by Paula Barker | Apr 28, 2020 | Braids, Coloring Hair, fashion, Hair Accessories, Hair Care, Hair Styling, Hairstyles for Spring, Natural Hair, Self Image, Uncategorized
ave you dreamt of the end of this quarantine and thought this is how I am going to do my hair the next time I go to the salon? I hope you are, because as much as I have somewhat enjoyed this gift of a month-long partially-paid vacation, I still want it to end. For...
by Paula Barker | Apr 15, 2020 | Braids, Business, fashion, Hair Accessories, Hair Care, Hair Extensions, Hair products, Hair Repair, Hair Styling, Haircuts, Hairstyles for Spring, Hairstyles for summer, Lifestyle, Men's Hair, Natural Hair, Self Image, Uncategorized
If you saw my Facebook page recently, you would see I tried wearing false eyelashes in an effort to see how it felt and to keep looking good while working from home. The eyelashes were fine after an hour or two, but I am such a tomboy, it felt effortful to lift them!...
by Paula Barker | Feb 26, 2020 | DREADLOCKS/LOCS, fashion, Hair Extensions, Hair Styling, Hairstyles for Spring, Hairstyles for summer, Men's Hair, Natural Hair, Self Image, Uncategorized
Remember when you were a toddler and wanted…. something, perhaps to go somewhere and was told to wait, you would bellow “ I don’t have time to wait!” The outcome was probably decided along ethnic lines, but this impatience has shown up in hair salons in a most...
by Paula Barker | Feb 5, 2020 | DREADLOCKS/LOCS, fashion, Hair Accessories, Hair Care, Hair Extensions, Hair Styling, Hairstyles for Spring, Hairstyles for summer, Natural Hair, Self Image, Uncategorized
Many of the inquiries I receive are from other races, okay non-black people, who have always wanted to have dreadlocks. It is interesting to see how much the internet and Millennials have erased so many boundaries, so much that race has no place in how to...
by Paula Barker | Nov 20, 2019 | Business, fashion, Hair Care, Hair Extensions, Hair products, Hair Repair, Hair Styling, Haircuts, Natural Hair, Uncategorized, Weaves, Wedding Hair
Some hairstylists fail in this business because they do not understand why clarity is so important. Clarity, or clearness, is the ability to ask the right questions so that all parties get what they want. Misunderstandings are inevitable but if every effort is...
by Paula Barker | Oct 3, 2019 | Coloring Hair, DREADLOCKS/LOCS, fashion, Hair Care, Hair products, Natural Hair, Uncategorized
In recent times, many people have stopped colouring their hair with traditional dyes and are looking at non-chemical alternatives like henna. They want colours that contain no parabens, but is it healthy to dye dreadlocks with henna? This plant-based dye has...
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