Hola Chicas, It’s that time again… a virtual play date to celebrate the beautiful, curly babies in our lives! Click on the images to enlarge them: KinshashaMy niece Kiara, age 6. Auntie did her first twist-out and she loved it! We used HEHH to co-wash and twisted with coconut oil and aloe vera gel.RheasharaeThis is my 3month old son (he’s…
by Nik G of Beads, Braids, and Beyond I wanted to share our experience with mini twists. We both needed a much needed break from hair so after watching KinkyKurlyQueen’s video (below) I decided to try them on A. Her mini twists lasted 1 month (although they could have lasted longer) and we both enjoyed them. I think these would…
Hola Chicas, It’s that time again… a virtual play date to celebrate the beautiful, curly babies in our lives! Click on the images to enlarge them: SummerThis is my 4 year old, Oliviah, rocking a twist–out. I used Kinky Curly Curling Custard to set her twists, and for her leave in I used Suave Green Apple Conditioner sealed with virgin…
Hola Chicas, It’s that time again… a virtual play date to celebrate the beautiful, curly babies in our lives! Click on the images to enlarge them: The Green FamilyCurly Baby Ellis with his picked out fro:-) AutumnHere’s my son Javian Alexander. We washed his hair and added a little bit of olive oil to keep it moist. He doesn’t like…
by Nik G of Beads, Braids, & Beyond I was inspired by a style I saw on Longhairdontcare2011’s Youtube channel. As you can see, the style is very easy if you know how to cornrow and it’s versatile! Instructions: I started on stretched, moisturized hair, well detangled hair. I split the hair from ear the ear and cornrowed the…
by Nik G of Beads, Braids, & Beyond Valentine’s Day is right around the corner so I decided to do a fun Valentine’s Day style mixed with cornrows, heart ponies and colorful beads with heart snaps on the ends. A was thrilled to have hearts in her hair, she just kept giggling and cannot wait to show her friends!…
She came up with this pose, lol! What you don’t know is everytime we’re done taking pictures of a style we goof off and have a “fashion photo shoot”. This is one of her many poses. She had 8 braids in with flexi-rods on the ends for the braid out. Instructions: A’s hair was stretched out from…
Kattya writes: Hey Nikki! A friend of mine posted this on Facebook. I don’t have any kids yet and had never thought about the effects a mother’s hair being relaxed has on her daughter. I thought this news report was very interesting, touching, and empowering. Thought I’d share with the CurlyNikki community:
NikG of Braids, Beads, & Beyond writes: Instructions: I placed A’s freshly washed hair in 10 large single braids for a day to stretch her hair out a bit. The next day I took the braids out and added a generous amount of Bee Mine Luscious Moisturizer to her hair. I finger detangled a bit then used our modified…
I have had several requests for natural flower girl hair styles. Because I don’t think I’m very good with fancier/special occasion hair styles I decided to Google for inspiration. I didn’t find one natural flower girl hair style so I will be having a series of Natural Flower Girl Hair Styles for our little girls. I hope you all enjoy!…