Tag: natural hair
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Best Products for Length Retention on Type 4 Hair: What I Actually Recommend
If you have Type 4 hair and feel like your hair is growing but you aren’t actually seeing the length, let’s talk about the part of the conversation that gets overlooked: Length retention. Because your hair can absolutely be growing while you continue losing length from breakage, split ends, excessive manipulation, heat damage and rough…
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Why Your Hair Is Growing But You’re Not Seeing Length
Your hair might actually be growing—you just may not be **retaining the length**. If your natural hair seems stuck at the same length, especially if you have 4B/4C hair, breakage, split ends, shrinkage, heat damage, dryness, and excessive manipulation could be getting in the way. Here’s how to figure out what’s happening and start keeping…
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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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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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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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The Ultimate Guide to Growing Long Natural Hair After 35
If you’re trying to grow long natural hair after 35, you’ve probably noticed that what worked for your hair in your twenties may not work quite the same way now. Maybe your hair seems to grow slowly. Maybe you feel like you’ve been stuck at the same length for years. Maybe you reach collarbone length…
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Best Hair Tools for Curly and Coily Hair: 7 Tools to Help You Style, Stretch & Protect Natural Hair
As Caribana weekend approaches, there is something that always feels especially exciting about getting ready: the hair, the beauty, the outfits, the music, and the confidence that comes with showing up as yourself. For those of us in the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, hair is about so much more than styling. Our curls and coils carry history,…
