1. What's your name and where are you from?
My name is Shivon Carolina and I'm from New York. 2. What is your hair type? I believe I am 4a with some 3c.
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
I had my last relaxer in October 2011, transitioned for a year and then big chopped in October 2012. Honestly it started with me being curious and sort of following the crowd but ultimately turned into a somewhat spiritual journey and learning to accept myself as is (still working on that). 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? The most challenging thing was the short-hair phase and not feeling as pretty or as feminine and accepting my hair with all its kinks as is. 5. What is your weekly regimen? I mainly do wash-n-goes. I will do a wash-n-go once per 1-1 1/2 weeks. I try to deep condition weekly. Every now and then I'll do the occasional ponytail/puff, braid-out or perm rod set. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? Take off satin cap, spritz hair with a mixture of mostly water and a little leave-in conditioner and some type of oil (lavender, grapeseed, Argan, almond, etc.) then smooth edges with gel and let air dry. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? Throw on satin cap and go to sleep. Or if a manipulated style - spritz hair with water and either re-braid or re-roll (yes I re-braid or re-roll every night lol). 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? Very seldom, if I'm in a serious rush and I did a wash-n-go and my hair didn't fully dry, I'll diffuse on low heat or cool for a few minutes. Other than that - no. So far, it seems I straighten my hair (flat iron), twice per year.
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year?
If I'm wearing a braid-out yes - in several plats for as long as I'm rocking it. I never wear braids as a style though... 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? Wide-tooth comb. 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? Normally loose. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? Ummm yes, perming my hair was a tragedy. I recovered by going back to natural (ha,ha). No really, in high school my hair was natural but I always wore it "pressed". I would either get it done professionally or do it myself. I had become what I thought was a "pro" until that one time when I was distracted and didn't test the hot comb on paper towel and put it directly in my hair...needless to say - comb was too hot and I burnt my hair off. I had short pieces, probably like 1/2 inch or shorter just sticking up and it was in the top middle area of my head. I had to try to comb my hair over it for a while but the short pieces would stick up through it. Once it got long enough I would do a little curl, just a slight bend to the pieces so that it could lay and blend with the rest of my hair, it eventually grew back lol. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? Low manipulation, little to no heat, TLC and just simplicity... 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 Jordan and I am from Houston, Texas, currently living in Austin, Texas. 2. What is your hair type? I have type 4a/4b hair and a lot of coily, fine strands. 4a in the nape area and 4b in the crown.
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
I like to call myself an accidental natural because I didn't intend on wearing my hair naturally after I stopped getting relaxers at the end of 2012. My relaxed hair was extremely thin, weak, and flat, not to mention completely unhealthy. I was getting full sew ins (no leave out) and between each installation I saw how fast my hair was growing. The two textures were not easy to manage, so after accidentally transitioning for 13 months I big chopped December 2013 and I’ve been loving it ever since. 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? The most challenging thing about going natural was maintaining a decent style with the length I started with. I was excited about my hair but I couldn’t do much with it but a twist out. So I transitioned for about 6 more months after my big chop. 5. What is your weekly regimen? I wash my hair about every 2-3 weeks, depending on how hectic the week is. I wash and condition with Tresemme Naturals shampoo and conditioner, then deep condition for about 20 to 30 minutes. I live by the LOC method (leave in, oil, cream) with Cantu Shea Butter Leave-In, grapeseed oil, and Cantu Shea Butter Coconut Curling Cream. I usually stretch my hair with two braids before styling, and my go to style is a braid and twist (braid out at the roots, twist out halfway down). 6. What is your daily morning regimen? My daily morning regimen usually consists of oiling my fingers and unraveling my twists/braids. Sometimes I will pick/fluff my roots at home, but with Texas weather I usually let the elements have their way with my hair and I put the finishing touches when I get to work. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? I usually maintain my styles by retwisting my hair at night, always chunkier and looser than the day before because definition is really a priority, I like volume. Aside’s from that I protect my hair with a huge satin cap that doesn't squish my hair or leave lines on my forehead. 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? I’ve only gotten my hair straightened once since I’ve been natural. Probably wont get it bone straight ever again, but I do stretch my hair with the tension method every few months.
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year?
I like to braid my hair once a year, usually in the summer time when humidity in Texas is doing it’s best to make your hair swell up. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? Both. I like to finger detangle first on wash day, but I lightly detangle with a wide-tooth comb while I’m conditioning my hair. I removed half the bristles to my denman so it’s perfect to push the finishing touch on my detangling process when it’s time to style my hair. 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? Mostly loose. Loose puffs are my shortcut protective styles. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? YES. A few months after I reached one year natural, I tried an updo with my novice styling skills. A good amount of strands in my crown knotted around a hair tie and after struggling with it for some time, I had to cut the tie but my hair was still knotted. Long story short, there’s an area in my area thats shorter than the rest. It’s grown out with time and now it blends well with the rest of my hair. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? My biggest tip would be to not put so much stress and pressure on your hair. Don’t feel like it has to look flawless everyday because of what you see online. Every person’s hair is different, but all our hair appreciates a break. 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 Natalie and I am from NY in the Albany area. 2. What is your hair type? My hair type is a mixture of 3C and 4A.
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
I started transitioning in February of 2014 and big chopped in April of 2015 after 13 months of transitioning. 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? The most challenging part was getting used to caring for my hair at each stage (transitioning, post big chop) and figuring out which products and techniques worked best for my hair through trial and error. 5. What is your weekly regimen?
6. What is your daily morning regimen? Spritz with water based moisturizer if hair is dry, fluff with hands, separate more curls and go. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? Spritz edges and apply shea butter before putting head scarf around them and silk cap over the rest of my hair 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? I try not to use direct heat often on my hair so at the most I’ll use it once a year. Sometimes I’ll blow dry my hair on cool or low heat if I’m pressed for time.
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year?
I don’t usually braid my hair unless I’m doing a braid out, usually I’ll wear two strand twists as my protective style for half of the week and then rock a twist out during the weekend. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? I love wide tooth combs for detangling with conditioner or moisturizer but I love denman brushes for defining my curls with my wash n gos. 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? Some weeks I go the whole time with my hair loose but lately I’ve been trying to wear it in protective styles more often (usually a few days a week) to see if it helps me maintain healthier ends. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? I think my biggest hair tragedy would be when I was transitioning and I decided to straighten my hair and my already thin processed ends thinned out to an awful level. I ended up having to cut off between 4-6 inches of hair and it really made me stay away from heat during the rest of my transition. The positive side to it was that once the weight of the hair I cut came off, my curl pattern became more noticeable and it pushed me closer to being ready for my big chop. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? My biggest tip would be to be consistent with your hair regimen. Regular deep conditioning, moisturizing when needed and detangling can prevent excessive dryness/breakage and help your hair retain its length. 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 Shenelle Taylor. Born and Raised in the lovely island of Trinidad and Tobago. Now I'm currently in S.Flo 2. What is your hair type? My texture is a mixture of all 4's. My crown is 4c and my front is 4b and the back is 4a
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
Since I moved here my hair wasn't growing thick anymore. It was just growing and not getting any thicker, so eventually I just stopped relaxing my hair to see if that help. About a year and 5 months after I decided to chop everything off. I've been natural for about 4 years now 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? Lol everything!!! You have to learn your hair like what your hair likes, how often to moisturizer and when to comb through it! It's defiantly a different monster from relaxed hair. 5. What is your weekly regimen? I was my hair every weekend and also deep condition. My low porosity hair loves that! 6. What is your daily morning regimen? Every other morning I take down my pineapple and just refresh it with some Shea Moisture hair milk. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? Every night I tie it up with a silk cap in a pineapple style to maintain my style. 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? I do use heat on my hair but NOT often. If I twist or braid my hair late in the day then yes I will use heat to dry it before I go to bed.
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year?
I braid my hair maybe once a year not to often. I miss my hair a lot if I do braids or twist in it lol 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? I definitely use a width tooth comb on my hair in the shower with conditioner in it. Once it's combed out I use a denman brush 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? Protective due over the weekend then during the week it's loose 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? Fortunately I haven't had one of those since I was natural. When I first started styling my hair it was a bit difficult but I still end up having a nice curl thank God! 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? Make sure and deep condition and use oils! Natural hair tend to get dry really quickly due to the curls. It takes a longer time for the natural oils from the roots to get down to the ends. So that extra oil and moisture to the ends of the hair is needed. 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 Kaitlan. And I'm a California girl, born and raised. 2. What is your hair type? My hair type is mostly 3c, 4a.... Maybe a little 4b.
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
I've actually always been natural but when I grew up pressing your hair was the business so it wasn't until about 3 years ago that I decided to see what my curls looked like. 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? Figuring out what products to use and how to make styles last. The struggle was and still is REAL lol 5. What is your weekly regimen? I alternate between shampooing and cowashing and I deep condition weekly. I style and usually the style lasts me all week. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? It's quite simple: I just spritz with water and fluff my hair with a pik. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? I just put my bonnet on and get some sleep. 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? I haven't since I cut my hair and I don't intend to, so I guess I could say no.
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year?
I want cornrows SO BAD right now. But I typically do a protective style once a year. Last time I had Marley twists. And I've been using my natural extensions quite often to give my hair a little break. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? I typically finger detangle but definitely a Denman brush when needed. 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? My hair is normally loose; Gotta let the curls breathe! 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? YES! A few years ago I decided to go blonde. I'm not sure what I was thinking but my hair became BONE STRAIGHT. So I transitioned for a year and then couldn't deal with both textures so a year ago I big chopped. Best thing I decided to do. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? Be consistent, deep condition and drink water. And focus on what works for YOUR hair. 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 am Chadel Mathurin from the beautiful island of St.Lucia, which is part of the Caribbean archipelago. 2. What is your hair type? I am not a huge proponent of the hair typing system as I think our hair is too diverse to ever fall into one limited grouping; however, I fall into the type 4 range. A little 4a, mostly 4b and 4c strands.
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
I began my transition to natural hair from relaxer on March 26th 2011, after getting relaxers for about 1.5 years; and I big chopped on August 26th, 2011. Long story short about what made me do it…. when I put a relaxer in my hair, I stated that I was conducting a “social experiment”… I wanted to measure whether men in St.Lucia were more attracted to long flowy hair as opposed to natural hair that refused to show its true length. (The whole colourism phenomenon). So I pretty much always knew I would be growing out my hair when my social experiment was done. Besides, I began missing my natural hair and its diversity. Relaxed hair lacked personality and was boring for me and those scalp burns were not the truth! 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? Nothing really. I had been natural most of my life; I was just excited to start fresh and I saw every stage as a new adventure. 5. What is your weekly regimen? This is such a broad question. Despite this, most of my regimen is done on wash day. I prepoo weekly before I wash my hair; usually on the same day as my wash day. With my prepoo, I may start out by spraying my ACV mix to my scalp to begin to lift the dirt that has accumulated. I then apply a liberal amount of coconut oil or olive oil to my strands to protect against hygral fatigue. With respect to washing, I wash once a week, either on a Saturday or Sunday. Currently, I alternate between using the As I Am Coconut Cowash and a Shampoo. After my wash is complete, I almost ALWAYS deep condition my hair. I alternate between an elasticity treatment and a moisture-infusing deep conditioner, usually doing an elasticity treatment at least once a month. I (mostly) finger detangle under running water with a moisturizing conditioner and I twist my hair into the already present sections and allow it to air dry. With respect to my moisture regimen, after my hair is about 70% dry, I apply my leave in conditioner, followed by oil based product and then a cream- The LOC method. I usually twist right after since twists dry quicker. I remoisturise on the third day after wash day. What I use is dependent on how my hair feels and what it needs. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? My daily morning regimen usually consists of taking my hair down if I retwisted or re-plaited the night before. I am not a morning person so I keep it quite simple. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? My daily night time regimen would involve placing my hair into four huge twists or plaits to refresh my definition. On the 3rd day after wash day, I may need to add some water and seal with an oil just to add a little bit more moisture to my hair. 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? I am not very big on heat, and my hair does not seem too keen on it either. However, I will use a blow dryer once in a while, especially if I resort to washing my hair very late at night. I blow dry about 4-6 times for the year if so many, using the tension method.
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year?
I do braid my hair. I probably put in jumbo marley twists in three times for the year. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? Both. Depending on what the desired end result is. I very rarely use tools, however, if I am doing a style which requires my hair to be thoroughly detangled, or I am blowdrying, I may use a wide toothed comb. I save the denman brush for the rare occasions when I care to have NO tangle in site, or if I decide to flat iron. 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? My hair is normally loose. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? I haven’t had any major hair tragedy that I can think of. The event that comes the closest though, was color treating my hair. My hair refused to be soothed into accepting moisture and the roughness was evident. To deal with this, I simply cut out the colour. A mini chop first, and a series of trims after. Recently as well, my scalp reacted to the installment of synthetic hair and bruised up and itched quite a bit. This is as close to a tragedy as I have experienced. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? My biggest tip for maintaining healthy hair is to maintain a healthy lifestyle overall.. eat nutritious food, manage your emotions, sleep, be gentle with your hair , use products with great ingredients and deep condition. 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?
Hi, my name is Wendy Joseph and I live in New Jersey but was born in Haiti. 2. What is your hair type? I have a mixture of of 4A and 4B hair with 4A being more towards the middle and front.
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
I went natural four and a half years ago in September of 2011. I had an adverse reaction to an at home protein treatment leaving my scalp uncontrollable dry and my edges quickly deteriorated. My dermatologist gave me a foam for the dandruff and asked that I come back to have a biopsy of my scalp done. That was when I realized that I needed to change my lifestyle and really start taking care of myself. My first step was to cut the chemicals out of my hair. So I did! I secretly cut all of my hair off! One of my best decisions to date. 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? Being afraid of not being accepted by societies standards of beauty. Initially, I had a rough time with my family accepting the fact that I cut all of my hair off. Their initial negative reaction led me to believe that that’s how everyone else would view me. Causing me to hide my hair under wigs and weaves for almost my entire first year. One day, something snapped and I no longer cared. I finally wore my hair out and everyone loved it. I realized that I never gave them a chance to see my hair short or properly educated them on the reasons why I went natural. They just assumed I went Britney Spears circa 2007 when she seemingly went off the deepend and shaved her head. Funny thing is, most of family are now natural. 5. What is your weekly regimen? My weekly regimen has pretty much been the same for the past couple of years:
6. What is your daily morning regimen? When wearing a wash and go: I leave my hair out while taking a shower so that water splashes the hair and it absorbs the moisture in the air. Protective style: I wear a bonnet and shower cap while showering and use sheen spray to brighten up my locs. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? I do not have a specific nighttime regimen other than to sleep with a bonnet or head scarf on. For my wash and go, I either put my hair in a pineapple or four big twist before bed. 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? I rarely use heat. I do heatless stretching methods and air dry my hair when doing protective styles. You can read more about this on my blog or view videos on my my youtube channel. My hair seems be very sensitive to heat causing extensive shedding and heat damage.
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year?
I do braid my hair. About once a year I’ll get braids with hair added and a couple times a year I twist or braid my natural hair. Sometimes my hair just needs a break from constant styling. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? Definitely a wide-tooth comb! The denman brush creates a longer detangling process for me. I am able to get through detangling my hair fairly quickly with the wide-tooth comb. 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? My hair is usually loose for the bulk of the year. I love being natural and enjoying the hair that I’ve worked so hard to grow and keep healthy! 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? You won’t believe this..but I did it again! Another horrific at home protein treatment last year almost left me with no hair! I mixed an egg, mayo, avocado, and coconut oil together and left in my hair for about an hour or so. I was at my friends house who didn't have enough conditioner for my wild hair. So, I rinsed out my concoction and went to bed. The very next morning my hair started shedding like crazy! So much so that I broke down in tears. This went on for months and months. I believe my poor rinse job led to this disaster. I saved my hair by wearing nothing but protective styles for almost four months. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair?
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, my name is Alika White and I'm from Connecticut. 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 decided to go natural in 2014. At the time I had a really short haircut that I didn't like. I was just over my relaxed hair. A friend of mine was a couple of months natural and told me I should try being natural too and I did. 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? Honestly just being comfortable in my own skin. I cut my hair really low and was afraid I was going to look like a boy. Also figuring out what works for my hair texture and type. I'm still learning what works best for me. 5. What is your weekly regimen? I co-wash and deep condition once a week. When I'm styling my hair depending on the style I'll use gel or heavy butters. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? Depending on the style for example a wash n go, I'll spray my hair with water give it a lil shake and be on my way. If I have extra time I like to sit under my hair steamer to get rid of the flatness and to provide extra moisture. If I'm wearing a twist out I'll just fluff my hair, lay down my edges and that's it. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? At night I'll re-twist my hair if needed with a little bit of product. Or I'll put my hair into mini pineapples, throw on my satin bonnet and go to sleep. 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? I've only used heat on my hair 2 times since being natural. One time when I wanted to stretch my hair and another time when I straightened it for my two year natural anniversary.
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year?
I wish I could. I'm currently learning from YouTube lol. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? Denman brush. 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? Loose. Looking into protective styling this summer. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? Yes unfortunately. I tried to color my hair using a honey blonde dark n lovely hair dye and it ended up turning a orange uneven color. Yes I know your suppose to wait at least 2 weeks to dye your hair again but I just couldn't go around looking crazy. I dyed my hair at least 3 times that week just to get it back to normal. In the end I knew my hair would not recover from all the dye jobs I did in that one week so I big chopped again. Luckily I was only about 4 months natural since I big chopped so I didn't have to cut off a ton of hair. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? My biggest tip for maintaining healthy hair is moisture and most definitely patience. Learn what works for your hair and your texture. Even better find out what your hair porosity is. Knowing that alone can help you choose the right products to keep your hair looking and feeling healthy. Oh and one more thing always remember health or length. Don't hold on to straggly damaged ends. It will only hurt you in the long run. 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 Genesis Torres and I currently reside in South Florida 2. What is your hair type? It’s definitely multi-textured between types 3c & 4a
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
I decided to go natural in March 2012. I had decided to really fall in love with the natural curls that I was blessed with because I owed it to myself to feel and know that I was beautiful the way God had made me. 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? Combating Breakage, anxiety over hair growth (not growing fast enough or not the way I envision in my mind) and not comparing my hair journey with other naturals. 5. What is your weekly regimen? I deep condition weekly, I co-wash 2x per week. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? I refresh my curls with water and a leave in conditioner and I mostly wear my hair in a wash n go. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? I massage my scalp with coconut oil, I detangle with a leave in conditioner and or coconut oil and sleep on a satin pillow case. 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? I use direct heat VERY VERY SELDOMLY! I know what has helped a lot with the growth and health of my hair is staying away from direct heat as much as possible. I do use a bonnet dryer sometimes to set either my perm rod or flexi rod sets.
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year?
I do not leave my hair in braids however I do style my hair with a braid out set as a protective style and to elongate my curls. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? Wide-tooth or even better for me my fingers, I find using my fingers to detangle is safer for my hair and they’re FREE 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? My hair normally in in either a wash n go or twist out style. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? Since I’ve been natural I can’t say that I have , but I did get a bad haircut when I was a child (way way too short ) 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? Lay off direct heat –keep the flat iron and blow dryer away! 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 Shar’del Haden and I am from White Plains, MD. At least that’s where I currently live! 2. What is your hair type? I am somewhere in-between a 3C and 4A, depends on the the day!
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
I stopped relaxing my hair about 3 years ago, but didn’t really start taking care of my natural hair until a year after that. The reason I stopped getting relaxers was because I started getting sew-ins. I didn’t see the point of relaxing my hair if i was just going to braid it up. What made me embrace my natural hair was really research. I started watching natural hair videos on youtube and thought Hey I can do that! So after that I let the naturalness take over! 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? I found figuring out the type of hair I have and what it needed was the hardest for me when going natural. After watching so many videos I had to think about that my hair needed. Seeing so many products made it a little hard to decipher what was good for my hair and what wasn’t. Trial and Error! 5. What is your weekly regimen? My weekly regimen is to make sure I co wash twice a week. I deep condition over night one of those days. The other day I use the baggy method overnight. I normally keep the styling easy. A twist out or wash n go. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? Most days Im in the house for the majority of the day. I just make sure I moisturize my hair at some point throughout the day. It’s almost always in a pineapple. So I spray some light leave-in in it and add my choice of oil for the day. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? At night, if its not a wash night for me, I moisturize and pineapple my hair. Very simple. I use my satin/silk scarf to pineapple it. Then I sleep on my satin/silk pillow case. 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? The only time I apply heat to my hair is when Im diffusing my wash n go. I use low warm heat, and I only do it for about 15-20 minutes. Then I allow it to dry on its own for the rest of the time.
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year?
I braid my hair probably once a year. It is normally during the beginning of the summer. 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? Though I love my denman brush I have recently been using my wide tooth comb more often. I find the detangling to be mush easier and less fall out. 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? My hair is normally loose. I enjoy the almost weightless feel of my hair on my head. lol 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? I’ve never really had something happen to my hair that was devastating. The closest thing to a tragedy I can think of is the condition of my hair before I started taking care of it correctly. It was the most driest I had ever felt and the ugliest if I so say so myself. Once I realized that just putting a wig over it was obviously not helping, I did some research and brought the right products for my hair. Best thing Ive ever done for my hair! 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? I know many naturals say this but MOISTURE MOISTURE MOISTURE! I can’t stress it enough. Keep that hair moisturized from the beginning to the ends. Thats the only way to retain length. 14. Where can we find you online? (blog, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc).
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