REGIMENS

The Search and Destroy Method

The Search and Destroy Method

Have you ever heard the saying ' If it aint broke, don't fix it" well that is my personal approach ...
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How To Use Glycerin In Dry Non Humid Weather

How To Use Glycerin In Dry Non Humid Weather

Glycerin is one of those ingredients everyone loves to hate including me. My reasons are varied; at first I didn't ...
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The LOC Method Explained - Why It Is The Best Way To Moisturize Your Hair

The LOC Method Explained – Why It Is The Best Way To Moisturize Your Hair

If you are on a new hair journey, abbreviations can get a bit daunting, and sometimes you may wonder if ...
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Don't Use Lack Of Time As An Excuse For A Poor Hair Regimen

Don’t Use Lack Of Time As An Excuse For A Poor Hair Regimen

I do not have time to deep condition my hair, really I don’t. I do want to deep condition it  and every ...
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How Hard Water Affects Your Hair Care Routine

How Hard Water Affects Your Hair Care Routine

I think one of my biggest pet peeves is a dirty kitchen; I cannot cook unless my kitchen is spotless ...
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The Difference Between Shedding And Breakage

The Difference Between Shedding And Breakage

Salt. Sugar. At first glance, these two substances look very similar. They're both white and crystalline. As children, many of ...
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Do You Need To Prepoo If You Only Wash Your Hair Once A Month?

Do You Need To Prepoo If You Only Wash Your Hair Once A Month?

If you asked me that question and gave me only 2 seconds to answer it I would probably blurt out YES! ...
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8 Tips To Shave Time Off Your Weekly Hair Regimen

8 Tips To Shave Time Off Your Weekly Hair Regimen

We have been talking about saving time a lot lately and for me it is always at the forefront of ...
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Anatomy Of A Great Wash Day

Anatomy Of A Great Wash Day

Have you ever wondered what the wash day of the next sistah looked like? You would be surprised to discover ...
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Are Protein Treatments And Conditioners Absolutely Necessary In Your Hair Journey?

Are Protein Treatments And Conditioners Absolutely Necessary In Your Hair Journey?

Between hair growth pills, hair growth oils and pomades that tingle when you apply them to your scalp, we are ...
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You Are Not Failing If Your Hair Gets Dry!

You Are Not Failing If Your Hair Gets Dry!

Have you ever heard the saying, ‘It is the nature of the beast’? There are times I will look at ...
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Back To Basics: Condition Your Hair But Shampoo Your Scalp

Back To Basics: Condition Your Hair But Shampoo Your Scalp

When learning about hair care for the first time, information overload is a real issue and for newbies this can ...
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The Staggered Protective Styling Regimen - Grow Your Hair Long The Easy Way

The Staggered Protective Styling Regimen – Grow Your Hair Long The Easy Way

Over the last few weeks we have posted quite a few articles on protective styling techniques complete with tips on ...
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Can You Learn Anything From A Naturalista With A Different Texture From You?

Can You Learn Anything From A Naturalista With A Different Texture From You?

NaturalNeiicey & I am Lewa ‘Guuurl there is no way, that sistah with the 3C curls is going to be able ...
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Five Detangling Cocktails To Make Wash Day A Breeze

Five Detangling Cocktails To Make Wash Day A Breeze

My definition of a fabulous cocktail is something that is smooth, easy to make, and makes life a little easier, ...
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A Critical Look At Weaves - Maybe Not So Protective After All

A Critical Look At Weaves – Maybe Not So Protective After All

I know what you are thinking, another post about how weaves pull on the edges of your hair, causing receding ...
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Heavy Oils And Butters Are Not For Everyone

Heavy Oils And Butters Are Not For Everyone

I cant decide if having fine hair is a blessing or a curse. I am more inclined to decide that ...
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LUV Naturals Easy Wash Day Routine For Natural Hair

LUV Naturals Easy Wash Day Routine For Natural Hair

Your wash day is essentially the heart of your hair care regimen and the regimens that we post on BHI ...
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An Ultra Protective Hair Regimen For The Girl Who Does Not Like Weaves Or Braids

An Ultra Protective Hair Regimen For The Girl Who Does Not Like Weaves Or Braids

I put my first weave in when I was transitioning to natural back in 2008. The hair was long, not ...
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A Look At The Cathy Howse Regimen For Relaxed Hair

A Look At The Cathy Howse Regimen For Relaxed Hair

Cathy Howse used to be known as the don of relaxed hair and even though she is natural now her ...
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Can You Really Have A Breakage Free Regimen?

Can You Really Have A Breakage Free Regimen?

You are at your monthly hair and cocktails meetup and the YouTube guru with the almost perfect hair is sipping her Shoofly ...
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The Only Hair Type Chart That Really Matters

The Only Hair Type Chart That Really Matters

Share the graphic on your website: Courtesy Of BlackHairInformation.com Information on the infographic: Forget the hair typing system based on ...
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A Healthy Hair Regimen For Relaxed Hair

A Healthy Hair Regimen For Relaxed Hair

Relaxed hair care can be a touch cookie to crack if you don't know what you are doing but not ...
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A Simple Natural Hair Regimen For Young Children

A Simple Natural Hair Regimen For Young Children

I am natural, as some of you may know. My reasons for going natural were not what some people think ...
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So Should You Be Combing Your Hair Wet Or Dry? An Experiment

So Should You Be Combing Your Hair Wet Or Dry? An Experiment

In 1921 an American surgeon Evan O’Neill Kane was lying on an operating table waiting for his appendix to be removed ...
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Persistence Is Better Than Perfection In Your Hair Regimen

Persistence Is Better Than Perfection In Your Hair Regimen

Everyone's heard the story that Thomas Edison failed 10,000 times when trying to create a working light bulb before finally succeeding. When ...
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Long Healthy Natural Hair Pyramid - A Regimen At A Glance

Long Healthy Natural Hair Pyramid – A Regimen At A Glance

You can’t create a one size fits all approach to a natural hair regimen, even amongst natural hair gurus, their ...
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Long Healthy Relaxed Hair Pyramid - A Regimen At A Glance

Long Healthy Relaxed Hair Pyramid – A Regimen At A Glance

Just like diets, it’s difficult if not impossible to create a one size fits all approach to relaxed hair care ...
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hip length hair

Hip Length Relaxed Hair And The Regimen That Created It

I don't know if any of you relaxed ladies also follow the Relaxed Hair Health blog. If you do, you ...
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How To Deal With Hair Setbacks Quickly And Decisively

How To Deal With Hair Setbacks Quickly And Decisively

So you've been on your hair journey for a while or you've only just started, suddenly you notice that your ...
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Attention! New Hair Method!

Attention! New Hair Method!

I was recently surfing the web and decided to check in on some of my favorite hair sites and bloggers ...
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What If You Are On A HHJ, But Do Not Actually Enjoy Doing Your Hair?

What If You Are On A HHJ, But Do Not Actually Enjoy Doing Your Hair?

Like many of us, I genuinely enjoy taking care of my hair, always have even before my HHJ.  But now, ...
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Single Strand Knots

7 Tips On How To Prevent Single Strand Knots Once And For All

I used to have a very bad habit of plucking my single strand knots right off the strands. I would ...
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Back To Basics: Moisture - Protein Balance

Back To Basics: Moisture – Protein Balance

Why It Is Important And How To Achieve It I often talk about the moisture - protein balance but there ...
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Back To Basics - Detangling Technique

Back To Basics – Detangling Technique

Are you being too rough with your hair? I get this question a lot: ‘I have been natural for a ...
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What Is The Bare Minimum You Need To Look After Your Relaxed Or Natural Hair?

What Is The Bare Minimum You Need To Look After Your Relaxed Or Natural Hair?

This is what you absolutely need for a successful hair care regimen even on a budget! We all want healthy ...
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The Importance of Simplicity In Your Hair Care Regimen

The Importance of Simplicity In Your Hair Care Regimen

Simplicity is key in retaining length Simplicity. There is something so obvious about this word yet so easy to miss ...
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Lady with 4a hair

How To Check If Your Hair Is Growing

How to keep track of black hair growth to help in tweaking your regimen to perfection! Keeping a record of ...
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Forget Deep Conditioning, Is Long Hair All About The Oils?

Forget Deep Conditioning, Is Long Hair All About The Oils?

Contents: Oils, Oils Everywhere? Grasping The Significance Of Oils Historical Significance Of Oils Some Ancient Beliefs About Oils in Hair ...
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A Good Regimen For Natural Curly or Kinky Black Hair

A Good Regimen For Natural Curly or Kinky Black Hair

Use this sample regimen tweaking where necessary to grown your natural hair to its full potential A good hair regimen ...
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