Hair breakage and My Micro Mini Twists

Just me discussing my thoughts :)

I'm adding this info on 4/4/10 due to questions people may have...
Ok listen people, I'm starting to think everyone is confused about protein! My hair is not protein deficient. It's actually kinda rare for your hair to lack protein being that we live in a 1st world country. If I have time I will do some more research on this topic and post a vid. If you eat meats, poultry, fish, chicken, eggs, milk, and yogurt which are complete proteins (high in amino acids) you don't really need to do protein treatments for breakage (In my case) because protein isn't the problem nor the cause of the breakage. Even if you are a vegetarian you can eat incomplete proteins (grains, nuts, legumes, beans, rice, seeds) to make up for the lack of meats. It would be more of a benefit to eat an egg than put it in your hair because if you are lacking amino acids in your body the hair follicles may be less likely to produce a hair fiber or grow at at timely rate.

Don't get me wrong doing protein treatments for your hair is great because it improves elasticity, ability to accept moisture, and it strengths the hair. But I would personally rather get my protein from the inside out by eating the right foods.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Natural hair
• breakage
• twists
• mini twists
• 4A
• 4B
• 4C
• hair type
• coarse hair
• thick hair
• hair color
• twist out
• short hair
• long hair
• medium hair

[Thetogette]

I have 4C hair and it is 9 inches long. After a certain lenght, you are in knots territory. Do not treat you hair as if it was a 4A hair. It is normal that the ends of your twist doing that. You will break your hair if you keep combing the twists. Put some gel at the end and twirl it or you can also roller set the ends. Again, do not comb the ends while twisting. I do not recommend you style when it is wet. If you comb the hair while blow drying then it is normal you hair is breaking.

[mstanish1]

@Thetogette Ok wait, I'm confused. I been blow drying for two years and it got me this far with no breakage. Now I'm at a new stage with my hair. The blow drying is not working because my hair is getting longer now which means it is easy to break. So your saying don't style wet or don't style dry? Personally, I found no huge difference hair loss in styling my hair wet vs dry. Still shed around the same amount. But I know that blow drying can be stressful on the hair.

[BrownFaceTV]

Your twists are FAB!! i just put some in myself, but I didn't do them this small. I'm learning that my hair doesn't like small twists (tangles, knots and locs!). I'm experiencing some breakage too along my crown?? Not sure what that's about. I may need to get on my GPB protein treatments again.

[mstanish1]

@BrownFaceTV To avoid knots I strategically take them down. First I moisturize then I take down starting from the bottom. With the mini twists I learned the hard way that you just cant pull your finger straight through them. I had to cut knots out of my hair because I tried to rush and take down my mini twists.

[brennaomi]

7-8 hrs thats a long time---always takes me 4 at most

[mstanish1]

@brennaomi I was watched two movies when I was doing these twists. I'm thinking that was the hold up. Lol. I kept stopping and eating also...

[MsMybabygurl]

Boy your hair really grew back in...I'm so excited about my natural journey....its filled in so much....I have become addicted to watching natural hair videos...didnt know so many of our sisters have transitioned.......Im looking for the pantyhose video...

[Chinaboo94]

Hey Ms.Tanish... What color/ company is your hair dyed?

[potterylady1]

CUTE!! I am so happy to be 4 c!!!

[glop12ggg]

you look sad :(

[SPARKWISDOM]

They look nice!  I am unable to twist my hair, it tangles :(

[xavdixe17]

ur hair looks nice, but i wish mine took me 7-8 hrs, mine takes me like 12hrs i have to set aside a whole day, but what products do u use for color? i want to color my hair blonde streaks, but im afraid

[ahsenerb27]

How do you take them out? Check out Prettydimples01! She shows you how to take them out with conditioner

[bridgitis]

I know that this was done some time ago, but do you think the breakage could be due to the bleaching ? Nevertheless, your twists looked great.

[HarStarr]

Does ur hair begin to loc if u leave the twists in 2 long?

[JazzWife]

These look wonderful!