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

My name is Linda Makolosi, I am Malawian.

2. What is your hair type?

I have 4c hair in the middle, and 4b hair around the sides and my nape. A mixture of zigzags and coils.

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

I went natural in March 2013. I used to get so easily bored with my hair, and I would change the cut and colour often. I got tired of having to wear weaves, especially in the hot season here in Malawi, which is 3/4 of the year. I wouldn't retain length past my shoulder when I relaxed my hair, and it felt limp and thin. 

Eventually I subscribed to a few natural hair channels on YouTube, like heyFranhey, bargain princess, Naptural85, SunKissAlba, NaturalSistas, MahoganyCurls, simplyounique, laila-jean (fusion of cultures), glamtwinz334, and Taren Guy. That was when I realised I could start my natutal hair journey.  I learned so much about caring for natural hair and I transitioned right away. I did my big chop in May this year. 

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

I would have to say dealing with two different textures during my transition. As well as finding natural hair products in Malawi without harmful chemicals like petrolatum, and parabens which would actually help keep hair moist in the hot climate.

5. What is your weekly regimen? 

Prepoo, cleanse my hair and deep condition on Sunday to get ready for the week. LOC method and updos most days of the week. Inversion method as often as I can. 

6. What is your daily morning regimen? 

I spritz with water and glycerin, seal in with castor oil and shea butter.

7. What is your daily night time regimen? 

I section my hair and apply leave-in conditioner and seal in with EVCO and wear a satin scarf.

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

I have used heat probably once during my transitioning stage, but since I haven't really found the need to. 

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

My name is Ruth Mafupa and I am a Malawian living in Johannesburg South Africa

2. What is your hair type?

I have predominantly 4b with some sprinkles of 4a and 4c

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

I started my transition to natural hair in 2011 (January). I did a long transition of 2 years and became fully natural in January of 2013. I did not like how my hair looked when relaxed. It was so thin, limp, dry and was breaking chronically. I knew that if I wanted fuller healthier hair, I had to grow it natural. Natural hair bloggers and vloggers also inspired me to think of natural hair as a healthier alternative that could give me the fuller and healthier hair that I wanted. I signed up for an account at Natural Sunshine and the weekly emails urged me to take that leap and stop relaxing my hair. When I relaxed my hair for the last time on the 8th of January 2011, I knew even then that it was for the last time. I have never looked back.

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

I transitioned for 2 years so managing the two textures of my hair was very challenging.

5. What is your weekly regimen? 

I wash my hair once a week by doing a pre-poo, shampoo, deep condition and then moisturize. I then twist my hair to let air dry. I normally wear my hair in an updo in a twist out or mini twists. I spritz my hair with a water and oils mixture at least once a day and will do a proper moisture session in between wash days where I apply a water based leave-in conditioner or my spritzer to make my hair close to damp then apply some oil and then Shea butter. Basically the LOC method.

6. What is your daily morning regimen? 

I spritz my hair with a water and oils mixture and style my loose hair or protective style mostly in an updo. Sometimes I have a protective style that I keep for a few days like a tucked updo then I just remove my satin bonnet or scarf, tidy the edges and hit the road.

7. What is your daily night time regimen? 

This depends on whether I have my hair loose in a twist-out, mini twists or hair extensions. When I have my hair loose in a twist-out, I will spritz it with my water based spritzer very lightly and then band it with ouch-less hair bands in 3 or 4 sections, place a satin scarf over it and hit the pillow. This I find gives my hair maximum stretch and keeps tangles away. If I am wearing my hair in an updo the next morning, I may also style it up before going to bed so that styling my hair does not delay me in the morning. This limits the styles I can do on my hair if I am styling the night before but that is okay. When my hair is in mini twists, which I do very often, I also spritz my hair with my water based spritzer and then seal lightly before styling for the next day or two and then tie a satin scarf on and I am good for bed. This applies for when my hair is in Havana twists or Senegalese twists as well.

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

Yes I do use heat on my hair about once or twice a year.