Basic Natural Hair Care Kenyan Edition.

Natural Hair Journey & it’s tea chronicles.

My Natural Hair journey started 3 years ago in the summer of 2017 after I noticed my relaxed hair was getting shorter and shorter with every blow dry I had. FYI I am not one into plaiting my hair that often 😉.

So my intial step was not voluntary, but I am so glad that it happened. Sometimes good things come off of very bad situations( like how the Corona thing gonna turn out, all good in God’s timing) .

Anyway i was lucky enough that one of my closest friend was a Naturalista already, so she took me “essential shopping”. Big up Jojo! She did my first Wash day , all the way from Shampooing(reminds me of that Nyeri woman trending who said Champoo😝) back to business though, then to Conditioning and finally to doing some twists, infamously known as “matutas”.

“Migrating from Relaxed hair to Natural hair is known as “Transitioning”. You can either do a big chop i.e. Shave all of your relaxed hair and grow your all natural hair afresh or (as i opted) , transition slowly. This entails trimming your split ends(relaxed ends,easily noticeable) on a regular basis, i used to trim mine after every time i had a washday, mostly every once in a month. It didn’t take long to get rid of the split ends.

Now to the tea, Maintaining natural hair is Expensive as hell!Wueh… requires hard work & dedication!… There is some truth in this but a frequent application of Natural Aloe Vera, some Avocado & Water will keep you going.

Just make sure you have a Shampoo(meant for natural hair, should be Sulphate free) , a conditioner(preferably a leave-in Conditioner) & some natural hair gel for those slay days. And imagine you good to go.

Ooooh!And remembered to do your regular hair trims,i do mine annually, and it’s best done by a hair specialist(we have so many natural hair salons nowadays. You wouldn’t want to end up with uneven hair length.

Very Basic guys!

Imma update incase i have forgotten something or change my routine.

Feel free to leave a comment below, either as an add on or a question.