Well my relaxer treatment has been fine although I think that it could do with going down in strength as my hair was pretty limp after a few days and I really do not like that. However what is more pressing to me right now is that my hair is now down to my armpits I can see that it is damaged in places. It makes me sad because it seems that all the heat that I put on my hair earlier this year caused serious breakage and dryness that now having reached a goal point I can see more clearly.
This has happened to me before in 2004, my hair had grown to a beautiful length, or so I thought until my cousin pointed out that my hair needed a trim. I thought she was just jealous but checked myself into a hair dresser anyway. I was smug sitting in that chair, I had been doing hot oil treatments, using mild relaxers and it had really paid off. Then the hair dresser pointed out that the back of my hair was very uneven and sure enough my nape had broken off leaving a space in my hair line. I cut my hair and then disheartened by my loss of progress I simply decided to give up and shave my hair and go natural. That was when my serial transitioning began and ended only two weeks ago, six years later.
I was really upset at first because then I had thought it was colour treatments I had done, but as the damaged has occurred much higher the hair shaft then my last colour two years ago I had to conclude that it was something that I had done since to damage my hair. Then it hit me, back then I flat ironed my hair every week after air drying. Due to my hairs thickness I tend to do a really good job on the fine haired nape and hair line but the middle of the hair gets less heat. Except when I heat trained, then I was very through, to the point where I could smell burning hair, my hair was dry from all the heat but I was convinced it would work so I carried on going. For all the good its done me I should have just taken a pair of scissors and chopped parts of my hair off.
So as a result I have decided to give up heat, in all honesty I have noticed that my GHD's are too hot for me and I only blow dry on cool. However even that has caused further breakage and its clear that my relaxed hair can not handle heat and I am never going to have waist length hair unless I stop using it. Well a couple of strands will get there but nobody likes that look.
I also consider my hair to be course but I have realised that not all of it is, only the crown, so I am going to stop using course relaxers, I am now going to use mild only. I will begin at the point that needs the most time and end at the part that needs the least. Hopefully these changes will stop further damage occurring. 2012 will be the year of the air dry style :-)
