Relaxing Hair at Home

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Amelia and I'm here to talk to you about relaxing your hair at home. It's a pretty harsh chemical, so when you relax your hair at home, you're going to want to make sure you have someone there who can help you out. It's very difficult to apply yourself, and you're under a time-clock. The hair, the the product starts timing as soon as you apply the first bit of relaxer in your hair, so you've usually got between fifteen and twenty minutes to actually get it all over your head, have it process, and then shampoo it. You're going to want to make sure that you part your hair into four quarters. So you would just part your hair. If it's the first time you've ever relaxed your hair, you're going to apply that root to ends. If it's not, and you're trying just to just redo some regrowth, you're going to want to apply something on thee ends to help protect those ends and keep 'em safe from the relaxer. If you've got a lot of hair that you're trying to relax, you will probably want to split that hair into sections and do one section, neutralize, and then go back and do thee others, so that way you don't over-process and cause breakage. Also, once you are done relaxing, you're probably going to want to do a deep conditioner treatment, something that's protein based and moisture based. Put that on, leave it on...some of the new relaxers also have conditioner in them that you can do in between thee relaxing phase and thee neutralizing phase. And remember there's several different types of relaxers on the market, so make sure that you're looking for one that's for your particular hair type. Is your hair fine? Coarse? Is it color treated? Keep those things in mind when looking for your relaxer that you're going to do at home."