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The natural movement is powerful. It’s about more than hair. I grew up without seeing positive images in the media that reflected my hair. This is the frustrating truth for most black women in Canada and the US. When it came time to maintain my hair on my own, I experienced products that didn’t work. There were products that dried my hair out, and caused flakiness. I didn’t have access to products or styling techniques that brought out the true beauty of my hair.Luckily this is changing quickly. At some point curly hair tips became more prominent on the internet....

A good friend of mine was living the black-girl magic dream. She was in her mid 20’s, had disposable income, her natural curls were beautiful and shiny. But then she started to notice more and more hair coming out in her comb. The hairballs stuck to the side of the shower were getting bigger and bigger. Over a few months, she stopped detangling as often because it was scary to see such big clumps of hair coming out.  As her hair got thinner, she started wearing a lot of headscarves and hats. They looked really cute and I didn’t notice...

Its -35 degrees outside where I live, but that won’t stop me from taking care of my hair. During the winter months, nothing is more important than protecting my ends and retaining moisture. So what do I do, I wear protective styles. What is protective styling? A protective style is a style that protects the ends of your hair, helping to decrease tangling, shedding and breakage. For most of us, when we think of a protective style, we think of putting our hair in braids; however, there are many different types of protectives styles such as: buns, pinned up two...