How Our Diets Affect Our Hair
Raise your hand if you’re struggling to keep your New Year’s resolution to eat healthier or diet. Don’t worry—you’re not alone! As you waver between steaming those veggies and grabbing a handful of fries, you not only have your body to think about—also consider that what you eat affects your hair. When you take in [...]
Is There A Cure For Thin Ends?
To cut or not to cut—that is the question. If you take pride in caring for your hair, especially ensuring its growth, it can definitely discourage you to see dry and damaged ends. When confronted with this problem, what is the best solution? Are there really cure-alls such as split end menders, or special oils [...]
Budget-Friendly Hair Care
We all love to pamper ourselves every now and then with luxurious shampoos and conditioners, but sometimes high-end products don’t fit with our budget. So how can you get a salon treatment without breaking the bank? Go to your nearest grocery store or farmer’s market and…go natural! Some of the best hair care products currently [...]
The Mixtress’s Guide: Storing and Preserving Homemade Mixes
Whether you’ve concocted an Ayurvedic tea rinse or whipped up a moisturizing shea butter recipe, your homemade mixes will have this in common—they need to be properly stored and preserved. It’s exciting to be able to create and blend your own conditioners and moisturizers—it’s not so exciting if their potency declines and they become overridden [...]
Tweaking Your Heat Regimen
You pick up your blow dryer, switch it on and…zap! You’ve just evaporated the moisture in your hair and raised its temperature to 80˚C—which means your hair cuticles will crack like dry skin. Whether blow drying, curling or flat ironing, overuse of direct heat will take a toll on our hair. Although one of the [...]
The Big Deal About Natural and Organic Hair Care
Conditioner is bad for you. Well, at least some are, if you’ve been checking the ingredients. As more people are becoming aware of harsh and harmful chemicals in hair products, they are turning toward new shampoos and moisturizers boasting of botanical extracts, vitamins, and organic oils. It’s no secret that natural and organic products are [...]
Part I: A Man and His Strands
A Man with Long Strands – I Meet Nick, a resident of our own bhp forum. He’s the witty and inquisitive male whom we often playfully pick on, but believe me it is not because of his hair. He has long, beautiful, natural strands that most women (and some men) have only dreamed of growing. [...]
How to Grow Natural African American Hair
Most women nowadays can cheat nature by having long hair in an instant. How? It is popularly known as hair weaves. I have nothing against weaves at all, but I am convinced that natural long flowing hair just seems more….. Hmmm… how do you say it? – oh, NATURAL! African American hair for one seems [...]
Home Health Castor Oil (for hair) Review
Home Health Castor Oil Review Castor Oil…for hair??? That’s correct, the same stuff that Gram used to clean you out once a week is used to thicken up our hair (if only she would’ve slapped some in my head instead of giving me a tablespoon of it, ooooooh where my hair would be now, ha!)!!! [...]
Profectiv Mega Growth Anti-Breakage Strengthener Growth Lotion Review
When I saw this product at Sally’s I was a bit skeptical about whether it would work, having tried unsuccessfully all manner of lotions, creams, and leave-ins on my 4bish coarse, tending towards dry, relaxed hair. However, I definitely do not regret having bought it. The product seems to live up to most of its [...]
