10 RESOLUTIONS TO GROWING AND KEEPING HEALTHY NATURAL & RELAXED HAIR IN 2019

Saturday, 22 August 2015 / Published in Body Care Range, Hair Care Range
When it comes to our hair and getting our best hair, we get out what we put in. By putting in the time to know our hair and create and follow a healthy hair regimen we will experience our best hair.
Here are our 10 suggestions that if followed will help you achieve your hair goals:

1. Trim Ends

Give your hair a great, new start by trimming the ends. Hair ends or tips are the oldest part of our hair and prone to being dry and developing split ends and single strand knots. Split ends can be hard to identify with natural hair but easier with relaxed or straightened hair. Split ends and single strand knots cause hair breakage. Trim 1cm of hair every 4 months. Your hair grows almost 1cm a month if it isn’t breaking on its own.
2. Protect Hair When Sleeping
We spend at least 6 hours with our heads on a pillow, if hair is connected to a cotton pillow case or head wrap it will likely lose all the moisture it had, cotton absorbs moisture. Use a satin pillowcase or head wrap or bonnet every night.
3. Give Your Edges A Break
If your hair edges are thinning give your hair a break from braids or hairstyles that pull. Massage a growth stimulating oil on the edges and wear loose hairstyles until the edges grow and hair is thicker. Remember once hair follicles are pulled out through tight hairstyling, they are gone for good and hair will not grow again.
4. Eat For Healthy Hair

5. Give Your Hair A Break
Some of us either have our hair in protective styles too often or too long. Or on the other end of the spectrum, we don’t give hair a break enough times by putting it away in a protective styles once in a while. Make it a point to start putting hair in a protective style every two months for 2 – 4 weeks. Or if you are trying to grow your hair try a different protective styling routine, put your hair away every 2 weeks for 2 weeks for 6 months and watch your hair grow.
6. Always Follow Shampoo With Conditioner
Wash your hair with a clarifying shampoo at least once a month and use a conditioner after every wash with a shampoo. Limit co-washing and eliminate product build-up so that your hair can absorb the moisture it requires. Never wash hair with a shampoo and not follow with a conditioner.

7. Deep Condition Hair Weekly

Deep conditioning is key to infusing moisture and nutrients into hair to strengthen and protect hair.  Natural and relaxed hair craves moisture and requires moisture to grow and prevent breakage. When we deep condition properly on a weekly basis, and follow with a good L.O.C routine our hair will never suffer from lack of moisture.

8. Use A Heat Protectant

Always use a heat protectant when using heat like a blow dryer, flatiron or a curling iron, this protects hair from getting heat damaged. Heat damaged hair will need to be cut off as it can’t be reversed.
9. Include Protein Treatment
Relaxed and colour dyed hair needs a protein treatment every second week to restore protein lost due to relaxing and dyeing hair. Natural hair also loses protein due to daily manipulation, lack of moisture and requires a protein treatment once a month. A protein treatment also benefits high porosity hair.
 
10. Know If Your Hair Is High, Normal Or Low Porosity
Knowing the porosity of your hair is more important than curl type, it determines how you moisturise your hair and your regimen. Including whether you should use heat-activated deep conditioning if you have low porosity hair. To know how to moisturise your hair right you have to know the porosity of your hair. Moisturised hair will be easy to manage, detangle and style no matter the curl type.
If there is one thing you decide to add to your diet it should be leafy greens, preferably raw in the form of a smoothie so you get the maximum iron from them. Iron is necessary for a healthy scalp and good hair growth. Also add foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids such as nuts or fish.  Increased water intake will ensure moisture from within. Adding these three will be a great start for working on healthy hair from the inside out.

FWD: THE INCOMPARABLE WENDY LUHABE ON BELIEF SYSTEMS; #GIFTTHEMBEAUTIFUL – A CAMPAIGN TO BUILD A MORE EQUAL SOCIETY

Friday, 07 August 2015 / Published in Black Pearl Collection, Body Care Range

Belief Systems represent an invisible operating system, like our computers have an operating system that wires them.  Belief systems, like computer operating systems, are invisible and are operating systems, and they shape how we relate to one another, it shapes how we relate to the world, how we respond to experiences, it defines the assumptions, the expectations and the perceptions that we have that are mostly not expressed but shape our relationships to a large extent.  Belief systems are responsible for how we show up in the world.

Belief Systems represent an invisible operating system

Secondly, belief systems are either dysfunctional or they add value.  And thirdly, belief systems develop to become strongholds in our lives primarily because they are passed down to us, we inherit belief systems from previous generations and we own them without questioning them and examining their relevance to our own lives, we just take them on and carry on with life without really understanding their relationship to how we engage with each other and engage with the world.

An example I can share is that I grew up in apartheid South Africa.  I came from a home where my mother left her marriage in 1960s when women didn’t do that, women in the 1960s just didn’t leave their marriages.  This had a huge impact on me, ‘what kind of a woman has so much courage to leave her marriage because it wasn’t working for her?’  I grew up realizing that I am not what society defines me to be, I am not less than, I am not unequal to someone else and that is how I came to live fearlessly in a in a male-dominated world.

My first career was in a car manufacturing company, which was completely male-dominated.  I was one of the first women to work in that industry and over the last 30 years that has been my experience, living in a man’s world to demonstrate to myself that I am just as equal and I am just as capable.

And the reason I am able to stand is because I don’t compare myself to what they are able to do or what someone else is able to do. I compare myself to what I am able to do, because I truly believe that each one of us is fearfully and wonderfully made, so that’s the premise from which I live my life.  That if we are all fearfully and wonderfully made, we each must have something really special to contribute to the world, and I can’t contribute that if my life is shaped by some belief system that someone passed on to me and conditioned me with.

I can only contribute to the world to the best of my ability if I step outside of that box, because all that it (someone else’s belief systems) offers is a box that is actually quite small.  But if I step outside of that box and really explore, that is really when I can show up in the true measure of my potential and it’s when I can make a contribution to the world that can only be made by me.  So the contribution that I have made to the world, no one who is sitting here or anywhere else in the world can make. In the same way I cannot make any of the contributions that all of you have made or that you are depriving us of, because if you are not making your contribution you are depriving the world of that contribution that can only be achieved by you.

…the contribution that I have made to the world, no one who is sitting here or anywhere else in the world can make.

WHY OUR NZINGA REPAIRING & STRENGTHENING TREATMENT ROCKS!

Friday, 07 August 2015 / Published in Black Pearl Collection, Body Care Range, Hair Care Range

The Nzinga Repairing & Strengthening Treatment is a powerful protein hair mask for protein deep conditioning. It repairs, strengthens and protects hair from heat damage, colour damage and daily wear and tear. It should used at least once a month but more times if you have damage or to prevent damage.

These are the main ingredients and what they do for the hair:

  • hydrolysed keratin – a natural and main protein and building block in hair that repairs and strengthens hair
  • hydrolysed collagen – a natural protein found in the body to strengthen hair from inside out
  • ceramides – naturally occurring lipids found in our hair to prevent damage to hair
  • hydrolysed wheat protein – increases flexibility and elasticity of hair by holding water inside hair for moisturised and conditioned hair
  • pro-vitamin B5 – part of B vitamins, prevents loss of moisture and conditions hair
  • vitamin E – promotes hair growth and reduces inflammation of scalp, repairs hair follicles and reduces hair dryness
  • coconut oil, castor oil, shea butter, cocoa butter, olive oil, avocado oil for healthy, nourished strong hair
  • Steamer: highly effective and worth the once off purchase of about R1200.00. We love the steamer because it really opens up the hair cuticles allowing for maximum moisture penetration. After applying the Deep Penetrating Conditioner, sit under the steamer for approximately 20-25 minutes, do not cover hair. Ensure to have a towel, as water will drop from the steamer. Cool-off then rinse off the conditioner.