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1. What's your name and where are you from?
My name is Cedya Castard I'm originally from Guadalupe, a small Caribbean island. Now I'm currently living in Maryland, USA 2. What is your hair type? I don't go by hair typing but to help my ladies look for a similar type, I have 4b in the middle/ crown area and 4a on the front and back sides. 
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
Wow my first attempt to go natural was in 2011, I wanted to transition from relaxed to natural. But had a breakdown and relaxed my hair somehow. I know, I was clueless at the time and found some help from YouTube. So I tried it again the end of 2012 and I transitioned for about 1 year and 4 months. I cut my relaxed ends in January 2014 I was scared to let go of those scraggly ends (why? lol, for a little length) so I was fully natural in 2014 and now I'm going on strong in 2015 yaayy. I went natural because my relaxed hair went from full with body to thin and lifeless. 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? Really patience and consistency; if u can do both, you're great and keeping hands off the hair. But the biggest challenge was finding my own Regimen. 5. What is your weekly regimen? I cleanse and condition my hair weekly... I cleanse my scalp with diluted shampoo with a applicator bottle focusing on my scalp. Then go in with my favorite conditioners. If I'm feeling dry I deep condition first for 1hr. Am I the only one who deep conditions first before shampoo?Anyway, I then seal all the goodness in with my favorite oil. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? I usually don't do much in the morning. I do more during the night so when I wakeup I just put some oil on my hands and take down a twist, braid, or Bantu knot out etc ... 7. What is your daily night time regimen? First I think of the look I'm going for, then I style as desired. I use my favorite leave-in, a nice moisturizing product and seal with oil. Yes I do this every night, mmmmm if I not feeling lazy ? (side eye) lol put my silk scarf on call it a night!!! 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? Since I've been fully natural I've use heat only twice.. Don't want dry or head damage hair and oh that was just a blow out . Now when I was transitioning I use heat on my leave-out, I'm a u-part wig and weave girl . Let just say my leave out was DAMAGE. 
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year? Nope not since I've been natural, only flat twist my hair to pop a wig on. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? I would say finger combing you get less breakage = fuller hair. But if I want a smooth look or have my curl pop I would use a (paddle) brush. As for combs, I use a fro pick to give my hair volume. 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? It's equal. I like to give my hair some vacation time under my wigs.. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? Yes, when I found out the front right side of my hair had heat damage due to so much heat manipulation. I wore u-part wigs as my go-to protective style, so I thought. I would flat iron my leave out every 3 day. Then I invested in my first lace closure, it changed my life. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? Water, water and more water. Be gentle to your hair, trim often, moisturize your ends, use penetrating products and always seal in your moisture 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 Khristian Devereux and I am from lil ol’ Macon, Georgia 2. What is your hair type? Like many naturals I have a few hair textures throughout but mostly 4b and 4c 
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
My last relaxer was January 2, 2012 and I decided to do it as a quest for healthier hair and to grow out my hair. I’d researched how to achieve healthy long relaxed hair but then I decided that ultimately it would be best to just embrace my natural hair and curl pattern. 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? Being patient! When I big chopped, that was the shortest my hair had ever been, and I didn’t take shrinkage into account so the length took a little while to get used to. But now I miss short hair of course. 5. What is your weekly regimen? I wash my hair weekly with Dr. Bronner’s Lavender Castile Soap (that stuff is awesome! It is multipurpose- I am all about keeping it simple!) and then I follow up immediately with a 30 minute deep condition. Lately I have been loving TGIN’s deep conditioner and Shea Moisture’s Superfruit Complex deep conditioner. Then Immediately after I moisturize with the KimmayTube Leave-In conditioner recipe. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? In the mornings, I usually take down my braid outs. Unless I have a special event where I want to look extra nice, my hair usually goes In a bun or ponytail a good 85% of the time. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? At night I apply the KimmayTube Leave in and sometimes oil or butter to my ends. Every other night I usually spray a little water on my hair before applying the leave in. 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? Yes! I’m not afraid of the occasional blowout or even sitting under a dryer to set a hair style. 
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year? I braid my hair nightly into about 8-10 braids but I haven’t had braids installed as a protective style since about the 2nd grade lol. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? I have both actually and If I HAAAAD to choose I’d say wide tooth comb, but honestly, I finger detangle more than anything. 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? Protective-do (buns!) 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? Oh goodness yes. When I was relaxed I seem to always be having hair setbacks. I’d recover by switching beauticians or trying biotin or something like that. When I was in the first grade I sawed off my bangs with a nail file too….TRAGIC. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? My biggest tip for maintaining healthy hair is to keep it moisturized! Your hair is like a beautiful flower that needs water! 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?
Sharon from Queens, New York currently residing in Pennsylvania 2. What is your hair type? For those who follow the type method I’m a type 4 a/b. For those who don’t, my hair is very tightly coiled without a defined curl pattern and grows up and out instead of down and that’s my favorite thing about it! 
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
I went natural 12 years ago so that I didn’t have to travel and waste money on relaxers. Then I went natural again once YouTube was available and the resources (especially products) were more readily available. 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? Learning which products work best for my hair. Time, money, trial and error. 5. What is your weekly regimen? Making sure my scalp is well moisturized and kept healthy by daily massaging it with Shea Butter and Coconut Oil. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? Every morning I rejuvenate my hair with some form of steam (shower, tea kettle, humidifier, etc.) and seal in the moisture with Coconut Oil and Shea Butter. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? It depends on how my hair feels. If it feels dry or my scalp feels dry I massage it again with Shea Butter, if not I just go to bed on my satin pillow case or satin scarf wrapped around my pillow. 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? Absolutely! But only once a month. I blow it out to stretch out my hair. 
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year? I only braid the back of my hair sometimes at night to give my hair a rest. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? A brush wouldn’t work on my hair! I prefer a wide-tooth comb but my favorite tool would be my hands! 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? I usually keep it all out or keep the front out and pinned up in the back. Protective styles tend to prevent you from knowing and learning your hair so I avoid them as much as possible and find more creative ways to protect my hair. One of the main ways is wrapping it in a scarf or head wrap. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? Of course! When I was 15 a hairdresser convinced me to get my ends “clipped” and she took off about 3 or 4 inches!! I don’t think I’ve ever recovered from that incident! It was unforgettable and helped me learn how to take care of my own hair so that would NEVER happen again and it hasn’t!! 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? Keep your body healthy and use proper products. Everyone’s hair is different and once you find a regimen that suits YOUR hair, stick with that! Learn what your hair loves and feed and nurture it. Then it will love you back! 14. Where can we find you online? (blog, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc).
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