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Relaxed Heads: How many weeks post relaxer are you and when is your next touch up???

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Relaxed Saturday at 10 weeks post. Here are some pics:

Pre-relaxer on Saturday
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From this morning - used a little castor oil to seal ends last night:
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This evening after taking down my daily bun. Wanted to check how my ends were holding up:
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Just for fun - I swooped my hair in a bun to see if it would hold together without pins while I did some things around the house - it did!
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Still have a ways to go to get some real length, but I'm happy with the results. :)

Plan to relax again at 12 weeks unless my hair tells me to do it sooner! :drunk:
 
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I am so happy for you, @sunnieb !!
The tool-less bun is a milestone all by itself! :rocker:
And your pre and post relaxer hair difference is so amazing!
 
I'm a little over 4 months post at 18 weeks, 3 days.
It's feeling like I have much more new growth than usual.
I'm not sure I can safely make it to stretch a year, even by just transitioning braid styles.
I need to see what's behind this extra new growth. My last texlax results were straighter than I wanted so it doesn't seem like hair that missed processing nor underprocessed hair.
So I'm preparing myself mentally to texlax in April, at 6 months post.
Then I'll stretch 6 more months until Oct for my annual length check.
 
@MzSwift thank you!

I started a thread around here years ago where we could post our pre-relaxer pics. The differences were like :eek:!

My non-black coworkers think my hair grows so fast. They don't realize I'm simply stretching my relaxers and my newgrowth shrinks my total length. Even had one lady compliment me on my nice "haircut". I told her thank you and left it at that. :look:
 
@sunnieb

Thank you for reminding me! I get discouraged often bc it looks like my hair isn't really gaining any length and I forgot that lots of new growth can make the hair appear shorter. And I usually have MONTHS of new growth! So it looks like I'm losing ground when I'm not. Until I do a pull down and I'm touching a different part of my body, then I can feel progress.
 
I’m over 4months post ( can’t even tell the weeks at this point) and I might not feel like relaxing for another 9 months. I’m pregnant and a little conflicted on relaxing right now plus just thinking about the energy self relaxing takes is making me tired.

I have little dreads that keep trying to form in the middle of my head where it’s coursest. I haven’t completely neglected it but this is the longest I have gone without washing in a while (2weeks), and for me, it’s definitely a negative. My ends are dryer, more tangled and I see splitting now. I think the only goal this year is maintaining hair on my head

13 months post sounds like insanity right?
 
ScorpioLove said:
I’m over 4months post ( can’t even tell the weeks at this point) and I might not feel like relaxing for another 9 months. I’m pregnant and a little conflicted on relaxing right now plus just thinking about the energy self relaxing takes is making me tired.

I have little dreads that keep trying to form in the middle of my head where it’s coursest. I haven’t completely neglected it but this is the longest I have gone without washing in a while (2weeks), and for me, it’s definitely a negative. My ends are dryer, more tangled and I see splitting now. I think the only goal this year is maintaining hair on my head

13 months post sounds like insanity right?
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Congratulations!! :baby2:
Ohhh, did you guys make a honeymoon baby too?? If so, welcome to the club! :giggle:

So I was also on an HHJ and relaxed during my pregnancy. I stayed in mini braids pretty much the whole pregnancy AND for about 4 months post-partum. I had a TON of ng!!
I refreshed them one by one every 4-6 weeks (so about once a month) which made it so much easier for me to stop when I needed to take a break. Starting the refresh in the front, allowed the style to appear fresh and I took my time doing the rest of my hair. And all I did daily was water rinse them in the shower, slather on condish and ponytail/bun them in the shower and then go on with my day. Washing my scalp with poo whenever I felt it needed it. At night, I would take my ponytail down, spray with my water/oil/condish mix in a spray bottle and cover with a satin scarf or satin skull cap. It was the easiest pregnancy hair I could have asked for. I didn't really DC or anything, just kept them full of condish. Once my ng started growing in at the base of the braids, I would take my ponytail down while watching TV, run my fingers along my parts and gently pull them apart at the base wherever they tried to marry/stick together.

I decided not to use extension hair bc I didn't want the extra issues with buildup at the base to cause a set back. And it's a really cute/versatile style that can rocked down, in a bun or in a ponytail and still look put together. I really didn't want to deal with my new growth while pregnant and it was a great way to focus on other stuff.

GL and I'm wishing you a healthy, happy pregnancy!! :D
 
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MzSwift said:
Congratulations!! :baby2:
Ohhh, did you guys make a honeymoon baby too?? If so, welcome to the club! :giggle:

So I was also on an HHJ and relaxed during my pregnancy. I stayed in mini braids pretty much the whole pregnancy AND for about 4 months post-partum. I had a TON of ng!!
I refreshed them one by one every 4-6 weeks (so about once a month) which made it so much easier for me to stop when I needed to take a break. Starting the refresh in the front, allowed the style to appear fresh and I took my time doing the rest of my hair. And all I did daily was water rinse them in the shower, slather on condish and ponytail/bun them in the shower and then go on with my day. Washing my scalp with poo whenever I felt it needed it. At night, I would take my ponytail down, spray with my water/oil/condish mix in a spray bottle and cover with a satin scarf or satin skull cap. It was the easiest pregnancy hair I could have asked for. I didn't really DC or anything, just kept them full of condish. Once my ng started growing in at the base of the braids, I would take my ponytail down while watching TV, run my fingers along my parts and gently pull them apart at the base wherever they tried to marry/stick together.

I decided not to use extension hair bc I didn't want the extra issues with buildup at the base to cause a set back. And it's a really cute/versatile style that can rocked down, in a bun or in a ponytail and still look put together. I really didn't want to deal with my new growth while pregnant and it was a great way to focus on other stuff.

GL and I'm wishing you a healthy, happy pregnancy!! :D
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I figured it wouldn’t happen literally the first time we tried since I’m close to “geriatric pregnancy “ age and everyone I know had trouble with getting pregnant/ staying pregnant. We will see, I’m still in the early stages

How much new growth did you have to relax after all that time? When did post partum shedding happen for you?

My hair is very prone to dreads if I’m not careful and I did small braids once for a couple months and it took a week trying to comb out every braid/ dread that formed at the roots.

I think I want to have cornrows and add clips/ sewins, but I wish someone could redo it for me biweekly at least so I could properly wash my scalp. I just feel tired all the time…
 
ScorpioLove said:
I figured it wouldn’t happen literally the first time we tried since I’m close to “geriatric pregnancy “ age and everyone I know had trouble with getting pregnant/ staying pregnant. We will see, I’m still in the early stages

How much new growth did you have to relax after all that time? When did post partum shedding happen for you?

My hair is very prone to dreads if I’m not careful and I did small braids once for a couple months and it took a week trying to comb out every braid/ dread that formed at the roots.

I think I want to have cornrows and add clips/ sewins, but I wish someone could redo it for me biweekly at least so I could properly wash my scalp. I just feel tired all the time…
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Aww ((HUG)) it's ok. The exhaustion will eventually get less.. overwhelming. I agree, you'll definitely need less stressors and your hair shouldn't be one. Cornrows are another great option. The only reason I didn't suggest it is because I figured biweekly manipulation might be too much when you have a ton of new growth and a line of demarcation.

My second pregnancy, my honeymoon baby, was categorized "high risk" bc I was 36 when we got pregnant. I relaxed once around 5 months pregnant and then didn't relax again until 4 months postpartum. So I had about 8-9 months of new growth when I finally relaxed again. I honestly didn't experience any noticeable postpartum shedding with either of my pregnancies. I breastfed both babies at least one year and continued to take my prenatal vitamin well after I stopped breastfeeding. I'm not sure if those factors helped. Also, I tended to rock my hair in bound styles, like bunned cornrows or my mini braids, with a new baby so I didn't handle my hair daily much.

I recall your texlaxed hair being thick even after your correction so I could see you nicely rocking pencil sized twists with braided roots and doing a simple regi of just washing and DCing them biweekly and refreshing after every 2nd or 3rd wash and DC, depending on what your hair is demanding . Keeping down the frequency with which you rinse/wash them should help prevent dreading. You could just create a moisturizing spray mix and spray that on that twice a day. Would extra oiling also help to keep your hair from dreading together?

Lastly, and obviously this is a very personal decision, during my first pregnancy, I was relaxed as well. I did my touchups every 3-4 months with no issues to my baby. I've seen other ladies on here report the same. So maybe you could ride out the first trimester, just to be safe, and then do your texlax in your 2nd trimester?
 
Just gonna set this right here in case I forget again :lachen:

I relaxed today at like 5-6pm? I took a long break between neutralizing and conditioning cause ya girl was getting tired lol. Im just now about sit under the dryer.

Weirdest thing my hair gave my finger an injury as I was smoothing my relaxer. That has never happen before as long as I remember. I gotta wear one glove to do everything else cause it is doing the sore right now :cry3:
 
ItsMeLilLucky said:
Just gonna set this right here in case I forget again :lachen:

I relaxed today at like 5-6pm? I took a long break between neutralizing and conditioning cause ya girl was getting tired lol. Im just now about sit under the dryer.

Weirdest thing my hair gave my finger an injury as I was smoothing my relaxer. That has never happen before as long as I remember. I gotta wear one glove to do everything else cause it is doing the sore right now :cry3:
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I gotchu on remembering the date
 
26 weeks and 3 days post. It's almost 2230. My hair is prepped and I was planning to relax tonight. But my twists are still wet with condish and I'm so exhausted. We had a 2-day power outage and it was restored early this morning so I am WIPED! Gonna relax in the morning and use white vinegar during one of my neutralizing washes instead of ACV. I hope my son doesn't have as much of an issue with that smell.

Took entirely too long to write that so I'm gonna take my tired butt to bed and make tmrrw a hair day.
 
I’m honestly shocked I’m already 5 months post. I’m still not sure when I will relax, soon or after baby. But I’m not sure I’m cut out for a year+ long stretch especially if I’m under stress. I’m also moving next year so that impacts things. Washing my hair frequently is necessary when I’m this far in and I’m not sure I will have the energy. Also, I think hair grows a little faster in the summer so I can’t even imagine having to double/triple the new growth I have now and relaxing it.

My roots feel incredibly dense even against my texlaxed hair, and I’m getting a little nervous about the amount of hair I need to relax at once, without really any help. On the other hand, still reading about relaxers during pregnancy.

Possible next relaxer is memorial weekend or Juneteenth (7/8 months post); then another on Christmas. Maybe I could relax 2x a year from that point. If I don’t relax during pregnancy, I would be 14 months post and the thought of 3x more ng to deal with (plus baby) isn’t all that appealing.
 
ONE DAY post! I texlaxed yesterday, 02-Apr-25.
I'm finally getting around to posting my texlax update. Slowly recovering from the power outage but needed to get this out of the way.
So glad I didn't do it the night I prepped bc it turned out to be a whole day experience, also I didn't want to go to bed with wet hair.

I'm slow grower. Six months of NG just isn't that crazy on me. But I'm taking less risks as my hair is getting longer. My texlax turned out exactly how I like it. Last time it turned out too straight bc I took longer to get it done. This time, I relaxed in only FIVE sections/twists. That made the application process faster and I spent more time smoothing, but not too much. I rinse as soon as I finish applying so that helps to keep more texture in my results. I like that my length is more textured and my ends are straighter bc I have previous experience with my textured ends giving me SSKs so I prefer it this way. Also, with time, products, stretching/manipulation and heat usage, my texture tends to get straighter as the hair gets older so I'd rather start off with more texture. As a fine stranded, medium density lady, it's important to me to keep my hair looking as dense as possible. lol

SOMETHING NEW- that I did this time:

1- I spent 10-15 minutes just rinsing the relaxer out of my hair. At most, I usually spend about 5 minutes rinsing.
2- I did a baking soda water rinse during the neutralizing process. I rinsed out my midstep and then did a really quick neutralizing poo. I followed with a baking soda and water rinse. Why? Bc I was not planning to do my usual Amino Acid tx as my final DC. That DC takes away the faint chemical smell that I usually smell after relaxing. I was recommended to try baking soda by a nice scientist who used to frequent here.

OK, on to the pix!

Prep the night before-

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Relaxer Applied

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Midstep with ORS Replenishing Condish-

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Neutralizing wash-
(BTW, I used white vinegar with my final wash instead of ACV and my little one didn't have a problem with the smell this time! YAY!!)

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Texlax results!!-

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Once I realized that I wasn't gonna be using heat afterwards, I DC'd with Vatika Egg and Honey condish-

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DC rinsed out! My roots are straight enough to flatten with being tied down if I needed to. My hair has a ton of texture which is great for my mini braids but is much easier to straighten and hold a straight style when I want to. ANNDDDD, as I was rinsing out in the shower, I was able to pull my longest layers down to my bottom rib bone!!

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Final air drying style. I slathered my hair in herbal oils and cheapie moisturizing condishes and then did braided pigtails. I prefer to keep my hair bound. And this is really the only "loose" style I prefer when not in minibraids or twists.
I may end up doing a blowout in a couple of days though, for a start photo for a challenge. Still trying to decide.

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