From Heat-Damage to Healthy Curls | Dove
This post is promoted by Dove Hair “YAYYYY!!!! No more relaxers for me!” That’s what I said when I proudly declined a touch up from a box perm my mother was fixin’ to apply to my head. I was 17 and had absolutely no idea what I was embarking on. A life of no relaxers just meant I would wash and blow dry like always right? Wrong. I was a perpetual straightener. I washed, blow-dried and flat-ironed my hair every single week. Every morning? The flat-iron would be plugged in and ready to glide down my semi-wavy, heat-damaged, half-relaxed strands. Eventually I saw the consistency of my wavy heat-damaged curls (not knowing they were heat-damaged) and didn’t (more…)