I was really convinced to tex-lax, from some of the positive things I saw on the board, so I texlaxed my natural hair after 15 months of nappy-world (pre-LHCF days), I tex-laxed aka underprocessed with Optimum.
That was great for the wet look, but I had to learn how to deal with it, for the str8 look, what worked for it, you have to treat texlax a bit diff. than bone str IMO. Texlaxed hair loves slip (prone to tangles), like oils and cones
. I'm now 20 months in, post nappyworld, after the first texlax I decided to go 85% straight, not texlaxed, which i think is like 50% (curl patterm will be present). with ORS. I try to stay between 80-85%, so i wont overprocess during overlap.
Also, I learned from the board, to coat the hair with vaseline, I chose a thinner grease, first, then vaseline, because when u have to part and comb thru, it has more slip, and will make it is easier to part thru quickly, and apply the relaxer. At the last stage, like 2 minutes before i am to rinse out the relaxer, I use the wide tooth comb, and smooth all my hair out, not necessarily smothering it in perm, but this gave me the best perm I ever had, before I was using vaseline or nothing, my hair was hard to part thru, and apply the relaxer, i found the overlapped was all tangly, thus when i rinsed and dried, i have nice str8 new growth but the overlap was tangle and crunchy. No more.
1/2 inch from ASL
Bunning the entire year of 2007,
for Healthy thick BSL Xmas 2007