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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 Love! I’m Ghanaian and I live in Brisbane, Australia. 2. What is your hair type? I’m not really concerned too much with hair typing, but I would say my hair is 4c if it had to be classified. But although it is kinky, it’s very soft and extremely thick, with tight coils at the roots. 
3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?
Well my mom and one of my best friends actually inspired me to go natural. My mom has been natural for about 5 years now, and when I saw how healthy and long her hair was growing, and how beautiful and thick her texture was, I wanted to be able to experience that! Also, my bff has been natural for quite some time too, and we always had conversations about me going natural. She always had such simple and useful tips about maintaining natural hair, and the more she talked about it, the more I wanted to give it just chop of my relaxed ends! So after transitioning for about 7 months, in July 2013, I decided to finally do the big chop! It was the most liberating feeling! 4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? Learning to be patient, and allowing my hair to grow at its own pace! I loved my Twa stages because it was so low maintenance. But when my hair got to that stage where the length wasn’t quite short to rock as a TWA but not long enough to really style, that when I found it challenging to work with, so I wore a lot of wigs during that time! 5. What is your weekly regimen? I usually braid up my hair for a few weeks at a time while I wear my wigs. When its time for me to wash though, I shampoo, condition and then apply Beautiful Textures Moisture Butter as my leave in. I add some Shea Butter and Coconut Oil, braid it up again, and then I go back to wearing my wigs for the next few weeks, and so on. 6. What is your daily morning regimen? My hair is usually in plaits of cornrows, so sometimes I just apply a bit of coconut oil to my hands and apply it to my hair before I put on my wig. 7. What is your daily night time regimen? I oil my scalp and apply some coconut oil on my edges nightly and wrap it with a satin durag. 8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? No I haven’t used heat on my hair since my big chop. It’s not something I want to do just yet, but maybe in a year or 2, I’ll get a blow out and press my hair just to see how it would look. 
9. Do you braid your hair? If so, how often do you do so in a year? I get my hair braided once a year when I go to Ghana. I love box braids and marley twists 10. Wide-tooth comb or Denman brush? I finger detangle most of the time. I only use a wide-tooth comb on wash day. 11. Is your hair normally loose or in a protective-do? I mostly wear protective styles. I custom make my own wigs, so that’s what I’m usually wearing. 12. Have you ever had a hair tragedy? What was it? How did you recover from it? No, I haven’t ever experienced anything regarding my hair that I would consider a tragedy. 13. What's your biggest tip for maintaining healthy or long hair? Protective styling for me is key, because when I leave my hair alone and don’t mess with it too much, it does its thing! Also finger detangling has really helped me maintain length. Otherwise I would say to have patience. Your hair will take time to grow, so don't get frustrated that the growth isn't happening as quickly as you maybe expected! So really enjoy all the different stages of growth! 14. Where can we find you online? (blog, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc).
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