Everything You Need to Know About Preparing Your Hair and Extensions For A Protective Style

Every girl loves a nice weave with a confidence boost. The only problem, keeping your natural hair healthy enough to withstand the braids and weight! Each process should be used before your weave, and after. Always make sure to implement your own hair care regimen as well, but these...

Would You Try the New Pixilated Color Trend?

  Color was in last year. We rocked shimmering blues and majestic purples, sought out temporary or non-committal ways to wear color (enter hair chalk and eye-shadow), and we were loving the ombre. Now there is a new way to glam up your highlights.  If you are one who’s...

Top 6 Oils with Hair Growth Properties

How many of you ever went out to Sally's or your favorite beauty supply store and purchased some miracle oil? You know the kind, right? It is in a bottle that probably isn't the prettiest; the smell might be a bit questionable, but the lady in the shop swears by it because it worked...

3 Reasons Sea Salt Can Be Beneficial for Your Hair [Recipe Included]

When was the last time you were at the beach? Obviously with people experiencing massive amounts of snow all over the world these days many of us are dreaming of beach days and would much rather shovel sand and build sand castles than dig our car out from under snow just to make...

3 Reasons Why Petroleum Gets a Bad Rap

Petroleum is a by-product of crude oil which was first discovered on oil rigs. When the crews dug for and struck oil, the waxy substance would form on the rig and often prevent it from working, that’s when they sought out ways to get rid of it and it was discovered that it caused...

How Well Do You Know Your Shampoos?

How well do you know your shampoo? Do You know what it does, and the types that are out there? Yes, I am asking because as we delve into the mechanics of our hair, all the way down to the cellular level we may have forgotten just how important it is to know the products […] The post...

Eskimohair Shows How She Makes Straight Hair into Afro Textured Hair [Video]

Afro textured hair can be a bit of a phenom don’t you think? Eskimohair uses some flat straw like devices to make zigzags in her hair that appear to be how some afro textured hair would look. We thought her technique was interesting, check out the video below: Did she nail it? Originally...

4 Protective Styling No-Nos We Need to Seriously Think About

Protective styles are the perfect time to give our natural hair a break, and they give us the option to play with extension hair instead. However, just because protective styles are a chance to ‘protect’ our tresses, we can’t just install box braids and not touch them again for a...

3 Ways You Can Fight Winter Dry Scalp

We have all had those moments when we have a really bad scalp issues for what ever reason. During the winter time dry scalp and dry skin can be very common for most of us, I know first hand. If you have winter dry scalp flare ups there are a number of things you can […] The post...

7 Ways You Can Celebrate a Milestone in Your Hair Journey

As I sat down to think about what I want to achieve for 2015, I recognized that I had made it to two years on my healthy hair journey. Usually I don’t do resolutions because frankly I never got much done that way, but the last resolution I made was to whip my hair back […] The post...