Your Hair’s Not Like Mine, Kid… And That’s OK!
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Your Hair’s Not Like Mine, Kid… And That’s OK!

Many of my straight-haired friends admit they rarely gave much thought to the care and maintenance of the strands atop their heads. Sure, they bought bottles of shampoo and occasionally used conditioner. Maybe they complained when humid weather zapped the curls they created that morning with a curling iron. Other than that, it seemed like a wash, brush and go...

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Top Five Tools Every Curly Needs
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Top Five Tools Every Curly Needs

Most curly girls’ bathrooms are a cross between an episode of Hoarding: Buried Alive and the aftermath of a tsunami. With curly hair, escaping from the bathroom with anything better than a poodle’s coif takes an army of products and tools. Let’s take a look at the top five tools for perfect curls. 1. Diffuser: Don’t even think about blow-drying...

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10 Secrets you Need to Know when Straightening your Curls
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10 Secrets you Need to Know when Straightening your Curls

With curly hair being so versatile, occasionally some curlies enjoy switching up styles and safely going from curly to straight with ease. But with the versatility of curly hair comes fragility, which is why many curlies scoff at the mention of heat and curly hair. The fear of “heat damage” or curls that don’t recover after heat styling is strong within the...

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Miss Black Orlando Beauty Pageant
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Miss Black Orlando Beauty Pageant

The Miss Black USA Pageant was started to provide educational opportunities to outstanding young women of color, and to develop the “whole woman mind, body, and spirit.” The pageant celebrates scholastic achievement, and believes that education is the key to lifelong success and empowerment. Here at CHS we have had the pleasure with working with delegate Iajni Fen (Miss Black...

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Are you over conditioning your curls?
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Are you over conditioning your curls?

True or false: Curly hair can never be over conditioned. If you’re new to the naturally curly world, you were probably taught that “conditioner is a curl’s best friend”, and “you could never have too much moisture”. Those back-to-back conditioning washes, overnight deep conditioning sessions, and daily wash and go’s became the saviour of your curls. But what they may...

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Freestyle Your Lifestyle Sweepstakes
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Freestyle Your Lifestyle Sweepstakes

We want to give you naturally curly beauties the chance to Freestyle Your Lifestyle! Enter for a chance to WIN a $200 Beauty Beach Package! Includes a $150 Sunglass Hut Gift Card and a Curl Keeper Styling Beach Kit of Curl Keeper Original, Gel and Beach Mist 8oz. Official Rules:Simply ‘Like’ us on Facebook, share your email address with us and click...

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Curls Worth Idolizing
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Curls Worth Idolizing

“Hey Freddie!” It was ‘70s day at my high school more than 20 years ago, and in tribute to those glory days of bellbottoms and leisure suits, I wanted my hair to match my oh-so-hip disco queen getup. I had no idea how to shape my flat-ironed black hair into an Afro back then, but I remembered how curly my hair would...

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Dramatic Kinky Makeover
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Dramatic Kinky Makeover

Ashaya has extremely tight kinky hair. She has long curly hair that can seemingly take forever to grow since her shrinkage is very significant. Her hair is strong and healthy as a result of avoiding chemicals (colouring and relaxers). Since her curls are so fine and tight, her hair retains a ton of moisture causing the hair to take several hours to...

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A Guide to Camping with Curls
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A Guide to Camping with Curls

Why not plan a weekend with Mother Nature in the great outdoors? Marshmallows roasting by the fire, stunning sunsets and a warm breeze gently floating through my hair – nothing can beat it! For curlies though, camping can be nightmare. No electricity, water or a countertop to hold our mounds of hair products?!? Fear not – no one should be...

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Go Vintage with 1940s Hairstyle
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Go Vintage with 1940s Hairstyle

In the 1940’s, it seemed like everything was happening. Women entered the workforce in place of men off to war. World War II meant hard times, and even the US currency did its part by using nickel for pennies instead of copper. The good and the bad all had their place in one very intense decade, and the hair shows...

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