Finding the right hairstyles for fine thin natural hair can be challenging. Finer strands often break more easily from manipulation, friction, and tension. While protective styles can help reduce daily handling, not every style is equally suitable for fine hair. Some styles may place unnecessary stress on delicate strands, particularly when extensions, excessive tension, or…

Many naturals choose cornrows and braids as protective styles. Yet they place very different levels of tension, weight, and manipulation on Type 4 hair. While both styles can support length retention, the way they’re installed and maintained can impact the health of your hair. Many people wear cornrows with their natural hair or braids with…

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…

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 one of the most popular protective styles amongst Naturalistas, and it’s easy to see why. If you’re active on social media, you’ve probably seen countless videos of people sharing their mini twist routines, styling ideas and impressive length retention results. Alongside their versatility, mini twists are often credited with helping reduce…

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…