1. What's your name and where are you from?

My name is Graham and i live in Germany

2. What is your hair type?

​My hair is curly and it's a mix between type 3 & 4 

3. When did you start taking a keen interest in your hair?

I have always been interested in hair ever since I was little, but I really started to take care of my hair in around 2012.

4. Are there any challenges in being a man that's fanatical about hair?

For me not really. 

5. What is your weekly regimen?

I wash my hair, condition, deep condition, detangle apply a leave-in a curly definer and a oil.

6. What is your daily morning regimen?

I release my hair from a pineapple, shake it and use my afropick for volume.

7. What is your daily night time regimen?

I make a very high ponytail also known as the pineapple and wear a satin bonnet. 

8. Do you use heat on your hair at all?

​​I use a blow dryer on medium to low heat once a week to dry my hair.

1. What's your name and where are you from? 

My name is Gifty. I was born in Germany, where I live at the moment, but I’m originally from Accra, Ghana.

2. What is your hair type?

My hair type is 4C.

3. When did you go natural and what made you do it? 

I lived in Ghana throughout my teenage years and wore my hair natural during my school days. I started using a relaxer when I was about 20 years old and finally stopped it in January 2014. Two months later, (March 2014) I had my “Big Chop”.
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I took this decision because, my hair didn’t look healthy, my edges were always short, and I couldn’t stop but wonder, why on earth I kept spending so much time and money, on fake hair instead of my real hair all these years. Secondly, I was motivated by my younger sister, who went natural a year before I did. And thirdly, which is my main reason, well, after hitting the age 30, I have learned to appreciate myself. Going natural, was part of the process. I got so sick and tired of chasing a kind of “beauty” just to feel accepted or to meet a certain “standard”. Now I know, I don’t have to proof anything to anybody.

4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? 

• The transformation of my perception of beauty, was very challenging.
• Stopping the hunt for products that promised to achieve a certain curl pattern or make my hair feel a certain way, was a challenge as well.
• Eventually, embracing my hair for what it is, especially the shrinkage lol.

5. What is your weekly regimen? 

I wash my hair once a week. I put it into a protective style, three strand braids, twists, two big cornrows, African threading or simply an afro.

6. What is your daily morning regimen? 

I’m really concerned about my edges, so I spray them every morning with water and apply my sheabutter mix to seal the moisture. 

7. What is your daily night time regimen? 

If my hair is in a protective style, I spray it with water, then I apply my sheabutter mix to my edges and a small amount through my hair. If my hair was in an afro during the day, I do the same procedure, and put them into braids, before I go to bed. I use a satin pillow, so I don’t wear a scarf.

8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? 

No, I don’t use heat on my hair.

1. What's your name and where are you from? 

My name is Marianne and I am German/Nigerian. 

2. What is your hair type?

I am not the biggest fan of “hair typing” for several reasons but also because I do not have one particular curl type throughout. I would say that I have a mix of 3c/4a depending on where you look. The back of my hair is more 3c, the crown 4a while the hair at the front and by my temple is mix between the two. 

3. When did you go natural and what made you do it? 

I started transitioning at the end of 2009 and would just trim my hair every few months until mid-2010 when I had all my natural hair back. I didn’t know that what I was doing is “going natural” or “transitioning”. I just got sick of relaxing my hair and wanted to stop. 

I had severely damaged hair due to chemicals from the relaxers as well as the fact that I was constantly dying my hair. My sister stopped relaxing her hair before I did and when I saw how beautiful her 'fro looked I said enough.

4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? 

My lack of knowledge! I didn’t know what I was doing and didn’t have a plan. I just thought ok I will stop relaxing my hair and I will get my curls back and that’s that. Because I didn’t know what I was doing, I wasn’t blending the two textures together, so I literally walked around with curly roots and stringy nasty looking ends! My hair was breaking because I wasn’t doing anything to help strengthen it. The transition was rough but it was my own fault as well (knowledge is power people :))

5. What is your weekly regimen? 

I wash my hair once a week using ACV, every other week I use Shikakai to do a proper cleanse and do a moisturizing deep condition (DC) once a week after cleansing my hair. I also do a protein DC every 5 weeks for strength and apply henna once a month. Whenever I use shikakai I do a hot oil treatment to avoid my hair from feeling stripped. After washing, I moisturize with my DIY cream leave-in conditioner and then seal with my DIY oil and/or my whipped butter.

6. What is your daily morning regimen? 

Depending on what style I am wearing I will either just take my hair down, shake my head and use my fingers to arrange my hair and go or I will use a little of my DIY spray leave-in to lightly mist my hair, arrange and go. 

7. What is your daily night time regimen? 

I tend to remoisturize my hair at night with either my creamy leave-in or spray leave-in depending on how thirsty/dry my hair feels. I will use a little oil to seal or butter and then pineapple or put in chunky twists (no more than 9), cover with a scarf and get some z’s.

8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? 

Nope, I am scared of heat damage lol. I have never been good with using heat so I stopped even before I went back natural (it has been about 8 years since I last used a hair dryer!) 

1. What's your name and where are you from? 

I'm Nandi; born and raised in Sweden with a mother from Germany and a South African father.

2. What is your hair type?

I'm not a big fan of hair typing, but I think I'm a 3b or 3c.

3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?

I've been natural most of my life; I had a short-lived experience with relaxer at the age of 18. But since I had less knowledge of how to care for my relaxed hair than my natural hair I quickly returned to my natural hair.

4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural?

I think the most challenging think about natural hair is figuring out what works for you and what doesn't. A lot if trial and error is involved in this. It's what started my blogging journey, trying to figure out my own hair and paying it forward to others.

5. What is your weekly regimen? 

I usually wash my hair once a week, depending on how my hair feels I'll use a cleanser or ACV and then a conditioner or deep conditioner. I usually wear a wash n go with only leave-in conditioner for the first couple of days after washing and then as the week progresses I refresh with water and leave in. As my hair frizzes up I usually do some kind of style using a gel to keep the hair in place.

6. What is your daily morning regimen? 

In the morning I shake my hair out, spritz with water and add leave in conditioner if needed.

7. What is your daily night time regimen? 

Right now I just wear a pineapple or a bun to bed.

8. Do you use heat on your hair at all?

In winter I diffuse my hair to cut down on drying time. The last time I flat ironed my hair was in the spring of 2013, I usually don't flat iron my hair more than once a year.