Pennefeather
Well-Known Member
I had a terrible experience today, and lost a lot of hair to ssk. I'm trying to determine why everything suddenly went wrong. The only new item that I haven't used before is the nettle tea.
I started out by prepooing overnight with a combination of Nubian Heritage Indian Hemp and Tamanu growth and strengthen treatment masque, honey, and a small amount of KeraVeda alter ego ayurvedic oil. I used this conditioner last week as my deep conditioner. Frankly, I've never been impressed by it, but it thought that it might be helpful since I am experiencing a lot of breaking lately.
This morning, I began by washing my hair with Chagrin Valley henna shampoo bar twice. I have used this for the last month regularly with no problems. It doesn't detangle like AsIAm, but it also doesn't leave my hair terribly tangled. Then I did a green tea/nettle tea rinse. I added in a little fenugreek. Hibiscus , and brahmi. I used this same mix last week without the nettle tea, which I just picked up yesterday at Whole Foods. I let that sit for ten minutes, and then added ORS hair mayonnaise, honey, some more Alter Ego, and sat under the dryer for 40 minutes.
When I rinse out my hair, I used added some of Naturelle Growth's deep conditioner, and let that sit a few minutes. I love all of her conditioners, and normally find that they detangle my hair like magic, but not today.
My hair was tangled before I used the Chi serum that I use weekly, and tangled afterwards. I couldn't comb it because there were so many SSKs. In addition, the areas that I could comb through felt stiff, and rough - a far cry from the way my hair normally feels.
I don't have a lot of patience compared to some people who say that they spend forty minutes or hours detangling their hair. I was having such a hard time that I slather some more conditioner on my hair and was able to slowly get the comb through. The. I rinsed again, and put some more Chi on my hair.
The whole experience was terrible. I know that I ripped out a lot of hair. There was easily four or five times as much hair in my comb as usual. This damage was on top of the damage that I had in the spring when I had a six month relaxer stretch. I'm just trying to figure out how this happened since my wash sessions as usually not problems. Is it possible that adding the nettle tea made my hair so rough and tangled?
I started out by prepooing overnight with a combination of Nubian Heritage Indian Hemp and Tamanu growth and strengthen treatment masque, honey, and a small amount of KeraVeda alter ego ayurvedic oil. I used this conditioner last week as my deep conditioner. Frankly, I've never been impressed by it, but it thought that it might be helpful since I am experiencing a lot of breaking lately.
This morning, I began by washing my hair with Chagrin Valley henna shampoo bar twice. I have used this for the last month regularly with no problems. It doesn't detangle like AsIAm, but it also doesn't leave my hair terribly tangled. Then I did a green tea/nettle tea rinse. I added in a little fenugreek. Hibiscus , and brahmi. I used this same mix last week without the nettle tea, which I just picked up yesterday at Whole Foods. I let that sit for ten minutes, and then added ORS hair mayonnaise, honey, some more Alter Ego, and sat under the dryer for 40 minutes.
When I rinse out my hair, I used added some of Naturelle Growth's deep conditioner, and let that sit a few minutes. I love all of her conditioners, and normally find that they detangle my hair like magic, but not today.
My hair was tangled before I used the Chi serum that I use weekly, and tangled afterwards. I couldn't comb it because there were so many SSKs. In addition, the areas that I could comb through felt stiff, and rough - a far cry from the way my hair normally feels.
I don't have a lot of patience compared to some people who say that they spend forty minutes or hours detangling their hair. I was having such a hard time that I slather some more conditioner on my hair and was able to slowly get the comb through. The. I rinsed again, and put some more Chi on my hair.
The whole experience was terrible. I know that I ripped out a lot of hair. There was easily four or five times as much hair in my comb as usual. This damage was on top of the damage that I had in the spring when I had a six month relaxer stretch. I'm just trying to figure out how this happened since my wash sessions as usually not problems. Is it possible that adding the nettle tea made my hair so rough and tangled?
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