What Helps The Pain After Braiding Hair?
After many years of braiding, weaving and adding extensions in one form or another, I still get asked what helps the pain after braiding hair? I wish the answer was as simple as the question sounds! Why do countless people get into toxic...
Will Box Braids Damage Caucasian Hair?
I had an interesting question from a visitor at the salon recently. She wanted to get her hair done but needed to know will box braids damage caucasian hair? She had fallen in love with the variety of colours and had picked one (rose pink) but as her hair...
Can I Bleach Dread Extensions
Coloured dreadlocks are trending, so on a regular basis I have people asking me "Can I bleach dread extensions?" Coloured dreads have increased in popularity with the variety of colours found in wool or synthetic dread extensions. Those with human hair now...
How Can I Sleep Without Messing Up My Hair
If you have had to travel or had a hairstyle that you absolutely could not mess up, you have probably wondered how can I sleep without messing up my hair! How many times have you done your hair at home before travelling because you would not have...
New Year’s Resolution: Organize Your Life
I decided to let out the secret to achieving all those abandoned new year's resolutions: organize your life! Why make all these grand plans only to see them fall by the wayside as the months go by? I had this challenge for a bit and then decided life was too short...
Where Christmas Traditions Come From
A Lovely Tradition For Me Is Mothers Who Take Their Daughters to get their hair done. I get to see the little misses walk importantly into the salon and take their place in the chair when it's their turn. They sit with nervous anticipation as they...
Royal Wedding Veils
Last weekend there was another celebrity wedding where what can only be called a royal wedding veil*** was evident. Priyanka Chopra married Nick Jonas in spectacular form at a castle no less, and all the world gorged on pictures of the nuptials after the fact. ...
How Long Does A Weave Last For?
I joke about this because so many women who wear hair extensions, whether it is sewn in, glued in, taped in or clipped in, never listen to the “use by” date. I suspect the manufacturers never expected them to wear the hair until it was shredded.
Dreads And Dandruff
One of the reasons people give for not wanting locks is their concern for dreads and dandruff. *** How many times in the past did you see people who neglected to care for their hair and it was messy? Granted, some of them may have been homeless, but there were a few...
Braids with Grey Extensions
Braids with grey extensions have been existence for a couple of years now, but recently, they have become even more popular. In my previous post "Millenials Likely To Be The First " I pointed out the irony of young people sporting what has for decades been marked as...