muddblood21
September 29th, 2014, 12:37 PM
First off, let me say thank you all so much for letting me lurk and skim advice and tips. My hair is so much more healthy and happy with my new bleach free heat free attitude! However, I have been pondering just how worth it not using heat tools really is for me. I know, I know... heat=damage. I have been restraining myself from using it, I promise! After struggling with the longing to use my fire tongs, I finally had the little boost of encouragement I needed. I was visiting a friend, who happens to be a hair stylist, and she talked me into a microtrim after I had mentioned that I was cutting my own hair now (God bless the internet and Faye's self trim method!). She was really nice about it and insisted I let her dust my ends and that she would take off 1/4 inch and no more than that. So I let my hair down and she took a look. She was impressed! She told me that it was the most even self cut she had ever seen and I had basically no dead ends...even after a mega bleach disaster (which is still not all the way grown out/cut off). She even told me that I had the best "ombre" she had ever seen and asked if I did that myself. I explained that it was just the old stuff growing out and that I was going natural. She also noted that it was so soft and had lots of shine, even in the bleached parts. She asked what kind of flat iron I had and I told her it was a cheap Revlon one but that I was no longer using it. She was baffled but impressed. LOL She said "Well, what you are doing is definitely working for you, keep it up!" She also confirmed my suspicions about Pantene and my big shed I have been suffering (I have already switched shampoos and it is slowly getting much better, thank God!)...I know a lot of people enjoy Pantene, but my scalp/hair apparently hate it with the fire of a thousand suns, so you all can have my share ;)
Anyway, I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to all you guys and gals on here for the help you have given! :toast:
Anyway, I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to all you guys and gals on here for the help you have given! :toast: