Overwhelmed & Considering Texturizers PLEASE help!

ElleBelleCurls · 09-02-2012, 10:35 PM

Hi everyone!

I'd love any advice and or warnings I can get on this topic, so don't be shy and please help out.

I have super high density, low-normal porosity, super fine 3b hair with a bottom layer of even finer 3c highly tangled ringlets that are constantly splitting at the ends or getting those single strand knots. Now my hair has always been REALLY long, pretty much always HL or TBL, at the present it is possibly the shortest it has been in my adult life, it's a little above waist length and I "attempted" to layer it. The problem is the following, no matter how much I layer my hair and cut it in a nice shape, it grows into the strangest of "hut like" shapes, kind of like a canopy, it's quite disturbing.

I have to drench it in gels or natural creams, whatever it takes, to see if the bottom layer will finally look longer than the top, but it never does, even though it actually is. If it was just the look of things, I wouldn't mind as much. But the biggest problem is that this bottom hair is ALWAYS damaged, constantly brittle, with split ends and knots and it tangles constantly. Now, I don't dye my hair, I seldom use heat, and I do keep my ends trimmed, but this bottom hair just won't budge. I've tried protein treatments, I've tried almond oil massages, coconut... etc. Nothing seems to work.

Lately I've been considering a mild texturizer for that part of my hair, just to see if it softens in a way where it becomes as nice as the top of my hair? Or at least more manageable and better at retaining length, I can't keep cutting my bottom hair! It will grow slower than the top and I'll have uneven hair again...

What should I do? Anyone think the texturizer would work, have any stories, experiences, words of wisdom, warnings? Please let me know, I need the help.

There She Goes

kathymack · 09-03-2012, 06:05 AM

If your hair is that long, the ends have been around for YEARS! That's why they are a problem. I really don't know anything about texturizers, but I doubt there is anything you can do to "fix" the hair. Hair is dead. It responds to moisture and protein--but you can only do so much.

IMHO, if hair isn't really fabulous--more of it doesn't make it better. I'd suggest that you cut the damaged ends cut off and get frequent trims to keep the ends from getting ragged.

ElleBelleCurls · 09-03-2012, 01:30 PM

Thanks for the advice.

Yes I agree that more hair isn't necessarily better if it looks damaged. The thing is that it isn't all my hair that suffers from split ends, it's just that bottom layer, and there isn't much I can do about having a lot of hair, I just have a lot of hair and it is healthy... I mean, there really isn't a reason it shouldn't be because like I said I don't really put any chemicals in it.