5 Heat Damage Recovery Tips For Natural Hair
- Posted on 23 July, 2017
- Hair Care
- By Anonymous
Download my FREE GUIDE ‘7 Natural Hair Mistakes That Are Stunting Your Growth’ here: http://bit.ly/free-hairgrowth-guide Here are 5 Heat Damage Recovery Tips for Natural Hair. I have 4b/4c hair that was heat damaged and here is how I got my curls back after 1.5 years. How I Trim My Natural Hair: http://bit.ly/Joi-Trim // What products do I use?: http://bit.ly/Joi-Hair-Shop
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Hey guys destroy here and today we are talking about heat damage, so for all of you who are new to my channel, make sure that you subscribe and like this video as well as turn on your notifications. So you can see more natural hair videos like this, but basically a lot of you know that I went through extreme heat damage back when I was starting my natural hair journeys, some pictures up here, but basically I to get my hair straight in every two weeks And eventually my curls were just bone straight and I didn't really understand what had happened death eventually, when I was doing wash day, my hair wasn't curly anymore, and I kind of just let it be like that. As I continue to do my hair and then I started watching like natural hair videos and stuff, I was like oh like this is actual damage to my hair, like what can I do? My hair was about this length straight and I was like. Well, I don't really want to cut my hair off. I was in middle school. I didn't want a big chop or anything, so I tried to find an alternative route. So, basically, when you have see damage, there's two options: cutting it all off or eventually cutting it. Slowly and repairing your new growth and making sure that healthy, so I went with option two, but before we get into my routine and things that I did to make my hair come back, curly, healthy, etc. Let'S talk about key damage, so one misunderstanding is that crease damaged, hair pin fully bounced back? That'S not entirely true see. Damage is a permanent change to your hair when you put extreme sweet on curly hair and the strands will turn straight. There'S damage to your hair. Shaft and that really can't be repaired, but for me my endless straight, the middle was wavy and it kind of went back to kinky. So there was a range, so the ends were definitely done. The middle just to get some tender loving care. The ends were healthy. Hair, so my technique was slowly cutting you know, keeping making sure the middle kid come back as much as it could, because that wasn't really permanent. It was just a looser wave which is still heat damaged, but I could deal with that for the time and then I was making sure that the new growth were coming healthy and I would prevent heat damage. So, for all of you guys who have heat damage and you don't want to cut, let's talk about your option for getting your curls back, so my process took about a year and a half from the heat damaged hair to having my curls look in good. So basically, I had a list right here that we're going to go through. So the first thing is: stop using keep like you're going to just cause more damage. If you're putting heat on already damaged hair, you need to stop using heat, but if you must use heat, make sure using a heat protectant make sure that the temperature is low like lower than usually do why you set your oven to 400 degrees. Like would you put your head and you're like no like just lower that temperature a little bit also make sure that your seat, conditioning and stuff before you take heat on your hair? But that is what, if we must like, please just stop and heat on your hair, so you can stop further than any damage that you have, and by heat I mean straight airs blow dryers. Anything on, especially if you have damaged try to avoid. Second is choosing how you are going to cut your hair, because eventually you will cut off most of the damage and so option. One is a big chop which is cutting all the way to the healthy hair. The second option is monthly or bimonthly tray, and so what I did was monthly every month Alex off a half inch of hair for that year or so, and that was because your hair usually grows a half inch more or less. Maybe a quarter inch. But I don't want to see the link that was losing just because I didn't really care how long it took. So I cut off a half inch every month and if you don't really care about losing length, you just don't want to do all at once. Maybe do it every two weeks cut off some of your heat damage, just so it's a little less dramatic or like emotionally paint like less emotionally painful for you guys, but you will have to get some hair scissors and trim your hair. And if you want to see how I trim my own natural hair without having to pick keep on it, you should clip the video up here. It'S how I trim my natural hair and that will show you how you can trim your hair at home without having to pay to go to a salon, so definitely check that out after we finish going through this tip the third thing. So you also want to be taking care of the hair that you will be keeping, and you also want to see if only of the hair can have some curls bounce back. So, for me that was the hair that was kind of still spirally, but a little bit looser. So I wanted to see if I could get any of that to get like some life back into it. So what I did was deep conditioning. I do conditioned weekly for a few months and then kind of went to every wash day every two weeks than three weeks, etc. So what I did was a DIY, deep conditioner and it is using avocado. So these Alba kado honey and some oils, like olive oil, coconut oil and mix it together, blend it and then put that on my hair for 20 minutes with a with a plastic cap and then rinse it out so some people they do protein treatments. So my hair does not like protein, so I would add egg my hair didn't like the egg white, so I could only see the yolk or do nothing, but the yolk is just fast, so it just made my hair softer. So definitely try it out. But if you see that the egg or any type of protein is not working with your hair, don't keep doing it, it's not every hair type doesn't react. The same way to protein, so definitely try that out or try to do other DIY. Deep conditioning. I like natural stuff, when I'm doing with my hair, but you can buy view conditioners if you want to see the deep conditioner that I'm currently using there's really below tell all the hair products that I use. I currently run by as I am, but but you want to purchase their or just look at all the hair products that I use on my hair click on the link and the description box. The next thing that you should try out is protective styling. So if you, you want to cut your hair, but you're not ready to lose length, think about maybe cutting 3 inches off your hair than getting braids and then you'll kind of forget that you cut your hair and it will be less traumatic. Um, like we're saying before so I did do braids and twists just because if I wanted to cut a little bit more than the half inch a month, I was cut. It then put my hair in those twists and then, after, like two months when I took them out, my hair would have grown an inch back on by then and your hair is not going to have as much breakage because you do want to protect your ends. When you have two damaged, especially if you're not cutting it all up at once, because you might get split in and then that button will go all the way up, the shaft and damage your whole hair, the whole hair strand and then your end up having to Cut off more than you would have before, so that's why you really need to look at the health of your hair before you decide if you're going to big chop or just periodically trim my hair had damage, but it did not have split ends and that's what Was different about my heat damage, then, when I talk to other people, some people's hair is like all split up. If you have buttons, I say cut as much as you can, because you don't want your new growth damaged, because that would preliminaries of deep conditioning on all of the stuff that we're trying to do to make your new hair healthy and their curls pop. In so definitely the FDF split and cut those off immediately, but for me I had he'd image, but no visible split ends that needed me to big chop. So those are all of my tips for recovering or getting curls back, and it's really just a new growth. Regimen, I feel like there's a lot of misunderstanding about heat damage. You definitely can't just leave your hair to sit. You need to be trimming, you need to be deep conditioning and everything like that. Once you get your curls back, you can hold back on the trimming. I only trim twice a year now so trim as needed, but when you're trying to get rid of that damaged she's doing it regularly deep conditioning deep conditioning regularly once you get your coat back tried not to go back to heat you're gon na have new rains That you're gon na do looking dirty like, should I just look back at a picture of her she's damaged and you'll, be like heck, not x-naught. That'S what I do when I write it like tempted. I just look back at her picture. I'M like yeah. I am NOT going down that path again yeah, so if you have any questions, leave them in the comments below. So, thank you guys so much for watching once again check out the highlights from my natural hair video if you're interested and make sure you give me a thumbs up on this video. I
Comments
GiGi: Kept my 4c natural hair in protective styles for 6 years and got it professionally flat ironed a week ago. Washed it today and immediately saw a totally different hair grade. I used to complain about my 4c and was ashamed of its kinky texture and now it's completely ruined and I'm so heartbroken. I learned a valuable lesson. Love ME as I am
Nina B: i regret straightening my hair, It was my first time since i've been natural and it got damaged. Never again
Sanyu Ndekou: I'm literally crying, my curls are gone. I can't do anything with my hair. I look and feel a mess.
Kam: sadly, i don’t think i’ll ever get a silk press again. my stylist didn’t severely damage my hair but it definitely wasn’t the same it seems like every time i go to a salon they always set me back
Ranita Gadling: I feel so ashamed that I allowed my mom to damage my hair from the time I was little using everything from relaxers to hot Combs to flat irons sadly now my once mid back length hair is now shoulder length & I'm trying to get the length back to where it once was but I have no freaking idea of how to start that journey.
Cynthia Mobley Howell: Thank you! These tips were EXTREMELY HELPFUL! I could kick myself in the teeth. Suffered heat damage in 2020. Went ahead and did the big chop. Within a year my hair grew back long and beautiful. I vowed to NEVER put heat to it again. Well about a month ago I got this bright idea to flat iron my hair. WROOOOOONG. TOTAL HEAT DAMAGE! Uggggh, I'm over myself. This damage doesn't seem to be as bad as the first time. I REFUSE to do another big chop. I plan to keep it conditioned and trim it once a month and see what happens. I learned my lesson. My hair CANNOT TAKE HEAT.
V: My 4c hair is bone straight from heat damage. My daughters have 3a & 2c and their hair straightened out completely. Thanks for solving this puzzle for me
Stephanie R.: Super helpful! Thank you so much. I go through phases of embracing my natural curls and ironing it lol, but I notice my hair has been doing this very beautiful, tight small curly spirals all throughout my hair (similar to rastafari curls as type 3B). And it seems beautifully curly after a recent hair chop I did so decided to in the end embrace it (though after the chop had done a coconut oil treatment to only later iron it for an important event; so has minimal very tiny split ends with my medium width). Am going to continue to give it TLC -- Deep conditioning + trimming. Thanks for the tips again! It's been awhile where I fully embraced its curly mane.
Surreal: I looked after my hair really well and only applied heat once every two weeks or even once a month. But I was about to go holiday and decided to get it “professionally” straightened and the lady damaged my hair
Renee J: I've been getting relaxers my entire life, but about a month ago I did the big chop. I think my biggest struggle is figuring out which products work for it. Also, which video editor do you use?
Katiri Sherman: This past year I’ve cut off ten inches gradually. My hair started off being super loose (no straight pieces though) and with protein treatments moisture and hair vitamins (taken on and off but I took them lol) I got my hair to be wash and go passing 3 months after the initial damage and now my hair is pretty Much good it’s been almost a year and no one notices my slight damage but me now (I got 3 inches cut in may 3 more in June and 4/5 in October and I’m planning on cutting 2-3 more some time in December. I wear my hair in 16 twists pulled into a bun with a baseball cap, a Beanie, or bright scarf in the winter so I think I’ll but cutting more often now. My hair was maybe 3 inches from bra strap when I damaged it last December and with the gradual cutting and growth it’s equaled out to my hair length now (3-4 inches past my collar bone)
Anika: I'm mixed and had a very thick afro which made me self conscious since I was around people with straight hair. So I straightened it every day and now it's all straight pieces. I miss my fro so much:(
Chelsea Joy: I feel so discouraged! I recovered from heat damage once and fell in love with my curls, but then I had to straighten it once after staying away from heat for so long and BAM! Heat damage! Seriously considering a big chop but I've never done it before. I'm scared.
Caroline Brown: Hey, so i made a few minor mistakes while trying to go natural a few months back! no biggie tho because mistakes happen, i am ready to begin again, my number one question has to be how do you know your hair doesn't agree with certain things? your videos are very helpful and much appreciated, thank you!
Keren M: My mum taught me that I had to blow dry my hair after washing now I don’t understand what it’s become I’m so thankful for this video
kayla 123: I’m 9 months no heat and natural and I like it I guess back when I straightened my hair I would use 350 heat ..yeah the journey is hard but I think I will get through it im trying to grow out the damage and then cut ig
•Ari•: My hair is damaged from blow drying it A LOT
ItsAngie: im so upset i straightened my hair for my birthday and i washed it a week later and noticed my curls wern't coming back so i got braids done a week later and currently i can still see the texture of my hair is straight im so sad i regret it omg
A. Logan: So I just learned I have heat damage after watching your videos. I never knew this so it is shocking to me. I'm new to having to take care of my hair by myself and I am clueless. I don't know what kind of hair type I have but I can describe it. I have shoulder length very thick hair. I have heat damage so in the middle it is very straight and like the ends are curly. sadly I do have split ends and breakage. I use to always straighten my hair because it was easier to handle. The salon I would go to would use a lot of heat and I never knew the effects if what I was doing I have given up hope before on my hair and let go. it also gets very dry easily and the curls never last. Do u have any tips or ideas on ways I can try and restore/fix my hair.!!!! this is just a guess but I think my hair is in the 3 or 4
Kayla’s Koils: I have some heat damage but I'm transitioning out of it. I refuse to or better yet just can't part with my heat damage right now. Especially since it's finally growing. Other than that my struggle was not having any growth but it was bc I wasn't putting anything in my hair at all. No leave in, oil, dc, nothing. And then I had the nerve to wonder why my hair wasn't growing lol now that I focus on moisturizing my hair it's growing. I went from shoulder length to BSL in a year and a half which was amazing since I was stuck at shoulder length for 2 years
Michenelle: What should I do? I’m really trying to grow my damaged hair out but in the whole back my hair was so damaged that it fell out. I basically have short patches of hair with a few straight strands coming from those patches. Should I just shave all my hair off ?
Ogechi U.: It’s been a whole year since my curls don’t want to come back ☹️ I don’t want to cut it... my hair used to be goals, and it’s already getting shorter.
COREYLA: My situation: so i have naturally fine textured hair (as in definitely not thick, but not extremely thick either) so it's not really possible to just regularly put my hair in a puff/ponytail/bun/whatever lol it has to be a good day for me to be able to do it. My hair can also get dry pretty easily and i have tons of fairy knots and split ends but the only way I can get rid of them is via going to the hair salon and the ones in my state (delaware) aren't all that and i always end up with heat damage somehow so i'm not with that. Also, i'm in my early teens (14) so i am not trusted yet to cut my hair on my own. So, please, if anyone has any tips on how to maintain moisture,and get thicker hair and all that good stuff for my situation i'd love to hear it!!!
MyCrownOfCurls: You and your hair are absolutely beautiful! Thanks for sharing these great tips!
Erin Rollins: My mom and sister didn't really do my hair so when I was nine started flat ironing my hair every day
Ashley Latson: Hey, I did a slick press about a year ago and I'm paying the price for it now. The back of my hair has straight parts and I don't feel any new growth. It's literally straight parts at some of the roots. Any tips?
Shakirah C.: Thank you so much Joi Wade, this video was much needed.
KL93_x: How do you know if your hair doesn’t like protein? I’m tryna transition but I find it hard.
Joi Wade: Hey y'all! Comment one issue/struggle you are having with your hair journey and respond to others with advice to help them! ✨ If you need products/tools to help you in your hair journey, here are my favorites: http://bit.ly/Joi-Hair-Shop
Tshepiso Modupe: I'm watching your video because my heart is so broken because my hair is heat damaged... I feel like i betrayed my hair, when I allowed the hair dresser do that... ....i just hope once I finish watching your video, it will give me direction as to what to do
India Moon: How long was your recovery journey
Queen Melanin: Question. My hair is heat damaged. I think. I just straightened it like a week ago and I'm considering to dye it. Can I do a treatment (rice water, avocado, mayonnaise, aloe Vera and casteroil) and then proceed with the dye like a day after?
Stephanie Ramirez: i hated my curls so much so i would straighten my hair. i havent straightened it everyday but it is bleached so its very damaged. I would always complain about my curls and how they are so hard to manage but i just want them back.
azayriaa: I have been getting my hair blow dried since I was little and at 8/9 I started getting it straightened and I’m now 11 I wanna go natural... But every time my hair dries it gets SUPER frizzy and dry
Deborah: Should you avoid roller sets also?
Samantha Jarenga: So if you totally don't use heat but the shrinkage is too much... What do you do?
linda akoto: i dont know if mine is bad. my hair still has its curls but i blowdryed my hair to try to get it moer poofy 3 days in a row and now it just doesnt feel as soft. i even did a afro today but i need tips to get it more soft.
Kenyjaneg: I relaxed my hair straight off fir2 months when it had heat damage! Really stupid but at that time I wasn't aware of natural and proper hair care! So after that my hair wasn.t reverting to natural which it usually did do in the past! Instead I was getting new growth that was really kinky! After 4 months in this awkward stage I installed micro braids for 2 months? When I took them off the damaged hair fell with the braids, and I was left with fragile completely natural hair...Any explanation for that?
Scrubz.N.Squatz: There’s just levels to heat damage ..... it is repairable, just depending on the heat damage level ur on
Wangu Joy: How often did you deep condition when healing from heat damage?
sally: I need help. I’ve been wearing braids for years now then when I went to Africa I decided to texturize my hair (the texturizer that straightens) and I did it approximately 4/5 times a month (I stayed there a months by the way) and now I have chemical damage (at least that’s what I think), when my hair is dry it looks normal then when I wet it a lot the ends are like wavy/straight and I don’t wanna cut it!! please help!
Maria Malaika: How often did you do protective styles (the braids and twists)?
ruby rein: I recently figured out that i got heat damaged hair i realised that i got different kinds of curl like 3a 3b 3c 4a and i was like what has happened to my hair then i realised its slightly lighter than my roots so then i understood that yesss its heat damaged
Jade S: i had my aunt straighten my hair and now i’m really scared that i have heat damage. i was being a fool and a used more heat on my hair 4 extra times a bf now i’m really worried :((
Alinzia .A Army: I have heat damage and my hair is really long but my mom keeps yelling at me saying nothing is wrong and keep sending me to the hair salon to damage my hair even more because I sit under the dryer really long after 3 perms and I am in middle school
LiberatedLivingW Jasmin: Can you talk about repairing split ends more. I have split ends that went all the way up my hair shaft I can't figure out how to repair without chopping off all my hair
All Dolled Up Salon and Stores: Showing curly love!! :)
Anonymous: Is it unusual that ever since I started spraying my hair with se salt spray then blow drying it, the area lost hair, its chronically dry and wrinkly and won't grow as fast? My scalp also started to hurt when I would blow dry. I've stopped after seeing the damage. I used to have thick and fat hair strands now it's all super fine and dry!!!! I also found I've been using protein shampoo n conditioner that just makes my hair brittle. Ofc I've stopped all culprits mentioned. Trying to recover my hair. Pls help.
Prettygurl_tingz079: You set your oven to 400°, when you put your head, 'LIKE NO'
Sachery Gil: I’ve been straightening my hair for 10 years so u think I can still get my Afro back?
Sade Johnson: I only have heat damage in the very front if I cut the front it’s just going to be long on the rest of my head.
nicole mcrae: Great and helpful video. Please be mindful of the mouth clicking/ smacking!
BuckledKnees: Had a modeling competition and they made me straighten my curls and it ruined my hair.
Yolanda Champion: Same here.....pressing and she flat ironed it....all you could smell was burnt bacon! It was embarassing.....so I cut it all off to a short mohawk!! When I walked you could smell a trail...I was embarassed to hold a conversation with someone.....NEVER AGAIN!!
lisa: My hair is thin and I only straightened it once it got heat damage after only ONE time
Kyra H: How do you know if egg isnt working well with your hair?
allthingsnursing: Very informative. Choice of Music was kind of distracting though
mara together: Thank u great vid!
grace medhin: can someone fr help? i had perfect curls and they were really long and i cut my hair and now they look damaged even though i dont use heat. what happened to my hair and how do i get rid of it?
charniecia C: I have everything except for the olive oil and coconut oil and my grandma doesn’t want to get it for me
Blueberry faygo: Mennn I’m literally going to cry I just big chopped Omg
Linda Morgey: Weedborn has some very useful CBD stuff with all the supplementation I need.
Ariel S.: What's this song called..the Keyshia Cole mix....even the other one? Thank you for these tips. I'm about to trim my ends for a second time in a few weeks. I just trimmed a couple weeks ago. I'm just trying to get it right.
Yakapende: The video gives me hope
Mie: How did your hair get so tick
Kavod Rhema: Does cutting the edges of your hair help
Constance Hairston: My rooys are curly, while my middle is BONE straight and my ends are loose curls! My beautician and mom have decided not to cut it. They think it will come back, will it?
Idk Lol: U look beautiful
Martin Dahl: I took a lighter en threw it On a hairspray Bottle and IT was a biiiiig explosion and then My hair GOT set On fire and then It got fucked up
The January Issue: always have the cutest earrings!
Kay I: I don't get that some people hair are fine with hair straightenimg. Did u get it Pressed with a hot comb?
Adiaratou Camara: I have 4b/4c hair type
Everything Reecy: You look so pretty
blvctina: She looks like she can be the wicket twins mom
Queen Cece: I love your videos thank u but are u really 4c
Magda: you are so pretty
Hanna Mayers: I can’t stop looking at your mouth