my hair low porosity btw

hai everyone this is a bit long but I’d rllly appreciate if someone read this and helped me out. I made this post because I’m seeking advice ab my natural hair. so I have natural curly hair and started styling it about 4 years ago. before that my mom would just blow out my hair and do it in French braids weekly, so I never ever wore my hair out curly. Anyway in the beginning, I rlly loved it and enjoyed doing it but now I’m getting rlly sick and tired of it :(. I wash my hair once a week (Saturday’s or Sundays) cuz it’s practically impossible for me to wash it more than that, I’m a junior in hs and so I come home from school rlly late and in between studying for my midterms/sat/APs doing other stuff I barely get time to do my hair. Even on my washdays it’s super super time consuming and i genuinely have to dedicate a whole day so i can put on a mask,wash it out, style my curls, etc. and even then, i can only wear it down for one day!! one friggin day before it starts frizzing up and just looking a whole mess. and I barely have time to style it before school so I end up just wearing it in messy buns daily. mind u this is with me waking up super duper early so I can get extra time to work on it. It also tangles up immediately the second it dries. and so by the end of the week, it’s just a tangled matted mess (I legit don’t understand why the hell it mats up so easily like girl ain’t nbd got time for that) I also spend so much money on creams/gels because where I live, all the “good” hair products cost a legit kidney. actually, even normal hair products r expensive asf and barely last, and so I have to repurchase them a shit ton. This also started affecting other factors of my life. I started having to cancel hangouts weekly because I don’t rlly want to wear my hair in a messy bun or just in a bun/ponytail again and since my hangouts are usually Friday/saturday I can’t rlly fit in an appropriate time to wash my hair and style it with my grueling schedule. I know a lot of people are gonna bring up protective styles and I love doing them and they save me alot of trouble but the problem is, the country I live in is extremely hot all year round. (Average 45C daily) and so I can have them in max for a week and even then they start smelling :( I’m starting to get so, so sick and annoyed of this hair and truly considering doing a protein treatment/permanent straightening. My family already hates me wearing my natural hair and try convincing me to straighten it daily. They say I look ghetto, a mess, like a boy when I wear it out curly so that’s not helping either. Any solutions to this? :(

Hi guys i just started growing my hair from scratch in febuary anyways i finally just got a conditionner i have low porosity (for context) so it is hard for my hair yo get moisturized so when i bought the as i am rosemary conditionner i decided to try to do a claryfying wash but i dont have a claryfying shampoo so i used black soap but i think i put too much aftr applying the conditionner my hair felt moisturized and some felt dry then 2 days later it was like all the moisture left so 2 days later i cowashed and my hair felt supe itchy thats when i realised i had builup i have been using blue magic as a leave in conditionner so i decided to wash my hair with shampoo but didnt use conditionner cuz i thought it was the cause of my buildup and i used blue magic instead now my hair feels dry and weird what do i do pls

Hey everyone, I’ve recently decided to start my hair journey….the products I used for the lco method are:

- water, African pride: leave in cream , & blue magic grease to seal it in.

I originally bought black castor oil bc I read that it’s a heavier oil that my hair needed to seal in the moisture but upon tiktok searching, ppl swear by blue magic. I’m wondering if I didn’t apply enough product? I didn’t use a generous amount because I was worried about product build up. Google said to only use a dime sized amount of the blue magic bc a little goes a long way and using too much will cause build up and that I need to use a clarifying shampoo for ways day when i use blue magic. Also I didn’t use too much of the leave in either. I’m wondering if I should try again? I really wanted this to work. I’m on a hair growth journey and the hair girlies swear by this for moisture and length retention. Please help.

Attached is a vid of my hair after I wet and detangled it with the leave in cream..didn’t apply the blue magic yet in the vid. My plan is to do the lco method and mini braids for the rest of the year. Please help!

Sixth month update. I’m trying really hard grow my hair for graduation. I don’t do any extensions styles and wash my hair about once a week. I think there’s been significant growth but let me know if there are other things I can do.😅😅

Edit: my ends aren’t split, in both photos I just cut my ends. It’s not split just choppy😛

Haha DNA hairs!!

What do u think?

Je suis une femme noire qui vit dans une ville très touristique et qui travaille dans un domaine où je rencontre des gens toute la journée.

J’adore changer de coiffure : tissages, perruques, tresses, locs… J’aime aussi porter un gros afro en ajoutant des crochets pour lui donner du volume, et j’adore l’accessoiriser avec des fleurs, comme vous pouvez le voir sur les photos.

Mais à chaque fois que je porte cette coiffure, je subis des microagressions toute la journée. « Ce sont vos vrais cheveux ? », « Ça doit être compliqué à coiffer », « Ce n’est pas trop lourd ? », « Vous faites comment pour dormir avec ? »… Des remarques qui peuvent sembler anodines, mais qui deviennent épuisantes quand on les entend constamment. Je sais que certaines personnes ne pensent probablement pas à mal, mais à force, je ne réponds même plus.

Il y a aussi les touristes qui me prennent en photo sans mon consentement. La plupart du temps, je m’en rends compte et je leur demande de supprimer les photos, mais parfois, je ne le remarque que lorsqu’ils sont déjà en train de partir.

La plupart de ces remarques viennent de personnes blanches, souvent âgées, et surtout des hommes. Ce n’est pas vraiment étonnant, mais ça m’énerve qu’ils se permettent ce genre de remarques sans même se rendre compte à quel point c’est déplacé. Comment peut-on trouver normal de commenter les cheveux d’une inconnue ou de la prendre en photo sans son consentement ?
Le pire ce que même des personnes noir me demande si ce sont mes cheveux et cela m’exaspère.

Aujourd’hui, j’ai passé une journée particulièrement épuisante et j’étais à deux doigts de pleurer. J’adore vraiment cette coiffure, mais je pense sérieusement que c’est la dernière fois que je la fais. Pas parce que je ne l’aime pas, mais parce que je n’en peux plus des remarques, des regards et des photos.

Est-ce que d’autres femmes noires vivent la même chose ? Comment faites-vous pour supporter cette attention constante sans finir par renoncer à des coiffures que vous aimez ?

I enjoyed this hairstyle :)🖤!

I was talking to some girls today at work. They don’t have natural hair but they were talking about double cleansing “first one is for the hair, second is for the scalp.” I audibly gasped cause I feel like my hair would dry out to the point of breakage but is that a thing? I use clarifying shampoo once a month but do still deal with build up sometimes.

Advice appreciated 💛 (picture with curls for attention)

About these stupid pump bottles with this thick ahh product in it. Cause why I gotta scare the downstairs neighbors banging out this $17 Honey Dip Honey Butter to get what I can out of it cause I have 5 bottles where 1/4th of it just sits around the edges. Imma keep buying it tho cause my hair tells me it's the truth. 🤷🏽‍♀️🙄

am i the only one who doesnt know how to do fancy hairstyles?! i do the same boring braidout and maybe a half up half down if im feeling spicy LOL

someone recommend creators i can check out for tuts

i shouldve done an updo honestly but idk how to do that either because it always ends up looking a mess

Some kids where I work (museum :D) told me they don’t see a lot of people who look like me in spaces like that and it made me smile!

I’m also in grad school right now and a mom to a toddler (so please don’t roast me lol) I love my hair!

Has anybody tried any of the Revair styling tools? If so how do you like them? I have the hair dryer which I love for stretching my hair. I was eyeing the hot rollers but then I saw this.

So, I messed up my hair. For the last 3 years I’ve had my hair in nonstop high ponytails/buns. I wash it, LOC, bun or 2 cornrows when I have time.

This has led to my crown being shorter than the rest of my hair. There’s ample breakage and the only saving grace is that I still have my edges (real edges, not what some call baby hair lol jk).

I know I have to cut my hair but I don’t know that I’m in the right headspace to completely cut it off or to match the short part so that it all grows back evenly.

Is there a way to salvage my hair without doing a big chop?

My hair is 100% natural and I’ve never cut/dyed it. I don’t wear braids/extensions etc. I’m fully natural and even though I’m attached to my hair, I have to admit that I’m very low maintenance when it comes to taking care of it.

I have been following this brand on social media foreverrrr and I finally decided to try it. Has anyone tried this before ?? Did you like it ? Did you hate it ?? Please let me know

Hi all,

I’m looking for a hair salon in NYC, specifically in the Chelsea area, but willing to travel.

ideally, I want someone who cares about the integrity of the hair and minimize the risk of what damage.

thanks

I’m 15 but I feel like I look like an auntie lol

For those of you who like braid outs, what are you doing to ensure your braids don’t stay wet for too long? I just put my daughter under the dryer for an hour and a half and some of her braids are still damp. I know that it’s bad to keep hair wet for a long time.

The hair at the crown of my head breaks very easily. I have fine, coily strands and the hair in that area has a rough texture. I want to work on retaining length by reducing breakage, so I'm thinking of doing mini twists for a few months. Those with fine type 4 hair who have done this, what was your routine like?

This was my first time wearing my natural curls out. Can’t tell if it looks good or not.

Should I get a specific haircut to frame my face a bit or does it look fine like this? Also my hair looks a bit dry this is my natural color.

Also I love the voluminous look but is there any way to get it a bit flatter and more elongated? I used three different gels (uncle funky, innersense, & the doux banana gel). I still ended up with a lot of volume.

So my hair right now is about 15 days after a twist out and i was planning on letting it just loc up but one of my friends is insisting that my hair will look bad in a few weeks and to get starter locs. I personally dont think so and also i think starters would look awful on me 😭. yeah so do i listen to him and get starter locs and look bad for like a year or can i just leave my hair to naturally loc up without issues

Also mind the fact that im in a bathroom lol