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Has my hair stopped growing?

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Has my hair stopped growing?
Ditch your regular towel and replace it with a micro fibre towel after washing. Cotton towels pull on your hair. Detangle gently with your fingers or a wide tooth comb. You're likely to damage your hair if you don't detangle the right way. Try as much as possible to reduce using heat on your hair. If you're fond of experimenting with dyes and harsh chemicals, you might want to slow down a bit.

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Are you transitioning? Avoid these mistakes

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Are you transitioning? Avoid these mistakes
Deciding to go natural is a huge step in your natural hair journey. Congratulations for coming this far. One of the ways of becoming natural is transitioning which in effect is growing out your natural hair without relaxing and cutting off the relaxed hair bit by bit.

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Taking Care of Your Edges

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Taking Care of Your Edges
Tight braids, twists and styles that generally pull so hard on your edges is the major cause of thin edges. Using too many styling tools such as hair glues on your edges also causes it to thin over time. If care isn't taken, you develop a condition known as traction alopecia which becomes very difficult to grow back but not impossible. 

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Let's Talk About Natural Hair Shrinkage

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Let's Talk About Natural Hair Shrinkage
Interestingly, our hair shrinks when it loses moisture. To an extent shrinkage is more of an alarm blower to let us know it's time to hydrate our hair. It also aids us in identifying our hair porosity or how well our hair retains moisture. So shrinkage isn't such a bad thing afterall.

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Help! My Hair is Dry

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Help! My Hair is Dry

Natural hair is susceptible to being dry by its nature. However, we engage in certain hair care practices that can further worsen how dry natural hair gets. Let's explore in this post, things we can do to lessen how dry our hair gets Avoid shampooing your hair everyday If you're used to shampooing your hair every day, endeavour to wash your hair once a week. Using shampoo every day can strip your hair off its natural oils resulting in dryness. Your choice of shampoo is also very important. Use shampoo that is very gentle on your hair such as the...

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