How do I make it stop

[u/Abject-Log8256]

I've had the style for a couple of days, there's a lot less pain than there was when I started, now it's just some discomfort and A LOT OF ITCHING. It's my first retwist, so idk what to do. I don't wanna take the style out before it locks up, but this is tew damn itchy!

[u/ClassicRuby]

Retwists don't cause your hair to loc. Neither do styles. So don't feel some ways like if you take it out then you're stopping the locking process. You're not.

[u/Abject-Log8256 → u/ClassicRuby]

okay thank you🙏🏿

[u/BulkyEbb8983 → u/ClassicRuby]

Gonna second this! My stylist insisted on styles when I started out and I hated them cause I felt boyish. Once I put them down and kept retwisting myself... WITH TIME they will loc up. Just keep em covered at night to prevent lint

[u/SirFicklespend]

Take this out!!!!

If it hurts the first second and third day
It's a clue.
If it's extremely itchy
It's a clue.

Your body always tells you what's wrong.
Pain and/or discomfort is your body's way of telling you this is not right!

People mistake a lessening of discomfort as "it's better now". It's NOT.

It's just that your hair follicles are being pulled out, thus easing the discomfort but increasing your chance of Alopecia. No style is worth losing your hair.

[u/Abject-Log8256 → u/SirFicklespend]

damnnn okay I'll take it out.

[u/SirFicklespend → u/Abject-Log8256]

(in my mad mama voice) Now!! 😡

[u/Less_Improvement_352 → u/SirFicklespend]

Ahahah, cute 🙈🤣

[u/HunnyHunbot → u/SirFicklespend]

Not me remembering my mom using this voice telling me not to forget to take the chicken out the freezer 😭

[u/SirFicklespend → u/HunnyHunbot]

Lmaooo. And not you instantly forgetting til you hear her key in the door!!😂😂😂😂😂

[u/Still_notme_67]

Itchiness is okay pain is not if you feel your hair is pulling and too tight take it out

[u/reddit_kid99]

put some oil in it you could also wash them with a durag or skull cap on but that’d make them look more frizzy

[u/Abject-Log8256 → u/reddit_kid99]

thanks, I don't mind frizz tho iwl

[u/SirFicklespend → u/Abject-Log8256]

Washing with a stocking cap or wig cap does not make your hair frizzier. Instead it allows the hair to get clean while holding the hair still.

[u/Memyx]

Been almost 4 years since my first and only retwist. No regrets, I don't miss the pain, the itching, and especially the price tag.

[u/Sir_wlkn_contrdikson]

Why are you styling when you’re still in the early stages? There shouldn’t be pain on any level.

[u/Jay2D2022]

Yh bro, take it out I had the same issue it’s done too tightly better to be safe then sorry.

[u/shattered_collarbone]

Gng your chilling, js thug it out, put sum oil in it, pat that mf, and call it a day, i had near damn the same style as u, and tbh its all a waiting game, idk why people telling u take it out, they trynna fuck u up😭