Caring for your hair with low manipulation to retain length is one of the easiest ways to grow your hair. What is Low Manipulation? When looking at low manipulation from the subject of hair care, there’s quite a few areas to examine in each step of your hair care process. Low manipulation in its simplest…
When you have a goal to grow your hair to the longest length possible, one of the things you can do to accomplish your goal is protective styling. The protective style below is a pin curl updo on African American hair. Protective styling can be boring so learning to create intricate looking yet simple to…
Hair care is a bit science, a bit skill and a bit trial and error. Sometimes it’s easy to be all over the place with no real focus when it comes to maintaining our crowns. That’s why we need some “rules” to help us with building an organized hair care routine. So, what I’d like…
Isolation Hair Care = Low Maintenance + Low Manipulation We are about a good three months in now. Isolation or Mandatory quarantine. Whatever state you find yourself in during this coronavirus pandemic (and I hope you are well or getting well), your hair is something you still need to deal with. Isolation Hair Care is…
When cleansing braids in your fine hair, you’ll find that you can greatly extend the life of this low manipulation hairstyle. Your scalp won’t itch because it will be clean. You won’t need to remove the braids to do it so you’ll be able to keep them in longer. The strategy I share of my…
When you first go natural, what’s the first thing that may come to mind? Id’s say it’s something ing like, “How do I nurture my hair in it’s natural state so that it thrives, grows and maintains length?” (or something like that). Using less hair products is a first step you can make toward that…
Wash and go’s, twist outs, buns and twists. Those are my go-to natural hairstyles. I do the occasional roller set but that’s a rarity. Yet, I find that blow stretching fine hair like mine helps in so many ways. A year ago after I got my first deva cut, I vowed to no longer allow…
Braids are beautiful. Small braids, big braids, box braids and cornrowed braids. There’s so many low manipulation braid styles and in this post I’m sharing how I do them on fine natural hair. Creating braids also requires a lot of manipulation. For fine strands, it can wreak havoc. So, how on earth can you do…
If you enjoy wearing your hair curled then you’ll be pleased to know that curls can be a great low manipulation hairstyle when maintained properly. Styling with Waveformers is a sweet like that resembles a bantu knot out. Waveformers are basically knock off versions of Curlformers. The concept came from Curlformers using a hook to…
