Help! I’m a mix between Carrotop, Van Halen hair and Hagrid’s Hut!
Help! I literally brushed my hair out section by section and lightly, because my curls just haven’t been looking the same since I haven’t had my organic flaxseed gel! Nothing is working well for me right now. Not my Curlsmith ‘hold me softly’ Style Balm even paired with Verb Mousse in collab w/MaynesByMel. They separated my curls too much and made it look thinner and over night they just fell out and looked greasy to me. I also did spray in the Rosarco Milk leave in conditioning spray by Briogeo *Farewell Frizz* and this is what I get?!??
I’m so tired of my hair at this point. I also think I’m using the wrong brush, again. I was using a boar brush on one side and long bristles on the other — I know there are hybrids now, though. I am ordering a jade stone comb for my wet hair from Lanshin. I’m just at a loss for words. It’s never been this bad! It looks like it’s still damaged from when someone put bleach in my hair for the first time in many years on my virgin hair and directly after that, my hair started falling out in droves (this was last July and hair had never fallen out like this, ever)! I do mean, it was terrifying to get in the shower at one point for me. I even went back to her a month later, because I told her all the blonde she put in was practically gone. She was baffled when she saw me. The first thing she said was, “What on earth happened? I’ve never seen a client lose the blonde I just put in less than a month ago.”. I was like, “honey, you tell me, because this has never happened in my entire life and my hair was a unicorn and could tolerate every color under the sun, and she did just that for many years with no issues. It was a brand I had never heard of before and certainly had never been used on my scalp before (Schwarzkopf?). I ended up doing a lot of research and saw where others had really bad allergic reactions to this product and that it also caused severe hair fall. It was the only thing that made any sense at the time and was the common denominator. I really wonder if that’s why it’s taken so long to finally see hair growing back nicely, but I still lose more hair than I would like to. It was doing much better from Feb. to April. However, it’s massive! It feels dry from mids to ends and just poofs straight out! Volume for days, but not the volume we want to see! I honestly cannot handle my hair anymore. I really just need someone who can identify my curl pattern and tell me what I need to do; if I need bond repair or silicones in a shampoo in combo with my nizoral. Maybe using a hair mask (I have Amika The Kure), but I’m ordering the k19 peptide molecular hair mask for bonding as I’ve heard great things about that product, but also a few good ones with L’Oréal brand, too.
I basically want to know what you guys think is going on here. Also, what products would you recommend for a very fine haired girly like myself that was thinning, but I think it’s getting better. The only thing that I do worry about are my ferritin levels, even though I have a very clean diet and hit all of those levels, plus stacking with the right supplements that work for me, especially now that I’m in perimenopause. I’m also scared to use heat. I only diffuse lightly. I’ve thought about getting a French bob blunt cut, but I’m so nervous it’s going to poof out to French and back and I really will look mental. I don’t know why I’ve always been so shite with hair. 🫠