I know of several hair bloggers who regularly use a pre-‘poo AKA a pre-shampoo. The reason, from what I understand, is to protect your hair from the rigors of shampooing. I would assume – rightly or wrongly – that if you co-wash, you shouldn’t really need to pre-‘poo. Conditioners shouldn’t strip your hair of natural…
Tag: moisturizer
Doing the ‘do: Products behaving badly
Once I wash my hair and moisturize it with whatever I’ve decided to moisturize with, I don’t think that much about moisturizing — well, I don’t think about what I’m going to moisturize with. And this, my friends, can cause problems. Case in point: This past Friday, I moisturized my hair with Cantu Shea Butter…
Product review: Herbal Essences Long-Term Relationship conditioner
I’ve been trying different products looking for the perfect co-wash conditioner. I believe that I found that with the Tresemmé Healthy Volume conditioner — which is my ride-or-die conditioner. I bought Herbal Essences Long-Term Relationship at the same time I bought the Tresemmé conditioner and decided to try it out before I put my twists…
Accidental Natural TV? My braid regimen
On Sunday, I was bored. The Hubby was watching football and basketball and I was idle — so I made a video. I’ve realized that I’m long-winded, but my video is good… at least that’s what I think. If you want, you can watch all nine minutes and 40 seconds of me talking about what…
Winter protective style #1: Braids
Yesterday, I finally got my hair braided as part of the Healthy Ends Challenge and as a winter protective style. As the weather’s been getting colder waiting until the end of the month to get my hair braided felt like forever and a day. Normally, I would let my braider wash and moisturize my hair,…
Moisturize your situation – Part 3
Sorry folks! I was going to update yesterday — but I am starting to come down with something and I really didn’t feel like working. Nevertheless, I have been thinking about what moisturizers I would like to buy and try. I’m finally getting my braids put in this weekend, so these purchases, if they are…
Moisturize your situation – Part 2
Yesterday, I shared my favourite moisturizers with you. Today, I’m going to highlight some of the products that many online naturalistas have raved about. Now, I don’t use these products and I don’t know how well they work, but if you’re a natural newbie and you’re looking for some help in the moisturizer area, these…
The start of the Healthy Ends Challenge
I’ve registered for Hairlista’s Healthy Ends Challenge — I will be working on my ends until April 8, 2010. You can find the details here. So, yesterday was wash day and this is what I did: Shampooed with my castile moisturizing shampoo Deep conditioned with my super moisturizer for about 10 hours. (I was working from…
The Accidental Natural’s top eight hair tips
Over the past year, I’ve learned some things that have helped me enormously with my hair growth — well, more specifically, hair retention. I’m not one to take pictures of my hair (although I’m starting to) to compare with what it looked like a year ago or a month ago. I am going to begin…
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