As Sango explained to me, "The opportunities for styling Afro-textured hair in its natural form are endless. Not only can you find various twists and braid styles, but you can add colour and texture to your natural hair by applying extensions to create many different looks.
This means you can avoid chemically processing your hair to achieve these looks whilst tucking your hair away to give it a break. In addition, you can combine these styles to create your own one-of-a-kind hairdos. If your hair is short, that may limit your versatility somewhat, but the longer your hair grows, the more styles you can experiment with and enjoy.
Black hair in its natural state has a tendency to shrink up, preventing you from seeing its real length, leading to the popular belief that it doesn't grow long. With proper care, you can grow your hair as long as it is destined to be and you don't need a relaxer or perm to do so.
A relaxer straightens your curls so that you can see length more easily, but the chemicals in it do not promote hair growth. Sango offered the following advice, "Natural afro-textured hair grows in different ways depending on your curl pattern. The tighter your coils are the shorter your hair will look in appearance.
It may appear as though your hair is not growing but when you stretch your coils you will see length. If you want length, there are ways you can stretch without heat or processing it with chemicals. A technique called banding is used to achieve length by taking square sections of the hair and banding them from the roots to ends.
The hair is left to naturally dry, and when the bands are removed the hair is stretched giving styling versatility. Your hair is growing, but you may not be retaining the length due to chemical abuse, dryness, excessive heat styling , and a general lack of proper care.
Many products you'll find in the ethnic hair care section of your local stores are full of ingredients that aren't the best for Black hair. Ironic, but true. Petroleum and mineral oil make up a large percentage of Black hair products and it feels like all they do is clog your scalp and attract dirt to your hair.
You do not have to grease your scalp for it to be healthy. As Brown told me, "Growing up in a Black household, there was always some type of oil, "grease", or lotion under the sink for our hair. Whether you were natural at a young age, had braids, or a relaxer; the grease remained in the house always.
Thankfully, products have become better over time with quality ingredients. Today's consumer has many more options than in the past. New companies are regularly cropping up that cater to the Black hair market with products full of good-for-your-hair ingredients.
You'll find many that contain no petroleum, mineral oil, beeswax, and alcohol, all ingredients that might be harmful to natural hair.
Brown has a few recommendations. Infinite Health. Infinite Length. Videos See More. Happy Hair Stories See More. Why Hairfinity. Free hair health consultation. New this week. Hairfinity Love. The Hairfinity App. The Hairfinity App Instant access to tips, hair growth tracking tools, reminders and more. I personally suggest to just eat healthy in order to feed your hair the nutrients that it needs.
And do not neglect the scalp. It has a very important relationship with hair growth and will definitely affect the rate at which your hair grows. Daily or at least 3 times a week scalp massages will help hair grow longer. The problem is retention. To retain hair keep it moisturized. Genetics plays a role too. I do believe moisture is the key to black hair growing long fast. When I wore a curl my hair grew extremely long. That maybe true but everything dosent work for everyone,,,,Im gonna agree with the viewers….
I gain 0. Manda: what you should do depends on your current hair routine, your life style, your overall health and of course, the current state of your hair…. Every protective style braids and weaves have damaged my hair more than help with growth. Usually it thins it and pulls it out around the edges. I rarely wear it down often mostly up in a pineapple style. Recently the texture changed after being natural over 5 years.
Just lost.. Im new to this natural hair 1yr journey and it has been more work then my relaxer. Im going to try until my 2 yr mark and hopefully i have it down pack by then. I Agree my front and sides goes faster and the mid and back of my hair grows slower. I have only been natural 10 months. I measured my hair after 10 months the front was over 5 inches when stretched the sides were a little longer. The back measured under 5 inches when stretched.
Objectives: To evaluate hair growth characteristics of African volunteers born in Africa. Phototrichograms were performed in order to record three parameters of hair growth: hair density, telogen percentage and rate of growth.
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