We've all experienced breakage and splits at some point.What was the culprit? How did you recover? CN Responds: I've experienced damage from heat, hair dye, Shredder, hair gels, and wash&gos. I grew out the heat and color damage- transitioned if you will- over the course of two years. I cut out the damage from the Denman D3 and threw that…
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Carol writes: Do you ever feel like you are the poster child for natural hair in your church, school, workplace, family, etc? Sometimes I do. Its like, I cannot afford to have a "bad hair day" because chicks will equate my bad hair day with natural hair in general.
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by CelineAre there social costs to going natural?An article published by Sociological Images argued that the reason women spend so much time on their appearance is not a nature versus nurture argument. Rather women experience more social costs than men if they have not properly groomed themselves to meet society's expectations such as loss of a promotion, rejection by a…
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Le coilBonnie writes:Do you ever regret being so educated on your hair? I mean, I miss the days where I could just walk in the store and buy whatever shampoo was on sale and call it a day. I had no hair goal aspirations, health or length, because I thought I was destined to have the hair I had. Although…
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Curly Purrly writes:Last Halloween (yes I know a long time ago, but I just now conjured up enough confidence to talk about it) me, my best friend, and one of her friends were talking about Halloween costumes, and I was telling her about how I might want to be tinker-bell or some sort of fairy this year. She's a big…
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