Fashion: The Essential Guide to Spring and Summer

Well I myself have curly hair and I can attest to everything that I say for the girls who are in the 3 category for C’s. My hair personally it is probably difficult and easy at the same time it’s that happy medium.

When I try to do my hair the most thing that I struggle with is trying to make sure that it doesn’t appear as if my hair isn’t cooperating and that I’m trying to achieve a look that’s not possible because again that happy medium that looks like yeah maybe she did her hair or maybe she didn’t. Well I’ve inserted quite a few pictures and all of those will be attached on the blog because I love blogs that show pictures but also include some of other women who has the exact same hair texture and they can give the exact same advice that I give as far as that happy medium of maybe she did her hair maybe she didn’t but either way I really do love my hair

Here is a lesson chart on discovering your hair type

Wavy 2’s

Wavy hair has its plus and it’s negatives as well. The major pluses and wavy hair is you can essentially be effortless in your time and doing it and you can get your entire head done in literally less than an hour.

Which is not even fathomable for myself, who is a 3A category hair type, or for my best friend who was a 4B/4C category hair type. The one thing that I will say is the difficulty that does come with having hair type 2 is that you have to put a lot more work into trying to achieve a girl that’s going to last longer and you deal with the issue as far as that falling but there’s a lot of grace and a lot of just natural beauty that comes with it to hairstyle.

Here is a lesson chart on discovering your hair type

Fashion: The Essential Guide to Spring and Summer

Kinky hair is notoriously known for being more challenging but with the proper tools it is by far the show stopping when nurtured.

Moisture

Kinky hair has the tightest curls of all 4 types. When our hair makes natural oils, the straighter the strands the easier the oil can pass down the shaft. Since Kinky has the tightest curls or all, oil hardly ever makes it to the end. So this makes moisture a big deal. So creams and conditioning are a must.

What’s a great moisturizer? Eden All Natural Curl Defining Cream

How should I apply moisture? LOC or LCO Method

Curl Definition

Curl definition is almost an impossibility with Kinky hair but it can be achieved with the correct styling method as well as the proper holding product. Since the curls are more individualized, getting them to cluster isn’t going to happen without product.

I want to be natural… now what? 1/2

How to transition from perm to natural correctly

Okay so now your natural or at least want to be natural and you want to make sure that you do it the correct way. What is the point in going natural and making your hair even more unhealthy. The post that I made yesterday Natural hair vs Perm hair, I stress the health benefits of being natural. When you are natural or going natural, one of the first things that you have to do is understand that your hair is not going to use the same products or treatments as it previously did.

For example I used Motions religiously, like I swore by it being the best (products on the left). This was what I was accustomed to using and it was what I had always see applied to my hair growing up.

You have to understand that when your natural you not going to do the exact same things you may have been taught. The one thing that you have to do immediately is change your shampoo and change your conditioner. The shampoo that you need now is one that is majority water based because your natural hair will need as much moisture as possible. I suggest starting with something very easy to transition too.

Since the permed hair is damaged hair that we are keeping until it outgrows or the big chop we want to use something with damage assistance . For example I used the GoodBye Damage from Garnier. Which gave me a different much softer consistency. This is only for the transitioning time so don’t get use to it.

If you are past this point or getting close to passing this part of transition then here is the next step.

The New Good Hair Movement

So what is good hair? Well if you were raised in the African American household typically in America between the years of the 90s and 2000s or even the 80s one if the things that you were told is that good hair would be fine hair or easily manageable hair. And it caused

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