The first steps in your natural hair journey can be exciting, scary, joyful, nerve-racking, frustrating or all of the above… Yeah, sorry to tell you, but you can feel that bipolar… There are a lot of reasons for it and one of them is having to find natural hair care products to feature in your hair routine among the tons of curly hair brands and products out there. It can be overwhelming, especially because […]
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Early, at the beginning of my transitioning hair journey, I quickly learned that washing my hair was associated with long wash days, and although I eagerly waited for a week to see my curls popping again I did not enjoy the long time it took me to detangle my hair – my Acquilles Heel – or the multi-layered product application step. Luckily, things have come a long way and my wash days are […]
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When I started my hair journey I used to watch a lot of YoutTube videos about natural hair and, as I shared recently on my Instagram page, given the change, I would have probably become a product junkie. Lucky for me, that didn’t happen. Not that being one is a bad thing, no! It’s just that it can it distract and steer you away from your curly hair goals when you […]
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When I started my natural hair journey, back in 2013, one of my most dominants thoughts in the first few months was knowing what hair type I had. I wanted to know if it was gonna be wavy, coily, nappy or if I was gonna get beautiful ringlets… I quickly got out of this ‘obsession’ but I see many curly hair newbies worried about this same topic and it concerns you could […]
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Hair growth is on the list of most, if not all, curly hair newbies, right up there with hair moisture. Every other email I get is specifically about it or somewhat related to it. I get that once the decision to go natural is made we want to take the fast route to our destination – natural hair. However, there are many things that affect hair growth that you need to […]
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Moisturising curly hair is still the main talking subject within the natural hair community whether you’re a curly newbie or a veteran, and this isn’t difficult to believe since our hair needs it so much and there are so many problems related to it. In my free ecourse, Boost Your Hair Moisture, I get a lot of questions about hair moisture as people are not sure about what to do to […]
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For most of us going on a hair journey finding hair products tailored to our curly hair needs is not a problem. Thankfully, natural hair care brands keep growing every year as does our choice of products (just be careful and find those which have an ethical and conscious approach to ingredients). Still, despite having our lives made easier by all the market choices we now have, finding curly hair products for […]
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It’s been over a 1,5 year since I became completely natural and although during my hair transition (2,5 years) I mainly stuck to my DIY concoctions to moisturise and style my hair things changed when I cut my relaxed hair. Ever since I became a natural girl (sounds like a rite of passage) I have been playing around with new products and trying out some brands. Yes, and in the process […]
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