My hair type

Since Relaxing my natural  hair last year , I have noticed that my hair is not thoroughly relaxed. Was hoping for that silky shiny hair but it didn’t happen.

The first time I relaxed it I was not impressed so I had to wait a full week then relaxed it again but I still felt a bit rough near the roots. It only looked and felt  relaxed and shiny on day 1.

 I have Texlaxed hair.

"Texlaxed" hair is hair texture that falls between texturized curls and chemically relaxed, straight hair. "Texlaxing" is the intentional underprocessing of hair with a relaxer chemical, and is typically done to create volume, body, and texture in relaxed hair.

This is what texlaxed hair looks like after washing out the chemical relaxer.

You will notice the difference between your bone straight hair and texlaxed hair when washed  because your texlaxed hair will appear fuller against your thin, bone straight ends. Texlaxed texture is best seen on air-dried hair

 It feels like you have just softened the ends and that new growth just wont relax. I have noticed that only my front hair ever actually relaxes. The rest doesn’t, my hairdresser was actually surprised that I had relaxed my hair as she thought it was still fully natural.

The reason why im still thinking of going natural again is due to my texlaxed hair, ive noticed my aunt and cousin also have hair texture like mine. My hair only looks relaxed and straight  only with the help of a ceramic iron after a blow dry otherwise theres no way you can tell its relaxed.

(we will take about the dangers of ceramic irons later)



The most Popular Texlaxing Method I have heard around the streets of Harare is washing your hair with Coca Cola.

Sia and her hair journey

My name is Sia and  the only time I remember getting my hair all cut was when I was 6 years old ,im 24 now and my hair has never been past my shoulders. When I mean past my shoulders I mean it been all the same length and going past my shoulders. My back hair grows faster than the rest. As any African woman ive always wanted to have long hair, im sure ive tried everything but I think I can safely say I have learnt new things in the past year and only started taking proper care of it last year and would like to start afresh but im still stuck between continuing with my relaxed hair or going natural again. You see in 2010 after my hair started  breaking a lot I decided to go the natural . After numerous relaxers and dying my hair twice ,my hair became too thin and rather too short for my liking. So I took the decision to not cut it all off but rather to just chop off the relaxed ends of my hair. That’s the pathway to natural I chose, short hair just aint me I just couldn’t imagine walking around bald. My Natural hair journey was awesome with just one major problem being that it was too kinky, like tht overly curly hair(mfushwa) that when u comb there just little curly hair everywhere and it was just the ‘ hard mashona type’. Everytime I washed my hair and needed to go get it plaited I had to straighten it first with a ceramic hair iron so it became more manageable. We will talk about ceramic irons at a later stage, but for now im warning you all against them whether you have natural or relaxed hair. My natural hair journey lasted till September 2011 but the length I attained during that short period was longer than the the length I grew from 1994 until 2009(15 years).

I love hair and constantly changing my hair , i hope you enjoy my blog as i take you through my hair journey and hope you learn from me and give me tips too.

A Shungu pony

A” Shungu pony” is when u tie your hair at the back of your head and theres not much to tie . its just sticking up in the air and theres not much hair for it to even face down.