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Natural Hair Winter Blues! Every winter we are faced with dry tresses due to the frigid winds of this season.  We often combat the ravages of the winter season with our satin-lined hats, caps, and scarves to guard our hair from the elements. Why is the Winter so Rough for our natural hair?  Because it sucks the moisture right out of our tresses!  That dryness than causes our already fragile strands to tangle.  Tangles create knots and knots slows down the washing and styling processes. My major issue for this season is that I am a primarily "Wash And Go" lady and until this year, I was able to maneuver the winter season fairly well but this season my "Wash And Go" wreaked havoc on my work scheduled. This caused me to look primarily at protective styling as an option, especially for Monday through Friday.  I then added wigs of various styling options and colors into my arsenal.  This allowed me to keep my hair braided, moisturized, and pro...

Hello ladies, Eco Style has another new product!  Eco Style Olive Oil, Shea Butter, and Black Castor Oil gel. I went to my local Beauty Supply Store to pick up some Eco Style Black Castor Oil and Flaxseed gel when I said the shelves were filled with this gold container.  So, of course, I reached for the jar and started to read it! A one stop product for Wash N Gos!  At first I put the jar back on the shelve to get my usual but the one product only intrigued me.  I picked up the jar and off to the counter I went. My Experience: I washed my hair with African Soap Peppermint shampoo, applied a wash out conditioner, I applied a coconut leave-in and shingled the Eco Style Olive Oil, Shea Butter, Black Castor Oil gel. What I Notice: The flip-top jar was convenient and  I liked. The fragrance of the gel was soft and floral The gel was "gold" and had a glimmer shine to the gel. This gel felt thicker than t...

I've been wanting to dye my natural tresses to purple.  Why you may ask?  I love the color purple!  And everytime I see a purple haze of natural hair, it stops me in my tracks!  Why haven't you done so?  Bleaching!  To get this rich, royal color I would need to bleach my hair and I love the fact that my hair is bouncy and healthy. I keep weighing the odds.  Do I sacrifice my desire to join ranks with all the beautiful purple-haired naturals are simply stand on the side lines and watch the purple haze go by? Pros  Use the Coconut-Bleaching Method for Less Damage to Your Tresses  Use Manic Panic's Violet or Lavender in Conditioner to Maintain Your Puple Color Do a Weekly Protein Treatment to Fill in Holes in Strands Left by Bleaching Color is a Confidence Booster! With New Hair Color, the Clothing Color Choices Will Look Different Method : The night before your bleaching appointment, take pure, unrefined coconut oil...

It's Summer and I thought I would peruse the cyber world to see how are our naturals styling their naturals in the warm weather.  Here are a few styling options! These are two different takes for the same styling option! Style it Hi or Lower! Colored or Not? Design in the Back On the Grid! Just a few styles to inspire your summer! As always, Happy Curls to you!

Hello Chicas! Back with a new product review!  Hydrating Hair Butter Ingredients:   Water (Aqua), Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Glycerin, Cetearyl Alcohol, Stearic Acid, Ceteareth-20, Glyceryl Dilaurate, Fragrance (Parfum), Butryospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Mangifera Indica (Mango) Seed Oil, Honey, Dehydroacetic Acid, Benzyl Alcohol, Carbomer, Aminomethyl Propanol, Beta-Carotene I was at Walgreens to fill an prescription when I took the route through the ethnic hair care line aisle when I spotted this space on the shelf that reflected a beach-like ambiance.  I stopped and realized that I had never seen this line called "True" before. It's packaging is clean, pure, and refreshing reflecting the theme of the Made Beautiful line. I first acquired the Hydrating Hair Butter and took it home.  Unfair to the line, I spread the butter on my hands and applied it over the Carol's Daugh...

Eco Styler's Black Castor Oil and Flaxseed Gel In case you haven't heard Eco Styler has come out with the much awaited new product! Black Castor Oil and Flaxseed Gel!  You will find bloggers, YouTubers, and novices speculating on whether or not the product will live up to their expectations.  My first exposure to its arrival was from a friend on Facebook! One YouTuber ordered hers from Canada with a shipping cost of $6.99, someone else ordered it with a shipping price of a whopping $27.99, and someone else found an online beauty supply store and was willing to spend $30 on other products just to get the $4.99 shipping! Eco Style Black Castor and Flaxseed Oil Styling Gel helps to nourish, repair and grow hair. Wheat protein strengthens and protects hair. Like all of our styling gels, it is weightless and will leave your hair with a healthy shine and superior hold. You still have others across the States on waiting lists for the product!  Well, ...

pretty teeny weeny Afro (TWA) is no longer teeny enough to highlight your head shape, but not long enough to hang even partially south. It's still too short for that but it may be flopping out in other more crazy ways.  Beyond the BC hair purgatory happened to me several times over many years. It was a tough time for me -- too long for the cute shape anchored by my scalp. Too short for the hang. Doing the north, east and west, but definitely no south. WTF was it doing? not long enough to hang but not short enough to behave. not long enough to pull back into a bun. I was in this stage several times in my life and each time it felt like I was  unanchored  and could not see the far shore. No matter how much I patted it down it refused to behave like a TWA. It also refused to behave like it wanted to drop and hang. I went through several cycles of growing it to a certain length, losing hope, and BC'ing again. And it all happened before the curly hair product rev...