Page 4 - Volume 2 Black Hair

We found the best way was to use a huge comb and do not try to section

at the scalp but open small areas with the comb and apply the relaxer

cream to within two inches from the scalp, once this was done, we would

comb the relaxer through the middle lengths and ends keeping the relaxer

off the scalp.

Then apply fresh relaxer to within 2mm from the scalp, comb through as

quickly as possible, flattening the hair to the scalp with the back of the

comb as you work through the whole head. Once straight neutralise by

shampooing out all the relaxer cream (6 or 7 shampoos). The hair is now

permanently straight and I recommend blow drying straight with a round

pure bristle brush. If you leave it to dry naturally it will stay straight but

swell in texture making it appear like straight frizz.

Six weeks later there is a re-growth to be dealt with; the Americans treat

it the same as if they were doing the head for the first time, apply relaxer

cream over the top of both the hair that has already been relaxed, and the

re-growth also. As I said earlier, they work it and get it off as quickly as

possible, getting the re-growth straight with as little damage to both the

re-growth and the hair that is already relaxed.

Before going to America and with no technical information available

here, when a client returned to have her re-growth straightened, I

developed this technique similar to tinting. First apply Vaseline around

the hairline, the tops of the ears and in the nape of the neck Fig1.