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If you have color treated hair, condition weekly to add moisture and offset drying from chemicals.
Before you go to bed, wear something to protect your hair during sleep. Use a scarf or cap for straight hairstyles. Apply a small amount of moisturizer to the hair and then put on your cap.
To avoid rubbing and to stop hairline breakage, never sleep in any type of hair band that will rub the hairline. If you use a sleep cap, make sure it's satin and that it does not go above the ears. You can also resort of a satin pillowcase if you cannot keep a cap or scarf on.
Massage the scalp regularly to encourage oil production.
Once a month try a hot oil treatment, which will lubricate dry scalp conditions as well as moisturize brittle hair.
Styles For Natural Hair*
Lengthen It
To showcase the length of natural hair, try wetting then braiding it in large sections. After it is dry, you can do a large roller set or use a WARM curling iron to smooth each section. This will help to enhance the shine because the hair will be lying flatter and the length because it will have dried stretched.
Roll It
While you hair is still wet from a shampoo or rinsing, takes pencil to maker sized sections and roll them around in a twirling fashion either around one finger, or between finger and thumb. The tighter your coil. The longer and skinnier the resulting coil will be. The looser you twirl, the fatter and shorter the curl.
Curl it
Use the tail end of a rattail comb like a hair roller and do African Curls, also known as Comb Rolls. Take a damp, gelled section of hair the size you prefer and while holding the tail of the comb against the hair, wrap the end of the hair over the comb. Once the end is wrapped, roll the comb tail towards your scalp, as if rolling your hair in a roller. When you reach the scalp, slide the comb out of the roll. Complete all sections, let air dry, or wrap a scarf over your hair and sit under a COOL dryer until 80% dry. The roll will tighten more as it totally dries.
'Fro It
For this look, simply wet set your hair using a pomade or oil for moisture and hold. The size of the rollers will determine the size of the 'fro. Large rollers will give you a voluminous, looser fro, while smaller ones will give you a tighter curlier fro.
A variation on this style is to separate wet or dampened hair into sections and plait or twist each piece and wrap the hair around the base of the plait or twist. When the hair is dry, loosen the twists or braids gently and finger comb into place.
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