Loving and accepting one’s natural hair texture is not always easy task for Black women as a lot might still be carrying emotional baggage that’s preventing them from wearing their hair with pride. To fully love the coils and kinks in your hair, I recommend going through these four stages in the following sequence. …
Natural Hair Basics
When making the decision to transition from relaxed to natural hair, you must first decide on the route you will be taking to become completely natural. Though there is essentially one ultimate route to transition, this involves cutting your relaxed hair off either through a mini chop or a big chop. But did you know that …
It’s April, meaning it’s exam month for many post secondary students in North America, especially here in Canada. While its very common for many students to forego everything else and focus on studying, with proper time management, it’s still possible to spend a few hours out of the 24 hours on one’s health and beauty. …
One of the most common misconceptions about Natural hair is that locs helps your hair grow longer than loose hair. And so many women would quickly run out to go loc their hair so that they can achieve long hair effortlessly and under a minimal time frame. Aside from the ease at which loc hair …
You can probably agree that healthy natural hair can take a lot of time. Sometimes depending on your hair texture, length and hair needs, your hair can easily take a few hours per week to maintain. Eventhough you want healthy hair, you just don’t have the time and energy to devote to prepping your hair every morning …
Deep Conditioning Arsenal With the warm season behind us, most of us in the northern hemisphere are now preparing to enter the cold season. Like our skin, our hair is susceptible to dryness in the cold season due to the lack of moisture in the air. I always find that my hair tends to be …
Day 11 of 31 styles @ 31 places dual challenges What is protective styling? The definition of this term varies from person to person and blogger to blogger. But I define protective styling as any style that protects your hair from physical, chemical and environmental disturbances. Physical disturbances involves daily styling, combing, and …
*source* While I’m happy to see more and more women doing the big chop (BC) left right centre, I sometimes question the motive behind the radical decision. Is it a new hairstyle? Did she do the BC because she’s tired of all the wigs, weaves and all the upkeep that comes with Black hair? Is …
Do you have questions about your hair? Please feel free to send those questions to me via my Facebook page, this blog or my other social network sites. Readers will also be able to share their thoughts based on their experiences so that we can all learn from each other. Via the Facebook page *source* …
I wouldn’t recommend washing your hair loose unless it’s still short A while ago, I left a comment on another hair blog where I stated that I will be sharing some of my wash day routines with you all as I figured it might be a guide for many. I personally don’t like to share …