It is important to keep the ends of your hair tucked away for length retention. The ends are the oldest parts of your hair and hence are the most fragile. As a result, they need to be protected as much as possible.  Protective hairstyles help a lot with this. Protective hairstyles are basically any styles that can help keep your ends tucked away.  A  bun is a protective hairstyle. In fact, a bun is a protective hairstyle at its simplest. Some protective hairstyles include wigs, weaves, and braids. Perhaps more importantly, protective hairstyles also allow some time off from manipulating your hair! Every girl with an afro deserves a very good timeout.  Here, I present to you four  protective hairstyles that are easy to achieve and will give you that timeout without feeling like you wasted a whole lifetime. You will realize that all of them are braid-hairstyles, this is because I prioritize convenience and ability to do it myself over anything else....

It's become popular. Some people think it’s just a trend. That soon enough, like bad flu it will pass. Natural hair this natural hair that!  It gets tiring, right? More so because we are not trend followers but trendsetters right? Well no!! natural hair is not ‘just a trend’ and it will not just ‘pass like bad flu’. Not for me, it won’t! To me, my hair is who I am. It represents me.  Day in and day out I learn a whole lot about myself and about hair itself. Having to follow a regimen gives me some sort of discipline.  I get extra motivation to eat well and take care of my body just for my hair. I could go on, but then I’d lose the purpose of this post. before the knowledge of taking care of afros I am not going to judge you about what you choose to do with your hair here. at the end of the day, it is how or what you feel comfortable and beautiful in that matters.  Incurred benefits I can only assure you, having been in both worlds, t...

B efore we get into the content of this blogpost let me clear up something. We might all have afros, but our textures are not all the same.  Your natural hair is your own.  You might experience slight differences in result from what I get for the same amount of effort.  Particularly with hair products. Different products may work well with some textures than others. You need to own and embrace your own texture.  Experiment with your hair and find out what works best for it.  Managing an afro is one of the biggest frustrations people have.  You can’t comb it, you can’t tame it, heck can’t do anything with it.  However, it is not a lost cause.  There are a lot of things you can do to your hair to make it manageable.  Some very tedious, but very much effective and some very easy and also effective.  Both of these do require some amount of discipline and dedication. In this post, I am going to tell you how to manage your hair wit...

I   want to make it clear that I LOVE my afro. There is not a day I find myself even thinking about relaxing my hair to change its texture. But let's face it, natural 4c hair can be too much to deal with. There are a lot of good things that come with being natural and they outweigh the frustrations by far if you ask me.  However, there are sometimes when you will wonder why you put yourself through the whole process of taking care your natural hair because it seems like you are putting in a ton of work with nothing to show for it.  Here are some of my biggest frustrations with having 4c natural hair . Just remember that the pros outweigh the cons...by far! Combing The very first frustration I have with 4c hair Is combing it. Sometimes even people with smoother textured Hair experience this, so imagine putting a comb into a puffy tangled mop of hair… well, that could be bearable. But pulling it through is a different story.  I know most of you ...