Natural Hair

Curly hairstyles are a great option when transitioning from relaxed to natural hair. Maintaining them can be a little tricky but we’ll get to that. Last week I went to get a perm rod set on my transitioning hair for my birthday. My hairdresser put in the teeny tiny spiral rods and it came out…

Split ends are annoying and unattractive and lead to frizzy hair that’s just a hot mess. Can you get rid of split ends without cutting your hair? The key is to keep your hair well moisturized from the start. That’s why we’re addressing both problems today with the best home remedies for dry hair and…

This aloe vera mask is a godsend! I read somewhere that an aloe vera deep conditioner was amazing on natural hair and so of course, I ran to try it since I had a plant in my yard. Now let me tell you, the heavens opened up that day and angels sang! Aloe vera is…

Are you like me and love a little color in your hair? Throwing color into your healthy hair journey can be a slippery slope. It can be so hard to keep it moisturised, right? But as much as I love bleaching my hair, I’ve tried a lot of different things to make sure my hair…

One day I was on Twitter minding my business when someone retweeted a natural-haired chica in my timeline. She was recommending the Every Strand Shea and Coconut Oil Deep Conditioner for natural hair with rave reviews. I decided to click through to see more of what was being said. Particularly because the reviewer’s hair type…

I have been a natural hair girl now since February 2012 so I should be able to call myself an expert, for my own hair certainly. My regimen hasn’t changed much at all since writing about my wash and go routine. Thankfully, my arsenal of Cantu natural hair products has helped to keep my hair…

Have you ever used henna for a hair treatment? As a new natural, I am about to try every and anything so come on this ride with me! It’s really hard to believe I am only two and a half weeks post big chop! I have already done so much experimenting on this head it…

Waah gwaan! It’s New Year’s Eve and with that always comes a sense of reflection and a sense of newness, a refreshing feeling to be able to leave everything that’s weighing us down behind in 2014 and step anew into a new year. No, there’s no magical thing that’s going to happen when the clock…

Let’s talk hair colour, hair damage and big chop number two. It’s been a little under a year now since my first big chop. I’ve been having too much fun playing with colour. So much so that even though I do have a little length now, a lot of it is damaged! So I knew…

So if you’ve been around these parts for at least a couple months, you know that I’ve been pretty adventurous with hair colour, disregarding any damage apparently that I know I’m wreaking on my hair. I’ve been fire-engine red, pink and blue so far. In my latest stint, I finally got tired of the blue…

What are the TWA growth stages? Somebody send me a chart. In about a week’s time, it will be 9 months since I big chopped and have been sporting my natural hair. I went for the big chop even though I had begun transitioning about 6 months prior simply because I always wanted to try…

When I big chopped four and a half months ago, I felt as if I was so ready for this journey. I was reading all the right blogs and talking the lingo with the best of them. I dived head first into the deep end of natural hair care, doing my first henna only three weeks…