HaIr bLoG: AuGuSt 2010

      I got my hair relaxed today after a 12 week stretch (was supposed to be 13 weeks but I was experiencing some breakage that worried me so I did a strong protein treatment on Tuesday and relaxed today). As usual I went to the salon because I don't self-relax. Unfortunately the salon I usually go to had been closed down so I went to a new place today. Before the stylist relaxed, I told her that I hadn't relaxed for 3 months and she told me that I shouldn't have waited that long and that for hair like mine I should wait two months tops, but I just smiled to myself its amazing how few people outside of this site know healthy hair care practices. Anyhow, she used Affirm for sensitive scalp (because almost every time I did my relaxer before my HHJ, I'd burn like paper, especially because previous stylists used to use things like coarse and super on me =p). Then she washed it out, put in a post relaxer treatment, neutralized, then put me under the dryer with a DC (Affirm 5 in 1 I think, I recognized the smell). Wrapped my hair, set me under the dryer for a bit, blow dried, trimmed (about 1/2-3/4 of an inch off) and then flat ironed (Lots of heat but I haven't used heat in my hair since my last relaxer in May and a month after that in June). And so...here are the results:

Relaxed after 12 weeks

       I'm loving my heath and loving the little length I got. Just a teensy wit disappointed that my hair seems farther along from my goal of SL/Full SL by Nov/Dec 2010 than I'd anticipated. But I will persevere. This was my longest and I would say my most successful stretch. This is because by the time I was ready for this stretch I had a set regimen and I had products that were working for my hair, unlike the first 4 months of my journey where it was pretty much trial and error with so many products. But for the last few months I've been able to narrow down to the products that make my hair sing, and so I'm looking forward to what I might get out of my next stretch. It's been 7.5 months since starting my journey and my hair has flourished in that time!