Calling All Natural Hair Sister

[happylocks]

I am nature 4 a/b texture I dont plan to perm, I would like to share some advice on taking care of all natural hair, Plz come and share,

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[BabyCurls]

Hi, my natural sista!

May I recommend conditioning washes every other day, using a moisturizing shampoo, i.e. Motions or Creme of Nature, pre-shampoo hot oil treatment, deep conditioning. I'm sure you can use cholesterol or other reconstructing products, S-Curl, rollersets or braids, leave-in treatments and good oils for your hair (avoid heavy Vaseline-based grease at all costs).

Hope to help you out, my nautral sista.

 

[happylocks]

I have used Conditioner, but have not notice or seen much differents,

I enjoy homemade conditioners Eggs olive oil and conditioner should as Dark and lovelys "Dry Hair Healer"

, it seems to work well, I think thick cream condition with less water are good for me hair, I feel nothing but water down Conditioner with all the ones I have used on the Market

, Thank you

baby Curls

 

[Guest]

I recommend you review the henna and "straighten hair the natural way" threads

There is alot of good information on those posts.

 

[BabyCurls]

Anytime, happylocks. That's why you are here on the board because we can help you any way we can.

 

[Lucia]

Hi Happylocks,

I would suggest hennalucent (check out my recipe) using the oils and following with a creamy conditioner keeps the hair from being "hard" afterwards. I would suggest Nexxus humectress, cholesterol, and Matrix biolage detangling baume, those really work for me but everybody is different. hth

 

[happylocks]

I enjoy being natural, now that I am old enough to care for my hair myself, finding ways to make it easyer to deal with, I still have to braid individual braids in my hair and wash each one

, every time I wash my hair, but I am learning to care for it , I cant wash my hair altogether, or the scalp will not get clean, and to comb it out will be tooo much, So that is the easy way for me, If Any one has a much more easyer way plz share Ty

 

[happylocks]

Hello I washed my hair this week and it was not the difficult,

I bought IN23, I was told that I would not see much differents because I am a natural

,but ppl with Permed hair can see the differents IN23 makes on their hair,

I hope so, If any of you have seen a differents useing it plz
share Ty

 

[phynestone]

I would suggest drinking lots of water and misting your hair with it a few times a week. When you're natural, water is your best friend. Eat lots of veggies and fruits; they help strengthen your hair. Don't use products that contain alcohol, lanolin, petroleum as well as other stuff you can't pronounce. Natural hair loves natural products, so I would encourage you to use products that contain glycerin, water, as well as essential oils. Use olive oil as a hot oil treatment, or you could try Kemi Oyl as well. Good styles for natural hair include braids, twists, braidouts, twistouts and afros. Do whatever works for you, but on the other hand, our hair grows better when we're not manipulating it all the time. Be sure to keep on top of your conditioning treatments. I hope this helps.

 

[hairfanatic]

Hi Happylocks

I have personally found that rinsing every day with conditioner and washing every four days has been the greatest thing for my hair...it thrives on moisture and water.

Olive oil and shea butter has been great for my hair. The olive oil is good for hot oil treatments and styling and the shea butter defines my curls like you would not believe.

A seamless comb is another thing that saves my hair. Before I started buying them,no one at the stores knew what I was talking about so I started making my own by filing the seams down. I saved so much hair and hardly had any breakage.

I also found that products I used to use when I was relaxed no longer provided what I needed. I had to switch to heavier products that detangled, softened, moisturized and defined curls...definately a lot of trial and error and tons of products later.

 

[Daughter]

there's a lot of good advice on this board!

As for me, I don't use any heat on my hair anymore, and that's made a huge difference for me. As for washing my hair, I puti it in four big plait, and undo one at a time to wash the scalp/hair then loosely plait them up again (one at a time). I then condition it in the same way - section by section, using a very wide toothed comb to comb the conditioner through - this is about the only time I comb my hair! I rarely brish it now. Hardly any breakage and thourough cleansing and conditioning.

I like to leae conditioner on for about an hour before rinsing and I mostly wear my hair in twists these days

As others have said, moisture, moisture, moisture! I'm sill experimenting with products but I like Aveda Brilliant pomade but it's expensive, and Organic Roots Stimulator's Carrot Oil.

 

[Nanyanika]

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happylocks said:
I am nature 4 a/b texture I dont plan to perm, I would like to share some advice on taking care of all natural hair, Plz come and share,

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Hello Happy locks,
I'm also a natural 4a/4b, I've currently begun building together a personal site which demonstrates my regime step-by-step, it also contains information on nutrition and hair products I use daily to maintain my hair. Here is the link I hope you find this useful.

http://www.geocities.com/deniselhaynes/naturallycoilyhair.index.htm

 

[happylocks]

Thank you very much, I dont really see products without those ingredients. I need to eat healthy, But the water on my hair can make it smelly

, But I will try it, Thanks kit

 

[happylocks]

I have stopped using heat as well, and brushing,

which use to be my favorite thing

oo:, I want to use heat to see the length of my hair now, I dont have a regime yet, I hope to develop one

, and vitamin as well, I cant take the pills you all are taking, I will stick to foods if I can, it is too diffucult and it is not like I dont want the length any more then you all do, but I dont think it is nesscary

, Why for Us? and not for other ppl, Plus I would have to chew all those pills

I hope IN23 works for me, and I find the rigth shampoo and conditioner cause nothing has really made me happy, but homemade. one

, What are all the products you sister are using? care to share plz do

, Thank you I will list my old and new list as well as vitamins I am struggling to take

, Tell me what you think and how I can improve Thank you bye KIT

 

[happylocks]

Use to use:
BB- Oil Moisturizer/Hair lotion w/castor oil &amp; Aloe
911-Leave in Conditioner
Lotta Body-Original Formula
African Gold" Super Sure Gro"
AllWAYS-Instant Oil Moisturizer/LNConditioner
Tresseme-European Natural Shampoo

European Natural Conditioner

European Vitamin E Moisture Rich Shampoo

European Vitamin E Moisture Rich Conditioner

European Remoisturizing Conditioner
(Not all at once)

Dark &amp; Lovely- Dry Hair Healer

Vitamins Use to take:
System Essentials- Horsetail
PP-Mega Vita Gel

Vitamins I take now,but not daily like I should:
Ppl Choice: C 500mg, Calcium 600mg + Vitamin D, Mulit vitamins, B-Complex
Centrum
Nature Made-Chromium Picolinate
GNC-Liquid MSM 500
Safi-Blood Purifier

Products used now:
Daliy Defense- 2 + 1 shampoo and conditioner (Water Lily)4 All types of Hair

Daily Defense- conditioner (Light bloom)4 fine/oliy hair
IN23-Leave in Treatment(Original)
Black Orchid- Pomade
Softee- Indian hemp
Softee- Castor Oil and castor oil
Kala Kola- Hair tonic
Herbal castor hair oil
Afshan Henna
Amla Hair oil
Anmol Pure coconut oil
Olive Oil
Plus I do Eggs &amp; Olive Oil conditioning

That is the end of my list, I want to buy more products and liquid vitamins

. I have not noticed any differents really with my hair lenght yet.
I keep it in a scarf at night, Braid it, I dont brush any more, and that is it. I will share more when I have more ty

Tell me if any of this products are still worth using from any of my list,

Has anyone tried- T-TREE OIL I hear that it is very good, I will hopeful buy some this week

 

[happylocks]

Hey here is My album, Dont look for pictures of me, cause they will not be there,

It is just pictures I want to share from My personal collection.

I will have my product list soon, Ty Bye

http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/happylockss

 

[Ipanema]

Happylocks, I was reading over how you wash your hair &amp; I used to do something like that until I got a removable shower head. I have really thick hair &amp; I just put that thing on full blast directly onto my scalp. It's much faster &amp; easier. You should try it.

 

[happylocks]

Thanks Ipanema, but it is the fact that all the hair gets mix together and it is hard trying to comb and part it out, When my hair is wet is feels so easy to break, so I just put in sections, and the products if they are in my scalp and are not washed out, then they go to my hair, and get stuck in the unseen parts

but I do want the shower head

Bye

 

[Integrity]

i am not natural but the advice i can give is to take MSM, your hair will thicken, be considerable soft and nourished.

 

[happylocks]

Thanks Pandora, My hair is already very thick, but I heard that it will give me type 3 hair

, I dont want that, I want to keep my texture,

, my hair is very thick ppl dont belive it tell they see it

, then they dont want to braid it

, Thanks any way any more advice? I just got T tree cream I applied it let it dry and Now I am having a good smelling bad hair day

. How are the rest of the naturals plz kit bye

 

[sweetcocoa]

The main thing I learned since being natural...is to keep my hair MOISTURIZED! Water is my friend! Then seal it in!
I learned this the hard way....

 

[happylocks]

Hello everyone, How do you use water on your hair? and how is it your best friend, plz share, I dont like my hair to get the left in water smell, so what do you do water the water and your hair?

Ok I have another problem

, ok I braided my hair in cornrow, the other day my mom took the measuring tape and went from the from of my head to the back of the my head till the end of my braid, it was 14 inches

problem, I dont think that is right, my hair does not look 14 inches, then I did another one with my hair out, in a pony tail and measure going back, about 14 till the end

, can someone plz tell me how to measure my hair lenght correctly

thank you ? I have tried to measure it one side till the ends and got 13, do you think that the hair in the back of my hair makes it seem long ?

plz help thank you

 

[alma]

...NICE!

I'm glad to hear that there are loads of people out there who have chosen to be natural! Its great. I feel that is a choice for a better and healthier mind-body-spirit.

Peace people!

*

 

[phynestone]

Where can I buy msm? At GNC or some health food store? I am in the Dallas, Tx area.

 

[happylocks]

Hey 19 I got my liquid MSM from GNC, but you can get if from the health food store, they have a larger selection, but mine was $3.99 for 120ml or 4 fl oz. I am in texas as well

, GOOD LUCK, Can soon one plz answer my question, look above

 

[sweetcocoa]

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happylocks said:
Hello everyone, How do you use water on your hair? and how is it your best friend, plz share, I dont like my hair to get the left in water smell, so what do you do water the water and your hair?

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I'm not sure what you mean by a 'left in water smell'...
My hair always smell fresh and like what ever leave-in I used. When it dries it just smells like freshly shampooed hair...

 

[alma]

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Pandora said:
i am not natural but the advice i can give is to take MSM, your hair will thicken, be considerable soft and nourished.

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MSM

??? -can someone please tell em what that is? are they tablets you take?

As far as being natural goes... I've become very cautious about the products I use. Natural by hair....why not try being natural with your products...and you gotta love those essential oils!!!

My natural care advise...
Oh yeah, get a GOOD shampoo with antibacterial properties (I use Tea Tree shampoo from THE BODY SHOP). Moisture scalp after washing hair with light oils like Almond oil. I've added 4 drops Rosemary, 4 drops Tea Tree and 3 drops Eucalyptus oil to my Almond oil (by Dark and Lovely natural) -thats it! Keep iut all simple.

 

[leejure]

Alma,

You and your hair is beautiful!

-lee

 

[happylocks]

I think I will press my hair today, not with a flat iron, but a comb, Can anyone tell me how I can do that so that I will not have a puff ball of hair, but nice and not frizz, plz I am doing the pressing today, it has been more then 7 months without heat, Do you think I should do it?

am I betraying my natural hair look, should I got through with it, Plz tell me, I have Parenvue hair T-Tree cream, coconut Oil, Olive Oil, Castor Oil,IN23, and Amla Oil tell me how to use them Thanks

 

[happylocks]

I will use the Dog MANE TODAY, it has a strong smell, I will measure my hair, and go, only 3 days through

, till sunday then wash, I will also press to see my lenght