Product Review

Hey Divas/ Divos,

I haven't posted in a bit because I've been testing out a product and I wanted to tell you guys all about it.









  I attended Cher Mere's lovely event on the 15th of October on natural hair ( I learnt a lot I must say, you will hear all about it in other articles as we go along) which was to promote their new natural hair product line. They have two sets, one line for thin hair and another natural hair product line. Luckily my mom has really thin hair so I def got to test the thin hair line of products on her while I got to test the other on myself.

Now not all products are made equally and I will always suggest that you try different products and brands until you know what works for you. It's only been a couple of weeks but the results I'm looking for in my mother's hair I must admit won't happen until some time has passed. So we will see how that works out for us but for now it has her hair looking healthy and fully moisterized and for that I'm happy.

 I like my hair to be a certain texture i.e. soft. I'm accustomed to packing my hair with product to get that texture but the lecture they had convinced me of the less is more method so I tried that for the first week and by the second day I definitely had to put more product in my hair to keep it at the texture I wanted. This made me realise that ok, my hair needed a little more than what I put in the first time. The second week I applied the product not by section (as in I parted my hair in four sections and applied the product) but path by path. This way I knew for sure my hair got the right amount of product needed. It is day four and I still have no need to put any more product in my hair just spritz some water in the morning and I'm off to enjoy my day.

I can say try it for yourself and see if it works for you.

Don't forget... love your kink!

Hair Types

To understand your natural hair, you first have to understand that there are hair categories. Now there are many, many ways to categorize your hair as well some people don't believe that they can categorise their hair. I, however, believe that it helps to figure out some sort of perimeter.

In this post I'm just gonna show you a few charts from websites and their articles that go with them to help you visualize and hopefully help you understand where your hair is considered to be on the scale.

Curl Centric has a wonderful article on types of hair- check them out.
http://www.curlcentric.com/hair-typing-system/





Loreal did a scientific research on hair types as well, check out their site.
http://www.loreal.com/media/news/2016/mar/diversity-of-hair-type


Kiss My Curls has a curl scale, check it out.
http://www.kissmycurls.com/all-about-hair/my-curly-is-unique/




I hope these sites help you understand the various types of hair.

Whatever type your hair is, I hope no matter what that you love your kink.

Kadella

My Hair Journey

I can't start a blog about natural hair without first talking about my own hair journey. Growing up we didn't have all the information on natural hair as we have today and if we did I don't think my mom would've had the patience for it.

I had the type of hair that not five minutes after it's combed it would look like it wasn't. My mom and my sister had the great honour of combing my hair for me, mostly because I couldn't care what happened to my hair.


My mom always threatened to loc my hair and my dad always kicked against it. Going into secondary school my sister decided to straighten my hair. That worked for awhile and from then it became a slippery slope of random hairstyles as slowly but surely control of my hair came into my incapable hands.


It went from straightened, to cut short and jerry curled, back to straightened. Finally I got the locs and that, my friends, lasted for four years.

From there it was cut short again, texturized, and many others. One of my favorite hairstyles was a Mohawk straightened and dyed red down the middle ( I definitely threw some people with that).

Finally I learnt the proper way to take care of my natural hair and I've been natural ever since.
Now there are days when I'm fed up of hair on the whole and want a rest and my research showed me that that's ok.
My hair is now part of my self  expression because I've learnt how to love my Kink and hopefully you can too.