How Often to Relax Hair

Series Summary

Hair relaxer products are used to straighten or relax the hair. Whether you are is unruly or dry, a hair relaxer can add shine and gloss to your hair. This special type of lotion or cream contains strong alkaline that smooths the texture of hair. First discovered in the early 19th century by African Americans, the first commercial product was produced by Proline in 1971. Since then, millions have gone to the salon or local grocery store seeking to beautify their hair. Usually, this treatment can be reapplied every four to eight weeks. However, it depends on the individual's natural hair growth. If you are looking to reduce those curls and improve luster to your hair, hair relaxers can help you tame the wild side of flowing locks.

In this free video series, learn how to apply hair relaxer products to your hair. Our expert hairstylist,Liz Muller, shows you everything you need to know to relax your hair. Learn when and how often to use hair relaxers. Also, learn how to prepare your hair for relaxing. Liz shows you the step-by-step application of hair relaxers. So, if you are curious, take some time, and watch this free video series today!

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village my name is Liz Muller from Liz's Hair Design in Hollywood, Florida and today I'm going to teach you how to relax color treated hair. Today I'm going to show you how to do a relaxer on color treated hair. I would also touch base on how to apply relaxer on virgin hair, on hair that has just not been colored. We would go through those steps a little at a time. My model here as color treated hair as you see she is waited a while to get her touch up done, her relaxer. That is because color treated hair takes a while to relax. You don't want to go ahead and do a relaxer right after a color cause it could actually damage or break the hair. So it needs a couple of weeks break maybe 2-3 weeks. Then you can proceed to please your client as normal. She has really good thick hair but there is different types of textures that you relaxed. You just don't relax the hair, you can relax here that is fine. "