Posts tagged "Styling"

It’s All Good Hair: The Guide to Styling and Grooming Black Children’s Hair (Paperback)

What are you going to do with your children’s hair? Combing your daughter’s hair is giving you a headache and now your son is asking you for cornrows. Relax. Finally, there’s a lifeline for those who are desperately seeking help in styling their Black children’s hair. Learn the tricks and techniques for today’s most popular hairstyles with the easy-to-follow steps found in It’s All Good Hair. It features hair-care and styling tips from a variety of experts, and you’ll learn all the secrets to braiding, relaxing, and locking, as well as discover many other creative styling ideas. Say good-bye to those disastrous attempts at doing it alone. Here’s the support you need to help your children look good and feel their very best.

About the Author

Michele N-K Collison is a veteran journalist who has written for such national publications as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Black Enterprise.

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Textured Tresses: The Ultimate Guide to Maintaining and Styling Natural Hair (Paperback)

Twist it! Braid it! Loc it! Enjoy the freedom and beauty of naturally textured hair. Textured hair styles like Locs, Braids, Twists, Cornrows, and Knots are all the rage, adorning the heads of celebrities, athletes, and everyday folk now more than ever before. Yet, the actual caring, styling, and maintenance of textured hair still remains a mystery to many. Now, Diane Da Costa, celebrity stylist and master designer of natural hair, unravels the tresses of textured hair, providing readers with information on the proper care of natural hair as well as a step-by-step guide on achieving various exciting styles. Textured Tresses will help you: Identify and celebrate the texture you were born with (whether it’s wavy, curly, very curly, or tightly coiled) Keep your hair healthy and strong by using hair products and tools correctly and managing stress effectively Select the right stylist and salon to suit your hair care needs Transition from chemically relaxed hair to na (more…)

Black Hair Care Tips

Beautique.com is Urban Retreat’s online store, the luxury hair, beauty and Spa Company with salons in Harrods, Harvey Nicholls (Manchester) and Kingston.

With beauty tips and tricks on site, and a blog about pregnancy skincare, this beauty website really helps its customers to look and feel beautiful.

Beautique and Mizani, an afro Caribbean hair care range have also launched together a blog with many tips about how to style and care black hair http://black-haircare-blog.beautique.com/.

The blog readers had the opportunity to enter a competition through this blog, in order to celebrate the arrival of the premium black hair range, Mizani, at world renowned salon Urban Retreat, Harrods, and win a luxurious makeover and chauffeur driven to Harrods.

Black Hair is quite difficult to handle and to style, so find out here the 10 commandments to keep your hair curly and in an incredible shape:

1. Always use a conditioner after shampooing such as Mizani Fulfyl Conditioning Treatment or Moisturfuse Moisturizing Conditioner 2. When combing Afro or excessively curly hair, always comb from the ends working your way up to the root in order to reduce the risk of breakage3. Always use a wide-toothed comb to detangle, preferably with a conditioner4. Always gently blot dry hair instead of rough towel drying5. Always use heat protection such as Mizani Thermastrength Style Serum when using heated styling tools6. Have a conditioning treatment at least once a month such as Mizani Renew strength Shampoo, gelée, or Masque                                                                           7. Visit a professional stylist as often as possible to maintain the shape of your style and the condition of your hair8. Protect your hair at night from loss of moisture and friction by using a night time treatment such as Mizani H2O Night Time Treatment and covering your hair with a silk scarf9. Never have a permanent colour service less than two weeks before or after a relaxer service10.Always protect your hair from the sun and damaging UV rays with a finishing product such as Mizani Shimmer Reflects Spritz witch contains UV filters.

For more tips about how to style your black hair visit this blog http://black-haircare-blog.beautique.com/. 

For more general tips and skincare, hair care, makeup, or wellbeing products you may need and fancy, visit www.beautique.com

It’s All Good Hair: The Guide to Styling and Grooming Black Children’s Hair (Paperback)

What are you going to do with your children’s hair? Combing your daughter’s hair is giving you a headache and now your son is asking you for cornrows. Relax. Finally, there’s a lifeline for those who are desperately seeking help in styling their Black children’s hair. Learn the tricks and techniques for today’s most popular hairstyles with the easy-to-follow steps found in It’s All Good Hair. It features hair-care and styling tips from a variety of experts, and you’ll learn all the secrets to braiding, relaxing, and locking, as well as discover many other creative styling ideas. Say good-bye to those disastrous attempts at doing it alone. Here’s the support you need to help your children look good and feel their very best.

About the Author
Michele N-K Collison is a veteran journalist who has written for such national publications as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Black Enterprise.

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Textured Tresses: The Ultimate Guide to Maintaining and Styling Natural Hair (Kindle Edition)

Twist it! Braid it! Loc it! Enjoy the freedom and beauty of naturally textured hair.Textured hair styles like Locs, Braids, Twists, Cornrows, and Knots are all the rage, adorning the heads of celebrities, athletes, and everyday folk now more than ever before. Yet, the actual caring, styling, and maintenance of textured hair still remains a mystery to many.Now, Diane Da Costa, celebrity stylist and master designer of natural hair, unravels the tresses of textured hair, providing readers with information on the proper care of natural hair as well as a step-by-step guide on achieving various exciting styles.Textured Tresses will help you: * Identify and celebrate the texture you were born with (whether it’s wavy, curly, very curly, or tightly coiled) * Keep your hair healthy and strong by using hair products and tools correctly and managing stress effectively * Select the right stylist and salon to suit your hair care needs * Transition from chemically relaxed ha (more…)

It’s All Good Hair: The Guide to Styling and Grooming Black Children’s Hair (Paperback)

What are you going to do with your children’s hair? Combing your daughter’s hair is giving you a headache and now your son is asking you for cornrows. Relax. Finally, there’s a lifeline for those who are desperately seeking help in styling their Black children’s hair. Learn the tricks and techniques for today’s most popular hairstyles with the easy-to-follow steps found in It’s All Good Hair. It features hair-care and styling tips from a variety of experts, and you’ll learn all the secrets to braiding, relaxing, and locking, as well as discover many other creative styling ideas. Say good-bye to those disastrous attempts at doing it alone. Here’s the support you need to help your children look good and feel their very best.

About the Author
Michele N-K Collison is a veteran journalist who has written for such national publications as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Black Enterprise.

(more…)