Protective hairstyles are a cornerstone of the natural hair community. They offer the flexibility to experiment with different looks while keeping your kinks, curls and coils intact. However, despite the popularity of styles like braids, twists, and cornrows, many women still experience breakage and hair loss when wearing these styles.Are you dealing with breakage…
Protective Styles
Braids, twists, wigs, and weaves—how to style and maintain protective looks while keeping your natural hair healthy.
Get ready to jump on the bandwagon because sew-ins are staging a triumphant comeback in the natural hair community, offering not just style but also promoting hair growth! Whilst traditional sew ins have been a trusted protective style for decades, they've also faced their fair share of challenges. Blending your leave-out seamlessly with your weave?…
Braids are one of the most popular protective hairstyles for black women. They’re the perfect holiday hairstyle, last a long time, easy to style and keep your ends protected. Braids can have a positive impact on length retention and helps you make the most of your new growth. How? You may wonder! Well, your hands…
Clip in extensions are taking the natural hair community by storm. It offers versatility, endless styling options, extra length and volume in minutes. It's no wonder they’re so popular! Compared to 10 years ago, there are so many options on the market for Type 4 Naturalistas. The textures range from kinky, coily and curly which…
Mini Twists have become more and more popular over the last couple of months. If you’re on social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, you’ll see countless videos of why Natural Hair Girlies are loving this style. The term mini twists has generated millions of views on Tiktok, 27.4 mill to be exact and…
Black women have been wearing extensions in forms of wigs and weaves as a protective style for decades. Over the last couple of years, more brands have been emerging specifically focussing on extensions for Type 4 Hair. These textures are usually described as kinky straight, afro curly or coily hair. In this article, we’ll be…
French curl braids have become more and more popular over the last couple of years, moving ahead of traditional box braids and is the new way of doing knotless braids. Funny enough, it’s a trend that was well known in the 90’s and worn regularly by the braid queen herself - ‘Brandy’ on the hit…


