Hello ladies,
I hope your hair journeys are going well and that your hair is well hydrated and breakage free😊
I finally texlaxed my hair!!!! To be exact I did the texlax on the 16th April, just over two weeks ago. My schedule on my texlax day meant I didn’t have time to stop to take pictures. I have had one wash day since I texlaxed but again I didn’t get round to using my camera but I did take some short videos using my phone.
If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen one of the videos. I will share some screen shots of the video in this post and will put up the rest of the videos on my Instagram stories. In this post I will share how my texlax day went, my texlax process and then share the pictures which show my current length.
My Texlax Day and Process.
Ladies, almost 7 months of new growth is not a joke. After my Ready Steady wash day, I wore my hair in a simple bun up-do for 4 days. I detangled and moisturised and sealed lightly during the week. By day 5, my texlax day, my hair felt a little matted and dry, why?? I had used very little moisturiser during the week as I didn’t want my hair to feel or get wet because wet hair isn’t supposed to be relaxed. Also, although I detangled regularly , because I didn’t want to aggravate my scalp, I didn’t pull or stretch my new growth, so it had shrunk and matted a bit. The point I am trying to get to is that preparing my hair on my texlax day took a while because of the amount of new growth I had to detangle very gently. Detangling 20inches plus of hair in small sections is time consuming.
After I got through prepping my hair, the rest of the texlax day was a breeze. I followed my usual process and timings which you can read by clicking here.
My Current Length
After applying my leave-ins, I blow dried in sections and I cut two inches off my ends because I do not want longer hair. I am maintaining waist length. In the pictures in this post the black belt is my waist line. My hair is a little longer than waist length so I will trim off an additional inch in a few weeks.
Currently my hair is doing quite well, and I will have it out for a while before the wigs make a comeback. Although this is more of a hair update post, I hope you have learnt something new from my relaxer process. Have your relaxed or texlaxed your hair recently? How did it go?
I mentioned in my last post that my hair faced some major challenges over the last year. In my next post I will share more about how bad it got, how it led to me cutting off 5 inches off and how I grew the hair back and how I got my hair to grow faster than normal. You don’t want to miss it. I should have taken proper relaxer update pictures by then too….so see you soon.
x
Lade
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