Growing & Maintaining Your Natural Hair Guide
There is no such thing as bad hair (unless you damage it). It's all about maintaining and taking care of it.

Hair Types
Type 2: Wavy

• More prone to frizz.
• Using anti-frizz products will help maintain good looking waves.
• Try your best to keep your fingers out of wavy hair, the more you play with it = the more frizz you get.

Type 3: Curly

• Climate dependent (Humidity = Frizz).
• Lack of care = dull and damaged curls.

Type 4: Kinky Curly Coily

• Driest hair type (more prone to breakage).
• Use a gentle touch. Detangle and cleanse softly.
• Moisturize daily to avoid breakage.
• Avoid mineral and petrolatum oils.

Essential hair products and tools

Shea Moisture: Coconut & Hibiscus Collection

• Curl & Shine Shampoo. $10.99
• Curl & Shine Conditioner. $11.99
• Curl Enhancing Smoothie. $12.99
• Raw Shea Butter, Extra-Moisture Detangler $11.99

Cantu Beauty

• Coconut curling cream. $5.99

Miss Jessies

• Coily Custard $13.99 (Transforms frizzy hair to soft curls, fights shrinkage and great for wash & go styling)
• Leave In Condish $11

Eco Styler

• Olive Oil Styling Gel $5.99

Aunt Jackie’s Don’t Shrink gel

• Moisturizing styling gel $8.49

Oils
Prices varies, most can be found at local supermarket or beauty supply store

• Unrefined Organic Coconut Oil (Stimulates Hair Growth, Conditions, Repairs, Moisturizes, and styles hair. Smells great too )
• Extra Virgin Olive Oil (Moisturizes, Strengthens and softens hair. Fights against dandruff and split ends.)
• Avocado Oil (Strengthens, Moisturizes, Shines, and repairs damaged hair.)
• Black Jamaican Castor Oil (Rapid hair growth, thickens, repairs, shines, deeply conditions and moisturizes hair/scalp)

Tools
Most can be found in your local beauty supply store or amazon

• Satin pillowcases and scarves (preserves natural hair oils and less friction between hair and surfaces overnight)
• Scrungy / Headband pack (Used to style your hair when sleeping or when you're going out)
• Wide tooth comb (Used for detangling and styling hair)
• Hair Pick (Used for styling and lifting hair)
• Denman Brush (Used for detangling and styling your hair)

Tips

• Only wash your hair no more than twice a week. Washing everyday strips your hair of natural oils and causes thinning.
• Never blow dry your hair it will cause heat damage. Air drying is the best way to go especially to avoid frizzing.
• Never brush your hair when its wet, the brush will pull your hair strands.
• Comb through your hair gently when styling with oils or when you're in the shower.
• When using a hair pick, lift rom the roots upwards. This will lift your hair and give you more bounce/definition.
• Use leave in conditioner 1-3 times a week unless you have type 4 kinky hair, use it everyday.
• Sleep with satin surfaces (pillows, scarf etc) to avoid frizzing overnight.
• When applying oils to your hair, apply it on your finger tips first and massage your scalp then to the rest of your hair gently.
• If you notice split ends, go to a hair professional and ask them to clip it for you.
• Use overnight routines to prep and help style your hair for the next day. (working on a post of youtube vid tutorials)
• MOST IMPORTANTLY: Have a good diet, what you consume affects your hair.

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@Nightmares

Wetline > Eco. We are off that now + Wetline is cheaper.

Get it, study it. learn your hair beyond curl type. Density, thickness & porosity are more important than the curl pattern.

Check the ingredients of what you're using. For instance, coconut oil & jojoba oil are better for low porosity hair than high porosity hair.

Cantu sucks OP. Eden Bodyworks curling cream is superior and a better purchase.

Gonna list some things out, the products are cheap but curly girl approved; aka no parabens or sulfates or other bad ingredients that would f*** up your hair.

Best shampoos:

Personally I need my hair and scalp CLEAN, I use products and gel so I use liquid black soap and add tea tree oil & peppermint oil to it.
Trader Joe's Tea Tree Tingle Shampoo
Alikay Naturals Caribbean Coconut Milk Shampoo
J.R. Liggets Shampoo Bars
Taliah Waajid Green Apple And Aloe Nutrition Shampoo
Best daily conditioners (no silicones, so your deep conditioner & follow up products can actually penetrate your hair; best for detangling after shampooing)

Renpure Originals Argan Oil Conditioner
Long Aid Naturals Manuka Honey & Bergamot Daily Conditioner
ORS Olive Oil Strengthen & Nourish Replenishing Conditioner
Deep Conditioners/Hair Mask (use with heat)

Texture ID Deep Treatment Masque
EDEN BodyWorks Coconut Shea Hair Masque Treatment
Obia Naturals Babassu Deep Conditioner
Taliah Waajid Repair And Restore Hair Strengthening Masque
True by Made Beautiful Intense Treatment Masque
Moisturizing oils (best to mix with deep conditioners or perform hot oil treatments with)

Macadamia
Kukui
Sweet Almond
Olive
Sealant oils (best used for styling steps/sealing in moisture)

Jojoba
JBCO
Detanglers

SheaMoisture Raw Shea Butter Extra-Moisture Detangler
Alikay Naturals Knots Be Gone Hair Detangler
Taliah Waajid The Great Detangler
Physical detangling tools

Tangle Teaser (they also have one for fine hair)
Felicia Leatherwood Detangler Brush
Wide Tooth Comb
If you have locs, you should be transferring your shampoos to applicator bottles: amazon.com/gp/product/B07FKMNFXM so you can apply it directly to your scalp.

Clean scalps + moisture = hair growth.

@Nightmares

I cut my own hair, my hair was down my back as a child and I have no recent racial admixture. Now it's bra strap length when straight (got a pixie cut in 2017)
It's a myth we can't grow our hair.
If you can't find oils around the way there's legit Etsy shops to get pure oils.

etsy.com/shop/SULUORGANICS
etsy.com/shop/bulknaturals
etsy.com/shop/HBOilsCenter
etsy.com/shop/ThePlantGuru
etsy.com/shop/BestNaturesCosmetic

There's also a lot of black owned all-natural hair care lines on Etsy so support when you can.

etsy.com/shop/NaturesEgo
etsy.com/shop/BrownButterBeauty
etsy.com/shop/AshaAndMielBodyCare
etsy.com/shop/Uhurunaturals
etsy.com/shop/BryasBoutique
etsy.com/shop/NaturelleGrow
etsy.com/shop/AyeGirlsDream

The best deep conditioner I have used was from a sister on Etsy lol didn't have any ingredients I couldn't pronounce and works like a charm.

I cut my hair and now currently getting waves, it's just as tedious the only difference is that conditioners make me overcurl so I have to use more shampoos instead to lay my hair.

Oil up twice a day (coconut,argan, Shea butter and grapeseed oil)
Brush for 45 mins a day and put in that durag anytime I'm not brushing and not at work

What hairstyles y'all rock? I generally rock an afro, but get it braided (cornrows) from time to time. I work in food service, so when it's not braided I gel it down and pull it back into a ponytail for work.

Cut my dreadlocks after two years to restart but it's been two months my s*** slow as f*** barely noticing any growth.
Also still can't grow a beard f***

my dreads been so long

Gonna post mine in a minute hol up

My hair all types of messed up. I used to wash it daily

My hair grows mad slow so this is like a year and 6/7 months of freeforming

I think I have 4c hair. I chopped my hair off completely back in February/Early March last year

i want my s*** to be long so bad I’m 2 impatient

In

I had freefrom high top dreads up until this summer, I shaved my head and had to start again from scratch. I'm starting to get a decent length on top and I take hair gummies daily. My length will return in time lol

Hair gummies? Put me on

Before these I used to take biotin pills, these taste way better and they both helped make my hair grow thicker/fuller

why'd you cut?

My family kept criticizing me saying I won't be able to get a job unless I cut them off

You're growing them back or doing something different?

Loc'd my hair at the end of last. I have good length right now. Never cutting them ever.

I'm growing a high fade again but not as high but I don't think I'm gonna let them loc and just use a curl sponge

need to get my s*** interlocked again, been hella months

Do you feel like it was hurting you from getting a job or did you feel that people were put off by them?

My hair was fine imo and many others agreed, it's just that my mom and stepdad (who I live with) are very old school, they were literally making me wear a bald fade growing up until I fought to grow my hair out. I was basically forced but it's whatever, I'll still be content with my hair once I reach the right length

been using the curl sponge because i'm trying for locs

alternate between two-strand twist, box braids, and cornrows every 3-4ish weeks. I’ll wear my hair out for a couple days before braiding tho

Currently starting a new hair journey after cutting. Hoping to make it to MBL minimally. 👍🏿