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Need help on building a natural hair routine that'll stick? Check out this blog where we go step by step on how to create a routine that will leave your curls flourshing.

Want to learn the basics about extensions and wigs? This blog post covers everything from how to take care of your natural hair to installation and maintenance.

So you've done it. You've gone natural, and whether you big-chopped in one visit to your local barber or took the more patient path by transitioning from your relaxer… you're a proud, brave naturalista just the same. After the initial excitement wears off and your hands have grown accustomed to your unique curls and kinks, there is one universal question that most of us have asked ourselves: "So what next?"

Nobody tells you how to survive as a black woman So let me learn you a lesson”-excerpt from “Reyna’s Interlude”, Rapspdy   You, being me. I had to learn the lesson that I’d been preparing for my whole life. Oddly enough, it started with the top of my head: not what was in it, but what was on it. Tiny tight curls that grew from my scalp, the thing that I had seen before, but never paid much attention to. What was this to my identity? What deep secrets were being kept in the midst of those coils that grew so freely? Did it make me “blacker”? Nah.  Was I more enlightened? Not really. What, then, was the lesson?  ...

Now, this is a story all about how My life got flipped-turned upside down And I'd like to take a minute Just sit right there I'll tell you how I went from natural to putting a relaxer back in my hair…   “I want a perm.” Those were the words I uttered in 2012 after being relaxer free for two years. My hair was long, I was pretty good at doing twist outs and fro-hawks, my edges were full and I got compliments every day on my thick beautiful crown, but all I could think about was that creamy crack. It just kept calling me. Here’s the part of the blog where I get extremely transparent.  In 2010, I began...