Khristopher
September 13th, 2018, 07:36 PM
Hey everyone, I hope this little story of mine at least helps someone avoid damage, or think better before doing something.
So, last month I had an important event and wanted to look my best for it. I figured I wanted to wear my hair lose, and I thought the best way to achieve it was loading my hair with cones and straighten it (I hadn't ironed my hair since 2012). I wanted to keep my hair looking tidy and avoid tangles.... ugh, if I knew. :doh:
My usual routine consist in washing once a week with h&s antidandruff shampoo diluted (prepoo heavy coconut oiling the night before) and conditioning with fermented rice water and herbal tea. Simple but effective for me! Well, this time I shampooed, applied a moisturizing conditioner, mixed a bit of protein conditioner on the ends, and layered a heavy cone conditioner over all of it. Left on for half an hour and rinsed, then a heat protectant. When it dried it was a mess! So, SO tangled, I just could not separate locks to detangle. I did what I could to detangle but it felt like velcro and wouldn't stay in place once detangled. I kept going and ironed, just a few passes on low heat, it looked okay-ish but not at all what I expected.
Well, having finished fighting with my hair I got dressed up and went about my day, quite sad because my hair was tangly, floaty and frizzy, not very shiny and felt rough, instead of the usual soft, shiny hair I have using herbal tea as conditioner.
Then, the day after the event, being at home resting I realized the worst: my ends were full of splits and breakage, like, 300% more than usual! shudder:I did a long, sad S&D session, and promised myself I wouldn't do this again, I won't touch an iron nor cones again, ever! I thought just once would not do so much harm, but it did. And the cones didn't even do what they're supposed to do. Yesterday I did another S&D and I still found more breackage than usual. I'm thinking of chopping a few inches instead of my monthly microtrim. And I was so close to fingertip....uuuuuuugh.
In conclusion, this wasn't worth at all, and the damage was more than I would have imagined. I was kinda inspired by looking at TorrinPaige videos, since she uses cones and heat without problems. But my hair is nowhere as nice nor resilient as hers is, so leasson learned!
Please, think twice before doing something that could damage your hair, even more so if it's going to be temporal. Really, it's not worth it :( keep your hair with the routine that makes it happy and you'll be happy as well!
So, last month I had an important event and wanted to look my best for it. I figured I wanted to wear my hair lose, and I thought the best way to achieve it was loading my hair with cones and straighten it (I hadn't ironed my hair since 2012). I wanted to keep my hair looking tidy and avoid tangles.... ugh, if I knew. :doh:
My usual routine consist in washing once a week with h&s antidandruff shampoo diluted (prepoo heavy coconut oiling the night before) and conditioning with fermented rice water and herbal tea. Simple but effective for me! Well, this time I shampooed, applied a moisturizing conditioner, mixed a bit of protein conditioner on the ends, and layered a heavy cone conditioner over all of it. Left on for half an hour and rinsed, then a heat protectant. When it dried it was a mess! So, SO tangled, I just could not separate locks to detangle. I did what I could to detangle but it felt like velcro and wouldn't stay in place once detangled. I kept going and ironed, just a few passes on low heat, it looked okay-ish but not at all what I expected.
Well, having finished fighting with my hair I got dressed up and went about my day, quite sad because my hair was tangly, floaty and frizzy, not very shiny and felt rough, instead of the usual soft, shiny hair I have using herbal tea as conditioner.
Then, the day after the event, being at home resting I realized the worst: my ends were full of splits and breakage, like, 300% more than usual! shudder:I did a long, sad S&D session, and promised myself I wouldn't do this again, I won't touch an iron nor cones again, ever! I thought just once would not do so much harm, but it did. And the cones didn't even do what they're supposed to do. Yesterday I did another S&D and I still found more breackage than usual. I'm thinking of chopping a few inches instead of my monthly microtrim. And I was so close to fingertip....uuuuuuugh.
In conclusion, this wasn't worth at all, and the damage was more than I would have imagined. I was kinda inspired by looking at TorrinPaige videos, since she uses cones and heat without problems. But my hair is nowhere as nice nor resilient as hers is, so leasson learned!
Please, think twice before doing something that could damage your hair, even more so if it's going to be temporal. Really, it's not worth it :( keep your hair with the routine that makes it happy and you'll be happy as well!