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How long does the effect of a Texturizer/Relaxer Last?
  • naturaleeza
    I have tightly coiled hair and after a big chop, texturized my hair. However, although I have since stopped using the texturizer more than a year ago, here am I, 7 or so inches later and my hair is nothing like my hair BEFORE the text. I keep cutting off the ends religiously to get rid of any and all texturized ends. But my hair still acts like the text is in there.

    I yearn for my tight curls again. And although all the hair on my head should be new growth, it doesn't behave like my ole hair.
  • Janis
    How long did you texturize? If it was years, it may be that your hair gradually changed its texture naturally but it just didn't show.

    Hope you get your curls back.
  • Janis
    I should also give you a heads-up to my favorite curly-hair site: www.biracialhair.org -- ignore the biracial part of it. The woman who runs the site is, and she talks about it, but the hair-care tips are good for any omfg tightly curly hair. Her own hair is AMAZINGLY GORGEOUS.

    She went through everything you can imagine -- relaxers adn texturizers for something like 25 years, weaves, extensions, super-tight afros, everything you can imagine. And she hit on how to take care of tightly curly hair in the process. No more straightening, no more relaxing or anything. My own hair is more wavy-curly (thick, ethnic, coarse dark hair), but her rules look pretty much golden to me. Give her a read and maybe she'll know more about how hair reacts to texturising.
  • naturaleeza
    Oh that site is one of my faves. I text for just about 2 years or less. But I never did more than 4 applications. I waited a long time between them.
  • Janis
    Without knowing what sort of styling you do, I can't say -- and like I said, my own hair is nowhere near that sort of curly. (I think. I'm really not that sure what the eff my hair's texture is.)

    It might be that your hair changed texture, though ... Mine's shifted in texture a LOT in my life. I was born with it black and perfectly straight, then it went copper and Shirley-Temple, then brown and straight, and then brown-black and wavy, and not it's at the point where if I let it air-dry, it turns into spirals like old-style phone cords.
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