Natural to relaxed hair

Here are 10 common relaxed hair mistakes that we tend to make as well as some helpful tips to help you avoid and even correct these mistakes.

By Kanisha Parks

Relaxed Hair Sisters™️ on Instagram: “Top Knotsss 😍🥰 @healthyhairjunkie #relaxedhairsisters • • • • #relaxedhair #texlaxedhair #teamrelaxed #relaxedhairjourney #hairjourney…”

Ten years ago, I would have never imagined I'd be seeing so much natural hair on the red carpet and on social media — let alone laws that empower women who want to wear their hair in its natural state, no matter where they are. But slowly and…

As many of you know, I have relaxed hair. However, I get asked all of the time if I am natural because my hair looks healthy. Well, the reason why I can enjoy the benefits and perks of having healthy relaxed hair is because I take careful steps to take care of it to make sure there is no damage. I believe that if you choose to have relaxed hair it can, and should, be healthy. There is no reason why you have to have natural hair in order to have healthy hair! So, here are a 5 things to do…

Relaxed hair care & natural hair care from a professional hairstylist

Kendra Alia | Hair Artist | Hair Educator on Instagram: "Balance your hair texture when transitioning from relaxed hair to virgin coily hair. When transitioning you will find yourself trimming your hair more often because of the amount of breakage you can experience with two different hair textures on one strand. The relaxed hair will be compromised (some hair worse than others), the natural coily hair strands will also have different porosity levels. #k18hair #k18results #haireducation…

Hello ladies, welcome to my first official hair blog. Before we start learning the healthy way to take care of our hair, let us first take a step back to unlearn what we have been doing wrong all a…

I had to share this video by RenieceHairTV because it is so inspiring especially for those of you wondering where the next inch is going to come from. I know that a lot of you ladies tend to prefer the more natural approach to length retention (like twists) but in terms of retention potential, weaves rock too. Also it goes to show that you can still have long gorgeous healthy hair even if you relax or flat iron your natural hair occasionally. I have had my share of bad experiences with…

Patti Roberts on Instagram: "@naturally.nish - When I transitioned from relaxed to natural hair, my porosity changed and I thought my hair was always puffy because I didn’t have a relaxer… no - it just wasn’t dry! Natural hair is mostly trained to hold moisture, and simply because it looks dry and maybe even feels dry to the touch… I found that the core of the strand was not, which causes fully styled hair to swell. I didn’t add more heat, I simply added more TIME. Lots of “air dry”���