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Over the years, my hair has sustained a lower degree of damageI believe everyone has damaged hair. There I said it and I am glad I got it off my chest.That pretty head of relaxed hair is damaged and yes that gorgeous head of well cared for natural hair is damaged too.I decided to write this post because of a popular discussion aka argument I see all over social media about whether or not it is possible for relaxed hair to be healthy.I’ve never seen or read any comments which echoes my own view on this topic so it appears to be my own unique perspective.  A popular view is that relaxed hair cannot be healthy because it has sustained damage during the relaxer process.My argument is that if damage is being used as a yardstick by which we measure healthy hair then nobody has healthy hair    because every single persons hair has sustained a degree of damage.The only time our hair is “healthy”, if healthy means zero damage, is when it initially grows out of the scalp. Thereafter, it begins to sustain damage. It is exposed to UV Rays, we wear tight ponytails, buns and puffs, we gel it down, blow dry it, twist it and untwist it, comb it, it gets matted so we detangle it, sometimes we flat iron it, put all sorts of products and extensions in it, I could go on and on but I am sure you get the picture.Our hair is a fibre and all the examples given above will cause the fibre to sustain some degree of damage. Even the simplest hair care regimen in which the hair is cared for amazingly well will result in a degree of damage from physical wear and tear being sustained over several years of care.So if everyones hair has sustained damage, can we say anyone’s hair is healthy??? Everyone has damaged hair but the more severe the damage, the more “unhealthy” the hair will look, feel and be.  The relevance of degrees or levels of damage is not somthing I ve seen being discussed on any healthy hair platforms.Focusing on relaxers in particular, yes relaxers breaks down the disulphide bond in the hair fibre.  The disulphide bond is what gives hair majority of its structural strength and the relaxer chemical and process breaks down about 40 to 50% of this bond BUT what most people do not realise is that the broken bonds will reform when lanthionine is produced in the hair during the relaxer process.  The bonds do not remain broken.  A new type of cross link bond is formed. So although the hair fibre is damaged, compromised and not as strong, it is still classed as a “stable structure because of the new cross links that are formed” (quoting my trichology textbook).Please note that I am not trying to sugar coat anything, the fact remains that yes relaxers causes a lot of damage to the hair but it does not destroy the overall integrity of the hair fibre especially when relaxer abuse and incorrect procedure is avoided.Please note that ladies with very fine delicate natural hair will probably want to stay away from relaxing as it is likely to result in a degree of damage that is too high for their high fibers to still have adequate levels of elasticity and structural integrity. Not everyone has hair that can withstand a relaxer process and texlaxing too is not compatible with some hair types.Remeber also that relaxed hair should never be fully straight, why? So that the fibre retains some degree of strength and flexibility which is essential for the fibre fight breakage.This is a key opportunity to tell any lady who sees relaxing as the easy way out that that notion couldnt be further away from the truth.  The more damage hair has sustained, the more important it is to have a good hair care plan in place to support the weakened fibre or structure of the hair.  If your hair has been relaxed you simly cannot afford to slack on your hair care if you want your hair to stay on your head.I had a high degree of damage in these picturesMy key message is that, it is the severity or degree the of damage that hair has sustained that should used to determine whether or not it can be classed as healthy. The less damage your hair has sustained, the healthier it is.Based on the percentage or severity of damage sustained, it is possible for a woman with relaxed hair or texlaxed hair to have healthier hair than a woman with natural hair who may flat iron her hair often or who may have colored her hair.If you take two women with identical hair types, who both take care of their hair, if one is relaxed and the other is natural, the lady with the natural hair will clearly have healthier hair because it has sustained less damage but it does not mean that the lady with relaxed hair isn’t healthy too, depending on the degree of damage her hair has sustained and ongoing hair care.My other aim with this post is to emphasize the function or the point of hair care which is to reduce the occurrence of damage, to minimize the severity of damage, mitigate the symptoms of the damage already sustained and the continued preservation of the hair fibre.Hair care helps us preserve the integrity of our hair so that it looks healthy, feels healthy and is strong enough to resist breakage so that it is able to get longer. Hair care is also essential to keep our scalp healthy which in many ways is even more important.We all have damaged hair but preventing damage from occuring too often and reducing the extent of damage sustained through healthy hair care is essential to preserve the fibres (aka keep the fibres in a stable enough state to be classed as healthy.I hope you find this concept of degrees of hair damage educative and I hope it will help readers appreciate why hair care is essential.When I look at my hair currently,  I see it as 25% to 30% damaged, not that I have any scientific test for this, I am simply basing it on the fact that besides texlaxing all I do to my hair is care for it and put it in a protective style.  I havent flat ironed my hair in over a decade.   In the pictures above of my hair prior to my hair journey, I would rate my hair as 55% to 70% damaged.  I was not following correct procedures for relaxing and used to flat iron my hair very often out of boredom and knew very little about hair care.  Through healthy hair care I have reduced the severity and frequency of damage my hair has sustained and that is why is now healthier and longer and thicker than it used to be.If you were to rate the percentage of damage your hair currently has, what would your figure be? #nojudgementStay safe.Take care of yourself and take care of your hair.xLade I remember talking to a friend after church many years ago. At that point, I had been on my texlax journey for 2 years and was proud of the progress it had made. I had washed my hair on Saturday and intended to put it into box braids after church so I could wear my wig to work come Monday morning. I wore it in a cute (in my opinion) poofy looking bun and off to church I went.During our catch up, with a look of genuine concern, my friend said, “ Your hair is due for a touch up, you should get it done soon because your hair doesn’t look neat”. I excitedly explained to her that my hair was texlaxed and that I had had a touch up just two weeks prior. I tried to tell a few things about healthy hair care.Lets just say she didn’t get it. As far as she was concerned my hair just wasn’t tidy and she reiterated that I needed another touch up because the last one clearly didn’t work.She wasn’t the first or last person to make such comments. These days its comments about my hair not looking shiny enough or your hair is nice but don’t you want to get it done aka styled. Fortunately for me I’ve never been one to be easily influenced by the views of others about my appearance so such comments have never a had any detrimental effect on my psyche.I had seen the healthy hair care light at that point. I had re-learned a lot about what black hair is supposed to be aesthetically both in its natural and relaxed states. And I was fine with it.The concern I have and why I decided to write this post is because the hair of so many black women is being destroyed by the concept of neatness. Whilst we have this time, I would like to write posts which I hope will challenge us to gain a better understand the character of our hair and to see the beauty in it in whichever state we choose to wear it be it natural, texlaxed, relaxed or loc’ed.Failure to do so has lead countless women to sustain permanent hair loss and many more are on that path.Afro hair is textured.Even relaxed hair retains some degree of texture.When we get a fresh relaxer, our hair might look very sleek for a while but after a few washes, the texture retained is usually apparent. This is why  relaxed hair often does not blend well with Caucasian and Asian hair extensions and the use of closures, frontals or flat irons on the relaxed hair is required to hide the telling difference in texture. Relaxed hair is still black hair. It will not look move or behave like other hair types.  And remenber even fully relaxed hair should not be relaxed beyond 80% because beyond this point too much damage (aka protein loss) would have occured and the hair would have lost its elasticity.  This is just one example in why the concept of healthy relaxed hair is possible, ie healthy by relaxed hair standards, but thats a battle for another day.This may not apply to over processed relaxed hair but even hair that is over-processed will have some beautiful new growth spring up within a few weeks.Our hair is textured and the more texture we eliminate, the more damage is caused to our hair.The texture of our hair which is one of its defining characteristics, even in its relaxed state, is unfortunately perceived by many within our own communities as untidy, rough and in need of “fixing”. So we pull, stretch, gel, smoothen and hint of texture away and put the health of our hair at risk every time we do this. Please do not confuse this with simply making textured hair look tidy or day to day grooming.Moisturizing, sealing and using a very soft brush will make our hair look neat but never give the level of sleekness I am referring to.The problem is this, what is neat for afro textured hair (natural or relaxed) should not and cannot be what is neat by Caucasian or Asian hair aesthetics. Our hair must not be judged by those standards.Put it this way, our hair is different and our neatness is different too. Our presentable is not their presentableUnderstanding this may just help a few ladies stay away from the excess or daily use of edge control products combined with a very firm brush.It may help a lady with less than one inch of new growth put the relaxer down for a few more weeks. (this may not apply to pixie cuts but that is a story for another day).It may help a few women stay away from having their in crazy tight buns and ponytails with so much tension and gel that their afro hair which is big and poofy in its true state becomes completely flattened.There is nothing wrong with such styles when done occasionally and with a lot of caution.Done regularly and incorrectly, the above acts often leads to traction alopecia and other types of hair loss which many ladies do not fully bounce back from depending on its severity and the extent of damage sustained.Before we try to “neaten” our hair, let us just pause to ask ourselves; is my hair actually rough/untidy or is just black hair being its textured self? Are we assessing the neatness by the correct standards? Or we still judging our beauty through the wrong lens.I hope this post helps someone reading look at the hair and grade its neatness in a new lightAnother post will be up in a few days so see you soon.xLadeLearn | Change | Grow I’ve been talking to women about healthy hair care for over a decade now.Looking at my inbox alone, I’ve received over 2000 emails from ladies telling to me about the issues they have with their hair.  Adding this to the people who approach me in person and those I have advised online I can confidently say that over the last decade, I’ve spoken to thousands of women about their hairs challenges and their hair care practices.All these conversations have taught me so much and given me an outstanding amount of data from which I have identified the most prevalent hair care mistakes we seem to make. Some of them are classics and some are new trends I have noticed over the last couple of years.The ClassicsThese mistakes have taught me that despite healthy hair information ( both accurate and inaccurate) being available online for many years, the vast majority of women still don’t know the basics about black hair care. The myths about our hair are still popular than the truth about our hair. The most classic mistakes may women have made with their hair over the last decade and which I also made before my healthy hair awakening are1) Using oils as moisturizers.2) Believing slow hair growth or no hair growth is our problem when more often than not, the real problem is damage and breakage.3) Thinking you can only have long healthy hair if you were born with it aka -believing that long hair is down to genes alone and not accepting that how you treat your hair has MAJOR impact.4) The Holy Grail Growth Product syndrome – believing that it is products that will grow hair and not understanding that the main function of products is to help keep hair healthy (preserve the hair fibre for as long as possible) and this is what leads to length retention (longer and thicker hair).5) Not taking care of our hair….and wondering why it’s not doing well.To be fair many ladies think they are caring for their hair but are making so many mistakes and inadvertently cause a lot of damage.The New Kids On the BlockOver the last two years I’ve definitely noticed a shift with ladies who are on healthy hair journeys or have awareness of correct hair care and then take things overboard and cause self-inflicted hair loss as a result.1) Under-manipulation aka abandonment.There are many ladies that know that excess manipulation is to be avoided but for some reason this is being converted to zero manipulation which results in badly knotted or matted hair. Manipulation for hair care is essential. It is excess manipulation that is to be avoided.2) Doing the most!!Many of us on healthy hair journeys get so carried away with new fads and want to try everything. So we complete the essential aspects of hair care and then also want to add tea rinses, chebe, rice water, onion juice, aloe vera gel, cayenne pepper, a myriad of ayurvedic herbs, etcSis, its too much!!! Although most of these will impart some benefit or the other, they are not essential and we should not do them all and jump on every wagon. Incorporating a few is okay but doing them all isn’t wise.When I started my hair care journey, majority of the above was new to me but I learnt quickly and try to educate others.Although many ladies have made significant and positive changes in how they care for their hair, the fact remains that majority of us as black women still have problems with our hair and don’t know how to care for it.Unfortunately, having damaged hair is still more prevalent than healthy hair and in most cases the breakage and damaged we experience is due to lack of or incorrect hair care.A mission I had and began to fulfill through Hairducation was to demystify black hair and to normalize healthy thriving hair for black women.It’s a new decade and the mission continues!!!!xLade “Damaged” is a word no one wants to hear when their hair is described because it often means breakage and hair loss isn’t too far behind. I find that many blog posts focus on setting out causes of damage and how to avoid it.  This is great and I have done the same in previous posts.  In an effort to add another facet to the topic and to bring more understanding to anyone reading I would like to share more of what exactly damage is and the reasons why afro textured hair is more susceptible to damage than other hair types. What is Damage? Damage is degradation of hair fibres.  After hair grows out of our scalp, the fibres will begin to sustain damage from various things such as harsh weather conditions, harsh products, chemical processes, hair care practices, general wear and tear and styling choices.Even with great hair care, our hair will sustain some damage due to general wear and tear.  What we can do is control the severity of damage and slow down how quickly it occurs through hair care.  Damage can be sustained quickly over a few months (resulting in high levels of breakage and unhealthy looking hair that seems stagnant in length) or happen gradually over several years (resulting in longer and healthier looking hair).Everyone’s hair is damaged, just to different degrees or severity.Hair care preserves hair fibres so the that wear and tear or damage occurs at a much slower pace.  The better our hair fibres are preserved, the healthier our hair will look and feel and the longer the fibres will go without breakage.Bad hair care and bad hair styling practices will speed up the damage and wear and tear of hair fibres  resulting in unhealthy looking hair and breakage much much quicker than hair that is well cared for. For example, flat ironing hair every wash day will likely result in hair becoming damaged which may break off or need to be cut after a few months.  If hair is flat ironed 2 to 3 times a year, the hair will not become damaged as quickly.  This along with other hair care practices, will help the hair fibres look healthy, have very little breakage and go several years without the need for a major cut.How Does It Occur?Damage usually begins at the outer layer.The layers of the cuticles and the bonds between the layers are broken and weakened when hair is being damaged.  This makes the cuticle layer thinner and in some cases the cuticle layer is totally removed.  The cuticle layer is supposed to protect the inner layers and once weakened or destroyed, it allows the inner layer sustain damage what will eventually lead to breakage.  Damage to the cuticle layer is also the first step in the forming of a split end.Hair with damaged cuticles will look and feel damaged.  Hair with little or minimal damage to its cuticle layer will look and feel healthy.  Understanding this has made me respect the cuticle layer so much more.  This knowledge greatly influences how I choose and use my hair care products, which practices I complete and how I select ingredients for Infusions by Hairducation hair care products.Why Black Hair Gets Damaged Easier Than Other Hair TypesThe main reasons why black hair is much more susceptible to damage and breakage is to do with the unique shape/structure of our hair fibres. Being very brief, three reasons why our hair gets damaged and breaks much more easily is set out below.1 – Each curl and kink in our hair is an area of weakness (the fibre is thinner in those spots) which means our hair has several points at which at the risk of breakage is higher.2 – Curly/kinky hair is much more prone to tangling and this increases the risk of wear and tear, damage and breakage.3- One of the most forgotten reasons why our hair sustains damage easily because afro textured hair has less cuticle layers than the hair of other races.  This means our hair has less protection than other hair types.Our hairs structure means that it requires care using particular methods and rich products to stay well preserved (healthy) and to retain length.  Unfortunately, we often have the most aggressive hair care and hair styling practices, the very things our hair does not cope well with.Products which are able to penetrate and help strengthen the inner layers of hair, help maintain the integrity of the cuticle layer, reduces the forming of tangles and reduces the damaging impact of detangling by lubricating hair fibres should be in your hair products arsenal.And yes I am pushing my market and very proudly so because I know the infusions by Hairducation Hair + Scalp Oil is a highly effective hair product that does all the above.I hope you have learnt something valuable form this post that will have a positive impact on your care.More blog posts coming soon.Lade I’ve lost track of the number of people who have sent me enquiries asking to purchase my hair products to which I always responded I don’t make or sell any.I am happy to announce that that is changing finally because I’ve launched the Hairducation Line of Hair Care products.  The first item to be released is the Infusions By Hairducation Hair + Scalp Oil.So you might be thinking…just another hair oil, right?  Definitely wrong!!! I decided to launch the Hair + Scalp Oil first because oils are the most underrated and misused hair care product given their versatility and proven effectiveness for hair care.THE INFUSIONS BY HAIRDUCATION MISSIONThe aim with the Hair + Scalp Oil was to create an infusion of oils which, based on proven scientific findings, would be capable and effective in meeting the needs of the multiple layers of hair as well impart benefits to the scalp.Every ingredient of the Hair +Scalp Oil was selected, sourced and combined with the intention that the finished product would be factually able to preserve the hair fibre, support length retention and improve scalp health, without being overcomplicated or excessive.To give just one example of why and how the Hair +Scalp Oil benefits the hair;  the outer layer of hair contains lipids which have an essential role in in keeping hair healthy and enabling it to protect the inner layer.  These lipids become depleted from washing, wear and tear, chemical treatments, UV exposure, etc.  This causes hair to become dull looking, dry, rough and increases the risk of it sustaining damage. The Infusions Hair Scalp Oil is very rich in the type of lipid that is found in the outer layer of hair and helps keep the cuticles more intact when applied to hair.The effect of this is:Increased moisture retention thereby reducing breakageStrengthening of the outer layer of hair which makes the hair more capable of enduring wear and tearIncreases smoothness and manageability of hairReduction in the formation of split endsAids detanglingIncreases shine and a healthy appearance.I will share so many more benefits of the Infusions by Hairducation Hair + Scalp Oil in due course.HOW TO USE   1- To Preserve and Protect hair Fibres;Use as a pre-shampoo oil treatment by applying a generous amount to the ful length of your hair an hour (or more) before washing.  This prevents hygral fatigue, a kind of damage that occurs when hair is being washed or when hair is wet.2- To stimulate hair growth and to sustain and improve scalp health;Use as a scalp massage oil once or twice a week to increase the flow of blood within the scalp Only a small amount, one to two teaspoons, is to be used to prevent clogging of the hair follicles.  The oil is intended to be a lubricant for the scalp massage not as a scalp grease .3 -To prevent dryness, breakage and split endsUse daily as a sealant by applying a few drops to hair after moisturising.  A water based moisturising leave-in product should be applied to your hair.  This should then be followed by application of the Infusions hair and scalp oil.  Doing so will slow down how quickly moisture evaporates from the hair fibre and this keeps it feeling softer for longer. Rub a few drops of the oil on you4 To boost the richness of your conditioner, strengthen inner layers of your hair and replenish the outer layer;Mix a one to two teaspoons  into your deep conditioner and apply to your hair.IngredientsAn infusion of high grades of botanical oils such as Babassu, Neem, Cedarwood  and Lavender essential oils.Full ingredients listed on product packagingHow to Purchase, Price Shipping Standard size ( 100ml) : ₦3,500 ( $10 USD)Click the link in my bio on Instagram to order or Pick up in store at Hairitage Salon, The Lennox Mall, Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, Nigeria.Large size (300ml): ₦8,000 ($23 USD)Click the link in my bio on Instagram to order or  Pick up in store at Hairitage Salon, The Lennox Mall, Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, NigeriaShipping will be nationally (within Nigeria) and internationally (UK, USA, Canada and Ghana)The oil has had such great reviews so far and I look forward to you trying this and future products from the  Infusions by Hairducation range.xLade The Face Behind HairducationHello, my name is Lade. Thank you for visiting Hairducation. Frustrated with constant breakage and unhealthy looking hair, I started a healthy hair journey in October 2009. My hair was a mystery to me and I wanted to learn how to take care of it in the correct manner.My journey has been successful and my hair has been transformed from a damaged shoulder length to a healthy looking waist length.I finally understand how to care for my hair and if you are interested, I hope Hairducation can help you do the same with yours.Follow Hairducation OnTwitterInstagramFacebookCurrent Hair Stats Last Relaxer : 11th July 2019Next Relaxer : December 2019Current Length : Waist LengthCurrent Goals: maintain waist length and trim ends to keep them fairly even InstagramLike Us on Facebook Looking For Something ? 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