After the tiresome attempts to prop up my hooded dryer with telephone books, then still finding myself sitting on two and three pillows, I was fed up with the hooded dryers and all of the inconvenience associated with them. After my hooded dryer finally died, I was faced with the dilemma of either investing in a soft bonnet dryer or spending the extra bucks on a hooded dryer on a stand, which would certainly  be a solution!

Fortunately my dear husband surprised me with a Babyliss Pro Thermal one Saturday morning after constantly hearing  my gripes about having to go to the salon every weekend. My review of the Babyliss Pro is as follows:

Pros:

• It has three settings.  ( I prefer the medium setting)
• It has the ION setting, which fights frizz and locks in moisture.
• The stand is durable and can be easily adjusted.
• It dries the hair evenly.
• Dries my hair in about an hour.
• Considerably more quiet than my previous dryer.
• Rolling wheels make it easy to transport.
• The cover attaches nicely to the top of the bonnet and sets the dryer to off when pulled up.

Cons:

• The attachment to hold the chord in place doesn’t work.
• The highest setting is far too hot.
• Although, more quiet than the dinosaur that I had, it is still not as quiet as I’d hoped.

Well, as you can see, the pros outweigh the cons. I would definitely say that this baby was worth the hundred bucks and change that my husband invested in it.

Rating: 4 out of 5

Diamond Cutt Studio is the one of the top salon in the Houston(Katy Texas) area. Tryce is the owner of the environmental green salon. She strives to only use natural products and environmental friendly products. If you looking to get your hair relaxed and washed this salon specializes in all traditional African American Hair care.

Tryce is also a known for her work with hair extensions and lace front wigs. She sales only premium hair, none of that cheap store bought variety. Diamond Cutt Studio are also the rave of Houston for cuts, styles, sew-in weaves and more.

Diamond Cutt Studio was one of the first to offer natural hair care and healthy growing tips. If your looking to get any of these styles strand by strand(fusion), fusion, segelese twists, micro braids, african braids, dreadlock locitians, or bantu knots look no further.

Tyrce

281-709-3055

3111 Fry Road Suite 290

Katy, Texas 77449

Moffitt Hair care is a great little African American Salon located in Holly Springs Mississippi. Moffitt specializes in all sorts of new hairstyles, sew-in weaves, hair care, hair breakages, and relaxers.

If your a new college student or if you have just moved to Holly Springs and need to have your hair done, drop by Moffitt Hair located on 200 N Memphis St Holly Springs, Ms. Ask for Lucatheryn Wilson and tell her Blackhairplanet.com sent you.

Moffitt Hair Care

200 n Memphis st

Holly springs ms 38635

662-544-5542

Lucatheryn Wilson

Laranda from Red Bank, Ma asked:

Are there any African American hair salon in Olive Branch Ms or in de soto county?

Well Laranda there is actually one that I found. Looks like there aren’t that many to speak of. When I find some more I will post them here on this blog post. I spoke with the owner Kim of Flava Hair Salon, located in Olive Branch, Mississippi at 8970 College st.

They specialize in traditional black hair care and many of the latest African American hairstyles. You can get your hair permed, washed, roller-set, and even have sew-in weaves done. I hope this help you in your search for a great hair stylists. Let us know your experiences with Flava

Flava Hair Salon‎ -  kim
8970 College St, Olive Branch, MS‎ – (662) 895-8980‎

Danesia of Memphis Tn Asked this Question  ” I would like to know who does Micro braids in memphis tn?

The are actually hundreds of hair braiding salon and African American traditional salons that do Micro-braids. We asked several people in the bhp forum who they thought were some of the top name of hair braiders in Memphis Tennessee. Here are a  suggestion of braiding salon that does this:

MotherLand Braids : The professionals at Motherland Braids have more than 15 years of experience. As a family-owned-and-operated braiding salon, we have been open for 4 years providing a variety of styles for men, women, and children with customer service that you won’t find anywhere else. Every braiding service comes with a shampoo. You can make an appointment or walk in for quality braiding. Motherland braids specializes also in Sendasese Twists, Invisible Braids, Kinky Twists, Micro Braids,Tree Braids, Flat Twists, and Cornrows.

Motherland Braids 4312 Winchester Road
Memphis, TN 38118-6243

We will add more when we get some recommendations.

If you ever looked for girly blogger templates you might have ran into several websites with cute designs. I haven’t found that many that had African American  themed blogger templates. Divalicious Designs is a great site for ethnic blogger templates. Would you like to start a hair care, beauty, wedding, or even personal blog? Look no further Divalicious Designs really is impressive with the different designs which are clean and crisp graphically.

These blogger templates are easy on the eyes and professional done.  If your looking to start blogging, I highly recommend using this site for whatever type of site you have in mind. I do wish they would branch out to the wordpress side of the blogosphere, you can only hope.

Check out these affordable templates today!

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Hair Cuttery
Oak Springs Plaza
Warrenton, VA 20186

(540)347-9755

Natural Hairstyles II

As promised everyone, here is the second part in the series of the Natural Hairstyles I am featuring. I am super excited to add new styles to the repertoire. Most of us like variety, but many of us do not know where to start when it comes to bringing the styles to life! Here are a few more styles for you all to choose from. I hope you like them. Happy Healthy Hair Styling!!!

Straw Set

Natural Ladies are very creative about the styles that they come up with. Naturals have become crafty enough to utilize drinking straws in the hair to create tiny spirals. This style may be a bit time consuming at first, as I have not tried it yet, but I plan to after seeing all of these pictures [Check out youtube for detailed tutorials].

Bantu Knot/Knot-Out

The bantu knot-out creates beautiful waves and ripples that frame the face so well. It can be worn in an afro paired with shrinkage or it can be worn stretched out on dry hair.Play around with it – I love this style, hopefully you can appreciate it too! [Video credit: crownofhisglory] Check Out Some of these Video Tutorials on Bantu Knots

• Bantu Knot Styles
• Bantu Knot Outs

The Updo There are endless ways one can style an updo. You may start off with freshly washed hair, or hair that may be a few days old in order to refresh your look – either way the updo is the way to go!!! The Updo describes styles that may be created through pinning the hair up in different ways. These are just a few variations of executing the ideal updo!

Tropic Isle Living and JBC Distributors has listened to their customers and answered the call by introducing Jamaican Black Castor Oil in a wonderful Lavender Scent.  Everyone knows that black castor oil is good and does wonders for hair, skin, eyelashes, and helps promote healthy hair growth. The one thing that turns off most is the smell of the black castor oil itself. With the release of the long awaited product JBCO Lavender the barely bearable smell is now more pleasant to smell and use.

The product still has all the ingredients of the regular JBCO,  with the addition of the  Lavender Scent to spice it up. You can now order the Jamaican black Castor oil at www.jamaicanblackcastoroil.com and get 10% off with the promo code JBC.

If you order before 12 pm Eastern Recieve same day shipping.

This product was suggested to me for my son’s naturally curly hair by the stylist at Super Cuts. After she gave him his first haircut, she empathized with me about controlling frizz with his curly locks. She too, had sons with curly hair, and had tried it all.  On the verge of cutting his fro completely off after several attempts at finding products to keep his appearance looking well kempt and attractive, I was relieved when she said she had just the right product for his hairtype. So with that being said, I wasn’t at all reluctant to pay the hefty  $8.95 for the styling foam, after seeing how his hair melted down after she applied some.  This product actually helps to not only define his curls, but to minimize the frizzies. Only a dime sized amount is needed. Both of my sons hair likes this stuff! And the smell….a light coconutty scent that is not too overpowering for males. I am pleasantly surprised that Paul Mitchell has created something that can work on my sons’  sometimes rather difficult hair types.   I suggest this product for people with naturally curly hair that desire something to define their curls. Interestingly enough, this styling foam also has conditioner…two in one! Awesome!

Rating 4.5 out of 5!