How To Grow Out Texturized Hair

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I believe having natural hair is a gift nosotros give ourselves that just gets better and better over time. Notwithstanding, after using chemicals on it, or severely damaging it, our beautiful curls tin exist a claiming to grow back out once again. This page will requite you some tips for growing out your gorgeous curls if you aren't ready for the Big Chop just yet.

It's wonderful that you want to grow back your beautiful natural curls! Curls may seem like a challenge at first, but one time we sympathize what they want, they are a joy to have. This page goes through what I did when I was growing out my relaxer.

Do I have to cut off all my pilus?
I grew out my relaxer for about a twelvemonth and a half before I cutting off the chemical pilus, so y'all don't have to cutting it right away. The thing to keep in listen is that what counts is your new growth. Cutting off your chemical hair won't make your natural hair grow faster. It'due south more to make your life easier. Also, if you are doing things that impairment your new growth in order to style the chemical hair, and then the chemical hair should go. If the two textures crusade you to yank a comb through your hair, and so it's best to act in the interest of your new hair and cut the chemical hair. If you are able to treat your new pilus gently, even with the chemical hair still in that location, and you lot aren't ready yet to cut it, so it's fine for information technology to stay.

The chemical hair is damaged, and if it's annihilation like mine was, it volition proceed to pause off at the charge per unit it'due south growing (making it wait like information technology isn't growing). Merely that's fine, because you take beautiful, new potent pilus coming in. So information technology's all most protecting the new growth. The bottom line is if y'all aren't ready to cut nonetheless, and you are gentle with all your hair, so it's fine to leave the onetime hair. If you wanted, you could get the damaged hair trimmed about an inch every 2 months until information technology'southward gone, or you just don't desire it on your head anymore.

After the Big Chop (and stopping any more damage occurring to my pilus), it took me about x years to grow my hair down to my tailbone. The 2 things that keep u.s. from having long hair is that our pilus is easily damaged, and the means we take learned to care for our hair crusade it lots of damage. Once we acquire to treat our curls without damaging them whatever longer, our hair can finally grow to its maximum length. The trick is to learn to care for it without hurting it. I do take to tell you information technology isn't always easy to do, but getting rid of the relaxer is worth it no affair how y'all do information technology.

I strongly propose taking some pictures along the fashion. That way when you lot have those gorgeous all natural curls, you can help and encourage others through this procedure by showing them the photos of your journey.

This is stunning Brianna (a huge thank you to Brianna for generously letting me demonstrate on her hair, and to Bob for taking all the peachy pictures). Her pilus has been severely damaged past use of flat irons to the point about of her hair can't class curls anymore. Whether your damage is from flat irons, relaxers, or texturizers, if your new growth is very different from the older hair, the post-obit tips are a fashion to match the two textures until you are gear up to cut off the damaged hair.

Later washing her hair and coating it in a combing conditioner, I accept one to two inch sections of hair to comb and put in two-strand twists. You don't have to make neat parts. This is but a very simple gear up. I only divided the hair with my hands where it wanted to split.

2 strand twists are done by dividing the department in half, and twisting one half around the other down to the ends.

As I end a twist, I clip it out of the mode and move to the next spot.

At the back of her neck, her pilus is yet curly, so I smoothen those curls with conditioner instead of setting them in twists.

Brianna'south twists are washed. The all-time thing to do is to let them air dry. If you are pressed for time, you tin can employ a diffuser on a very depression setting. The twists are adorable enough that you could also wearable this as a style. At night you lot can put your twists dorsum in a bun or ii to protect the ends. Or you can sleep in them as they are if they seem secure plenty, or you lot need more than time to let them dry.

Here I am taking her twists out (brand sure they are totally dry first). I've institute the best way to take out twists is to hold the ends (they tend to snarl if you don't watch them). Then with the other hand, I pull open the twist, and let the ends twirl in the bottom hand. When the twist is almost open, I twirl it the rest of the fashion open up in my bottom paw.

This is what lovely Brianna looked like with all her twists taken out. Her hair has much more definition and style than it did before. She could practice this once a week or so until she's set up to cutting off the damaged hair. At dark, she could merely put it back in a bun or two, or a couple braids. Then long as she doesn't get it wet, or comb or brush it, this ready should last all week.

(Brianna's pilus looks really carmine in these pictures, but that was considering they were taken with a wink at close range, with no other low-cal. Information technology was funny, just as presently equally I'd taken out her terminal twist, the power in the neighborhood went out, and we were in total darkness. Bob, who was and so kind to take these photos, snapped a few shots in the pitch dark of Brianna. I couldn't see what her hair looked like (until viewing these photos later), and so these were taken with no styling at all other than putting in the twists.)

The Mat
The Mat came as a big surprise to me, so I want to brand sure yous are warned virtually it. Though my pilus didn't even reach shoulder-length at the time, it even so took me over three hours to comb it and set it every calendar week. The reason it took me three hours to rummage and set my hair was that at the identify where my new growth and chemical hair met would mat up actually tight. When I commencement started, the mat was right upward against my head and information technology actually injure to comb. It was as tight every bit thick batting particularly at the top, back of my head, where my curls were tightest. But equally my new hair grew out, the mats moved downwards. Finally, I couldn't stand it whatever more and cutting off the chemicals. But by then I got to see what my existent pilus looked like for the first time in my life (after non knowing for 25 years!), and I loved information technology! Besides, once the chemical hair was gone, my pilus was then much easier to have intendance of. It stopped matting once the chemical hair was gone.

Good Conditioners for Tackling The Mat:
(for more data, yous can detect these conditioners on the Combing Conditioner page):

* Paula's PickSmooth Cease Condtioner
* Herbal EssencesDangerously Straight--ignore that information technology says straight, it just means it has more smoothing ingredients.

These are the smoothest combing conditioners I've tried then far.

Tips for Twists
It's best to do your twists early in the morning (like on a weekend when there may be more time) to give them fourth dimension to dry all twenty-four hour period. It'due south best to slumber in them. They can still be a little tiny bit clammy when you sleep on them, but it's best to make certain they are totally dry earlier you lot take them out, or else they volition frizz actually desperately, or not set firmly to final all calendar week. Sleeping on the twists gives them time to set. Then, in the forenoon, you tin take them out. It'due south best not to fingercomb them because that tin brand them fuzzy, equally well as weaken the set.

Twists volition requite you spirals in your hair. The smaller each twist, the tighter the spiral. When yous are setting your hair and it won't hold the twist because all the gyre has been taken out, you can put clips on the ends of your hair while it dries. Keep them on until time to slumber, then remove them only long enough to bun or complect your twists to proceed them in identify at night.

Another thing you tin try is doing this same affair, only with several braids, or fifty-fifty two french braids on either side of your head. For braids, you probably need to make sure your hair is dry first (because air tin't get into braids to dry your hair very easily). And so spritz your pilus lightly with a tiny amount of h2o to assistance information technology gear up, and braid your hair. Sleep in them. In the forenoon you should have lots of waves. Again, it's best non to comb them or go them wet because it may ruin your gear up, or information technology won't last all calendar week.

For more than pictures of what my relaxed pilus looked like, likewise as more on my growing-out-my-chemicals story, you can check out Growing Out the Chemicals.

For what to do with your pilus after the Big Chop, you can check out the tips in the Curly Primer.

Know that when you lot grow out your joyful curls, y'all may be giving promise to someone wondering if they should go natural. The more than people who are out at that place showing the earth how beautiful natural curls are, the more nosotros volition educate people of all races that curls are wonderful and beautiful. And and so there volition be less girls who are forced as children to get their hair relaxed, or adults who think their curls are unacceptable so they straighten them and kill their sweetness little curls.