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I am just wondering is it possible to retain length without trimming hair at all is it really that necessary??as long as one takes care of their hair even with a few split ends this shouldnt stop growth right???

LHDC: Hi, Ashaunte!!! YES you can retain your length without trimming. Please check out the long hair inspiration section on the blog and check out many of the women who have grown their hair to great lengths withOUT trims!

I've been a licensed beautician for thirty - one years. No one should ever overlap when relaxing their hair. A girl I know self relaxes and overlaps her relaxing treatments. Her scalp is sore and it won't be long before she won't have any hair. The relaxer is dissolving her hair. Her hair doesn't look good either, it looks fried. If the strength of relaxer a person is using isn't getting the hair as straight as desired, a stronger strength relaxer may be what they need. Or leave the relaxer on longer with a longer comb through period with a fine tooth comb.

Child Essence, Jet and Ebony all need to publish this!!! You need to get the word out to the masses. If I have one more black person tell me that black hair shouldn't be washed more than 2-4 times per month I'm going to scream.

I try to tell them if they were to stop using products that contain SLS and mineral oil they won't have a problem with dry hair. Hair can only grown from a healthy scalp. If you can smell you hair then it's not clean. If after rubbing your scalp and your nail have a boat load of debris under it then your hair's not clean and you might want to wash it.

When I wear my hair in a fro blacks folks are amazed at how soft it. Yes boo boo you can have soft nappy hair if you know how to co-wash, moisturize and seal.

PINK LOTION IS DA BOMB!! LMAO....that's a good one.

I don't know why we felt like we needed to overlap relaxer, but it was done to me all the time. My senior year in college, I had some braids in for the spring cruise. Well I took them out when I got back, right before graduation. Self-relaxed, which included overlapping...well I didn't want to leave the relaxer on for too long, but when I rinsed it out, my hair was not as straight as I thought it should be.

I called my mom and she said, well I'll just re-do it for you when I get up there. And when she came for graduation she proceeded to re-relax my hair...so basically the portion of my hair that was already relaxed got re-relaxed TWICE. My hair was laid, but it's a wonder I had any hair left on my hair at all! And probably the reason my edges are so thin. We live and we learn. It is definitely not ok to overlap!!!

LHDC: Hi, Cassandra! That is a GREAT story! I've been a self-relaxer most of my life and have over-lapped most of my life...Not necessarily an over-processer, just an over-lapper (even though I've always beed a super stretcher)! Why did I do it? Well, I thought that is what you had to do even though the instructions in the relaxer WARN to only relax your new growth...

I'm with you. It's a wonder that I had any hair at all...between the relaxer overlapping, my heat addiction and my slight obsession with "neat" ends (i.e. frequent trims) I should have been bald for most of my life!

You live and you learn. And each one teach one!

Great blog post! Newbies take heed.

Wonderful Wonderful! I mentioned before that I started growing my hair three times before I got it right. What happened you ask? Well I would get my hair flowing and then I would start with all the myths above. Leading to damaged hair and having to start over. Thanks to communities like LHDC I learned how to take care of my hair and my hair baffles my Momma an'nem all the time! Funny thing is they ask me how I did it, I tell them, but they always revert back to the above misguided practices... sad.

We want what we aint got but not many of us are willing to work for it.

Great Post LHDC

BIA No Mo

LHDC: Thanks, BIA! Have a great weekend!!!!

Tell the truth and shame the devil. :)

LHDC: LOL that made me laugh! Have a great weekend, Tee!

Great myth busters !!

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