So you've made it to month 6. Congratulations! Transitioning your hair from relaxed to natural can be a lengthy process, but the outcomes are well worth it. In this blog post, I continue my previous post by offering some suggestions and tips on what to expect during months 6-9 of your transition. What to Expect Months 6-9: Significant new growth Your new growth should now be very visible – … [Read more...]
3 Unconventional Ways to Detangle Natural Hair
About a year after beginning my healthy hair journey, I was fairly certain that I had successfully mastered growing my coily hair. However, I had yet to figure out how to detangle my fro without it being an all-day affair. Perhaps, that’s an exaggeration, but it lasted much longer than I felt necessary. So for the last 4 years, I’ve been on a quest to make detangling my hair easy, relatively quick … [Read more...]
Which products work best for your hair type?
If you wear your hair natural, odds are you’ve been approached at one point or another by a fellow naturalista wanting to know which products you use to make your hair curl the way it does. But, here’s the irony: what works for one may not work for another. Thanks to the natural hair care movement, there’s no shortage of products on the market to meet the need for just about any hair type you … [Read more...]
What’s your type?
If you’ve been to your local beauty supply store lately, it isn’t hard to understand why hair typing is such a big business. But what do you really know about hair typing and its significance in the natural hair community? Hair typing is a methodology that utilizes certain characteristics like curl pattern, strand size and texture to determine care and styling needs for individual categories of … [Read more...]
Hair Typing 101: Product rules
Are all kinks made equally? Many people debate that hair typing is very unnecessary, a waste of time even. Hair typing is about more than seperating your kinks from the kinks of the woman next to you. It’s important to know what type of hair you have to determine the appropriate products for your mane. Not everyone’s hair responds to the same type of products, and knowing your hair type can be … [Read more...]
The Road to Loving My Natural Hair
Unless you have been under a rock for the past few years, you are more than aware of the tons of women stepping out of the box and embracing their kinks, curls, and coils as freely as they flow from their heads, or in short, going (returning) natural. Personally, natural hair is not a trend, but an awakening! In no way am I dissing my sisters who wear weave (because I love a good sew install) or … [Read more...]
3 Things Every Woman Should do Before Straightening Curly Hair
From weaves and hair color to protective styling, the choices for women who wear their hair natural these days are endless. For many women looking to change things up a bit, a popular alternative is to wear their naturally curly, wavy or kinky locks straight. But, be warned. While the ability to change your look one day to the next offers great versatility, this kind of styling flexibility … [Read more...]
How to remove single strand knots in Natural hair
(source) One of the biggest headaches Naturals face has to be single strand knots or fairy knots. They are just knots that can form on a single strand or even a few strands on our tresses. They are annoying and pretty common in our kinky, coily, curly hair. Many may just choose to cut them out or yank them out but there are better ways to deal with them that won't cause you to lose your … [Read more...]
How to Maintain Box Braids and Senegalese Twist
To be honest, I love protective styling. I hate dealing with the two different textures in my transitioning hair sometimes, and protective styles help me blend them while keeping my hands out of my hair. When I was a kid though, I literally had no idea how to keep my braids looking fresh. They would last about a week before starting to look fuzzy and old. Below are a few tips to to help braids and … [Read more...]
The Truth On Scab Hair – Natural Hair Term
Most Naturals have heard of it or even experienced it and although we all knew it was an unscientific term we believed it to exist. Scab hair is a nuisance that many newly naturals complain of during their initial transitioning to natural hair regardless if they BC'd or long-term transitioned. Now, not being an actual scientific term had many leery of stating it's existence. Naturals may … [Read more...]