After a summer of many wash and go’s and trying out different curl defining products for our Wash and Go Series it is time to get back into some protective styling. Protective styles can include cornrows, mini/box braids, twists, buns, basically any style in which the ends are protected and the hair is not manipulated during the duration of the hairstyle. For protective styles…
As promised here is my post on D’s box braids takedown. I had mentioned that near the end of the 2 1/2 weeks of her protective style, D had gone to her grandmas for a couple days and did lots of swimming, apparently with that swimming did some massive unraveling: This literally happened in just…
I was recently fortunate enough to be provided with a free sample pack of natural hair care products from CUSH Cosmetics to try and review for the blog. This company is out of Frisco, TX (close to home), and their products are all-natural, so I was extremely excited when the owner contacted me about this opportunity! The…
ZigZag parts are a great way to spice up a style. You can created a zigzag part to add some fun to any regular pig tail style. I made a zigzag part down the middle of her head, stopping about halfway to add a pony tail in the back. I put 2 braids in each…
A recent discussion on our facebook page inspired me to post some momma styles. In the past I have had some crazy hair! I’m talking pink, purple, blue, etc. I was rockin’ the crazy colors before they became so mainstream. Now, everywhere you look you see pink streaks or blue clip in extensions. And I will still…
For this months Hair Carnival each participating blogger was randomly assigned to another blog in which they were to copy a style from, similar to our September Hair Carnival. The blog I was given was Brown Girls Hair. The style I chose to recreate was their natural hairstyle updo for girls from this video tutorial. I did do…
There are plenty of hairstyles for girls on this site, but not too many hairstyles for women, so I wanted to do a style for the mom’s out there. This is a simple style I did using Curlformers. I used the short and wide curlers that came in our styling kit. I washed my hair, applied…
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This “shappin” style was created using Kinky-Curly Curling Custard along with Kinky Curly Come Clean shampoo and Knot Today leave in. After I washed, detangled and moisturized I parted a square on top of her head where I created 5 rolling twists. The twists were a little stiff due to the Curling Custard, but they…
I love Love LOVE Halloween!! The dressing up, the costumes, the make-up, the hair!! I still dress up for Halloween, even though I am “grown”, hehe. I wanted to share one of my favorite past Halloween costumes and hairstyles, Halloween is well on its way afterall. A few years ago I was a “Punk Fairy” with a…
I love Halloween, so I’ve put together a post of 10 cute Halloween hairstyle ideas. Also, check out our post from last year’s Halloween and my crazy Halloween hair from several year ago and other costumes from past Halloweens for more inspiration. Check out more Halloween ideas:
Welcome to this weeks “Shappin” Hairstlye: the faux hawk! This is my favorite type of hair style, there are many different versions of the faux hawk/mohawk/frohawk and this is our most recent attempt at it. We created this style by making flat twists and a pompadour. To get this look, I first sectioned off the…