Hair of the week: Gorgeous Cornrows on Childrens Natural Hair

Heey Friends!!

This past weekend was the busiest I’ve seen in a while but I did manage to sit down Sunday after church to do my daughters hair. It only took me an hour and a half to braid her almost waist length hair. The cornrows turned out soo cute. My hope is they stay nice and neat for the next two weeks. I didn’t do a tutorial per se but I did include a few pictures and grabbed a quick tutorial for you from youtube showing you to how cornrow. By the way, Cornrows are great for transitioning to natural and great as a protective style.

Close-up of her hair

She loves her hair

Back view of the cornrows

Top view

 

 

Quick tip when doing children’s hair: Snacks and SpongeBob!! 🙂

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Natural Hair:: The Secret To Long Hair

A few of my fave natural hair gurus came together to create this video that is truly the BEST thing EVER to grow out your hair. Check out the video and leave me a comment, I’d like to know your thoughts. 🙂

Natural Hair::4 Myths about Natural Hair Answered::Part 1

• Myth: African-American hair will not grow long.

• Fact: On average, the human hair grows about  1/2 ”  per month. I’ve personally experienced growth around 1″ per month.  Several factors contribute to the rate at which our hair grows. First and most obvious is genetics. Other factors include, your overall health, disease, illness, stress levels, etc. Most people assume the hair has stopped growing because of hair breakage.  Hair will always grow ( unless you suffer from certain diseases), Retaining length is usually the culprit for actually not seeing how long your hair has grown.

• Myth: You must grease your scalp often.

• Fact: If you are “greasing your scalp” with traditional hair grease, STOP immediately.  If you want your scalp  to breathe and allow the hair to come through. WHY? Our scalp creates its own oils called sebum.
  

  Jojoba Oil is excellent for dry scalp

  Most hair greases contain mineral oil and petroleum. These ingredients are notorious for clogging the pores and literally suffocating new hairs from sprouting.If your scalp is dry, use natural oils like jojoba oil instead.

• Myth: African-American hair hates water.
• Fact: All hair, including african american, needs moisture to retain length.  Moisture to the hair is vital for its overall health.  Everyday styling, such as flat irons, blow dryers, etc, takes a toll on the hair and weakens it. The average persons moisture is lost or depleted down so much that the hair begins to break and split. To retain moisture, use products that have water as a key ingredient combined with natural oils.

• Myth: It’s good to comb/detangle your hair when it’s dry

• Fact: Combing and attempting to detangle African-American natural hair is the wrong way to groom or style.

When a comb is pulled through the hair, intertwining of the hair occurs adding knots on the hair

strands leading to the perfect environment for breakage.

The comb will break off the hair at the places where there are knots. ( Kumalo, 2006 p. 888) Detangle your hair with a wide tooth comb and a Denman-type  brush while the hair is saturated with a moisturizing conditioner. ( Video tutorial coming soon to show how I Detangle.)

Part 2, coming soon, on the HOW TO GROW and RETAIN LENGTH

Enjoy Your Journeys, ~ Kristi