naturallovesong

Monday, 2 May 2011

2011 NP London Meetup

A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending a meeting up with some of the ladies from one of the hair forums I belong to: Nappturality. This was my first meetup and I was super-excited!! (I usually have trouble attending meetups because they tend to be Saturday afternoons, and I worship on Saturday, so when a meetup was proposed for a Saturday evening I jumped at the chance).

I was surprised at how excited meeting with some of my e-friends was, I've admired some of their hair for months, so I actually felt like I was getting ready for a date or something, lol.

My style for the evening was a canerows in the front with a twistout updo in the back. I used some new products for the twisting (reviews coming soon). Pics of my hair on the night:

My hair was bouncy, touchable, soft and full. I was feeling it, and got quite a few stares en route to the meetup. :)

We went to Prezzo Restaurant near Marble Arch. The food was 'just aight' for me, but real live hair porn, good conversation, yes! It was lovely putting faces to names and getting to chill with these beautifully fly natural ladies IRL (in real life).

If you're interested in locs, Narj (pictured in the middle) is blogging about her loc journey! Check her out here: http://www.narjsjourney.blogspot.com/

Looking forward to more natural hair meetups in the future!

Peace and love,

Pooks

Friday, 29 April 2011

Wedding Styles for Natural Hair

Hundreds of thousands have lined the streets of London today to celebrate with Prince William and his new bride Kate Middleton. Want to see the pictures from the royal wedding? Click here.

If there's one day a woman wants her hair to be looking it's best, it's certainly at her wedding! Natural hair yields so much choice for brides. Loose, locked, curly, twistout, rod set, straw set, canerowed, intricate and detailed or simple, sophisticated and understated. The choices are endess! Errol Douglas MBE and owner of swanky salon in Knightsbridge gives instructions on how to achieve the above gorgeous double bun do here.

There are so many wedding/formal styles for transitioning or natural hair out there. Here are a few ideas (**Pictures all found via our friend Google):

For more wedding hair inspiration, check out this blog - http://africanamericanweddinghairstyles.blogspot.com/.

I went for minitwists on my wedding day. Regretfully I didn't have time on the day to style them as I would've liked so I wore it in a high bun with some curled twists framing my face in the front:

Off to enjoy another long weekend : )

Pooks

Thursday, 28 April 2011

Kimmaytube on Fros

So I recently watched this video by Kim Love, where she talked about why she doesn't wear an unstretched 'fro' - well, at least not intentionally. She explained that it just leads to tangles and potential breakage which could all be avoided by just keeping her styles in the confines of 'stretched styles'. For me personally, I totally agree with KT's sentiments because of my current hair length, and goals. My hair out for extended periods just equals more detangling than I find fun, and potential breakage. So while I used to love wearing my puffs, I've seriously cut back on them.

This is all subjective - if you have less hair, a looser texture, or aren't fanatical about retaining length, or simply love an afro, then go 'head, pick it out and rock it, if you like it, I love it!

I think textured (twistout/braidout) out styles are the way forward, as long as I'm trying to retain length to achieve longer hair.