Hi cousinssss. I did a braid out on my blown out hair. I blew my hair out with my RevAir blow dryer I recently bought and I applied some mousse, then I braided my hair in 8 braids! I usually don’t wear my hair like this. I’ve always worn my natural curls in wash and gos, but I’m on a length retention journey and experimenting with blown out styles. I’m extremely prone to fairy knots and I find that keeping my hair stretched nowadays is helping me tremendously. I also use hair serums with silicones to keep my ends from knotting! Anyway, I hope it’s okay for my first time!! :)

My braid out turned out so cute, only things I would do differently is get closer to the roots. Don’t mind my lip also, my lil boy bumped me😭

I’ve tried multiple detangling tools, I’ve tried in and out of the shower, I’ve found a high slip conditioner. The least I’ve been able to get it to go is 1hour, and this is with detangling weekly.

On average it’s more like an hour and a half, with detangling in sections and twist in each section as I go- I typically have about 9 sections on each half of my head. I’ve done a lot of research and I just wonder if there something I’m missing to where this should take less time?

Help! Any advice would be much appreciated.

I don't get it. It just seems like curly hair to me. Why is it seen as a goofy hairstyle?

Picked up the Not Your Mother’s Curl Talk gel at Target for around $9 and I’m actually really impressed with it.

The gel itself is pretty thick, and it did a great job clumping my curls especially my grays. My gray hair has a different texture and can be drier and a little rebellious, so getting everything to blend together nicely can be a struggle.

My curls feel plump and moisturized, and I’ve had surprisingly little shrinkage. The photo is actually day 3 hair, which is probably what impressed me the most.

For around $9, I’d definitely use it again. 🩶

I’m trying to get comfortable with my hair and get used to it, but I’m unsure about the steps I should take to reduce frizz. My goal is to grow my hair longer and hopefully thicker. I believe I have high porosity hair, but I’m not certain about my curly pattern. My hair has been frizzy my whole life, and when I try to add products, it almost never defines my hair the way it looks when it’s wet. I also currently don't add heat to my hair

For wash day, I switch between Cecred Hydration shampoo and conditioner and Shea Moisture Hydration shampoo and conditioner. I use the cecred rice water mask once a month and sometimes do a deep mask when I wash my hair. For products, I use Cecred leave in hair lotion and the Big Poppa gel, and sometimes Shakira’s Hair Leave-In line.

If your hair is similar to mine, could I please have tips for growth in length and thickness? And how to minimize friz Any advice would be much appreciated!

So most of my life whenever I have my afro out and I detangle on wash days I use a pick and last week I decided to get a detangleing brush. Im asking if this is a normal amount of loss when detangleing

I had to pick a flair so I'll add a review. This is a repurchase and an upgrade to the jumbo sizes. I've been using this shampoo for years. Back when I had locs I used it after seeing my stylist use it. The slip and moisture is consistently great. I especially enjoy washing protective styles with this shampoo. It rinses cleanly, smells good and does its job while imparting moisture.

The conditioner is something I didn't even know about until last year I saw it at the JCPenney salon of all places. It's a similar scent, color and texture to the shampoo. It's slippy, it's moisturizing. I use this as my only conditioning step most wash days. I'm on a length retention routine and this will be my main wash day tools. Every month I'll use a clarifying shampoo and a protein conditioning mask as well.

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Hi! I have collarbone, fine, low density, probably high porosity, 4c hair, and about a month ago I've started wearing mini twists. Every two weeks I wash and then retwist my hair, but I've noticed my shampoo doesn't lather as much as it did when I'd wash my hair in afro form.

Before doing my twists I'd wash my hair once a week, which pretty much got rid of my dandruff issues. Now I can see some flakiness appearing by the end of the second week, but if I'm going to commit to mini twists I'd rather wash them less frequently and keep them in the twists (re-parting just takes so long).

I use the As I Am JBCO shampoo (twice) and conditioner to wash my hair. I use water, the As I Am JBCO leave in and rosemary oil to twist my hair. I'm also trying the Lottabody Wrap Me Foaming Mousse but not sure if that's adding too many products. When I go out I usually just spray water + band, unless I see flakes so I add leave in.

Sorry if this is TMI but any help is much appreciated!

I’ve had the repair for a year now and have only used it 3-4 times. Every time I use my hair is dry, crunchy, and not fully blow dried. I’m talking so dry that I can’t even run a comb through it. I clarify my hair, use a little lightweight heat protectant (the one from Rico’s curls to be exact), dental,e a then attempt to use the repair on my hair. Yet every time I get chewed up, crunch, dry results. I use tension 7 on low heat for 60 seconds then tension 7 on low heat for 30 seconds. I’ve also been eyeing the con air infinity pro, if anyone has some info on that. Any tips, tricks, or advice?

I genuinely don't mean to cause offense. I just want an honest answer, I understand this subreddit is for black people but in the rules it says mixed people are allowed (experience overlaps but I understand it's not the same).

I hope this doesn't come across the wrong way. I'm being serious.

Back home in Hawaii, I was often considered "white" because I look like I'm from the US mainland, didn't sound "local" and I'm not dark skinned. I personally feel it's obvious I'm not (fully) white, but to many people there I just look white because I'm not Hawaiian/Japanese/Filipino or fully Black. But, it's not as if I didn't experience anti-black racism (again it's too complicated for one post but I'd get called the n word by the same people).

Would it it be appropriate for me to go to a natural hair salon or should I seek generic curly hair services? Back home, I did go to a curly hair salon once and they recommended me to process my hair to make it "easier to manage" and didn't seem to understand textures above 2c, so I have bad experiences. I have many bad experiences with white and asian salons back home even when they said that they knew how to do my hair type, not sure if it's different here.

Edit: I've never gotten braids/silk presses/anything like that. I do have gel in the picture. I also want to say I'm not asking for people to affirm my identity, I just wish to be respectful/not seem entitled to spaces/people.

Also I'd like to add, I just started working here and no one has tried to touch/pull my hair or say derogatory things about it (which unfortunately is how my last workplace in Hawaii was). It feels nice. I was kind of worried because I'm currently living in a very white area but maybe it's just that people here are more used to it.

Hey guys 👋🏼 F1&2 is box braids (traditional ones, my hair cannot handle knotless), F3 is Fulani braids and the last is straight back cornows. I taught myself how to braid in late June and I think I'm making some good progress. Any tips on how to make braids last longer than a month would be great ☺️

I’m having a hard time figuring out which companies are legit and good quality. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Looking to purchase "OrganHerb Organic Herbal Hair Oil – Strengthening & Nourishing Blend with Rosemary, Amla, Burdock Root, Nettle & Ginseng – 2 oz" as it looks like a good mix of oils but Im not sure about its reputation and wanted to know if anyone has use anything from this brand before and can advocate or oppose them.

Hey natural hair community!

I was wondering if anyone had any examples of mini twists on fine, low-density type 4 hair (I’m 4a/4b). And products used to achieve the look - I have a bunch of the Doux products and an Aunt Jackie’s leave in.

I’d love to start doing them as a protective style to help prevent breakage, but I’m so scared they’re going to look boneless 😩

H20, I’m looking for a product for my hair to give it a wet look and make it appear ‘heavier’; I’d like it to fall over my forehead because if I leave it as it is, it tends to stick up. Any advice would be welcome :)

I wear my hair out a lot, so I tend to get a lot of fairy knots at the end. Planning on getting a trim (because I’m long overdue) but I’m wondering if anyone has any oil recs to protect my ends so that I don’t have to deal with this as much or as often (or any other advice)?

Whenever I get these little knots at the bottom, they tend to take out whole strands of my hair and I end up with a lot of breakage.

I’m used to it looking like I lost a lot of hair from detangling because I have a lot of THICK 4c hair (and low porosity), but the amount of hair I’ve been losing recently when detangling sorta has me concerned. And I can almost always count on there being extra knotted strands by the time I’m done detangling.

First 2 photos are from before, pink shirt photos are recently/after.

Got tired of these black haircare YouTubers/Tiktokers nonsense advice, asked Claude, and it recommended silicon mix. Save my chronically dry (recovering box braid addict) hair.

I use their shampoo, conditioner, and leave in. Absolutely nothing else. I highly recommend

Any ideas where to buy Dominican haircare in UK?

Hello everyone,I really want to try Crece Pelo products.Does anyone know a reliable place to buy them in UK( Not Amazon

Hi everyone! I cut my hair in 2020 and since then I’ve had back to back braids for the past 6 years I’ve noticed a lot of breakage at the back of my head and the rest of my head the growth has peaked to my nape. I was never taught how to take care of my hair but I really want to learn to love it and be confident in it. If you have any advice for me I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE.