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1. What's your name and where are you from?
My name is Yaniris Acevedo, and I am a native of the Dominican Republic raised in New York City (Harlem), United States. 2. What is your hair type? I don't use the hair typing system. I refer to my hair as thick, tightly curled, and kinky curly. 
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
I don't have an exact date as to when I began my natural hair Journey, but I do remember it was November 2013. I decided to go natural for a couple of reasons, one I no longer wanted to be bound to relaxers, and two my natural hair is part of my identity, and reminds me of where I originated from. 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? The most challenging thing was managing both textures, which is why I decided to do the big chop after five months of transitioning. 5. What is your weekly regimen? My weekly regimen consists of wash and go's it all depends in the mood or occasion. I may sometimes twist my hair or put my hair in a bun. I use sulfate free shampoos, and deep condition on a weekly basis. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? I don't really have a morning regimen. I just wake up, shake my hair and voila it shapes itself again. I sometimes use Oyin hair moisturizer to revive my hair when it's out of shape. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? I use a satin pillow or bonnet, and sometimes I may just put it in a pineapple. 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? I only use heat when I deep condition my hair, other than that I don't use blow dryers or flat irons at all. 
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year? No, I do not braid my hair. I did once,and have never braid it again since. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? I use both the Denman and wide tooth comb. The wide tooth comb I use to detangle my hair,and the Denman to define my curls. 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? My hair is normally loose, I just feel comfortable that way. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? I have not yet experienced a hair tragedy, and hope I never experience one. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? My biggest tip is to deep condition on a weekly basis, and keep your hair moisturized. 14. Where can we find you online? (blog, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc).
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1. What's your name and where are you from?
My name is Marcian and I am from Jamaica but currently in Florida. 2. What is your hair type? My hair type sits between 4a and 3c with super coily texture and normal porosity. 
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
May 2014 I big chopped because I wanted to start a healthy hair journey, to do this I knew I had to stop using chemical relaxers in my hair and embrace my natural hair. 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? The most challenging part of my hair journey was waiting for my hair to grow back after my big chop; I had to learn a lot of patience. 5. What is your weekly regimen? My washday is fairly simple, I wash with shampoo making sure I concentrate on my scalp and I follow up with a deep conditioner, which sits on my hair for 20 to 30 mins. After my deep condition treatment I do the LOC Method (Leave in conditioner+oil+cream). Then I stretch my hair either with the banding method or large braids. When my hair is stretch I then do a protective style. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? It depends on the style I am rocking, if my hair is in two strand twist I mist them with water/oil mix to refresh and wake then up. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? My night regimen: I really focus on protecting my hair and preserving my hairstyle by using all things satin, Scarf, Bonnet and pillow on my hair. 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? No, I am happy that my hair care regimen excludes using heat. 
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year? No, I don’t do extension braiding. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? I use both wide-tooth combs and a Denman brush. 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? My hair is mostly in a protective style. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? I would not say I had a hair tragedy but as my hair got longer I really struggled with detangling but I am getting better. I now make sure my hair is super saturated with conditioner before I do any detangling and that has helped tremendously. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? I must say that I retain my hair length by keeping my scalp clean, deep condition regularly and doing the LOC Method religiously. Keeping my hair in protective style helps a lot with length retention and a lot of TCL and patience. 14. Where can we find you online? (blog, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc).
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1. What's your name and where are you from?
My name is Zoysia Gray (Zo-sha) and I am from North Carolina, USA. 2. What is your hair type? Well I have two hair types. In the front of my head, my hair is a looser curl pattern (3c) and in the back it's a tighter curl pattern (4a). 
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
I went "fully" natural in February 2013. It started off as me transitioning, and I hated the two textures (relaxed, and natural) together, so I decided to do the big chop on February 20, 2013. 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? For me it was learning to love and embrace the natural me! I also struggled when it came to finding out what products worked best for my hair. 5. What is your weekly regimen? Co-washing every other day, and deep conditioning once a week. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? It all depends on what style I did. If I did some sort of twist out or braid out, then I take that down. But usually my hair just ends up in a puff lol. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? Slapping a bonnet on ( lazy natural over here lol) 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? The only heat I use is a blow dryer with a diffuser attachment. 
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year? I don't really braid my hair, but if I do, it's maybe once or twice out the year. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? I like both, but my favorite it my Denman brush. 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? Loose, my favorite style is my wash n go. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? Welllll......the time I colored my hair at least 4 times in one week!!! I know I know, let me explain! So I had my hair orange for the longest time, and I wanted to get my hair back to black. Well me not being a hairstylist, I really didn't know how to go about it the right way. So I used a semi permanent black hair dye, which turned my hair to this brassy red color. It was cute, but not the color I was going for. So then I used another color (which I can't remember what color it was ) that turned my hair like this doo-doo green color. It was HORRIFIC!! Lol In the end, I connected with a friend of mine, who is a hairstylist, and she informed me on what to use to get my hair back black. I purchased a Demi permanent black color, and wha-laa, my hair was back black. Well now my ends were damaged from all the color I had put in it, so I ended up cutting all my hair off, which led me to my 2nd big chop on November 15, 2014. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? My tip for maintaining healthy hair would be to learn your hair. If people would just focus on the needs of their hair, they would be surprised at how healthy it would be and how much growth you would retain. I've realized that my hair has grown and is at the healthiest it's ever been, just by me focusing on the needs. My hair loves being cowashed every other day, and deep conditioned once a week. Make sure to stick to a regimen as well. Your hair gets confused the more you keep switching up products or routines. And most importantly learn to love your hair!! Don't focus on what someone else's hair looks like, wishing it was yours! Curly, wavy, kinky, or Afro, it doesn't matter, ITS YOURS and you must focus on that! 14. Where can we find you online? (blog, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc).
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1. What's your name and where are you from?
Felipe Monteiro, I’m from Brazil, but I am living in France. 2. What is your hair type? It’s 4A/B 
3. When did you start taking a keen interest in your hair?
It was in 2013. I searched for male Brazilian YouTubers talking about how to care for kinky/curly hair and I didn't find any; so, I created a youtube channel and started to talk about hair for all other men who need help out there. 4. Are there any challenges in being a man that's fanatical about hair? You need to be patient, to care and to ignore what another people say about your amazing hair! 5. What is your weekly regimen? Every week I follow a set routine. I moisturize with a lot of natural oils, and I add volume to it with twist outs, I love to have a lot of volume. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? Normally I put a little natural oil in my hand and massage my scalp to **wake up** my hair. After that I use my hair dryer to add more volume. And that’s it! 7. What is your daily night time regimen? I just tie my hair on top. It’s good to use a pillowcase and satin cap to sleep, but I haven’t started yet! :( 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? Yes, sometimes to add volume, only. To dry only naturally. 
9. Do you braid your hair? Not yet, because I need to learn. I really want to learn. I love braids! 10. What is your favourite hair tool? I think it is scarves to do an afro puff when I am having a "bad hair day". 11. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? After I started keeping my hair natural, no, and I hope it never happens. haha! 12. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? Care and care and care. A lot of nutrition, moisturizing and when you see your hair is a bit damaged, reconstruction. I prefer to use natural treatments. 13. Where can we find you online? (blog, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube)
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1. What's your name and where are you from?
Hi, my name is Pililo AKA (Pamarow Naturals), I am originally from Zambia but I live in Perth Australia 2. What is your hair type? My Hair type is 4C/B 
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
I have been natural most of my life. In August 2013, after transitioning from texturized/heat damaged hair, I went completely natural 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? I have to say the most challenging thing about going natural especially where I am (Perth Australia) was finding products and tools to use for my natural hair. Although a lot of people are going natural, there isn’t much support or resources here for us 5. What is your weekly regimen? I try to stick to my regimen but I can truly say am a lazy natural! When am not so lazy, I co-wash my hair weekly, Deep condition & or oil rinse my hair after which I go ahead and style it in my African threading or a twist out 6. What is your daily morning regimen? In the morning I try to keep it simple. If my hair feels dry, then I will moisturise and style it using my water and oil mixture. However, if it doesn’t need moisturisation, I simply fluff, style and go. If I am wearing African threading that week then the morning regimen may be as simple as removing my satin scarf brushing my edges and off I go! 7. What is your daily night time regimen? At night, I like to moisturise my hair with just water and an oil. Sometimes I apply some coconut oil to my scalp and massage it. Hair in a high puff/Pineapple, Satin bonnet on and am off to sleep! 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? No heat for me. When I deep condition my hair I sometimes use my blower on top of my towel when my hair is deep conditioning inside to trap heat, for a more effective deep condition! 
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year? Yes, I braid my hair. I would say half of the year my hair is kinky twists, braids or cornrows. I don’t have a set schedule for braiding though. I usually do it when I want to give my hair a break or when I want to give myself one 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? Wide tooth comb 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? I would say 50/50. I like to try different things on my hair so I let it loose as much as I tuck and pin it 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? Tragedy did indeed trike! I was getting frustrated with my natural hair so I started using a lot of heat on it. Later on someone suggested a texturiser and told me my hair would be softer and yet stay natural. Ignorantly, I did as told and lo and behold, half of my length was gone in a few months. See, I wasn’t re-texturizing my hair so as my natural hair grew, the texturized one fell off. That was when I started researching on how to better care for my kinks. And in August 2013 I cut my hair after transitioning. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? If I had to give three tips I would say: Moisture…Gentle…Patience! For me the topmost however, is GENTLENESS! I find that no matter how much I treat my hair to deep conditions, satin scarfs etc If am rough when dealing with it, it breaks off and length retention would be but a distant thought! My ends also become full of knots and split ends. 14. Where can we find you online? (blog, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc).
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1. What's your name and where are you from?
My name is Keanna Marie. I was born in Fort-Knox Kentucky. Raised in Columbus, Ohio. 2. What is your hair type? According to the infamous hair chart, my hair is a 3b & 3C mix! 
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
I made the decision to go natural almost 5 years ago. I was sitting outside in Grand-Goave, Haiti, chatting with a friend about hair and made the decision, right there, to never get another perm. I don't think I realized what I was getting myself into, ha! But it's a decision I don't regret. I decided to go natural for several different reasons. I was tired of damaging my hair with chemicals. I was also curious to see the look of my "real" hair. So I just "did it!" 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? I transitioned for 2.5 loooooong years. No big chop for me. I was so attached to length at the time, so cutting my hair wasn't an option. Working with two different textures was insane. I am a perfectionist. To go from having perfectly straight (permed) hair to frizzy curly hair was quite the adjustment. It also took a toll on my confidence. I wasnt confident in my natural hair at first. And I wasn't the best at styling my hair while transitioning. So I made the mistake of excessively straightening my hair To disguise the two textures, which resulted in severe heat damage. 5. What is your weekly regimen? I deep condition weekly! Most people are shocked to find that my hair is actually pulled back into a bun 95% of the time. I don't wear my hair out often. I keep it deep conditioned, moisturized and protected in a bun or twist. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? It depends. Sometimes I'll do a quick washNGo/co wash in the morning and "Bun it" or if my hair is already curly from the night before, I just fluff, pick and go. I try to keep it as simple as possible. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? I sleep with a silk scarf/bonnet to help retain moisture. It really helps and makes all the difference. 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? Direct heat? Not often. I've had severe heat damage in the past, and had to learn the hard way. I keep the use of direct heat to a minimum. As of right now, it's been 15 months since I've last straightened my hair. 
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year? I don't really braid my hair. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? I've never used a denman brush, however, I use something similar. I also use a wide-tooth comb. 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? Protective style. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? As previously stated, I use to have severe heat damage. I wear my hair In a washNGo state, which means heat damage is very noticeable if you have it. About 2 years ago, I was in the process of recovering from heat damage. My curls were finally coming back to life. I was using less heat and I was growing out the heat damage. However, if you've recovered from heat damage, you know this is not an over night process. It takes time. I still had pieces in my hair that would not curl like the rest. So one day, while my hair was wet, I took it upon my self to cut out ANY pieces of hair that weren't curly. All the damaged hair had to go. So I started cutting CHUNKS of my hair out. Looking back, I have no idea why I thought this was a good idea. Of course, all the damage was in the front. It was a poor decision I made in the heat of the moment. For some crazy reason, I assumed that because I have thick, big hair, it would dry, the heat damage would be gone, I would have gorgeous curls and the missing pieces would go unnoticed. I was WRONG! The heat damage was gone but I was left with a MESS. My hair was noticeably uneven & I had horrible short bangs. And not the cute bangs. The bangs that looked like they were cut by a second grader. I was so embarrassed. But I made it work. I had to allow the hair to grow back in while also getting professional hair cuts, so they could begin reshaping my hair. Let's just say, I stick to letting the professionals cut my hair now. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? Deep conditioning is everything! Find a good deep conditioner and condition weekly/bi weekly. I personally like to deep condition weekly. It helps the over all health of my hair. Trimming your ends as needed is another big tip. I don't go by the 6-8 week rule. I get my hair trimmed when it needs it. And lastly, drink lots of H20. 14. Where can we find you online? (blog, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc).
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