yuck, dryness!
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Topic: yuck, dryness!
Posted By: AndiCandi
Subject: yuck, dryness!
Date Posted: Aug 7, 2006 at 3:30pm
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Okay so a while back I decided to go natural, right? Well it's
been a few weeks and now my hair is starting to become very dry and
brittle. I was wondering why this is happening and what I can do
to stop it. Am I washing it too much or not enough? I'm
already only washing it once a week or maybe every two weeks or
sometimes twice in one week. I don't really have many products to
work with either...just some leave in conditioner and the regular
shampoo and conditioner. Do I need anything more?? Is it
the alcohol in the products? I use Prostyle hair gel ALOT and I
heard that it has alcohol in it. But how else am I gonna slick it
back with that extra strong hold? I guess I need a little help,
especially since I'm about to highlight my hair and put it into twists
before school starts on the 14th. But there's still good news out
of all of this. My hair is growing!!!
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Replies: 2
Posted By: AndiCandi
Date Posted: Aug 7, 2006 at 3:30pm
| Okay so a while back I decided to go natural, right? Well it's been a few weeks and now my hair is starting to become very dry and brittle. I was wondering why this is happening and what I can do to stop it. Am I washing it too much or not enough? I'm already only washing it once a week or maybe every two weeks or sometimes twice in one week. I don't really have many products to work with either...just some leave in conditioner and the regular shampoo and conditioner. Do I need anything more?? Is it the alcohol in the products? I use Prostyle hair gel ALOT and I heard that it has alcohol in it. But how else am I gonna slick it back with that extra strong hold? I guess I need a little help, especially since I'm about to highlight my hair and put it into twists before school starts on the 14th. But there's still good news out of all of this. My hair is growing!!! |
Posted By: soon2b
Date Posted: Aug 7, 2006 at 6:34pm
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The alcohol in gel can be very drying sometimes. If I use a gel that is
drying I put a little smooth-n-shine on top of it...or any other
conditioning gel. It sounds like your hair may not be getting enough
moisture. You may even want to try co-washing, which is using a light
cone free conditioner (suave/VO5) and applying it like a shampoo.
Sometimes shampoo can be drying.It just takes experimentation with
products. A lot of products you used on your permed hair may not work
so great with your natural hair.
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Posted By: ladykaya
Date Posted: Aug 8, 2006 at 12:16pm
| You may want to try deep conditioning. That is very important during transitioning. You can use lekair cholesterol, or ORS hair mayo, or moisturizing paks. All of these help with bringing the moisture and strength back into hair. !!$ Rad``dp2 ! 0" "2 "2 " ,!)$)-, $),%8 B !( |