Tag: type 4 hair
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Why Your Natural Hair Is Breaking More Than It Used To
If you’ve noticed more hair snapping when you detangle, wash, style, or even run your hands through your hair, you’re probably wondering what changed. Maybe your hair used to feel stronger. Maybe you were finally seeing length, and suddenly it seems like you’re losing all of your progress. Or maybe your curls don’t look or…
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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 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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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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Best Leave-In Conditioners for Type 3 and Type 4 Hair: 15 Hydrating Options for Curly & Coily Hair
Finding the best leave-in conditioner for Type 3 and Type 4 hair can completely change the way your curls feel, look, and behave. Whether your hair is Type 3A, 3B, 3C, 4A, 4B, or 4C, a good leave-in conditioner can help restore moisture, improve manageability, reduce tangles, and make styling easier. But with so many…
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Joico Defy Damage In A Flash vs Olaplex No.3: Which Bond Repair Treatment Is Better for Natural Hair?
If you have natural hair, you know that maintaining healthy strands takes more than just finding a good shampoo and conditioner. Natural hair can be incredibly strong, but it can also be vulnerable to dryness, breakage, heat damage, colour treatments, and everyday manipulation.
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Can the Hair Diagram System Finally Give Me a Humidity-Proof Silk Press at Home? Why I’m Excited to Put It to the Test
As a natural hair girl, there is one thing I’ve learned over the years: Summer and silk presses don’t always get along. In fact, I’ve intentionally avoided silk presses during the summer for years. Not because I don’t love the look of a sleek, bouncy silk press. Trust me, I do. The problem is that…
