Curly hair is absolutely stunning when left in its natural state as well as when it’s styled, but let’s face it, it takes a lot of maintenance to get our hair looking good. Understanding what works for your hair can take years of experimentation, trial and error, and lots of off days, but when we […]
Category Archives: Natural Hair
The 4C Natural Hair Guide | For the Extra Kinky Coily Girl
Maybe you’ve noticed the pop up when you load the site, or the advert in the sidebar, cause we want to make sure every Extra Kinky Coily lady knows about the 4C Natural Hair Guide we’ve dropped for one of the most overlooked segments of the natural hair community. The Guide for the Extra-Kinky-Coily Girl Who […]
All The Details on Getting My Hair Braided in Ghana
I am absolutely obsessed with my current braids, well really twists. I never want to take them out! So here’s all the details on my hair braiding experience in Ghana, from a very American perspective. I got my hair braided three times over the course of seven weeks that I was in Ghana. The first […]
Great Expectations: 4 Realistic Expectations for 4C Natural Hair
Oh no this is not a negative post about 4C hair. The goal is for this to be helpful in setting some realistic expectations for your hair so you can overcome the hurdle of complicatedness and get to loving what God gave you. It’s all about embracing, baby.
Best Darn Twist Out on 4C Natural Hair
Girl it’s only a year and half later but I’m finally getting around to doing the blog post to accompany my popular video on the best twist out ever for 4C natural hair. Please excuse my tardiness. I’m often asked about how I do my twists out, or how to get twist outs to look […]
Semi Protective Up-Do & Bee Mine Product Review on 4C Natural Hair
My most recent video is an extension of the Guide to Curls for 4C Hair video series. In this video I show you how to achieve a cute and curly up do with flexi-rods on my 4C natural hair. This style is great because it will last for at least 3 days since the curls […]
How to Wash 4C Natural Hair
I actually already have a video on this, but that video is prior to me getting my fancy smancy camera equipment and folks still haven’t figured out that YouTube is owned by Google, meaning the search function is pretty darn awesome…so ya know, I guess it was time to do a new one. I still […]
Curlformers on 4C Natural Hair + Oyin Handmade Review!
Who hasn’t heard about Curlformers! Everyone has been doing reviews and tutorials on Curlformers, but where’s the 4C love at? I reached out to Curlformers and they were kind enough to send me a back to try out. I went with the long/wide set (pink + orange) because I was originally thinking I wanted to […]
Koils By Nature Product Review for 4C Natural Hair
Yes, I am slowly catching up on all my product reviews. And here we are with the Koils By Nature product line. KBN is owned by Pamela Jenkins, who is one tall ball of fun and she does great workshops/events on natural hair care. If you can catch an event that she’s at, she’s definitely […]
Product Review: OBIA Curl Enhancing Custard
So recently I got my hands on some OBIA Curl Enhancing Custard. I had a chance to use this with a couple of different styles, and I actually like it a lot. It comes in a basic little plastic tub and it has a really nice smell. It’s sweet, but not too perfume-y. The jar […]