Heat – My Natural Black Hair

[Pics] Black Women on Instagram are Sharing Their Heat Damage Transformations

There was a time when heat damage was actually a goal of some women – nicknamed “heat training,” it was a method that included consistently straightening one’s hair in order to achieve looser, “more manageable” curls. While some women were able to achieve the hair texture they were in search of, it left a lot of people with limp, uneven curls. Others also experienced heat damage by accident from straightening, constant blow drying, or straightening their leave out while protective styling. But many black women are now sharing their stories of growing out their heat damage and showing off their

How To Carefully Add Blow Drying To Your Natural Hair Regimen With Little or No Heat Damage

How To Carefully Add Blow Drying To Your Natural Hair Regimen With Little or No Heat Damage For most naturals keen on growing their hair, avoiding heat is a very sacred mantra. We know that blowdrying, even on a low setting, literally dries the hair by taking internal moisture levels to below what air drying would produce and never rebalancing with humidity in air. You can read the science here. However, some naturals actually attribute low temperature blow drying to being able to manage their hair better as hair dries faster, has reduced tangling and shrinkage due to the stretching