If you’ve experienced pure hell where maintaining a somewhat descent head of hair is concerned, then you’re certainly not alone. Before I educated myself about common hair ailments, I shameless paraded around town with dry, brittle hair because I conceived it as the norm. Day after day I would find complete strangers brushing away little [...]
Overview Braids are considered another form of protective styling. Braids reduce the daily manipulation needed to care for your hair. Braiding your natural hair with extensions can give you styling versatility without compromising your natural hair. There are very few limitations on the length, texture, color or size of the individual braids. Braids can help [...]
Relaxed or permed hair is very delicate because it has been chemically straightened. If you perm your hair too often, it can result in breakage or thinning hair. “Stretching” your relaxer is a wonderful way to maintain the length of your hair and to lessen the effects of over-processing from chemical usage. When you “stretch” [...]
It never fails. By the time you finally figured out the perfect recipe of products that allowed you to achieve perfect summer hair with perfect kinks, coils and curls that wouldn’t explode into a frizzy mess, you blinked and the cold weather season arrived. That same list of glycerin gels and serums that worked so [...]
Creating curls on relaxed hair without heat can definitely be achieved. There are some great and easy ways to create this look. The methods listed below are great for anyone wanting to limit their use of heat for multiple reasons, especially for the health of their hair. Method #1: Single Braids You can create [...]
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Let’s face it, there is nothing glamorous about lifeless flat hair. Unfortunately, many of us were born with it and have no idea how to style it. Ponytails are cute but it does not have to be a life sentence. There are more options to adding life to your hair than you can wrap your [...]
Hair Breakage: Prevent It Before It Starts
When new growth appears at the roots at an average of a quarter inch or more per month, it indicates that the scalp it grows from is healthy enough to produce hair naturally. However, when the length does not increase, this is indicative of breakage. Not to confuse breakage with shedding, breakage occurs at a [...]
Caring For The African-American Infant’s Hair
How can you not think of your baby as a real, living doll?! Her chubby cheeks are so cute you can pinch them, and his little toes are so….you get the idea. You can barely stop yourself from dressing them in cute little get-ups before running to whip out the old Nikon for the 74 [...]
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