Well I now know what it means to have heat damage. About five or six weeks ago I went to a salon and got my hair washed, dried and flatironed. I now have several sections of my hair which are bone straight. ARGHHHHHHH!!!!! Nine months! Wow! Really! Are you kidding me! Never again (slight exaggeration)...but for real it will be a long time before anyone else will touch my hair! I didn't notice the damage at first because it was flat ironed, BUT it did feel different than when I flat ironed it at home. I thought it was just really, really straight. It wasn't until I washed it and saw that some of my hair wasn't curling up that I realize what happened. {Tears!!} I have struggled with what I'm going to do next... (A) relax it and start over...(B) cut it extremely short (not ready for that!) or (C) just pretend like it never happened and nurture my hair through another nine months of transitional growth until I reach a length that I will be comfortable cutting it . Again I say...REALLY???? This sucks! Well...it is what it is...but I am going to take option (C) and just grow it out from where it is now! Pray for me to stay strong and keep pressing forward.
Update: I have about an inch and a half of new growth since my heat damage incident. I am hanging in there. Pray for me!!!
