Do You Still Think The TMS System Is For You? Chime Edwards Tells Her Curl Damage Story 1 Year Later

Chime Edwards recently posted a video titled “My TMS experience 1 year later”. In the video she talks about the texture damage she sustained after using the popular Texture Management System created and marketed by Beautiful Textures.

I remember when this product launched, it was a big deal because the company promised the best of both worlds. You could get silky straight hair that lasted up to 6 weeks and with a simple clarify you would have your curls back sans heat damage.

Now women can have the hair versatility they want without harsh chemicals and without permanently altering their curl pattern.

Whatever your hair texture – curly, kinky*-coily, wavy or frizzy – the Reversible™ Straightening Texture Manageability™ System (TMS) allows you to go from natural curls to straight styles and back again. For relaxed hair, the system extends the time between relaxer new-growth applications.

They gave women a solution to what they considered was a problem because as you know if you straighten your hair and the weather has an attitude that day, your hair may or may not poof within the hour regardless of what you use within your straightening process.

There are things you can do to prevent reversion, maybe use a product that reflects moisture rather than attract it, you can keep your hair wrapped, or you can re-flat iron* your hair with a prayer that you do not sustain damage.

The point is, for your hair to remain silky “relaxer straight” for that long and not behave like it normally would something has to change in the molecular structure of the strand, I do not care what they say.

According to the brand they do not have any ‘harsh chemicals’ in the product but after extensive research we have come to realize that term “harsh” can be relative, it just depends on who you are talking to. This is what the brand said:

The secret is the Inner-Active™ Leave-In Conditioner*, which is infused with essential oils*, natural butters* and amino acids, and has no harsh chemicals. The Inner Active™ leave-in conditioner* penetrates the hair, causing it to elongate and soften while making it easier to detangle. Once the detangling process is complete, the hair is blow-dried and flat ironed, creating beautifully straight, touchably soft hair with unmatched body, movement and shine – all in a fraction of the time of most traditional straightening methods.

Curly Nikki tackled this topic a year ago as well and the writer extensively spoke about the lies companies feed us to get us to purchase their products. She identified that in fact there are chemicals in the TMS system that will change the structure of your strand.

Here is an excerpt:

“Some companies are starting to employ formaldehyde’s cousins such as gluteraldehyde or glyoxal in their systems and marketing that as a positive attribute. What they forget to mention is that they react with the hair in the same manner that formaldehyde does.

The compounds expose the stylists and salon patrons to the exact same health issues. Gluteraldehyde or glyoxal may perhaps be weaker than formaldehyde but the companies may be using as much or even higher percentages to achieve the same effective straightening.” – Dr. Ali Syed, The Truth About Keratin (BKT) Treatments

Lets get back to Chime’s video, I can appreciate her honesty in the video, you will notice that her natural hair is very much different from what it used to be back in the day. I think she probably learned a very valuable lesson from her experience.

If you watch her reversion video a year ago she was very nervous about her hair reverting because of how straight it was. See below:

In the video it appeared that her hair did revert, it was styled in some sort of braid or twist out which doesn’t really tell you if her hair truly reverted however, at the time my perspective was, if you like it, I love it because at the end of the day it is your hair.

Now that Chime is showing her damage it is very apparent that her work with Beautiful Textures was not just taking a chance with her own hair but her endorsement might have influenced others to walk down the path of curl destruction as well.

After all this is why Beautiful Textures chose Youtubers to support the brand. Companies do this all the time they pick the best influencers to do what they do best.. influence! Which leads to increased sales.

In the below video Chime talks about the first time her sister brought her changed curls to her attention and the differences she noticed about her curls. Chime mentions how much the changes bothered her, and how much having her own texture meant to her.

She also talks about the great things that came with having the TMS system like easy wash and gos and easy detangling.

In this video she shows a side by side of how exactly her hair changed:

This video is pretty important because she got heat damage when she had her hair curled which means that the extra heat pretty much loosened the curls even more than the TMS system had already done.

I am inclined to think that if you use the TMS system once and you continue to use heat after, your hair will get straighter and straighter until there is no kink or curl left.

It is important that we do our own research about the products that we use on our hair and this goes for our influencers like Chime and everyone else behind a laptop or iPad watching a video or reading this article. If you aren’t sure about something, walk away until you are sure.

Companies can be very deceptive and they will offer incentives for your coin, you just have to decide if it’s worth it for you and your hair.

In my opinion, it was not worth it for Chime, because as she admitted, what she has now is not what she wanted. If you like what the TMS system does after you have researched it then by all means go for it. After all some people actually like texturizers which is what the TMS system appears to have done to her hair.

The moral of the story is, if this system is for you then by all means support it after extensive research, if it isn’t, make that decision only after extensive research.