Hi there! I hope you’re ready to continue our series of Unboxing Natural Hair! Today we will talk about what is hair porosity. We now know that according to Andre Walker there are 4 different hair types and each one has its own characteristics. This is important because it helps us understand how our hair responds to styling and products. However, this alone is not sufficient to understand how natural hair behaves. […]
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The search for that special something to boost hair growth is not foreign to the natural hair community, myself included. Patience is a trade term frequently used when this conversation comes along, generally by those who have reached their length goals or are about to. How many blog posts and YouTube videos have you read and watched in the search for the Holy Grail of hair growth. It’s true I’d like my hair […]
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As we step into the natural hair world we are bombarded with terms, products, methodologies and suggestions. It’s enough to make your head spin, isn’t it? One term that you will encounter many times is “hair type”. This term flourished out of Andre Walker’s curl pattern classification. It is useless to say we’ve all noticed that African hair comes in different curl patterns. But did I ever imagined that I could fit into a […]
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A couple of months into your transitioning journey your determination to stay on the path will be tested. Oh, yes it will! I still remember when my edges wouldn’t lay down. I mean, really! Come on, this was one of the reasons why we relaxed our hair, wasn’t it girls? Sometimes it’s like your hair was plugged into a light socket. Beautiful picture, isn’t? No way! I know we all want to light up a […]
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We all aspire to have healthy, shiny, strong, beautiful moisturised hair. It is in this pursuit that many times we fall victims of the latest trends. We live in a fast-paced modern world expecting, and demanding, quick results and fixes and the hair industry feeds our demands. However, to have a healthy hair, and all that it entails, you will need to have patience as this takes time. Cutting corners in this journey […]
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I’m sure some of you transitioning to natural hair are going through the ongoing struggle of detangling your hair every time wash day comes. I remember occasions when it took me 45-minutes to an hour just to detangle my hair. This is because we now have two different textures, the new texture and the relaxed hair. Our new growth, due to its shape, gets tangles very easily so, the point where the two textures meet, the line […]
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“Avoid breakage at the line of what???” Avoid breakage at the line of demarcation. Yeah, I understand you completely. It’s so much information to retain that this transitioning journey is starting to look pretty exhausting, right?!…. You’re probably thinking I thought this was going to make my life easier…But, I want you to know that this particular line is very important when you’re transitioning to natural hair. Calm down, calm down! Don’t […]
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Whether you’re on a transitioning journey from relaxed to natural hair, you’re about to big chop or you’re already naturally curly you probably heard how conventional shampoo is bad for curly hair. If not, you’re definitely aware of all the sulphate free shampoos out there and how these are so much better for natural hair since they don’t have all the synthetic sulphates that make our hair dry. But, are these sulphate free […]
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