Monthly Archives: March 2013

Stuff We Like: Natural Deodorant!

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When your armpits spend all their life in a dark place with no air and light, the last thing you need are clogged pores in that area!  Not many women know this but the stuff you put under your armpits can be quite harmful! Personally, I’m allergic to the antiperspirants and the regular deodorants.  I found that they broke the skin around my armpits and made me break out in a rash.  The rash is itchy and uncomfortable.  I abandoned all those toxins for a natural deodorant.  Continue reading

How to do a Hot Oil Treatment at Home

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Between your natural hair trims, your vitamin supplements and your hair routine, don’t forget a hot oil treatment.  It helps you soften your texture and gives a nice sheen to your mane.  I like the glow that I get after I use a few carrier oils like jojoba, olive or coconut.  It’s a fun and easy way to do a moisture infusing treatment at home. Continue reading

Top 5 Reasons Why Your Edges are Thinning and How You Can Avoid It All

Dear natural as well as relaxed ladies, its important for you to know that anything that places unnecessary pressure on your hairline will overtime cause the  hair around that area to thin out and break off. If nothing is done to treat or prevent this, it can eventually result in permanent hair loss and thinned out edges that you might have to live with for most, if not all your life.

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1. Avoid lace front wigs: They always lay exactly on your hairline and are catastrophic if glued to the hairline. It always makes me cringe to see any woman apply glue to their hairline so as to ‘fix’ a lace front wig to their head! The chemicals from the glue itself will actually cause the hair breakage and can Continue reading

7 Quick Tips to Grow Longer Hair & Prevent all that Breakage!

Growing natural long hair depends greatly on the proper care your whole head receives.  From the scalp grooming to the entire length of your hair, your precious strands deserve some steamy sessions when it comes to maintenance and repair.  Spare some time and pamper yourself.

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1. Always make sure you remove the water from your hair before you sleep.  Leaving water on your scalp can cause the skin to break.  When skin breaks, the follicles don’t have a place to thrive and as a result, your hair growth could potentially slow down!  You start to itch and get all scabby! Watch out how your do your baggy method.  How are you supposed to sprout some good hair from an irritated scalp! It just doesn’t work! Continue reading

Coconut Oil Challenge Coming Soon!

We are planning to have a coconut oil challenge.  As we’ve touched on before, you can use this oil for many things and we’ve chosen to focus this segment on hair.  If you’re looking to get your hair growth on, your hair soft, your frizzes put away, your natural hair thick, this is the challenge to partake in.  I will have a more structured plan coming your way and a calendar you can download.  Stay tuned for that.

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Q: What kind of hair challenge have you taken in the past? Continue reading