Category: Hair Care
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How to Test for Heat Damage at Home: A Simple Guide for Natural Hair
Afraid of heat damage? Before you swear off your blow dryer, silk press, or flat iron forever, let’s talk about what heat damage actually looks like — and how you can check your hair at home. If you have natural hair, especially tightly coiled hair, the words “heat damage” can make you nervous. One silk…
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How to Protect Your Natural Hair While Sleeping: 10 Nighttime Tips for Natural Hair
If you have natural hair, you already know that wash day is only part of the equation. What you do with your hair at night can make a noticeable difference in how your hair looks and feels the next morning — and over time, it can help reduce unnecessary friction, tangling and breakage. This is…
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Best Shampoos for Dry, Coily & Type 4 Hair
If you have dry, coily, curly, or Type 4 hair, finding the right shampoo can feel like a never ending search. You want your hair and scalp to feel clean, but you do not want that clean feeling to come with dry, stiff, stripped hair. And if you have Type 4 hair, you already know…
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How Often Should You Wash Natural Hair If You Have a Dandruff-Prone Scalp?
Wondering how often you should wash natural hair? There’s no one-size-fits-all answer. In this post, I’m sharing why I wash my 4B/4C natural hair weekly, especially as someone with a dandruff-prone scalp, plus simple tips for keeping your scalp clean and your hair conditioned without overcomplicating wash day.
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Best Products for Dry 4B/4C Hair: A Moisturizing Routine for Soft, Healthy Curls
If you have 4B or 4C hair, you already know that keeping your hair moisturized can feel like a full-time job. Your curls and coils can be beautiful, versatile, and incredibly strong—but they can also become dry, brittle, tangled, and difficult to manage when they aren’t getting enough moisture. The good news? You don’t necessarily…
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How to Prevent Breakage When Wearing Your Natural Hair Out
Learn how to prevent breakage when wearing your natural hair out with simple tips for detangling, moisturizing, protecting your ends, reducing manipulation, and retaining length.
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My New Essential for My Natural Nighttime Hair Routine at 39
How I’m protecting my hair, supporting length retention, and making my nighttime routine feel a little more luxurious. At 39, I’ve become much more intentional about what I do with my hair at night. Not because I suddenly discovered that nighttime hair care matters, but because I’ve reached a point where I understand that maintaining…
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Best Products for Length Retention on Type 4 Hair
If you have Type 4 hair, you already know that growing your hair and retaining length are two very different things. Your hair can be growing normally at the scalp while your overall length barely seems to change because the ends are breaking faster than you’re retaining them. That is why length retention on Type…
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Why Your Hair Is Growing But You’re Not Seeing Length
After being stuck around collarbone length for nearly eight years, I’ve had to completely rethink what it means to grow long natural hair. Here’s what I’ve learned about hair growth, length retention, breakage, postpartum shedding, and how my hair-care needs have changed at 39.
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How to Grow Long Natural Hair After 35: What Actually Changes
If you’re over 35 and wondering why your natural hair doesn’t seem to grow as quickly—or why you can see new growth but never seem to gain length—you’re not imagining things. Growing long natural hair after 35 isn’t necessarily about making your hair grow faster. In many cases, the bigger challenge is retaining the length…
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