Maintaining Afro Hair- Know the Products that Work Best for Afro Hair
January 19th, 2010 by XinaAfrican American hair has descent unique in characteristic. Any woman who wishes their hair to look at its best will admit that they spend endless hours taking care of it. Women with afro hair will always find limited amount of styles that can be carried out with ease. With the help of afro hair products from Nature’s Parlour, they can opt for those styles that were once deemed an impossible.
Natural hair products which compliment afro hair – the most fragile hair type in the world. Nature’s Parlour openly supports natural afro hair. Try using products from New Bein’, Organic Root Stimulator, Isoplus, Nubian Heritage and Shea Moisture.
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African American hair has descent unique in characteristic. Any woman who wishes their hair to look at its best will admit that they spend endless hours taking care of it. Women with afro hair will always find limited amount of styles that can be carried out with ease. With the help of afro hair products from Nature’s Parlour, they can opt for those styles that were once deemed an impossible.
Natural hair products which compliment afro hair- the most fragile hair type. Nature’s Parlour openly supports natural afro hair. Try using products from New Bein’, Organic Root Stimulator, Isoplus, Nubian Heritage and Shea Moisture.
Nature’s Parlour brings you the best selection of Afro products.
This is long and I hope that won’t be a deterrent to your reading it. If you do choose to continue reading, i hope you will feel that it was worth the time in the end. I am 39 years old. i am also 3 days into my first natural. I came about it in a very impromtu manner. I decided in feb of 2009 that i wanted to go natural. I hadn’t seen my hair in a natural state since I was a child. Basically, I went from natural hair that was constantly pressed and curled (a very painful experience because my hair is naturally very dry, dense, and coarse in it’s natural state), to a perm (which was very painful because the perm burned terribly from the beginning), to a curl (which was doubly painful because it first burned with the straightener and then torched me with the booster), then back to a perm (which only burned but both thinned, dried out, and broke off the beautiful hair that i knew my head produced despite all of the torture I had subjected it to.) As an older adult, I developed the desire to embrace me, my heritage, my color, my hair, just everything. I nolonger wanted to try to be on any level, something or someone that I was not. With respect to my hair, I knew that it would be coarse and dry and that I had no idea how to care for it effectively or maintain it in a way that would be presentable in the professional environment in which I worked. Even so, I began to allow it to grow out in Feb. of 2009. I was determined to never get a perm or any chemical process again. I achieved my professional appearance for a time, first with mousse in the beginning and then moved on to gel as my hair grew longer and more resistant to these products. I never got my hair cut during this process because even though the permed hair that remained seemed to thin and break off, there was still enough of it left to pull all of it back into a neat chignon at the base of my neck with the assistance of special shampoos, conditioners, mousses and gels. However, I finally arrived at a point when my newly grown, strong, nubian hair just refused to be held back any more. Neither shampoo, conditioner, mousse, nor gel could make it lay down and conform anymore (3 days ago). At this point, I went to my father and asked him to cut off all of the remaining permed hair and found myself with my first fro. As he cut off the permed hair, I found my self excited and overjoyed with each turn of the chair that brought me in site of the mirror. I loved my new nappy hair. I loved the way it looked on me. I remembered all my day dreams about having an Angela Davis afro. I couldn’t wait for the last permed hair to be severed from my head. When i got out of that chair, I went back into the house and picked my hair out and put on a pair of hoop ear rings and began to dream of all the ways I was ready to rock my new hair. I’ve always had a baby face and my new do seemed to give me a more mature edge that I really wanted to have because I’m not a child, nor do I appreciate being percieved as one. I also felt more feminine. I felt more like…….. ME! Anyway, I guess it’s clear at this point, that i loved it. However, the problem is that the morning of the day that I got my hair cut, I had washed it and platted it up in sections and because I had a meeting to go to and didn’t have time to make it presentable I threw on a wig that was supplied to me by my Dad’s girlfriend. My father hates short hair, but he hates wigs more. When i got home from my meeting, I was complaining that if he would just cut off the scraggly permed hair that was still attached to the magnificent fro that I had been growing out for the last year, that I wouldn’t have had to wear the wig, I could have worn my natural hair and be just as presentable. Utlimately, he agreed to cut my hair for me. I knew that it had been braided and was still partially wet and that the cut might not be accurate because of that, so I asked him if I should wash it so that it would make it revert back to its original state before he cut it. He said no, that it would be easier to comb through the way it was and that was best since I was going for the big fro and wanted to keep all of the length anyway and just cut off the perm. I said okay and hopped in the chair and he did exactly what I wanted. I was so happy with the results. However, I just tied it up that night and went to bed. When I woke up the next morning………… OH MY GOD!!!!!!! It was flattened to my head and when I attempted to comb it for the first time, the pain I felt made the memories of my childhood flash through my mind. I remembered crying everytime I was told that my hair needed to be washed and pressed. I remembered the reason for my tears as I attempted to pass the afro pick through my hair. Even so, I have not lost my desire or my resolve to embrace this part of me. Understanding and caring for my hair has definely become a challenge for me and one that I must figure out in a short amount of time because appearance is very important in my line of work and nobody cares about your personnel issues. I shared my story with you because I want to thank you for sharing. It helps and motivates those who want to love OURSELVES just the way God created us! Thanks again. I’ve only watched the blog at this point, I haven’t even had a chance to take the time to go out and try the products yet. I was just so moved that your blog was there that i just wanted to write immediately………Marla
It has to do with genes if the parents had a red haired gene that wasn’t being used they could pass it on.
You mean this kind of natural hair is a genetic hereditary?
Yes, it is.