1. What's your name and where are you from?
My name is Iliandra Balentina and I’m from the beautiful island of Curaçao (Caribbean) 2. What is your hair type? Hair type 3c
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
End of 2012 I stopped relaxing my hair, because of breakage and empty spots. My hair was thin and unhealthy due to abuse of clip-in weaves (f.e taking them out only once a week). I had a short bob, so I decided to transition instead of the big chop. 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? The most challenging was transitioning and not knowing exactly how my hair was going to be, since I’ve had relaxed hair my whole life. 5. What is your weekly regimen? I wash my hair every 7-10 days depending on the products I use that week. Every time I wash my hair I use shampoo, a mask/deep conditioner and conditioner. After washing it I use my styling products and that lasts for the whole week+. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? Daily morning regimen, mostly using edge control or gel for my edges and a next day spray….. then style! 7. What is your daily night time regimen? I always wear my hair in a pineapple! 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? Only once or twice a year, using heat protections. I’ve damaged my curls with heat so I’m scared.
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year?
I’ve braided once this year, think I’m starting to do it more often. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? Denman brush all the way!!!! I use it to detangle before and during conditioning. 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? My hair is usually in a wash and go or in a puff 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? Biggest hair tragedy was having split ends, thin, weak, uneven, unhealthy hair with empty spots … The WORST ever!!! I started using a hair regrowth treatment, castor, coconut, olive and avocado oil. During my transition and hair growth I was only wearing wigs. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? Taking good care of your hair by using the right products for your hair type. And not using a lot of heat. Eating healthy and drinking a lot of water helps too. 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 Raquel Robertson. I am born in Dallas, TX. Raised in Denver, CO and currently living in New Orleans, LA. 2. What is your hair type? I have a few different hair types. Wavy in the front which is 3b and back is more 3c.
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
I went natural about 3-4 years ago. My transition started when I saw a photo of this ladies hair that was so full and curly. In my mind I thought, "yessss, I want my hair like that." I also had a friend that used a lot of natural products on her hair and she introduced me to how she washed her hair and I loved it. 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? The most challenging about going natural was having patience while transitioning. Mainly because I wanted my curls to look a certain way. 5. What is your weekly regimen? MY weekly regimen consist of washing my hair at the beginning of the week then wear a style for the whole week. Through out the week I moisturize my hair by spritzing it with water and apply moisturizer and sealant if I need it. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? In the morning I usually just style my hair for the day. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? At night I spritz and moisturize then I wrap it up for then night using a satin scarf or bonnet. 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? I use heat on my hair occasionally. Once of twice a year I straighten my hair. During this time it’s not a lot of heat just enough to straighten it.
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year?
I do braid my hair. I do braid-outs or sometimes I will do a braid style using extra hair. I don’t have any set times. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? I use both a denman brush and a wide tooth comb. I use a wide tooth comb more often. I often detangle with it on wash day. 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? Since I am trying to grow my hair I like wearing protective styles. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? I have had a hair tragedy. When I first went natural I was living in Colorado which has dry air. I was very familiar with what my hair needed. Then I moved to New Orleans and man! I had no idea what I was expecting. After I moved my hair was completely different because of the humidity. I struggled with months to keep my hair moisturized and nothing worked. My hair was always dry no matter what I did. After a while of living in New Orleans I found a new regimen that worked with humidity. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? I know a lot of people say this but keeping your end moisturized will help with maintaining length and that will keep your hair long. Moisturizing your hair will keep your hair healthy. 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 Ashly Rodriguez. I'm from Boston, Ma. 2. What is your hair type? My hair type is a mix of 3c/4a. In the back of my head my hair is 4a and as you get closer to the front it is more of a 3c.
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
I went natural June of 2014. I had the choice of either relaxing my hair again after a year of not getting one or just cutting off the relaxed ends and going natural. I decided to cut off the ends. 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? The most challenging thing was letting go of the flat iron for over a year to let my natural hair be great. That break gave me a chance to get my curls healthier again and get rid of my heat damage that I dealt with. Also learning ways to style my hair was also a challenge at first but now I love being able to explore new styles to try on my hair. 5. What is your weekly regimen? Each week I Cowash or shampoo my hair, then I deep condition my hair. I always let the deep conditioner sit in my hair for about an hour before I rinse it out. I really just listen to my hair and what it needs. If one week it's dry, I'll add a hot oil treatment in the mix or If I need to give my hair a little TLC after a few weeks of styling, I will add a protein treatment. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? About 3 days of the week I massage Jamaican Black Castor Oil on my scalp in the morning. If I feel that I need to, I will moisturize my hair in the morning with a mix of leave in conditioner and oil. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? I just make sure my hair is protected each night before I go to bed. I always put my hair into a couple pineapples when my hair is out, and cover it with a Bonnet. 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? I haven't in some time. I've given my hair a major break for the past year and a half. But I do plan on using it for some styles in the future.
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year?
No 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? I like them both! Can we call it a tie? 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? Lately it's been more out but at least once a month for a week I like to put my hair in twists or flat twists to give my hair a break. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? My biggest hair tragedy would be my heat damage. It was so bad. The damaged was done from when I was flat ironing my hair daily while I was letting my relaxer grow out. I didn't even know what my curls were supposed to look like because the damage was that bad.. I recovered by not flat ironing my hair anymore and focusing on caring for my hair. Protein treatments and deep conditioners really helped with getting my hair healthy again. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? My tip for maintaining healthy hair is listening to YOUR hair and finding what works for YOU. Also be sure to protect your hair at night! 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?
Alicia Gettys. Birmingham Alabama 2. What is your hair type? Don’t really know my hair type. I care more about my hair being healthy than trying to classify my curls has one type
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
Transitioned in 2013. Fully natural in 2013. There wasn’t a monumental thing or an epiphany. I use to wear my straight hair in lots of curly hairstyles. Saw that in between perms, my curl pattern was something I liked, so I went for it. 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? Dealing with the humidity in the South during the spring and summer months. Moisturizing is key. I would find myself moisturizing my hair daily just to make sure. Winter also plays heavily on hair moisture but it doesn’t get that cold down here. 5. What is your weekly regimen? Oil treatment (4 hours), Shampoo, Deep Condition (8 hrs), Apply product, wear bun overnight and into the next day (hair is still wet). Wash and go’s can last 4-5 days depending on weather and my workout routine for that week. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? Dampen hair with water, apply EcoStyler to curls, pull back into low pineapple, get ready for work, take down and shake 7. What is your daily night time regimen? Nothing much. Pull up into pineapple and either put on Satin cap or sleep on satin pillow (most of the time it’s the pillow) 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? I protective style with perm/flexi rods 5-6 times a year (use low heat). To straighten my hair, I use large rollers for a roller set (med heat) and hit the roots if needed. I will straighten my hair 3-4 times a years. Always apply a protein treatment before straightening my hair.
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year?
Not that often 4-5 times a year for crochet braids or when I’m wearing a wig. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? Fingers! If I absolutely had to pick one it would be the comb. 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? 2015 was all about the protective styles. I was trying to grow my hair. I would say 80% of the time, my hair was put up. This year it’s the completely opposite. 80% of the time, I rely on the wash and go. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? No. Thank Goodness 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? Moisturize your hair. Find what works for you and stick with it. In a world where we are bombarded with the newest natural hair product, we have a tendency to ditch what we are using and go to the ‘trend’ products. If something works for you and your hair, stick with it. You hair is different from everyone else’s and it’s important to remember that when you find out what works for them doesn’t work for you. Doesn’t make your hair better or worse. Just different. 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 Leslie Jerome, Instagram name is neptunesquest. I am from Long Island, New York. 2. What is your hair type? My hair type is 3c/4a.
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
I had terrible heat damage so I transitioned and big chopped on June 2014. 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? The most challenging thing about going natural for me, is preserving hairstyles. (Perm rods, braidouts etc.) 5. What is your weekly regimen? I deep condition weekly with my homemade avocado deep condish and cowash it out, and do the LOC method and style my hair. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? My morning regimen is I remove my satin scarf/ bonnet and fluff my fro 7. What is your daily night time regimen? My nighttime regimen if I'm wearing a Wash&Go I usually band my hair at night so I can keep my fro stretched. 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? No I do not but I plan on straightening my hair for my 3 year anniversary.
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year?
Yes I braid my hair, I usually have a box braid protective style and I do that 3-5 times a year. Whether rotation between twists, braids,faux locks etc. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? Wide- tooth comb. I am team finger detangling though 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? Depends on the season, summer my hair is normally loose but during fall and winter I love protective styles. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? Yes color damage and heat damage. Only way to recover is to big chop and start over. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? My biggest tips is deep condition, protective styles, and oiling your scalp and giving yourself scalp massages to promote growth. 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?
Hey you! Yeah, YOU! My name is Linda Hurd and my nickname is Leeny Lynn. I am from the West Bank of New Orleans, Louisiana. 2. What is your hair type? I am mainly a type 4 hair type with a sight mixture of 3b and 3c in the front of my crown.
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
I actually went back to natural when I was in high school as a junior. I did it because growing up I always had natural hair and peer-pressure made me go to a hair salon to get a relaxer. I was tired of being bullied and called names. I realized that after relaxing my natural hair in eighth grade that people were going to bully me regardless if my hair was relaxed or natural. I started accepting myself for who I was and the young woman I was becoming. I transitioned to natural for 6 months and did a big chop. I never looked back and embraced my natural. 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? The most challenging thing about going natural was finding products and hair styles that worked for me. 5. What is your weekly regimen? My weekly regimen is pretty solid whenever I rock my wash n gos. Oil scalp and do scalp massages Monday through Wednesday. Wednesdays nights I mainly detangle and pre-poo my hair for Thursdays. Thursday is my mid-week wash and re-style. Sunday I shampoo and deep conditioned my hair and style. Then I repeat the same. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? My morning regimen is me simply taking my hair out from under a bonnet or scarf and I shake it out. I pick my roots and spray a little oil mist on my hair and I’m out the door. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? My daily night regimen mainly consists of spraying a water, leave in conditioner, and oil mixture on my hair before hopping in the shower. I place a shopping bag on my head to lock in the moisture and it creates the greenhouse effect for my hair. The steam from the shower makes my spray concoction come to life and makes my hair very soft and hydrated. I oil my scalp just a little bit and place on my scarf and bada boom! My hair is ready to play in the morning! 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? Yes, I use heat on my hair to dry my curls after a wash n go. I use heat at least three-five times a month to stretch out my roots too.
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year?
No, I never braid my hair. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? Wide tooth comb always! 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? My hair is normally loose. I don’t really wear protective styles. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? Yes, I have had a hair tragedy. I over bleached and processed my hair with color. I recovered from my hair tragedy by going back to jet black hair and purchasing me a bonnet dryer so I can deep condition my natural hair with heat. I started weekly deep conditioning and I backed away from bleaching my hair. I also went to a stylist to get a haircut to start over again on my hair care journey. I rid- my hair from those ends and straggly pieces of hair. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? My biggest tip for maintaining healthy hair is to never get tired of feeling beautiful. Allow yourself to understand what you hair loves, likes, or hates. Take time out to be patient with your journey and find a regimen that you can stick to for your hair care journey. 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 Evani Hawkins and I am from Doylestown, PA in the US. 2. What is your hair type? I believe I have 3c/4a and some 4b textures. But I don’t really like to hair type because it doesn’t give you any valuable information. I have normal to fine hair (fine hair along the sides of my head near my ears) and also normal to low porosity (finer hair has lowest porosity).
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
I big chopped February 29, 2016 after transitioning for 1 year. I decided to go natural because after 4 years of texlaxing it was hard to maintain a consistent texture, because my hair naturally has many different textures. I found myself wanting either bone straight relaxed hair or natural hair, and I picked natural. 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? The constant styling, and how time consuming it was at first, the more you do it the better/faster you’ll be, but I also think ease comes with length and knowing which products work for you. 5. What is your weekly regimen? Wash with ACV and shampoo Deep condition with a hair masque (sit under dryer for 30 min) Moisturize with aloe vera juice, oil with coconut oil, and seal with styling crème (LOC method) Style based on however I am feeling that day or what events I have coming up that week J *Repeat every week* 6. What is your daily morning regimen? Nothing, I usually take my bonnet and/or scarf off use bobby pins, or coordinating hair accessories and go. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? Depends on the style, but usually nothing, I put my bonnet and/or scarf on (scarf for my edges) and go to sleep, or I use my satin pillow case if I had a late night. Ill add coconut oil if my scalp feels dry whenever necessary. 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? Nope!
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year?
Nope! My hair/scalp doesn’t respond well to fake hair, human or synthetic, so I haven’t braided my hair in 10 years. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? Denman brush and finger detangling. 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? Loose in the summer, this coming winter will be my first winter with natural hair so we’ll see. I usually wear a lot of beanies for protection in colder months. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? Yes! It was a Dominican blow out! WORST IDEA EVER! I got it in 2011 (before I was natural), the beautician burned my scalp to the point I had sores all over my head, that turned to scabs that peeled off and then my hair proceeded to fall out in those areas!!! My hair had the burn smell in it for a month! I used aloe vera shampoo and conditioner for healing my scalp, I used coconut oil and Gro-Aut Oil on my scalp/hair and LOTS of protective styles, mostly buns, my ends were unusually thin for years because of it and I eventually cut them off. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? Coconut oil and keeping your ends tucked away. Also a healthy diet, and drinking lots of 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?
Kilsi Rodriguez. I was born and raised in New York City. 2. What is your hair type? My hair type is a mixture of 3C & 4A but leaning more towards 4A
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
I've had an up and down journey with my decision to go natural. I first decided to go natural at the end of sophomore year in college because I went away to school and it was to expensive to get a relaxer where I went to school. Even though I stopped relaxing my hair in college I still straightened it every week. The summer after graduation I started to enjoy my curls so I decided to wear them. I went on vacation to Dominican Republic and they put something in my hair that took all my curls away and made my hair fall out. So when I got back I cut my hair into a bob. I no longer relaxed my hair, but continued to straighten it every week. Because my hair was "natural" my hair would get frizzy, so I decided to do a Brazilian straightener. Once again, my hair wasn't natural anymore. One day, I was looking at my hair and started to cry because I remembered I had curls and was actually natural. So I decided to stop doing anything to my hair and go back to how it was after I graduated from college. I transitioned for about 2.5 years and last year I did my official big chop. I haven't looked back since 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? The most challenging part is that I am Latina and as a latina, specifically Dominican, my type of hair is not viewed as beautiful. I do not have the "typical" Spanish girl hair that everyone associates latinas with. So getting past that was very difficult. Explaining to my family that my kinky hair was actually something good was difficult because I didn't believe it either. As a kinky haired latina you suffer such an identity crisis and you really have to love yourself and your hair before anyone else can love it too. I did a lot of soul searching after my big chop because moving forward I would have to stand up for my hair and I needed to make sure I was ready to do that. 5. What is your weekly regimen? Weekly, I do a style on Sunday. It may be a twistout, braidout, perm rods, etc. and I'll try to maintain it over the week. When it starts to frizzy up I get creative. I try to only wash my hair once a week. So I co-wash one week, and shampoo wash the next week. I also, deep condition weekly. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? Let's my hair down a either 1. fluff or 2. create a style 7. What is your daily night time regimen? Tie my hair unto 6 ponytails, and sleep with a satin bonnet or on my satin pillow. 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? No direct heat. The heat I use is from my hair dryer when I do perm rods and its always on low.
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year?
I have braided my hair but only once. Will be trying it again in the fall. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? Denman Brush 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? Normally...everything. I love being creative with my hair. But if I had to pick I would say it normally loose. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? YES! I have Alopecia Areata (auto immune) So since I was five, I lose hair in patches. Last year right before I big chopped I had a very bad episode. Which is another reason why I big chopped. I recovered by getting a good dermatologist and applying ginger and cinnamon. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? Drink lots of water, deep condition and don't be afraid of the scissor, we all need trims!!! 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?
I’m Bri-Anne Alexis or Bri Classy on social media - I’m from Barbados/Toronto. I currently reside in Toronto. 2. What is your hair type? Aye aye aye, the dreaded question. I’m not really sure. I think I’m 3c/4a. My hair varies from tight s-curls to pen-spring sized spirals.
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
I’ve always been natural; my mother made it a very strict rule that I could not relax my hair until I was 16 (thank you Mom!) and by the time I was 16, the natural movement was already underway and I was embracing my hair. 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? For me the most challenging thing about being natural is understanding what is “normal” for natural hair. For so long, natural hair has been shunned in society and the standard was/is straight hair - so much so, that even when we try to embrace our natural hair we believe it will act similar to straight hair (piling it on your head when you shampoo, thinking you can detangle in 5 mins, using small clips or “surf” spray lol. I’m still learning what works and does not work for my hair, you never stop learning. 5. What is your weekly regimen? I wash once a week. I start by rinsing my hair, sectioning it into 4 then detangling it with conditioner, then I proceed to shampoo, protein treatment and then deep condition. I have a video on my old wash day routine on my channel for a better idea of this. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? It really depends on what I plan on doing with my hair that day. If it’s going in a sleek bun, I use gel and tie it down, if it’s going to be open I just shake and style to my liking. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? Pineapple and satin hair tie! I can’t SLEEP without a satin hair tie! (Maybe because I’m also scared of that spider-sleeping-ear thing I’ve heard…) Anywho, if it’s feeling dry, I like to moisturize at night so that it’s soaked in by morning. 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? Yes, I flat iron once a year or so if I build up the arm strength. Other than that, I love to use my blowdryer on it’s COOL setting when I need to speed things up - it’s not heat but it is my blowdryer!
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year?
NO! Ahaha. I should though! I don’t like braiding my hair because it’s very time consuming and even if I get braids put in by someone else they start to itch like crazy after a week! 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? Wide-tooth comb! 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? I think half and half… it’s either in a bun of some sort or open in a perm rod set or twist out. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? YES! I went back to Barbados one year for Christmas and I decided that I could go two weeks without combing my hair. I went in the sea, I wore it out, I wore it in buns, I washed it… When I got back to Toronto, it was dreaded and matted! It took 3 HOURS to comb and it came out in unbelievable clumps… Never did that again. PS: I have a whole video dedicated to what NOT to do to your hair:
13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair?
My biggest tip is patience. You will need patience when detangling, when waiting for it to grow, when trying to learn a new style, when learning to love your texture, when curving people’s negative/ignorant comments, when trying to find a product you like… just overall patience. Other than that… I would say you have to develop new good habits and stick to them (moisturizing, reducing friction and heat etc). 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?
Hello! I'm Cherise from a small city in Pennsylvania. 2. What is your hair type? I believe my hair type most closely matches a 3C curls type with some 4A curls. I've noticed since big chopping my curls have tightened up a bit.
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
The very first time I went natural was in high school. I had been relaxing my hair for years and noticed a ton of breakage. This, mixed with stylists who felt I needed a perm every 4-6 weeks, didn't help and I lost a ton of length. So I transitioned. By senior year I was completely natural and had most of my length back. I decided to go into the military after high school and relaxed my hair. I was worried about being able to care of my natural hair while in training. My worries were simply that; I actually wore braids and took care of my hair no differently than when my hair was natural. Fast forward a few years and I was natural again but wanted a change. So I got a short, relaxed, cut. The maintenance on this cut proved to be too much so I again transitioned for the final time. My hair was finally healthy, long, and very curly. Of course I had to ruin it! Spring of 2015 I decided to get an ombré. I went to a professional and thought my curls would be fine. Unfortunately, the lightened ends straightened out my curls and it was a mess! I tried everything to get my curls back, to no avail. July 2, 2015 I decided to big chop and rocked a tapered cut until it grew back out. Now I'm about halfway to my original length! 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? Definitely finding the right products. First, there weren't very many natural hair products in the market. This made it hard, and costly, to try products and find what works. I also found styling difficult. In high school I rocked Afro puffs because it was the simplest thing I could do. I also dealt with being "different" since natural wasn't a big thing in 2003-2007. Most of my peers wore relaxers and weaves. I did occasionally straighten my hair and loved the results. Without the relaxer my hair had more bounce and my wrap was much thicker. 5. What is your weekly regimen? Currently, on Sundays, I deep condition with Berry Curly Naturals Berry Mint Deep Conditioner. I leave this on for about thirty minutes to an hour with a self heating cap. Then I wash with As I Am Naturally Coconut CoWash. Lately I've been loving separated chunky curls. I use the LOC method with the Berry Curly Naturals Line. First I use the Strawberry Pineapple Leave In on a medium sized section of hair. Then I use the Wild Berry Growth Oil and the Berry Bliss Butter. I finger curl the section and move on. I'll let it air dry for the rest of the day then sleep with a bonnet at night. In the morning I add a little bit of the Wild Berry Growth Oil to separate the curls. I find this combination gives me a ton of moisture and hold. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? I shower in the morning to allow the steam to loosen my curls/style. Then I add a little oil to fluff with my hands. If needed I'll also use a pick to fluff it out. The bigger, the better! 7. What is your daily night time regimen? At night, I just sleep in a bonnet and on a silk pillow. For now, I don't need to retwist/braid. When my hair was much longer, if my hair was too frizzy I would wet it down and rebraid/twist it. Pretty simple! 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? Since big chopping I've straightened my hair twice in the last year. I did this because I needed a trim and mini chop to even out my grow out from the tapered cut. When the weather cools down I'll probably straighten again for another trim and length check. I typically don't straighten in the summer because if the heat.
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year?
In the last year I've worn crochet braids and braid outs. I've done a number of braids outs and one set of crochet braids. I wore this set for about 3 months. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? Tough one! I have to go with old faithful, the Denman brush. I use it for everything! 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? With my current length, it's been loose. Once I get to the right length, I'll be bunning! That's honestly what I miss most about long hair. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? YES. This is what led to my big chop. Stay away from bleach my loves! At least for me, it's a huge no no. If I want the ombré style I'll just buy a wig or get a sew in. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? Honestly, what's worked for me, has been consistency. When my hair was long, I protected my ends. I wore buns often to do this and kept them moisturized. In growing out my hair this time around, I've noticed the more consistent I am with my regimen, the quicker it's grown back. My curls are much healthier and tighter. I also believe this is due to me big chopping instead of transitioning. 14. Where can we find you online? (blog, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc).
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