Relaxer Hair Style

Relaxers, relaxed black hair can be a challenge to care for.  Relaxed hair often goes through cyclical periods of growth and breakage.  These tips will teach you how to maximize the health, appearance, growth and feel of relaxed African hair.

Court case against Carson/L’Oreal The Optimum relaxer caused Isabella Broekhuizen to go bald and forced her to break off her US modeling career. Now she is back home in Maastricht, the Netherlands fighting for justice.

Isabella Broekhuizen was diagnosed with chemical burning caused by sodium hydroxide, the main ingredient in lye relaxers. She sues because her aspiring modeling career is over, her bald and burnt scalp still hurts and she has to wear hair-prostheses for the rest of her life. Here is her story.

Hair relaxers or straighteners are very popular today and widely used by individuals desiring to straighten very curly or kinky hair.

Braids are easy, fun and just about anyone can do this style effectively.  Unlike the Afro, braids can be done on chemically-treated hair, naturally straight hair, naturall

In the United States, many black women have decided or are planning to go natural by "letting go of the lye." These days you can see sistas and even brothas in just about every major city across the country rockin' natural hairstyles. However despite this movement towards Naturalism, the battle to rid ourselves of the chemicals is far from over.

If you have a nice, petite lil' dome, then you can probably rock a close crop somethin' fierce. For all others, well...hats come in a variety of styles.

Keeping a short natural is all about courage. I don't care how cute you think you are, it's difficult for many women to even fathom having their hair cut extremely close.

Have you ever wondered why your hair is unable to return to its natural state after a relaxer?  Does it bother you that in order to be natural that you can't just simply stop relaxing your hair?  Do you find that your hair goes through short/long phases?  That one month, it seems healthy and happy and a few months later you have split-ends, breakage and dryness?

Facts are, relaxers are synonymous with Breakage - Brittleness - Damage - Discoloration - Dryness - Thinning.  You may not think you're suffering from the above but again, compare your relaxed hair to your in its natural state.  And if you can't remember your natural hair, then trust me...all the above apply.

Braids extensions are a good way to give your hair a break from the chemicals, but what do you do after they've been taken out? Most stylists recommend that you don't relax your hair immediately after removing or before getting braid extensions.

AFTER REMOVING BRAIDS
Even if you use quality hair, extensions tend to create tiny nicks in the hair shaft. When you relax your hair, the product works quicker on these areas which causes uneven and over-processing and the breakage may not show until months later.

My cousin has been blessed with four beautiful daughters.  Over the years they've grown into some of the most intelligent and fiesty young ladies I've had the pleasure of knowing.  The oldest being 13, the youngest only 7, each child now has relaxed hair.

Seeing the pressure that comes with caring for four young girls, it's hardly any wonder why my cousin chose the kiddie perm over allowing the children to remain au natural.  What's funny is, the age at which she chose to relax the girls' hair decreased in direct propotion to the number of children.