African hair women find it hard to retain length due to different factors like culture and norms. Retaining length is part of every one’s health journey and knowing how to navigate through it is a major achievement for most of us.
The curly, coily kinky texture of our hair tends to break easily due to tangles, single strand knots and many other factors. #strugglesofanatural, I guesse you all know that 😭 but that doesn’t mean we cannot grow our hair!
There are different ways we can use to maintain our curls longer than we do now! Which are:
- Low manipulative protective styling
- Using a silk/satin bonnet or scarf
- Moisturizing oils for the scalp
- Fingure detangling after shampoo usage with either a regular conditioner or a leave in conditioner
- Using wide tooth comb
- Using less heat on your hair e.g blow-drying/flat ironing
- Deep conditioning every 7 days/ 14 days
- Apply oil at the ends of your hair for at least 3 days in a week
- Eat healthy balanced diet with more proteins and vegetables
- Take suppliments if you cannot meat the daily vitamins and proteins required intake.
More tips
Try to exercise every other day to get blood flowing up to your scalp.
Also steaming your hair helps open up the pores on your scalp that really helps in oil/ product absorption >>>> read more
Hope this was helpful in your hair growth journey! Let me know on the comments section. Like and share with your family and friends. As usual it’s your curly friend @renniestar chao!
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