Tips for hair growth

• Are you struggling with growing your hair out? Has it been the same length for years? It’s important to keep a healthy regimen that you are consistent with to see progress. Over manipulation, stress, and tension, will stunt hair growth and increase breakage.

• Over the years I’ve learned that eating healthy and drinking lots of water is the first step you should take. (Drink at least 3 bottles of water a day)

• Make sure your hair is getting the plenty of protein in your diet. It’s recommended that you eat lots of salmon, oysters, eggs, sweet potatoes, avocados, and almonds. Try adding in a green smoothie or a protein shake to your diet as well.

• Excessive styling, and heat can also hurt your hair. I chose to wear protective styles especially when I am away at school. (Braids, Twists, Weaves, Wigs,etc )But the trick is to never neglect your own hair. Always make sure your hair is moisturized underneath and never wear your extensions past it’s expiration date.

• After protective styling I wash my hair once a week with a nourishing cleansing gel shampoo, and deep condition my hair with a treatment masque. ALWAYS DEEP CONDITION YOUR HAIR. (My favorite is the silicon mix.)
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• Your choice of shampoo can actually make a difference in the overall health of your hair. Many common shampoos contain harsh sulfates that can strip your hair. Try using a sulfate free shampoo

• I don’t towel dry my hair I use a t-shirt or a microfiber hair towel and scrunch it and then apply lots of Coconut oil, Wild Growth oil, Jojoba oil, and Shea’s Moisture coconut & hibiscus curling cream and two strand twist my hair. ( These are my staple products that I use daily. Coconut and Jojoba oil are very light weight oils that are great for your hair.)

• Every month you should clip your ends to get rid of the dead ends and chemically processed hair. Using olive oil as a hot oil treatment will bring life back to your parched strands. Coat your hair with warm/hot olive oil and leave it on for 30 minutes, rinsing thoroughly.

• You can also take Vitamin E, Biotin, Omega -3, Iron pills. Hairfinity Pills, TheManeChoice Manetabolism or, Nature’s Bounty Hair Skin & Nails, are also very popular for hair growth.

• Other helpful tips, are to use olive oil and castor oil as a moisturizer, also Jamaican castor oil should also be applied to your scalp daily.
• Tie your hair up at night with a silk bonnet and sleep with a silk pillow case.

• Once a month rinse your hair in Apple Cider Vinegar, or Black Tea. This helps to make your hair shinier, healthier and stronger, and reduce excessive shedding.

 

Always remain positive! You wont see growth overnight but if you use these tips you will start to see some progression over time.

Good Luck on your journey!

August 26, 2015January 5, 2016 by live.travel.explore.faith Categories: Beauty, HairTags: atlanta, blackgirlsrock, blackwomen, braids, castor, coconutoil, fauxlocs, gsu, hairfinity, hairgrowth, hairstyling, Jamaican Castor Oil, journey, kinkycurly, manechoice, manetabolism, naturalhair, naturalhairdaily, naturalhairjourney, naturalhairmovement, newpaltz, nyc, oliveoil, pardonmyfro, protectivestyling, sunycortland, themanechoice, weaves, womenempowerment, womenofcolor Leave a comment

Teeny Afro

According to the transitioning chart, I would consider myself to be in the 2^nd stage. I did not do the BIG CHOP, instead I let the relaxer grow out and cut my ends off. My typical routine is washing and deep conditioning my hair every week or two, followed by two strand twists with Coconut oil, Shea butter, Cantu curling cream. After my hair dries I usually put a protective styling with wigs and leave my hair in the twists or braids underneath.

This picture is my hair with a Dominican blow out. I love my hair in this style, but because my hair is so THICK it never lasts to long.

My hair goal is to have a HUGE curly afro with bangs. Right now I am currently struggling to achieve a bang. So I purchased Nature’s Bounty Hair Skin & Nails vitamins, and a Wild Growth Oil to help my hair grow. I haven’t been to consist with taking the vitamins but I did start eating better and drinking a lot more water.

HAIR GOALS

This is the back of my hair after taking down braids.

PREPPING FOR TWISTS

July 30, 2015July 30, 2015 by live.travel.explore.faith Categories: Beauty, HairTags: 4chair, afro, blackgirlsrock, kinky, kinkycurly, naturalhair, naturalhairmovement, Transitioning Leave a comment

Transitioning

 

Transitioning is known as the most difficult stage a women goes through with her hair. First you have your teeny weeny afro, which can also be considered as the awkward stage. Then, it’s the growth of the teeny afro stage and then ultimately your end goal is to reach the BIG afro stage.

 

• During transitioning women have to take the time to play with their hair and learn how to manipulate it and learn what works best for them. YouTube is the holy grail for natural hair girls. It has EVERYTHINGGGG you need to help you get started, step by step tutorials, styling and of course product lists. One thing a natural girl can’t help but do is turn themselves into a PRODUCT JUNKIE.

• YES products work differently on different hair textures, but ladies REFRAIN FROM COMMITTING YOURSELF. What are you possibly going to do with all those products??!!! 

• With natural hair taking over, all major companies have crossed over making their products “natural”. The endless amount of hair care products will have a women spending $300 on a bunch of products, when her initial intention was to get one product.

 

SAVE YOURSELF !!!

DO YOU WANT THIS TO BE YOU? 

 

July 30, 2015July 30, 2015 by live.travel.explore.faith Categories: Beauty, HairTags: afro, blackgirlsrock, blackhair, collegestudents, kinkycurly, naturalhair, naturalhairmovement, productjunkie, Transitioning, women, youtube Leave a comment