Er, yes.
Since it started, I've been reading this thread with great excitement at the prospect of getting rid of the henna and indigo on the length of my hair. I have about a year and a half of natural roots that also had some very stubborn Manic Panic vampire red that I was thoroughly done with as well. Mandybeth's success with removing her manic panic with the Color Oops was very encouraging.
So last weekend I decided to take the Oops plunge. I left it on for 3 hours. I used the EC kind. Rinsed for about 35 minutes -shampooing with Johnson's baby shampoo (pure evil, I know) 3 times and Suave strawberry once. What can I say I really want this stuff out of my hair. I then left Tresseme Aloe and Avocado on my hair for 4 hours. Everything seemed fine. The manic panic is gone and the henna and indigo are lighter. Yay!
The next day seemed fine and I did a heavy coconut oiling on my hair overnight. Next day washed my hair and left Tresseme on for 30 minutes. When my hair had dried I did a french braid and went about my brassy rooted business. At the end on the day I noticed that the tassel of my braid (which I had been lying on) had a ton of freakishly 'L' and 'V' bent hairs. I'll skip quickly over the freaking out upon realizing that my hair felt really really wrong (I mean I bleached the hell out of my hair in the past and it didn't feel this un-hairlike) and wetting it and putting more moisturising conditioners on it...to get to the calming down and figuring out that it was desperate for protein (thank you LHC). I had my husband go get me Joico K-Pak Deep Penetrating Reconstructor the next morning (he initially came back with the Reconstructing Conditioner which I kept but sent him back out ). Even after using the Deep Penetrating Reconstructor (5 minutes with it on followed by 3 minutes with the Tresseme) my hair was still pretty weird. The next day stretch testing my hairs before, during and after I opted for using the Reconstructing Conditioner for 1 minute followed by 3 minutes of Tresseme. My hair is much much better though still a bit off. The hair on one side at the front of my hair line has had basically no root lift (not sure what that's about?) and is very soft. On someone else it might be normal on me it isn't. At this point I'm wondering if I can go ahead with more Oopsing or if I should go back to dying over just the henna and indigo with manic panic like I had been. I shan't be going near my natural roots with it again.
I should qualify this for other people out there that are hopeful about Oopsing the henna away but are concerned by my tale of stretchy, mushy haired woe. My protein debacle is in all likelihood my fault. Over the last couple of months I've been doing Vitamin C and Johnson's baby shampoo treatments on my hair to try and get the vampire red out. The last two times I did this there was some baking soda involved. All very cruel and unusual treatment for my poor hair and I assume the Oops just pushed it over the brink. But just a word of caution to monitor how your hair is doing. Oh and have some clue about protein and moisture...I didn't. Sometimes learning can be painful sometimes it can be stretchy and mushy.
My hair has always liked protein but since this has happened to it will I absolutely have to be giving it protein on a regular basis?
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