| traction alopecia :/ |
[Dec. 13th, 2009|05:31 pm] |
unfortunately, in the last few years i've developed traction alopecia along the line where i would once part my hair in the middle. it's most pronounced at the front of my head so that if i wear my hair back and don't want a part in it my hair line kind of dips back there. i've made the effort to make side-parts if i'm wearing my hair back (and it's winter, so that's most of the time), and i think i've seen some change, but certainly nothing dramatic. thus, i'm bringing the issue here: have any of you dealt with this issue? are there any products/home remedies you felt were especially helpful?
thanks in advance! |
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| Denman Brush? |
[Dec. 9th, 2009|03:12 am] |
I was wondering how many of you use Denman brushes to detangle your hair? I have been reading about Denmans for months on the Naturallycurly.com boards and I stayed away from them initially because I'm a multi-textured girl with 4a and 3c hair. The finer hair at my crown that has a much looser curl tangles something fierce and I thought that using a brush of any kind would just snap it, or get tangled up with the brush so bad that I'd have to cut it out. And I figured that my 4a hair would just laugh at the brush. So, I've been using a shower comb to detangle since I fully transitioned about two years ago. One thing I've noticed, though, is that my wide tooth comb has been tearing my hair the hell up. No matter how gentle I am or how "slippy" my conditioner is, I have a lot of broken hair. I had to use a paddle brush to detangle about two weeks ago because I was visiting my parents for the holidays and had left my shower comb at home. To my surprise, the paddle brush did a much better job than my comb ever did. To be frank, detangling with my comb always frustrated me so much that I always ended up doing a half assed job. Unfortunately, the paddle brush has those little bulbs on the end of the bristles so it tangled into my hair a bit, but barring that it still did a better job than my comb.
My Denman is the best, though. I purchased a D3 from Sally's yesterday and used it this afternoon. I spent about the same time detangling, but I was not frustrated at all, and the time was spent making sections that I didn't have to re-detangle instead of getting tired arms from having to resection and redetangle snarls that I had just done (that was a very common problem with my comb). Plus, my curls were popping. Generally, I like my hair to be as large as possible, and it's super flat because of the Denman, but my curls were very, very defined and frizz was absolutely non-existent. I'm a little disappointed by that, but I figure that anyone who likes their hair to be a little more sleek could benefit from that information. I'm hoping that my hair tangles less because the curls aren't as broken up as they would be from comb detangling. I also noticed that I had far less broken hair after using the Denman.
I do have one question though, how much shedding is normal? I haven't noticed my hair thinning and I don't have any bald spots (save one from ages ago, you guessed it, a relaxer gone wrong. Not to fret, it's small, about silver dollar sized and on the back of my head so it's always covered with other hair) but whenever I detangle I get a nice sized clump of shed hair. How does one reduce shedding? I heard that you can do that with cinnamon oil and rosemary extract, but does shedding a whole lot mean something bad about my hair? Or is it just natural for shedding amounts to vary from person to person? I also only detangle once a week, so I wonder if it's just the buildup of the standard amount of shed hairs just hanging around when normally they'd just fall out if I had straight hair. I think the amount of shed hair I retain adds to the huge snarls and tangles I have as well. |
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