I WAS BALD!!!!!
It was New York 2009, I was away from home and needed to keep up with relaxers and treatments whilst I was away. I was weary of hairdressers even in the UK -I only let a few hairdressers loose on my hair and my aunt had just gone from shoulder length to teeny weeny afro length because of an incident with a hairdresser breaking off all of her relaxer!
My aunt was devastated at her hair loss at first but she embraced her natural hair with twists and after each take down, her hair was given a treatment and set back in it's twists. Her hair was growing back beautifully- and as she lived near me in New York she was sooo great and took me for treatments and relaxers with the hairdresser that had saved her scalp.
Now I am not knocking the hairdresser, I think she was good at plaits and braids and blowing but to be honest I don't think she had many qualifications and she was definately not a stylist but also I don't think my hair and scalp liked relaxer :-/
I usually wore my hair in the same style - I usually had a fringe, I would stick a big piece in it and tie it up on the top of my head making it as big and as messy as possible. I loved the messy look and I loved volume!
One day - on my maybe 3rd or 4th relaxer with this girl - IT WENT HORRIBLY WRONG! Long and short of it was I came out scalped with my scalp burning and itching like mad. I was soo upset- infact that is an understatement. There was nothing I could do and I knew it would grow back but that didn't help. I piled a piece on my hair big enough to cover the back and went on about my business.
Unfortunately I am stupid I still got my hair relaxed again after that but it was in October 2009 on a holiday to Portugal with my friends that I realised I was utterly unhappy with the state of my hair and that I would never relax it again.
Gosh it is hard putting these baldy pics of me online but these are the realities of relaxer and the misuse of it from Hairdressers HAS AWFUL EFFECTS.
My aunt was devastated at her hair loss at first but she embraced her natural hair with twists and after each take down, her hair was given a treatment and set back in it's twists. Her hair was growing back beautifully- and as she lived near me in New York she was sooo great and took me for treatments and relaxers with the hairdresser that had saved her scalp.
Now I am not knocking the hairdresser, I think she was good at plaits and braids and blowing but to be honest I don't think she had many qualifications and she was definately not a stylist but also I don't think my hair and scalp liked relaxer :-/
I usually wore my hair in the same style - I usually had a fringe, I would stick a big piece in it and tie it up on the top of my head making it as big and as messy as possible. I loved the messy look and I loved volume!
One day - on my maybe 3rd or 4th relaxer with this girl - IT WENT HORRIBLY WRONG! Long and short of it was I came out scalped with my scalp burning and itching like mad. I was soo upset- infact that is an understatement. There was nothing I could do and I knew it would grow back but that didn't help. I piled a piece on my hair big enough to cover the back and went on about my business.
Unfortunately I am stupid I still got my hair relaxed again after that but it was in October 2009 on a holiday to Portugal with my friends that I realised I was utterly unhappy with the state of my hair and that I would never relax it again.
Gosh it is hard putting these baldy pics of me online but these are the realities of relaxer and the misuse of it from Hairdressers HAS AWFUL EFFECTS.
Stay tuned for my hair update.
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