One way to keep your hair on your head and to add length is by wearing hair styles that require low maintenance. Low maintenance hair styles don’t require the use of lot’s of heat, combing, tugging, and pulling. These hair styles will give the hair a rest and allow the hair to grow longer and [...]

I’ve been receiving comments and emails concerning a common hair problem that many women including myself face: Hair thinning or the so-called “slow growth”. For me my problem lies with the fact that I wore microbraids almost 2 years ago which caused hair breakage at my edges so my hair is shorter in those areas [...]

 I read the article “Big Night Beauty Strands” on page 38 in the December magazine issue of Essence a few days ago and there were quite a few things that I did not agree with in the article:
Every style looks better with trimmed ends. Before you rock a straight or even curly look get that quarter inch [...]

So you’ve decided to relax your hair or maybe your are already using a relaxer, but you are considering something that claims to be less damaging. Is there really a less damaging relaxer? Are no lye relaxers more sensitive to the scalp and hair? The honest answer to this question is a plain no.  No [...]

So I tried the Palmers Coconut Oil Forumula (with vitamin E) Replenishing Hair Milk because it was something new on the shelves at Walmart, but this product like many others with great potential contains protein(keratin & amino acids) which can be quite drying to the hair. It also lacks humercants which are ingredients that are really needed in African [...]