Water... More water!

  

Please take this glass of water, your hair looks like it needs it.

I cannot stress how much moisture is important to our hair. Yes spritzing your hair with water, adding in leave in conditioners, practicing the LCO or the LOC methods is all important but as I said before, the hair we hold, comb, style and rock is dead, what is inside is what matters the most.

Drinking water is very important. I would not tell a person to consume eight glasses of water a day because that makes absoluetly no sense because different body weight and different situations will  determine how much water a person need to consume a day.  A good way to test that you are drinking enough water my friends is to look at your urine. Is it clear? cloudy? yellow? which do you think it should be?

Of coarse a clear urine is the best, the only way to get your urine clear is to drink enough water to do so.

Our bodies is made up of 75% water, we must always hidrate, hidrate, hidrate everyday.
Your hair, skin and body will thank you for it.

Remember, love your kink
Kadella

bedtime and my hair

The importance of this... sigh I wish you all understand.

Either having a silk/satin pillow case, a silk/satin hair net or even both is very important for our hair.
I'm going to keep this one simple, cotton soaks up moisture, silk traps moisture keeps it inside.
Naturally curly has an article I think you may like.
Check it out below:-
http://www.naturallycurly.com/curlreading/curl-products/what-should-you-be-sleeping-on-silk-or-satin/

Love your kink guys.
Kadella

Little Hair Tip for the Beach/ pool

We in Trinidad and Tobago love the beach and the rivers, we love water especially on really hot days. But what do you do with your hair to protect it from the harsh salt water? Or if you are at a pool? Ebony says it best.

http://www.ebony.com/style/ways-to-protect-hair-when-swimming-993#axzz4QTuAc0Zq

Remember, love your kink.
Kadella

When Sesame Street joins the natural hair movement

Just the other day, I didn't feel like putting my hair up into any particular style so I made sure it was properly moisturized and in a stretched out fro and went out to conquer my day. An older guy would look to me and say, what's going on with your hair today?
I'm thinking to myself... why is that any of your business? but my parents brought me up right so I had to just smile and say "nothing, absolutely nothing, anything going on with yours?"

As much as the natural hair movement is making strides, there are still a lot of people who cannot escape from what they grew up internalising about their hair which is why I am so happy that Sesame Street has joined the natural hair bandwagon and is trying to let our kids know that their hair is perfect just the way it is.

Take a gander at this video:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enpFde5rgmw


I hope that we encourage our kids to love their kink.
Kadella

Don't touch my hair

This is a big one guys,

Can I touch your hair?... ugh no ew!!! where have your hands been?

Now I'm not superstitious but I do not let any and anyone touch my hair. I might quicker trust you with my kid...(joke I ain't trusting that either).

I cannot however state it any better than Solange Knowles did in her song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTtrnDbOQAU

These girls did a cover of her song and rocked it out as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_iSqPBpx3k

So what is your opinion though? Would you let people touch your hair?

Remember, love your kink.
Kadella

Dandruff and dry scalp

If you guys haven't realised yet I'll tell you that I read a lot of natural hair articles from many different natural hair blogs. There are so much content out there now on natural hair for which I am so glad. The problem with that is that there is so much that you literally have to wade through a lot to get what you are looking for. So I am here to help you with that. I'm bringing you the best articles right to your doorstep.

Curly Nikki is one of my favourites, here is what she had to say on Dandruff and Dry scalp. Hope this helps you. I don't need to say anymore because she has covered it all extensively and quiet well might I add.

http://www.curlynikki.com/2014/06/dandruff-or-dry-scalp-natural-hair-care.html

Remember love your kink

Kadella

LOC or LCO Methods

Hey guys,

We all know that hair isn't alive (well if you didn't you know now), well what we comb and style and colour and what not, is not alive but dead.
What is alive is the hair follicles in our scalp. With that being said, we still need to take care of our hair because whatever problems we have with our hair will travel down to our hair follicles.


Our scalp secretes natural oils that coats the hair strand to lock in the moisture that it needs (our bodies do amazing things yeah?).  The problem with us curly and kinky hair people the oils does not make it all the way down to the tips of the strand because of all the curls and kinks are blocking it and our hair gets dry and brittle and then tends to break, so what do we do?


We need to add in the moisture and the oils to lock in the moisture for ourselves... bummer!
Now when I attended the Cher Mere talk on natural hair the lady said something that stuck with me. She said "when your plant is dry and wilting, you do not run out with some oil from your kitchen and rub down the leaves" I thought this was funny but she has a point. Oil does not moisturize your hair, water or water based leave in conditioners does. Oil locks in moisture or blocks out moisture. This is very important to note when putting in products into your hair.

You straight haired gals and guys have the problem of too much oil and moisture in your hair and have to always be washing it out because all the oils gets it limp and heavy right? That in and of itself is a problem but i'm a curly head gal so imma deal with the curly headed problems ok.

Here is a great article on how to deal with moisturizing your hair from Naptural Dany.
http://www.napturallydany.com/2015/02/moisturizing-natural-hair-loc-vs-lco.html


I hope this article helps and have you trying both methods to see which works for you.
Always remember though, love your kink!
Kadella