I ruined my hair by relaxing it help me !!?

i decided to relax my hair my self so i bought relaxer in a box from wal mart .. and i totally ruined my hair it's frizzy dry and i had to cut a lot of it off because the ends were like rubber ... i want my pretty curly hair back but i dont know what i should do .. i've heard different suggestions .. one is that i should shampoo my hair a lot to strip the damaged layer off of my hair .. and the other is that i should condition it and not shampoo it to somehow help my hair repair itself .. i know it takes time but HOW MUCH TIME =[[[[[ ??

I ruined my hair by relaxing it help me !!?

Curl it or Iron it.

I ruined my hair by relaxing it help me !!?

shampoo and condition and things for ur hair like that cheap stuff never work remember that its true.be patient

I ruined my hair by relaxing it help me !!?

It might take awhile. Buy some clarifying shampoo and deep conditioner and use it until your hair is healthy again.

I ruined my hair by relaxing it help me !!?

The entire hair is damaged, excessive shampooing will make it worse. Look up how chemical straighteners alter the hair. The chemicals work by breaking open the innermost part of the hair and reconstructuring it... Just condition it and trim it every couple of weeks until it has grown out.

I ruined my hair by relaxing it help me !!?

Go to a professional immediately. I'm not sure if there are any intensive treatments that will "reverse" the damage you've done, at least nothing over-the-counter.

Was your hair colored as well? Sounds like it was. NEVER mix chemical (perm, relaxer) with color; my sister's hair literally fell out after we warned her not to. I hate to tell you this, you may have to end up cutting it all off, especially if you're damaged entire strands.

Shampoo will not repair it; the chemicals from the relaxer have penetrated and damaged the shaft. (A relaxer is not like a conditioner that coats the hair.) As I mentioned, the only thing that MIGHT help is a professional strength reconstructor and deep conditioning. The sooner you do this, the better chance you have of saving your hair.

Time? Depending on the severity and whether or not they can repair it, the time it takes to grow it back out. (My sister was so devestated that she took her husband's clippers and ended up shaving her head. Very sad... not trying to scare you, just telling the truth.)

Sorry,

Mon :-)

I ruined my hair by relaxing it help me !!?

i relax my hair too, twice a year, though i go to the hairdresser for that. what you can do at home is, buy a damaged hair repair shampoo and conditioner. use the shampoo every two days, but use conditioner every single day! put the conditioner, and don't wash it off for like, two hours. wrap your hair with a towel, leave it at that for two hours, and then rinse it. hopefully, within a week or two, you'll start to feel your soft hair again, goodluck!!! =) try to avoid blowdrying or using hair irons, heat damages your hair more...

I ruined my hair by relaxing it help me !!?

Ok never ever, ever try to relaxer you hair yourself. Chemical relaxers are harsh chemicals.

There is a reason that hairstylists go to school.

It sounds like what you have done is left the relaxer on way too long.

Did you go to a stylist to get the ends cut? If you did what did he/she say to do with the damage?

Do not shampoo you hair a lot, this will only contribute to the dryness. You should only wash your hair every other day if not every 3 days unless you hair is oily.

Do not skip shampooing, your hair still needs to be cleaned.

Get a good shampoo and conditioner. I recommend L'oreal Professional Intense Repair, it will cost about $40-$50 for both.

Go to a salon and get a deep conditioning treatment, I would say to start off with every 3 - 4 days until you see a difference.

If you follow this treatment plan your hair should be good in about 4 - 6 weeks.

I ruined my hair by relaxing it help me !!?

I wish I knew girl. I really do. I feel your pain. *hugs* I just dyed my hair the wrong color (dark brown) on my hair, and I dyed it like four times to get the color right, (diff. shades of brown) and then I bleached it like three times to get the color out, then dyed it again. I think I might have dyed it or bleached it one or two more times than I said, I dont remember. The point it, it ruined my hair! It was comming out in small locks, and then so much of it came out when I brushed it. I was so horrified I was shaking real bad and was basicly having a heart attack. So, I went to school, looking like an ablino with frizzy, straw-like hair that was comming out. (only I knew it was falling out though) That afternoon when I got home, my mom called a hair-salon woman to fix it when I was taking a nap. (we stayed up till 3, I stayed up till practicly four still shaking and all.) But she took me down there and she said it has too much damage done to it to do anything yet.

She gave me some PAUL MITCHELL super strength conditioner to repair it. I put it on every night for a week for 30 min-2 hrs with a cap over it. It gets dry and crusty if you dont put a plastic cap over it. It worked real good.

So, I went back and she dyed my hair 'chesnut'. But it was GLAZE so the dark color of it slid off and I found out chesnut was really red. I HATE RED HAIR!!!!!! I freaked out, but couldnt say anything cause it costed 100$ and that was cheap. So I wore it like that for two or three months and the color slid off, and its gotten to be a pretty color now. ^ ^

My hair used to be curly and pretty like yours too, and if i brushed it, wavy. Now I flat iron it like I would every now and again before that happen cause of its frizziness, but I still put some body into it. Ive got horrible split ends and they break off. My hair looks alright though, and doesnt feel like straw.

I ruined my hair by relaxing it help me !!?

you have to wait for it to grow out , and get the healthy hair back naturally.