Copasetic, I'm so glad you are on here. I love your textures on your avatar. How do you care for your hair or what works best for you?
I have the same problem with "incessant tangling" especially with the really coarse areas of my hair. Have you tried the tangle teezer? It works really well on my difficult areas. I have to admit the sound it makes sounds bad, but I don't feel like it is eating my hair because of its multi layered lengths of teeth.
I also find it interesting what people think my ethnicity is. sigh, but I guess that's what makes being multi-racial nice. I just don't like the idea of being attached to multiple stereo types. Le sigh!
Copasetic, I'm so glad you are on here. I love your textures on your avatar. How do you care for your hair or what works best for you?
OMG! Your tips are so useful to me! Thanks a million! I know now to "accept having to use multiple products" to work for my hair. Your hair is absolutely gorgeous along with all the people in this thread. So far I've been using a combination of coconut oil, and olive oil for my ends. On really humid days I would add some biosilk serum to the coarsest parts of my hair since they are so fragile to breakage. Shampoo products I like that are working for me is:
Tresseme soft and breakage control ( both shampoos and conditioners)
Mane N' Tail
Biosilk
coconut oil
EVOO
Hair utensils that work for me:
Hair claws
little black barrets
Tangle tezer for after detangling with a wooden comb, and before I use my wooden comb I finger comb my hair everywhere.
Im multi-racial too. Father's got afro and mother's got fine blonde european hair. I got the black colour but very straight hair.
As the saying goes, it pays to be patient!
Cherokee, Scottish, Black. My hair at the crown is finger-width wavy. At the nape and sides, silky straight. Oil and henna flatten my hair. Humidity, SMT and Nexxus products give me a wilted Afro.
People ask if I am Filipino, Dominican, Puerto Rican, Italian, Greek, from the Seychelles, Creole, from India, First Nations or just tan.
I love my hair though -- it's like sculpture.
I'll definitely stay away from Nexxus products. I have to agree with you about your hair like "sculpture," in a way I have so many hairs that are pliable and I can style it easily. However, I find that the maintenance of having multi-textured hair difficult because I have to use multiple products that work for each area around my head. I have to take really good care of the coarsest areas because they are more susceptible to breakage rather than underneath nape of my crown where it is straight. Oils definitely flatten my hair, except coconut oil which make it super curly on my coarsest areas.
I find it so interesting that the different textures need different products, even though it feels very much like "d'oh! why didn't I think of that!?"
And the imagery of the different textures fighting with each other makes such perfect sense to me!
I'm also interested in the fact that the textures are reversed, my nape hair is the tightest, curliest, and for y'all it's the straightest.
Genetics are amazing.
this is a picture of my nape hair behaving very nicely for a change: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...4917084&type=3
and this is a good shot of the canopy: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater
Last edited by Kina; February 20th, 2012 at 08:17 AM. Reason: pics didn't show
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Oooh girl I like your metaphor "of the different textures fighting with each other." You have hair that I envy. I've always been fascinated at how genetics really surprises me. Here's more exhibits for you all!
Exhibit B Degree of Hair textures when wet:
Exhibit C Air dried after being clarified
Notice the degree of kinky coarse hairs to waves, hard to see the straight hairs, and yes whenever I clarify, I get dry flakes. I did not put my EVOO and Coconut oil combinations because I wanted to capture the natural state of all my textures for you all.
Exhibit D Hair half up to show more degrees of my multi hair textures
This thread has been such a joy. It makes me realize that all of us in this thread transcend the notion of hair typing because we have them all in each of our individual heads, from kinky to straight. I've finally accepted that there will never be a universal product for my hair (except Tangle Teezer which claims to be universally for all hairtypes), and that I just need to continue to use multiple products that work for different parts or areas of my head.
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