The "BC" and dryness

I have noticed that a lot of individuals that have BC'ed (Big Chopped) report dryness shortly after BCing. Is this something that comes with the territory or is it hit and miss kind of thing? Poll below:




Help a fellow natural: If you experienced dryness, how did you handle it?

Is protective styling addictive?

Around Sept '09 I started bunning and I bunned my hair for pretty much the entire winter. This when Spring came around I got into twists, cornrows, and now and then a bun. I started wearing my hair out on the weekends but I found myself looking forward to "tucking it away." The style I am currently wearing is almost two weeks old and I am ready to shampoo, deep condition, and .....tuck it back away. I don't even have the desire to be wild and free. So I began to wonder if protective styling could be addictive.

The regimens of a few of my hairoines (hair + heroine) and some others include protective styling over 90% of the time. Could we be addicted?