Friday 28 February 2014

Natural hair styles

These are some random pictures of my natural hair up-dos:



For this Up-do basically what was done was this:


Pull up the hair into a bun
Use an elastic hair band to tightly hold the bun in place.
Once this is done,twist small sections of the hair tightly; for a more tightly fighting twist you can secure the ends with a rubber band.
After all the sections have been twisted it's now time to tuck each twist with a bobby pin, in which ever direction you desire to create a voluminous creative bun. 


I usually do not think too much when tucking them under but i try as much as possible to ensure there are no empty spaces between any of the twists.

You can add additional hair styling clips etc... if you desire.





Here are a few pictures of the first few times i attempted the "Defining Your Curls" method:







Natural Hair Journey


Part 11

Finally I must have literally stumbled upon a You Tube video about ‘twist out’ and ‘bantu knots’. I was so inspired that I tried out the ‘bantu knots’. I actually did something I would never in my life do; I went to work with the ‘bantu knots’ for four (4) days!!!! LOL are you kidding me LOL. I would have never ever done that, but I wanted to try something new and sometimes trying new things demand you to come out of your comfort zone. Well at least my Husband liked it, and that boasted my confidence. On the last day of work, well the Friday I knotted them out to get that curl effect. Well LOL, that didn’t go too well. The curls didn’t have a tight hold so they fell. To this day I have been pondering on what went wrong. I believed it could have been because my hair was really still moist and kind of really damp while knotting them out. However, I will attempt them again soon in the future.
Further along my search for natural hair videos I found quite a few tutorials on ‘Defining Your Curls’. It was then I knew I found the love of my heart. I always wanted to know how is it that I could somehow define my natural curls and over all these years had no knowledge. After going through the process for myself I must say that I do regret relaxing my natural hair. It’s like right now I feel like I had something good and just literally trashed it aside for something else which brought harm. The stress along with relaxing ones hair; stagnant grow, heat damage, constant thinning and the list goes on and on, is not worth it at all once you understand your hair and appreciate it for the texture it is. If you have not relaxed your hair please hear me out DO NOT DO IT AT ALL!! Make time to Research how to handle your hair, how to style it, how to keep it healthy, how to help it grow healthily, what hair type you have and much, much more. I am not a veteran at this but at the rate that I am going, one day I will be.

Thursday 27 February 2014

Natural Hair Journey


Natural Hair Journey
By Donna Adora Boyd-Burton

Part 1

It was only recently in 2013 I was certain that I wanted to go the natural hair journey. However I actually started the transitioning process while I was pregnant with my baby boy, Giovanni, in October 2012. I decided that I wanted to be really careful because he is my first baby so I stayed away from relaxing my hair. I also believed that the heat from the hair drier at the salon and the long hours there would place too much stress on me, so that really persuaded me to avoid any form of relaxers. It was also during that point in my life I believe to have been eating the healthiest diet in the world and my Husband insisted that I did.

It was a bit of a difficult journey for me because to be truly honest though I wanted to avoid relaxers I was confused as to what exactly I should do to my hair. I didn't know how to style it so that it would look slick as before. It was indeed frustrating. I then decided to use braid extensions. This really did alleviate the stress of the “what should I do with my hair” syndrome. Basically I braided my hair throughout the nine (9) months of my pregnancy. But for some reason even after I unbraided it, I still had no clue what to do next and since I am not a fan of weaving I avoided the expense.

From my recollection I believe it was late last year I decided to utilize You Tube just to see what videos there were of natural hair styles and the whole natural community. At first I focused on different cornrows hair styles which looked chic and which I could use to go to work, out and on an everyday basis. I did find quite a bit but with no hair stylist to have them done for me made the process unsuccessful. Don’t get me wrong there are like a million salons around the city but one that I felt totally comfortable enough to go to uhh none! So I searched and viewed like a millions videos and still I just wasn't satisfied.