Transitioning Tip #1: Do not flat-iron while transitioning from relaxed to natural hair!

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Apr 11

The excessive heat from flat irons break the bond of your new growth (which is natural) and make your relaxed hair even straighter.

I can’t count the amount of clients that I have seen with this problem. By the time they come to me, they are so frustrated that their hair is not growing fast enough, it’s still too straight! They obsess over the fact that their hair is not growing fast enough. Which means that the new growth is so straight that it is difficult to see how fast the hair is growing or not because of the heat from the flat-iron.

You add that to the growing pains of dealing with two different hair textures… and Houston we have a problem! At this point, of course they want me to perform a miracle.

“Part the red sea! Do something! I can’t do this! My hair is not growing! What else am I going to do with it if I don’t straighten it? What should I do?” they ask.

My answer: Stop flat-ironing that hair!

Read the next blog, Transitioning Tip #2, for the full answer.

‘Till then, Be Your Natural Self!

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    • So why do I love natural hair?

    Posted by admin

    Jan 13

    Alafia People,

    This is my first blog… So bear with me. I don’t know what to say which is a surprise as I am probably the most opinionated person I know. Well, maybe with the exception of my father.

    So why do I love natural hair?? I love natural hair because it is absolutely, purely me…  I love the way our hair coils on itself and when stretched it can sometimes be four times the coiled length. I love the way our hair feels when water hits it.  I love how we can grow and comb out a big, bushy afro and that thing just stays put all day. It is amazing! How does a thick afro defy gravity? That should be the age-old question!

    I love that when you twist or braid our hair, the kink in it acts as its own natural rubber band.

    Oh and let’s not forget locs… Magnificent and glorious locs!  Have you ever wondered why no two heads of locs look alike? I love that locs are our own spiritual antennae. I love that they go through the different stages: Baby locs, oh so cute. Teenage locs, oh so rebellious and misunderstood; but want to be loved. Mature locs, oh so fly and sexy and do what they are supposed to.

    I love the versatility of locs. What scrunchy? I don’t need a scrunchy! I’ve got locs!

    Love your hair

    Touch your hair

    Play with your hair

    Don’t take it too seriously, it’s just hair; but do, by all means, take care of it.

    Hydrate internally, and moisturize externally.

    That’s my hairlosophy guys, till next time.

    Remember: Be your natural self.

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