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The Joys and Frustrations of Protective Styling
A good hair care regimen is likely to include some kind of protective styling (PSing). Whether it be adding hair with extension braids/twists/weaves or wigs, or just keeping your own hair twisted or bunned up. It's important to protect your ends if you are trying to grow your hair or keep your hair healthy in general and that is exactly what PSing is for.
The Joys
Psing can be great. You get to put your hair away and focus on other things while your hair can relax and grow. Of course you still have to make sure you're moisturizing and giving your hair what it needs, but styling no longer has to be a worry for the time being. You don't have to worry as much about if the bad weather is going to suck the life out of your locks or if your clothes are going to proceed to rip and break off your ends. And lastly, my favorite part of PSing, is the reveal. After taking care of your hair and leaving it alone to flourish, you get to shock yourself with beautiful growth or health after the PSing process has come to an end.
The Frustrations
PSing can be a son of a....gun. Putting it simply. If you're like me, protective styling can get very redundant. I get bored out of my mind while protective styling and I begin to miss my hair in no time. When I protective style I try to pick things that I can somewhat change. I wanted long senegalese twists so I could put them up, pin them into styles, and do different things with them. Another problem is that while PSing in styles that require extensions such as braids/twists/or weave (not so much wigs) some feel like they can't effectively treat their hair right. This could be a big problem and could lead to a dreaded SETBACK. A common issue with PSing in extension styles (including wigs) is damage to the hairline. One must be very careful about this. These styles should never be done too tightly and you must make sure to keep your hair cared for underneath them (moisturizing, etc).
Even with the frustrations stated, I believe that protective styling is still far more good than bad. If you don't want to risk damage by PSing in extension styles (wigs seem to have less risk but many are uncomfortable wearing them), you can always bun/braid/ or twist your own hair.
That's all for now.
Less Than Three <3
Ms. Larutan
I agree that protective styling can be frustrating at times. For instance I love kinky twists and yarn braids, but they either start to slip or I get bored with them after 2 weeks. Most of the time during the winter I wear wigs and half wigs because I can take it off everyday and have a different style everyday.
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