With the blessing of pregnancy and a new baby, some women will experience postpartum shedding. And after living through two episodes of it, I realize there’s probably nothing that I can do to avoid postpartum shedding. It seems some women will experience it and others do not. But for those of us who do experience postpartum shedding, I want…
I had all these plans for how I was going to conquer postpartum shedding — tea rinses (black and green), prenatal vitamins, low manipulation styles, no heat… nothing has worked. It’s hard to not be worried about where my hair will be once this shedding finally levels off because my hair falls out all the time and everywhere. Most of…
These past couple of weeks I’ve been experiencing more shedding than is typical and it’s about time I did something about it. Last year when I had a shedding attack, I added garlic powder to the oils in my hot oil treatment, which did in fact stop the shedding in it’s track. But it stank something horrible. Plus all the…
With my last wash day there was a pretty outlandish amount of hairs lost. And I can’t help but feel like I’ve been down this road before. At first I thought maybe it had something to do with the fact that (1) I flat ironed two of the last three wash days and then (2) waited two weeks to re-wash…