Hey Naturales! Giveaway !

OH HENNA !

For those that don't know- nothing gets my hair right like a great henna treatment ! It makes my hair stronger and thicker so the benefits outweigh any disadvantages that henna may have on the hair. -Well my hair at least. I did a previous post on my Henna & Amla treatment - so to read the pros/cons of henna make sure you revisit my post ! (http://mykinkyroots.blogspot.com/2013/12/henna-amla-treatment.html#more)

My Hair Regimen: All My Secrets and Tips

Just in case some of you guys are new to my blog. I use this as a forum to document my hair growth and my hair journey in general. I don't wear my hair out all the time but when I do I get asked a lot of questions because of my tremendous hair growth within a short time. July 30th will mark my second anniversary of my big chop & honestly I think my hair is doing pretty good. It's healthy, thick, strong and soft & most importantly it's growing. So here's my regimen on what I do to my hair now.

HAIR REGIMEN (FULL VERSION)

*After I take my hair out after a protective hair style- no matter how short- I always make sure I do an intense hair treatment. This is important because the stress of your hair from whatever protective hairstyle you've done needs to be showered with love ! There is not time to be lazy !

*Next pick a wash day. Mine just happens to be Sunday- so my hair is fresh for Monday : ).

Crochet Install: Part 2

I know , I know. I'm late with this post, but school has been kicking my ass. Like literally. Im in class right now. There's no end to this law school madness, but none the less I am here so let's talk ! NATURAL HAIR !!

If you read my first post on my crochet's then this hairstyle isn't new. After I installed my crochet hair using marley hair- I decided to set my hair with bantu knot like curls using perm rods ! The after math: Gorge ! My curls came out so flawless and perfect- and the fact that it looked like the hair was growing from my head made it that much better !

Yarn Locs: The Takeout

So on Thursday night, I finally took down my Yarn locs. Take down was fairly easy, a snip there, a little unraveling there, you know the usual. Well after everything was said and done can I just say that the hair gods must have favored me because my hair felt so soft and moisturized ! Like that never happens ! Usually after every time I take a protective hairstyle out, my hair is normally dry and in need of some serious moisture or maybe just a wash lol. But you get my point ! I honestly think it has to do with the fact that since I put the yarn locs in my hair, I've been moisturizing my hair every two days. Literally ! Every two days I would alternate between my commercial leave in conditioner, or water/aloe vera juice. Then I sealed in my hair with my cream and lastly my oil. I also made sure I oiled up my scalp almost everyday. This method seemed to work so I will be using this same method when taking care of my crochet braids (I just installed today- video/post coming soon) :)

Crochet Install: Part 1

I've been dying to get some crochet's in my head ! Like literally. Every day for the past two weeks I've been on instagram searching for every picture tagged with #crochetbraids- just for a little inspiration. I also did it because I wanted to try Kinky/Marley hair in place of my usual Freetress curl, & I had to watch numerous  youtube videos to make sure I was making the right decision. So after giving my hair the royal treatment yesterday. I braided up my hair and proceeded to install my Kinky hair.

Oil Rinsing for Hair

Hey Loves !

Back here today with another beneficial hair method for my ladies. As women with natural hair, especially African American women, our hair is prone to dryness. But like other things that come out way, this can easily be fixed in a variety of ways. Today's method for helping retain moisture in our hair is by way of oil rinsing.

Oil rinsing is a method of applying oil(s) to your hair after shampooing but before you deep condition. This can be achieved either by letting it sit on your hair with or without hair for about 5-30 minutes or more. It is different from pre-pooing beccause pre-pooing is done before shampoo is applied to the hair.