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HAIR June 27, 2022

Growing My Hair: Things that helped me grow my hair significantly

My Locs have grown so much in the last 1-2 years and I thought to share here, things that I think really helped. I love writing about hair because it’s our crowing glory… no matter how it looks. I decided a while ago to love my hair how it looked but I didn’t like the fact that I was putting so much effort into it but instead of flourishing, it was actually breaking off. I also really really like the look of long hair, no matter how much I loved my afro, I desired to have naturally long hair now out of my scalp and now that it does, I won’t sit up about it. Hair also has a way of affecting our esteem, confidence and how we show up in the world. So very quickly here are things that I believe have helped my hair grow so much: TLDR …

HAIR August 10, 2020

How I take care of and style my short coloured locs

I wrote about the pros and cons of locs this post. You should check it out. As I mentioned, you still have to take care of your locs as you would with your natural or afro hair. However, because of the nature of locs, you have to do this differently from your natural/afro/relaxed hair. All the good locticians I have spoken to say the best care for your locs is to leave them alone. I totally agree but me I cannot leave my hair alone for too long. If you are like me, then this post is for you. My regimen: I currently wash, condition, moisturise and style my locs. yevandy.com Locs Washing: I wash my hair every 2 weeks. I am not super religious about it. Some people wash every month. Do what works for you. I wash this often cos I love to feel water on my hair. I…

HAIR August 4, 2020

Dreadlocks Pros and Cons

I finally locked my hair and its the best decision I have made for my hair in a long time. My hair is growing and thriving and I am happy. WHY!! I was tired of combing, tugging, pulling, styling and trying to be creative with my natural hair. Every style I tried was a fail and at some point, I just got tired of everything. I was tired of wigs and braids. I was tired of failed styles and just touching my hair. Cutting my hair was not an option because I already look younger than my age and going bald makes one look wayyyyy younger. The baldie look isn’t also for me. Relaxing my hair was also unappealing because of how fine and thin my hair is. I am not against relaxed hair. I just don’t like the sleek look on me. HOW!! One day I googled where to loc…

HAIR October 19, 2018

Travelling with Natural Hair?

In this new phase of trying to take care of my hair, I’m looking back to see what I did right with my hair, what to continue to do and what to stop doing!!! Taking care of your Hair in a new location can be a chore. You don’t know if your hair will corporate with the weather or not, the accessibility of the products you like, hairstylists, Activities you will do, cos even some kind of WATER. Can be bad for your hair. Well, I am not about to miss out of a great opportunity cos of my Hair!!! Whenever I’m going to travel locally or internationally, the things I do are: Research the place. What’s the weather there like? % of black people that live there, where will I be staying, activities I might get to do. Etc. Pack hair staples in mini bottles and try to find…

HAIR July 12, 2018

I Dyed My Natural Hair!!!

The first time I dyed my hair, it pretty much all fell out and my hair the color of my hair didn’t change… It was a horrible and sad experience… I picked a red dye color and got it done at a Natural hair salon. It honestly just felt like I had a pricey deep conditioning session.. To now add salt to the injury I noticed that my hair started falling off. It was horrible.. My hair was badly damaged after and there was no shakara on top show for it. In the salons’ defense, I’m sure what caused the damage was my inability to take care of my hair but really.. I was super disappointed and I haven’t been to the salon since then. This experience really put me off coloring my hair but I have always liked colored hair… Black hair looks nice but it looks really bleh…

HAIR February 9, 2018

My thin and Fine Natural Hair Journey

When I was about 6/7 years old, I came home from the hairdresser’s place crying… I mean wailing like I just lost a puppy. Why? My hairdo was too tight… I almost couldn’t think. It was the famous thread or Kiko hairstyle which we all hated but were forced to do when we were younger. My dad asked what was wrong with me and I told him it was the hair. The thread was too tight around the hair. Being a good dad, he told me to get scissors so he could help me take out the thread. I happily found a razor blade instead. My dear father then proceeded to take out the hairstyle by cutting the thread off… what was unknown to me was that he cut off all the hair threaded with my hair. I was just happy to be relieved. I went to bed. I resumed…