yo, i got a serious fuckin issue yall...This post is kinda long, but please read thru if u can cuz i am goin thru some bullshit right now tryin to figure out this war my hair is fightin on me. Aight, .About a week and a half ago, I was taken a shower, doin all the normal shit I usually do, same shampoo, conditioner, etc. So I ran outta my regular conditioner, and used a little bit of the kind that was in the shower that wasnt mine, some dollar store shit. Well we all know cheap conditioner dont do much of a good job but it was jus to add to the rest of my head that was already like 3/4 covered with the normal, good conditioner. Just before I get into the problem Ill give u sum background-I always brush out my hair 100% before i get in the shower to make sure there is no knots, bcuz my hairs mad hard to deal with so i do my best to make it managable before i get it wet. This time, I did that as usual. I also put a wide tooth comb thru it after shampooing, since it had been extra "big" (long thick hair ladies understand wat that means--my hair was just super fluffed up and too much volume, so i wanted to comb it thru before the conditioner so it would be flatter and smaller) and there was no knots.
Keep in mind there has been no knots before the shower, and after shampooing it , which is when knots sometimes show up cuz of all the messing around u do to shampoo, I also combed it, and there was not a single knot in it. Now , the conditioner sat 2 -3 min like always, everythings all good, and I rinse it out, comb it thru, its a little bit tangled somehow but mostly combs thru, i say fuck it and get out. I dont put it in a towel, or do nothing to it...I dry my self off, and go to run the comb thru it and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, now theres a fuckin RAT NEST of KNOTS in my hair! No joke, it was totally combed thru, before i got in and twice during the shower, and no knots to speak of, and without doin NOTHING to it, not even rubbin with a towel, not messin it up even a little, not even TOUCHING it, and somehow it went from bein completely combed thru and smooth with no knots, to a HUGE like AFRO of KNOTS.... It was literally for real like somebody just put a magic hex on my hair and it went *snap* from smooth to completely tangled.
Soo..I went back in the shower thinkin I need to condition it again, that there is just a little bit of tangled shit on the top layer or w/ever and that with some good conditioning i can slowly work it out with the wide tooth comb. So, I get back in the shower, put the conditioner back on and by this point its all the dollarstore one, since my good kind is gone. So I let it sit and start workin at the knots from the ends of my hair up, and its like it got 100 times worse somehow. Seriously its like a fuckin giant , endless, super tangled bird nest knot all thru my hair. and my hair thick as shit, and down to my ass, so thats alotta knots. So, I try and pull out pieces one by one, u kno, work on reall small sections little by little. I can barely even pull a section apart frmo the rest of my hair, its like matted together. But i finally get a piece and start workin on it. I got the conditioner in it to smooth it, and i sloooowwwlly manage to detangle it , im talkin like 5 minutes for a section of hair with a diamater of like 1/4 inch around. I get the whole thing totally detangled, finished , and im still holding it straight, seperate from the rest of the hair. Now keep in mind i JUST finished totally detangling it, i can SEE that its totally straight now and not knotted, and i literally just took the comb off it once i reached the end. And I go back to the top to run it thru one more time, and the whole fuckin thing is back to bein a knot again! Im like WTF, I JUST combed this out perfectly, and in front of my eyes it just re knotted.
It was like my hair was velcro, I swear. i used TWO ENTIRE BOTTLES of conditioner, tryin to get my hair even slightly, a little bit managebale, and it was impossible. I would get a piece combed just enough that i could run a reall wide tooth comb thru it, and the second i got to the bottom and went back to comb it thu one more time, it would be back to knotted again. I worked on it for about a hour in the shower, finally my moms was like wat the fucks goin on in there, and she came in to try and help brush it out, thinkin i just couldnt do it cuz i couldnt reach or watever. After like a half hour, SHE gives up, and says its obvious that we aint gonna get nowhere, everything I brush just goes back into a knot again the second I finish it, I dont kno wat the hell is wrong with ur hair.So, i just pull it all back into one giant knot of a ponytail bun, and wait for it to dry...when it does, I brush it thru, and its like there aint even knots in it at all, barely anything is tangled, but when i put it back when it was wet, the whole entire thing was one huge hairball knot. WTF?
Anyways, I get a bottle of GOOD conditioner, made to smooth out damaged hair. I brush my hair all the way thru before the shower make sure theres no knots, wash it extremely gentle to be sure that I dont mess it around at all to possibly tangle it, and condition it. When i go to comb the conditioner thru, u guessed it...AGAIN, the whole fuckin head is KNOTS. like goddamn MAGIC. So i put it back again, it dries, brush it out barely a single knot in the whole thing again. evn tho when i put it back, the entire thing was just a horribly tangled mess. So, i go to the store, I bought a shampoo for damaged hair that smooths the cuticle and softens ur hair, a deep conditioner that repairs damaged and overprocessed hair that has a bunch of good oils in it I ALSO got a special deep treatment "hair mask" that u only use like once a week, with all kinda shit in it made specifically to repair hair that been damaged and needs to get strenthened, smoothened out and all that. So, I figure, this will take care of the problem. Last night, i brushed my hair while dry, got all ready for the shower. Then I shampooed my hair real careful, I did the regular conditioner left it in for 5 minutes which they recomended for extra conditioning, then i also did the hair mask too. My hair felt smooth, real nice, not rough or tangled....but when I went to put the comb thru it, its STILL A FUCKIN KNOT HELL!!
I dont kno wat the fuck to do yall....It dont matter wat I do to my hair, every time it gets wet, it turns into a magical ball of knots. It seriously happens outta nowhere, I dont kno wat the fuck is goin on. this has NEVER happened to me before in my life, i never had any trouble workin thru wet hair with a wide tooth comb. Its like my hair seriously turned into velcro and it is stickin to all the other hairs. I feel like that bad conditioner i used somehow opened up my cuticle, and no matter wat I do its like impossible to seal it back closed again, so all the hair is gettin knotted so easy becuz the cuticle is lifted and it makes the hair shaft mad rough. I kinda almost feel like sombody put perm lotion in my hair and didnt put the neutralizer to wash it out and close the cuticle again or some shit. Its so weird. When its dry, its soft, silky, not knotted at all but the second it gets wet and i try to even comb out the tiniest section of it, the shits impossible, and as soon as i do manage to get a knot out and th hair is smooth, it just goes right back to bein knotted again, like they just appear out of thin air. This shit is drivin me nutz, becuz I like to wear my hair down but i cant do it when its like this cuz I dont blowdry it, i just let it air dry, and i dont like to brush it out once it dries becuz it makes the waves look less defined. Also, these knots are all at the crown of my head, like near the roots, and down to shoulder level. it aint split ends, the ends are fine and hardly knotted at all, but the whoel area from my roots down to about chin/shoulder level, is like one big mat of knots. Its fucked up. I wonder if i have Trichorrexis nodosa, aka "knotted hair" a condition thats caused by your hair shaft bein broken and busted and tore up and it causes the hairs to stick and knot to each other. IDK, but i really need some mutha fuckin help, if anybody got anything to offer please let me know my scalp hurts so fuckin bad from tryin to brush it back enough just to be able to put in a pony tail without giant lumps in it...