I am not sure about your country but this is the most popular bun in kenya, that´s why i will call it the kenyan bun. This bun looks really cute and is very easy to do because all one needs is a hair tie/ hair band.

Bunning is a great protective style but it can also cause damage if not done correctly. Here are a few tips which have helped me retain length using buns. I hope they help you too.

1. Do not bun your hair too tight as this will cause breakage.
2. Vary the position of your bun to avoid creating tension on one area only.
3. Moisturise and seal your hair especially your ends beofore bunning.
4. Opt for satin, silk or polyester hair bands as these do not suck out moisture from your hair.
5. Opt for scrunchies with no metal parts on them.
6. manipulate your hair as little as possible by combing only once or twice a week. finger combing your hair and using a scarf on your edges will do the trick.
7. clips and bobby pins with rounded tips are also a safer way to hold your bun.

Note:
If you remove your hair band and it is full of hair, you might either be bunning your hair too tight or the hair band is simply sucking out moisture from your hair and causing breakage. You might want to consider trying a safer hair tie.

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Gahl.

I don´t have that much new growth at 5 weeks post but my edges just will not lie flat sometimes, Yesterday was one of those days. So took my home made moisturiser ( water & Glycerin), sprayed it all over but not getting my hair wet. Then i applied some coconut oil and then finger combed my hair up since i wanted to try out a high donut bun like Aphro´s, I have always done Donut buns but they were all just low ones as you can see below.


So after smoothing my edges down with my soft brush i applied a scarf on my head for at least ten minutes and this really did the trick! my edges were down and behaving. I loved the bun ;-)


 Want to know how i make the donut for the bun? please click here!

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Joanne.

Relaxed  ladies listen up! Relaxers are a chemical and how you apply or get it applied will determine how healthy your hair will be in the end.

 I have been asked many times how many jars of relaxers i need to straighten my hair and when i say only one or even less i always get amazed looks, the next question is usually how can you need only one jar when your hair is that long?

This made me realise that most ladies have their previously relaxed hair relaxed again and that is absolutely not good for the hair. Relaxer overlapped hair looks good a few days after relaxer but afterwards it looks very dry and damaged. This means that you should only apply the relaxer to your new growth only if you intend to grow your hair longer and thicker.

Here is a pictorial video we did on that some time back, it´s not the best video but it will get the point across. Note that the ends of the hair and the previously relaxed hair do not get relaxed again.


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Gahl!

Anyone who is on a hair journey dreads getting a setback but sometimes they just happen. In April of this year i too got to experience a major steback. The funny thing is that it happened in such a short period of time and by the time i noticed that something was going very wrong, i had already lost a lot of hair. i had a huge gap at the back of my head and this was just a blow to my face, how could that be happening when in my opinion i was doing everything right? i was washing and deep conditioning my hair religiously every single week. I had to find out what i was doing wrong because any kind of breakage meant that something was wrong somewhere.

 Left: Hair in April 2012                                                  Right: Hair in August 2012
(Gap very clearly visible.)                                                   (Gap filling up yay!)

It then hit me that i had started texlaxing and that meant that i had three different textures to deal with, i realised that my hair had been breaking at exactly the point where the relaxed hair and the texlaxed hair were meeting. This point is commonly known as the line of demarcation. After doing some reasearch on how to transition to natural without doing the big chop i came to the conclusion that my hair need more moisture so i i started co washing my hair in the middle of the week and this really helped. So since i have been making sure that my hair is well moisturised.

Since i experienced this first hand and wouldn´t like anyone else to go through the same thing, i would advise anyone who wants to do any kind of transition, to do some research on it before starting. and also remember that a hair journey is really a journey. Sometimes there is traffic and red lights and it takes us a bit longer to reach our destination but we will get there. So don´t give up on your healthy hair journey.

My hair is not yet where i want it so i will still keep trimming until it fills up completely, however i am very happy that the gap keeps getting smaller and smaller. My goal is to have it completely gone by Feb 2013, so wish me luck.

Have you ever suffered a setback? If yes how did you deal with it?

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Joanne