Category Archives: Hair Growth Tips

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.

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 →

5 Awesome Ways to Use Coconut Oil for Hair and Skin

I am coocoo for the coco puffs found in coconut oil. My momma used this magnificent oil in her youth and her hair was thick like a disco queen. From a young age, our mother used to use the same natural oil on our hair. She would massage our scalp with it and use it on the ends. Thick hair galore! I encountered the magic of coconut when in Africa. I sat inside a salon in Africa getting my hair done and the lady next to me had extra thick natural hair. Apparently she was looking at my hair wondering “Wow you have thick hair” and little did she know I was wondering the same about her! Long story short, I asked her what oil she used and she said “coconut”! I was in a field of gold! There are so many magical things you can do with it… Continue reading →

The Baggy Hair Method Explained and a Simple How To

Happy Thursday lovelies. Today’s topic is an important one if you have curly dry hair , have breakage, or simply just want to acheive longer hair and retain length. The baggy method can really give you the results you want but only if its done right. This particular hair care method works by helping to add moisture back to your strands and this helps to prevent breakage and encourages your hair to grow.

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Now here’s how to do the ponytail/ bun and full head baggy method in order to get the results you want: Continue reading →