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Post by fureverywhere on Jan 22, 2012 13:20:50 GMT -5
I visualize lawsuits and people looking like Mexican hairless doggies. There is a Brazilian hair straightening kit on the mainstream market...not to be confused with the Brazilian that removes hair intentionally... The active chemicals in extreme straightening products are lye and formaldehyde. Yup, you lye your little hair strands then you embalm them. Nice. The problem is that if you've ever had ANY color enhancement or texturizing treatment on your hair, the solution that touches it can rather easily cause it to break off... IMHO, I've had way curly hair for half a century, you can learn to baby it and get it to cooperate, boycott these extreme straightening ideas, they are expensive and a health threat. There's a reason the Japanese treatment places shut down ( that process used high heat to embalm your tresses, )...nah, ya do not need to suffer for beauty
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Post by johnr on Jan 22, 2012 13:28:09 GMT -5
Lye and formaldehyde! Yum! What's not to love?
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Post by adoptapitbull on Jan 22, 2012 14:39:57 GMT -5
I've got the lye here already. Just need a dead person to squeeze and I'll be set!
Too bad my hair's already straight...
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Post by RealPitBull on Jan 23, 2012 8:27:04 GMT -5
Ewww.
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Post by sugar on Jan 23, 2012 9:06:17 GMT -5
I come from a family of curly girls (me included!) and had like five cousins use that stuff at the salon to straighten their hair. No kidding, they have lost at least 40-50% of their original hair (and I'm assuming more if they keep doing it). Stay curly, stay proud!
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Post by johnr on Jan 23, 2012 9:09:21 GMT -5
I come from a family of curly girls (me included!) and had like five cousins use that stuff at the salon to straighten their hair. No kidding, they have lost at least 40-50% of their original hair (and I'm assuming more if they keep doing it). Stay curly, stay proud! And of course people with straight hair curl it. It's just so strange.
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Post by michele5611 on Jan 23, 2012 10:03:34 GMT -5
Well of course John....we always want we don't have and the grass is most certainly always greener on the other side
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Post by melonie on Jan 23, 2012 10:07:13 GMT -5
I have curly hair, but not cute curly hair. For years I suffered bad hair, then I discovered the flat iron. I used it faithfully for almost 10 yrs. I've let my hair grow out a lot and for the last 6 mos or so I haven't really used the flat iron. Today's products for curly hair... hair in general are a heck of a lot better than what I grew up using. So my hair looks pretty good about 80% of the time, for part of the day. It's a lot of work, but so is using the flat iron.
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Post by michele5611 on Jan 23, 2012 10:15:02 GMT -5
Melonie you made me laugh with the you "have curly hair, but not cute curly hair."
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Post by RealPitBull on Jan 23, 2012 10:29:51 GMT -5
I have straight hair and I still use a flat iron.
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Post by johnr on Jan 23, 2012 11:02:24 GMT -5
I have straight hair and I still use a flat iron. Well, now, um, ...
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Post by fureverywhere on Jan 23, 2012 11:23:16 GMT -5
There's a book called "Curly Like Me" where she suggests using a lightweight conditioner on the ends as a styling cream, give ya glossy ringlets if you figure out the right amount. It's just frightening to read the warnings on that Brazilian home treatment...unless you put it on 100% untreated hair it can break off...which means it's way destructive to any kind of hair actually
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Post by johnr on Jan 23, 2012 11:34:41 GMT -5
My ONE hair peeve is all the people who REFUSE to distinguish between "white" or "gray" hair vs hair that is in fact a LUXURIANT PLATINUM BLONDE!!!!!!!
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Post by fureverywhere on Jan 23, 2012 23:40:20 GMT -5
I will nevah be gray darlin'...true fact; my grandmother has the same red hair and it faded fer sure...but never gray...
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