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Wash day is where we find out whether the routine is helping or taxing our length. It's like the great revealing and it can be humbling. Instead of getting down, take notes! What worked, what didn't, and don't try too many different things at once. Change one thing at a time- natural hair is a science experiment!

We are not taking down forty twists on a Wednesday night because the ends got a little thirsty. A refresh should be exactly that: enough moisture to soften the style without turning every twist fuzzy or swollen, back into wash day. We refresh, and we don't judge haha. 20 minutes instead of 2 hours and then a night of drying.

A bun can be protective. A dry little knot of hair held hostage by an elastic is something entirely else lol. If we are tucking our ends away for several days, the ends need to go into that style signed, sealed and delivert- soft, lubricated, and not already splitting. Definitely not thirsty and crispy. The bun is the container. The…

Fine natural hair does not need to be babied. It does need us to stop snapping it off. That is the whole length-retention conversation in one sentence. Fine strands can be dense, kinky, thirsty and high porosity while still having a smaller individual diameter. For us, the best products are not automatically the lightest products. They are the ones that…

If your conditioner suddenly “stops working,” your curls look dull and every styler feels like it is sitting on top of your hair, the answer may not be another product or some fancy treatment. It may be a better wash. Clarifying does not have to mean stripping the life out of your coils tho that squeaky-clean feeling from time to…