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4 Tips on How to “Texlax” your Hair
What is Texlaxing? Texlaxing is when you deliberately under process your hair with a chemical relaxer. You want more texture than straightening. 4 Different Ways to Texlax Your Hair 1. Reduce the processing time of the relaxer after you have applied the relaxer. Spend less than the required processing time on the relaxer. …
How to take Care of Relaxed Hair and Make it Grow
1. Leave a bit of Texture It is however better to aim for about 80% straightening leaving a little texture in the hair rather than 100% bone straightening. Relaxed hair with a bit of texture is more resistant to breakage and dryness than bone straight hair. Relaxed hair with more texture also eases the stress…
Did You Know? 17 Facts About Kinky Afro Black Hair
1. Once a strand of hair has reached its longest length that it can grow to within it’s growth phase (4 to 7 years), it is shed, that is pushed out by a new growing strand. 2. Your hair doesn’t stop growing because it has reached a certain length, it stops growing after a particular…
Brutal Blunders: My Major Natural Hair Mistakes! | Mane Attraction
MISTAKE #3- Persistent PS Oh how I love my protective styles, lets have a moment to just bask in the glory that is two strand twists. I rant and rave about how I owe a lot of my length and retention to PS, however, I realized that serial back-to-back protective styling for more than…
African Threading with Marley Hair & Chebe butter – Natural Sisters
So, you can’t do twists on your own but African threading is your thing? I got you covered.This hairstyle indeed involves some braiding and twisting but it is done on the natural hair. The hair extension, in this case Marley hair, is then crocheted into the hair. So, no problems with braiding with extension which…
Natural Hair Bride: Asimbuyu | ZedHair
The attention my hair attracted gave me many opportunities to share what I’d learned about caring for natural hair. One mother in my congregation complained that her daughter now refused to have her hair combed for school because, “Aunt Asimbuyu doesn’t comb her hair either!” People would assume my hair was ‘kinky’ and couldn’t be…
Miss Universe 2019 Zozibini Tunzi Was Told to Wear a Wig to Compete | Allure
Miss South Africa Zozibini Tunzi is the first black woman to win the Miss Universe pageant in afro-textured natural hair. She shared that many people tried to persuade her to wear a wig… “It was so strange because even a lot of people I knew, people that were my friends, were like, ‘Sis, we love…