thinned again. I lost contact with "D" after junior high, but saw her about 7 or 8 years ago when I went back home to visit. She now sports a long, bone straight(still fire red, go "D"!
) hairstyle. It looks great but she now has a regular relaxer. We didn't talk about it much because we were discussing kids and marriage. I now know that "D", never got over her curly hair and probably doesn't think much of it now, but the thinning process was a no go for her. It's a quick, temporary fix. Imagine transitioning from a relaxer to natural hair, where the relaxed ends just hang there, lifeless, while the thick newgrowth is coming in full force. That's how her hair looked, thick and bulky at the root, with these, longer, thinner strands growing out of it.
I know this was long but it was on my mind and I just had to tell someone about it. Hubby doesn't understand these things.
I have not tried Elucence. There are lots of raves on the boards, so it's hard for me to choose one, especially after having been let down on so many other people's raves. I'll look out for it.
, yea right. i think some of my towels are the culprit too.
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