Archive for March 2006
Natural Black Hair Care Tip – Lavender Essential Oil
Posted by: ofranklin on: March 16, 2006
One of my favorite ingredients in my hair care products is lavender essential oil. Not only does it have a nice fresh smell, it is naturally soothing to the scalp, it is naturally antiseptic, and it helps fight scalp problems. I also like to keep a small bottle of lavender essential oil next to me [...]
This is where my hair is now in March 2006
Posted by: ofranklin on: March 14, 2006
This is where my hair is now in March 2006. My hair is quite elastic and sometimes the growth is not as obvious. In between 2001 and 2006 I have trimmed my hair by several inches to try and remove the damaged sections. My hair is thermally pressed. When I was growing up, one assumption [...]
This is where my hair was in 2001
Posted by: ofranklin on: March 14, 2006
This is where my hair was after pressing it and trimming it for two years. My natural hair is a blend between type 4a and type 4b. When unpressed, it forms ringlets, but there are kinks in the strands and it knots at the ends quite often. It is dry and coarse, and without proper [...]
I decided to go back to pressing
Posted by: ofranklin on: March 14, 2006
At the suggestion of my mom, I decided to try pressing again. She let me know that it was a way to give my hair a sort of hot oil treatment. It would also help me detangle my hair and allow me to wear styles that wouldn’t pull at my hairline as much. Although I [...]
My hair was breaking off and I didn’t even know it
Posted by: ofranklin on: March 14, 2006
Even though I liked wearing my hair natural, I didn’t realize that I was damaging it until one day (sometime around 1998) when my mom asked to see how long my hair was. She took my hair down, and as she looked through it she started saying very loudly “Your hair is broken, your hair [...]
Growing up I wore my hair plaited, pressed, then natural
Posted by: ofranklin on: March 14, 2006
As a teen I wore my hair occassionally in a traditional Nigerian plaited style, and sometimes I wore it pressed. My mom pressed my hair for me. She learned how to press hair from her cousin when she was a teen. When I got a little older I tried pressing too, but I could never [...]
My black hair journey began in Nigeria, West Africa
Posted by: ofranklin on: March 13, 2006
My black hair journey began in Nigeria, West Africa. When I was a young child, I went to live in the city of Ile-Ife with my mother, my father, and my sister. My mother is a black American who was born in Oklahoma. My dad is a Yoruba from Nigeria, West Africa. We went to [...]
Welcome to My Black Hair Journey
Posted by: ofranklin on: March 13, 2006
Welcome to My Black Hair Journey. On this blog I will share my experiences in attempting to grow and maintain my hair. This blog won’t have the answers for everyone, but it will have answers for some. Before I talk about growing my hair, I will talk about how I arrived at this point – [...]
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Northwest Scents at Amazon.com
Northwest Scents Natural Black Hair Care Products at Amazon.com
Northwest Scents Touch of Rose Hair Pomade
J.D. Okahi Ojeikere – Photographs (at Amazon.com)
J.D. Okahi Ojeikere in his book "Photographs" documents some of the traditional hairstyles of Nigerian women.
