Protective Styles: Make mine a lacefront!

Well…every few months or so, I get tired of doing my hair!  Don’t get me wrong though, I love my naturally curly hair.  I have so much fun playing with it and having people ask me what I did to get it like it is.  Although I didn’t do anything that the Lord didn’t already fashion! 

I really don’t want braids, locs or twists! The truth of the matter is: I would miss playing with my hair!  So sometime in the next week or so, I’ll be shopping for wigs.  I’ve got one lacefront but the hair is straight.  In fact, I brought because it looked like my hair before I cut all of the relaxer out…..I want something with some texture, fluffy wide and curly…something that reminds me of what it will look like in about another half a year….I’ll keep you posted!

Herbs and Other Ingredients to add to Your Conditioner – What is Their Purpose?

Today, I am deep-conditioning my hair.  I try to do this monthly.  Now when I say deep, I sit under the dryer for about an hour and steam my hair too. I thought about making a video to show you all the ingredients that I’ve use but honestly, every person’s hair needs/issue are not the same.

Deep-Conditioning

What did I use today? I used mayo because I didn’t have any eggs, coconut oil, EVVO, Pure raw shea butter, honey, aloe vera gel, and Queen Helene’s Cholesteral Hair Conditioner.

I will shampoo with Cream of Nature Sunflower Shampoo and rinse with Apple Cider Vinegar.

My advice is to listen to your hair and meet its needs.  If it’s dry and brittle, you need to add ingredients to your conditioner that someone with oily hair doesn’t need.  So here’s a list of many items that I use and more importantly what they do for your hair:

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• Jojoba oil is similar to sebum, which is secreted by human sebaceous glands to lubricate and protect skin and hair. Jojoba oil conditions hair and prevents it from becoming brittle and dull.

• Avocado oil Softens skin, helps skin and hair retain moisture and fights the aging process

• Coconut oil is one of the best natural nutrition for hair. It helps in healthy growth of hair providing them a shinny complexion. Coconut oil prevents dandruff, lice, and lice eggs, even if your scalp is dry. It is an excellent conditioner and helps in the re-growth of damaged air and provides the essential proteins required for nourishing damaged hair.

• Honey is high in vitamins and minerals, and has wonderful benefits for the skin and hair. Honey is a good humectant and emollient, serving as a good moisturizer and conditioner

• Basil: Oily hair. Promotes hair growth, eczema, psoriasis

• Bay: relieves scalp conditions and to act as a hair tonic

• Cedarwood: Aids in Dandruff, relieves itching

• Chamomile: Fine to normal hair. Gives golden highlights

• Geranium: deters head lice

• Grapefruit oil: Promotes hair growth, astringent for balancing oily skin and hair

• Juniper Berry: an astringent for the skin and hair

• Lavender: Normal to oily hair. Scalp treatment for itchiness, dandruff, and even lice! Controls oil production, reduces itchy/flaky scalp

• Lemon: Oily hair. Gives golden highlights; treatment for dry scalp, dandruff, lice, and underactive sebaceous glands

• Myrrh: Dry hair. Treatment for dry scalp, dandruff, lice, and underactive sebaceous glands

• Neroli: balancing oil for the skin and hair, and can help control overproduction of sebum

• Orange Oil:  Oily Hair. regulates the production of sebum, the hair’s natural oil

• Palmarosa: helpful for balancing oily and dry skin.

• Patchouli: Oily hair. Dandruff treatment

• Peppermint: Dry hair. Promotes hair growth. reduces itching and irritation

• Clary sage: All types of hair. Dandruff treatment. Adds Shine. Good for weak hair, has antioxidants

• Cypress: Use in treating hair loss, alopecia. clears oil.

Natural Hair Diary: Lovette ‘Luvvie’ Ajayi, Blogger – Essence.com

Natural Hair Diary: Lovette ‘Luvvie’ Ajayi, Blogger – Essence.com.

Henna in Your Hair? – Here’s what not to do!

Hi Natural Divas,

Well, I hope that you all had a nice Valentine’s Day!  I did!  I love love…but onto to something that I attempted to do today!  I put Henna in my hair.  That went fine…you know: put blocks in blender, added hot water and whipped it up until it had a “muddy” consistency.  Since I had so many errands to run this morning, I decided to put a shower cap on my head and then put a winter hat on top of that. Perfect!  My henna will sit on my head for a couple of hours while I take care of some business.  Well, after about an hour, the dripping began.  It didn’t seem to let up after a few wipes.  So I had to return home, rinse my hair, change my clothes and proceed to wash my white jacket.  It just seemed like a good idea at the time!

Learn from my silly, anxious error today and stay at home with henna in your hair.  By the way, my jacket came out clean and my hair doesn’t look bad either.  Most of all, if you are trying to grow your natural hair alone…dyeing with chemicals is still putting chemicals in your hair…..go for the henna.

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