It's been a month now, and my hair has gone from very loose waves, to loose curls (2c/3a). At first, my hair could only come out in very loose waves (2b), but over the last few weeks i've been experimenting with different products to get my lovely curls back. Now i've binned my hair stairghteners and im going back to my natural curls. Over the last 10 years, maybe a handfull of times a year i would wear my hair curly, but each year my curls would become looser and looser. When i was about 13 y/o i started to get bullied for having an afro, it was so upsetting, so i started stairghtening my hair everyday. Im 23 y/o i was born with 3c hair, very tight ringlets/afro. and lay off the flat iron! DĪlso leaving conditioner and combing your hair when you take a shower is a good trick for easy styling! cut your ends! that gets rid of the over worked and straight pieces in a uniformal way. you are just going to have to take things slow and be patient. I would just scoop my hair back from ear to ear and put a clip in it. so wearing it like this allowed me to where the curly part natural and still look nice. so if it needs to be touched up just leave it or wash ur hair and go back to natural ) then i would begin to wear my hair in a loose "half up half down" hair style. I have been natural for about a year and my hair looks wonderful! i know it can be tempting to straighten your hair.so i would cut back to only straightening the hair only once a month ( and that means just ONCE daily touch ups on roots and ends are NOT allowed. It was very curly underneath and at the bottom and near the front and on top it was straight pieces!! Then i just had a revolution! I wanted to be natural, the only thing was, my hair had been through so much "stress" with the tight ponytails and flat irons. I know exactly how you feel! I use to ALWAYS pull my hair back into a tight ponytail or bun and i would straighten my hair often. Always scrunch hair upwards, because that keeps the curl formation from breaking. When you get out of the shower, scrunch it upward with a towel to dry it, then use whatever products you like on your hair, but use the same scrunching technique to apply any product. Brush your hair only when you're in the shower and it's slathered in conditioner. If you're brushing your hair when you get out of the shower, stop. Mixed Chicks is supposed to be pretty awesome stuff, so it's highly doubtful, but it can't hurt to check. If you're using a leave-in conditioner, you might want to check to make sure that it's not too heavy for your hair everyone's hair reacts differently to it, and not all leave-in leaves the same weight on your hair. If you use some sort of gel on your hair before you use the rollers, it should stay like a charm, though it might need a little hair spray. Well, if you don't want to use heat, you can always use the standard rollers put them in damp hair at night, sleep on them (the foam kind, not those horrible velcro-like things, those are EVIL), and take them out in the morning. If you use a really good heat protection spray and keep up a conditioning and protein regimen, it shouldn't damage your hair that much more, if at all. Something that you could consider is if only patches of your hair are straight, you can curl it with a curling iron while it's growing out. Also the aforementioned mayonnaise is really good for conditioning, if you can stand to have to smell on your hair for a half-hour or so. That's how I keep mine in great condition, even though I dye it monthly, if not weekly.ĭeep conditioning treatments are great as well I recommend Aussie's 3-minute Miracle or one of Pantene's hair masques. Just leave it on for about a half-hour, then rinse with warm water and condition as usual. If you take an egg, a few tablespoons of mayonnaise, and a teaspoon of olive oil, it'll do wonders for damaged hair. Protein treatments are great for damaged hair. I'm not sure if your natural curl pattern will come back completely unless you grow it out, but there are some ways that you can nurture it back to health and maybe regain your curl. Well, it sounds like your hair needs a little TLC.
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