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November 27 2014

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Tips for Natural Hair Maintenance

Written By Bold Apps - November 27 2014

Posted by HMH Blogger By Patience Muia Grasping the basics of natural hair might take you quite some time. You will find yourself learning something new every day, and when you start, you might not be able to detect scalp drying ingredients on products labels or you might experience difficulty detangling without pulling out balls of hair. But as long as you are ready to leave behind chemical relaxers, you won’t find it too difficult maintain your curls. I took my time to gather professional advice that would help you save time and money, not forgetting the stress involved in natural hair maintenance.

So first let’s talk about the common mistakes women make while styling their natural hair. Most women make the mistake of using too many products. It is normal for every woman to panic when she changes her hairstyle but buying different types of hairstyles and putting them all on doesn’t help. When you do this, your hair will end up looking greasy and weighed down. When your hair become too greasy, you will be forced to wash it too frequently which dries it out. So here is the first tip, when you change your hairstyle, don’t use too many products but you can add a little as you go.

Managing natural hair might be frustrating but then going back to relaxing is not a good solution. Curly hair is the driest natural hair type, and if you have one then it is good for you to use a great moisturizer. Instead of using rinse-out conditioners, treatment masks and hair oils, you can simply use a leave-in to ensure that your hair stays super hydrated.

There are some few hair styling issues that generally occur when maintain natural hair. You will notice that the further you get into the process, more breakage will occur. Once you notice this, start treating your hair with extra care and try different techniques that put less stress and heat to your hair.

Date

November 20 2014

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Bold Apps

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African- American Pros and Cons of Natural Hair

Written By Bold Apps - November 20 2014

Posted by HMH Blogger By Patience Muia Natural hairstyles are not just a personal style but also a reflection of culture and heritage. African-Americans have different hair textures; some have tight curled while some have straight hair. Straightened hair might be easy to manage but on the other side it also has some ugly side effects as well. Chemically-treated hair is usually prone to breakage. Hair without chemicals displays the texture and beauty of black hair. First, it allows one to style in various ways. There is both good and bad in deciding to go natural when it comes to hair. Some people will opt for a natural hair look while some people will opt for weaves and chemicals. Some of the pros and cons of going natural includes:

Pros

• One gets to have a very liberal, free feeling in the sense that you do not get to feel uncomfortable each time. • As compared to artificial, natural hair is healthy and beautiful. Most people will walk away from artificial because some are chemical laden, and this makes them have an allergic reaction to their head or skin. • Natural hair doesn’t accompany itself with superficial feelings like; it doesn’t restrict one from going swimming or working out too hard. • There is an ultimate comfort in knowing that you are just being yourself. • People will respect you. In fact, you are likely to get more compliments unlike when you are not natural.

Cons

• Artificial hair requires more maintenance than natural hair. For instance, when you go out for swimming, you realize that you will have to wash your hair with shampoo right away or condition the hair as instructed. It also requires daily moisturizing with lotion. • You are likely to receive a lot of judgment from the society. To be honest, most people are used to seeing straight hairs; nobody will talk about it or compliment it. It is therefore obvious that natural is the way to go. Let us learn to appreciate ourselves as we are. Artificial is quickly becoming popular and too common. If we want to be different, going natural is the way.

Date

November 13 2014

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SPOTTED - Natural Hair'd Beauty in Georgia

Written By Bold Apps - November 13 2014

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1- Introduce yourself Hello my name is Felisha Green, but I go by Fefe I'm from a small town in the state of Georgia and I've been natural for a little over 2 years and must say that I love it!!

 

  2-Describe the moment you were spotted by Hug My Hair (you can just mention how you responded to the call on Facebook) I spotted a post on facebook in a hair group I'm apart of called teamnatural and figured it would be nice to share a little about me with others from all around the world.

 

3- Have you always rocked and loved your curls/kinks/coils? If not, how did you come to embrace your natural hair? My hair has been relaxed most of my life, but I eventually got tired of how damaged my hair was becoming. I had been wanting to go natural for a while after admiring the natural hair of family, friends and others while out and about on the daily. I finally decided that natural was for me and I had to get over the fear of chopping my hair off. I initially planned on transitioning to natural, but after a very short time like maybe 2 months I was frustrated with maintaining two different textures and grabbed the scissors.

 

4- How would you describe your hair texture? My hair has a number of textures in it looser curls in the front and nape area, tighter coils throughout the back then a mixture of the two everywhere else. It's just all over the place lol.

 

5-Tell us one "Do" and one "Don't" for your hair type. One do for my hair is to always make sure my hair is properly moisturized and sealed in order to keep it looking soft, shiny and healthy :) One don't is not to over manipulate my hair because then I'll just be sabotaging the health of it.

 

6-What advice would you give to someone considering going natural? My advice to anyone going natural is to make sure that they're doing it for the right reasons and not with expectations of a certain hair type. Do your own research and don't think that products that work for everyone else is going to work for you. Also don't solely rely on products to have healthy hair because what you put in your body also contributes, drink lots of water and get a good intake of fruits and veggies :)

 

7- How do you love to wear your hair? My favorite way to wear my hair is a 3 strand twist out. It's quick easy and I love that it makes my curls more uniformed.

 

8- How often do you wash your hair and what products do you use? I co-wash my hair once or twice a week using tresemme naturals nourishing moisture conditioner and once a month I wash with suave's clarifying shampoo or raw african black soap to prevent any built up. Beyond those products my current faves are oyin hair dew, elucence moisture balancing conditioner, castor oil, extra virgin olive oil, raw shea butter and either wet line xtreme gel or super wet natural look aloe vera gel :)

 

9- Describe your worst hair day. My worst hair day was the time I tried out a new product for a twist out which sucked. My hair ended up being super poofy, flaky and just a mess on top of I was running late for work so I didn't have time to actually fix it. This resulted in me throwing on a beanie and calling it a day, thank goodness for beanies lol.

 

10- Your Twitter/Facebook/Instagram pages are? I can be found on instagram at fefeg912 and on youtube at www.youtube.com/user/fefeg912

Thank you so much for choosing to interview me :)

Date

November 06 2014

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Bold Apps

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Natural Hair Flavours

Written By Bold Apps - November 06 2014

Posted by HMH Blogger By Patience Muia Going natural is a personal decision, and it is sad that people still ask others why they choose to go natural. Everybody is born with their hair in a natural state. Of late, there is a grouping that has completely embraced relaxed hair, and they believe that anything outside that is abnormal. I don’t feel bad about that, but the truth is that I like my black hair. I would like to show you how to embrace your hair in the initial natural state and how to transition if you are not currently embracing it.

 

There are different flavours of natural hair. You might face difficulty in finding the specific information you are looking for after making the decision to transition. Most websites only focus on locks and hair without chemicals. Well, I have some others flavours that you might find interesting.

 

Matting or locking is the first flavour of natural hair. So why do people choose this look? Some people choose this flavour because they believe that their hair would look like that if they left it untouched, hence the natural feel. Then there are others who embrace this style as a result of their religion. Most people like to keep their hair neat, and most of such individuals are found in the American culture use bees wax and other substances to keep their hair locked.

Date

October 30 2014

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Bold Apps

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Truth about Natural Hair Discrimination

Written By Bold Apps - October 30 2014

Posted by HMH Blogger By Patience Muia If you are a bi-racial or black woman who have decided to avoid and chemical hair treatments and relaxers to get unprocessed form of curls and coils then you belong to the natural hair community. People have a different definition and opinion regarding the term “natural”.

Devout Naturals

1- The women who pass on all chemicals from relaxers and colour treatments to certain product ingredients.

Technical Naturals

2- The women who no longer wear relaxers, but rock blowouts and weaves happily on a regular basis. 3- Those who don’t mess with weaves but rock colour. 4- The ones who live with protective hair styles such as box braids, crochet braids and other trendy styles. The truth is that some naturals are being eliminated or discriminated in the natural hair community. Initially, going natural was a way of breaking free from European beauty standards and starting a journey to embrace one’s natural hair. But recently a lot of things have changed with some natural hair sponsors ignoring some types of natural hairstyle while at the same time praising a certain type. Women with the type 4, kinky textured hair seems to be experiencing texture discrimination in and outside their workplace. If you haven’t realised it, the wavy and curly girls dominate the branding in products marketed to natural hair community. Look across the beauty industry and marketing channels such as Facebook, Instagram or even YouTube, the kinky and coily hair naturals are being under-represented and are not being celebrated as compared to other hair types. From my personal experience of running multiple natural hair focused media accounts, I think that images of kinky textured naturals doesn’t get many shares and likes compared to the others.

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