Official Thread for Those with Afro-Hair Only - Ladies and Gents . .

Too expensive

Any 'Black' hair shop. Try jbco shampoo , I've heard it doesn't have nay sulphates.


Will definetly recommend using olive oil with conditioning/shampooing , for the first time in my life I could put my fingers through my natural hair without stopping. My hair is really soft as a result.


I get a a lot of guidance from this site hairliciousinc.com
Her hair journey is actually amazing



This is her most recent

It's actually not, I used to think it was too expensive before but then i started comparing it to other products at Boots and I realised that their shampoos are actually quite reasonable and have better ingredients. If anything it's maybe a pound or two extra at most.

I wish I had hair like that

Do you live in a black area? If yes thats why you think its cheaper.

I live in London

You can't get a better value from a black hair shop than Holland and Barrett. Where in London may I ask?

I'm from south east London.

The reason why I said Holland and Barrett is good is because I've been searching for a sulphate free shampoo for a while and I've looked in Black hair shops, Boots and Superdrug. the majority of their shampoos have sulphates and the ones that don't are expensive, i.e the cheapest ones in boots were £5.99 and £6.99 and the ones in the black hair shop are like close to £10 or more.

I like holland and barrett because all of their shampoos are sulphate free so theirs more choice and they're mostly between £5 and £6 which is not cheap but I think it's quite reasonable seeing as their ingredients are mostly all natural.

Any 'Black' hair shop. Try jbco shampoo , I've heard it doesn't have nay sulphates.


Will definetly recommend using olive oil with conditioning/shampooing , for the first time in my life I could put my fingers through my natural hair without stopping. My hair is really soft as a result.


I get a a lot of guidance from this site hairliciousinc.com
Her hair journey is actually amazing



This is her most recent

I need to buy more products, at the moment I use industrial amounts of Pink.

Please dont tell me that is all natural.. Gorgeouss

Hello all, I may have posted here a while back but I can't remember now..
I've also decided to go all natural (albeit not by choice) because I live abroad and no one is capable of doing my hair here, and relaxed hair is too much to maintain.. So I'm 8months post relaxer and when I take out my braids I'm going to cut about 5cm below the relaxed hair..

But a funny little story was last march I was really desperate to colour my hair rouge/burgundy.. So I relaxed my hair on the Tuesday.. Coloured it Friday night (didn't take) so I coloured it again Saturday morning and that afternoon had it put into a weave..
Needless to say my hair broke unimaginably hahaha

But my query is what afro hair regime (<understatement) works wonders?.. The most I do for my hair is sleep with a silk scarf and grease it like once a month (terrible I know).. Since September it's constantly been in braids so I rarely wash it.. But could anyone point in the direction of the do's and don'ts of Afro hair??

Sorry for the essay!!


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Please dont tell me that is all natural.. Gorgeouss

Hello all, I may have posted here a while back but I can't remember now..
I've also decided to go all natural (albeit not by choice) because I live abroad and no one is capable of doing my hair here, and relaxed hair is too much to maintain.. So I'm 8months post relaxer and when I take out my braids I'm going to cut about 5cm below the relaxed hair..

But a funny little story was last march I was really desperate to colour my hair rouge/burgundy.. So I relaxed my hair on the Tuesday.. Coloured it Friday night (didn't take) so I coloured it again Saturday morning and that afternoon had it put into a weave..
Needless to say my hair broke unimaginably hahaha

But my query is what afro hair regime (<understatement) works wonders?.. The most I do for my hair is sleep with a silk scarf and grease it like once a month (terrible I know).. Since September it's constantly been in braids so I rarely wash it.. But could anyone point in the direction of the do's and don'ts of Afro hair??

Sorry for the essay!!


This was posted from The Student Room's iPhone/iPad App

Please dont tell me that is all natural.. Gorgeouss

Hello all, I may have posted here a while back but I can't remember now..
I've also decided to go all natural (albeit not by choice) because I live abroad and no one is capable of doing my hair here, and relaxed hair is too much to maintain.. So I'm 8months post relaxer and when I take out my braids I'm going to cut about 5cm below the relaxed hair..

But a funny little story was last march I was really desperate to colour my hair rouge/burgundy.. So I relaxed my hair on the Tuesday.. Coloured it Friday night (didn't take) so I coloured it again Saturday morning and that afternoon had it put into a weave..
Needless to say my hair broke unimaginably hahaha

But my query is what afro hair regime (<understatement) works wonders?.. The most I do for my hair is sleep with a silk scarf and grease it like once a month (terrible I know).. Since September it's constantly been in braids so I rarely wash it.. But could anyone point in the direction of the do's and don'ts of Afro hair??

Sorry for the essay!!


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Hey, check out my youtube channel ashababe56 I went natural 2 years ago. I am completely again using grease or any products for that matter, on my scalp. And if you think that natural hair is easier to maintain, you're in for a big surprise. I'd also suggest this website blackgirllonghair.com.

Good Luck!

I'm new to this thread but I have been reading it since it started and I knew that one day I would have the motivation to actually take care of my hair. That day has started a couple of months ago when I realised that 3 years of weave had destroyed my hair

My background: I come from a family with a lot of mixtures so my hair has always been long. When I was a teenager, I started applying all sorts of gels and I didn't take good care of it at all. I just realised that everyone in my family has the same problem: we are born with a lot of hair and once we start relaxing it, we don't know how to take care of it so it just sheds away

Anyway, I spent a total of 3 months researching about hair care, products, what to do and what not to do and I'm ready!!!

I just wonder if anyone is starting their hair journey now and maybe we can... erm... support each other

(sorry for the long post)

I'm 8 months into mine, but I'd be happy to join you

I'm new to this thread but I have been reading it since it started and I knew that one day I would have the motivation to actually take care of my hair. That day has started a couple of months ago when I realised that 3 years of weave had destroyed my hair

My background: I come from a family with a lot of mixtures so my hair has always been long. When I was a teenager, I started applying all sorts of gels and I didn't take good care of it at all. I just realised that everyone in my family has the same problem: we are born with a lot of hair and once we start relaxing it, we don't know how to take care of it so it just sheds away

Anyway, I spent a total of 3 months researching about hair care, products, what to do and what not to do and I'm ready!!!

I just wonder if anyone is starting their hair journey now and maybe we can... erm... support each other

(sorry for the long post)

Careful, too much Pink makes your hair look really greasy as I've witnessed first hand

I started my hair journey about 6 months ago and I'm now 5 months and a bit into my transition. so yeah we can all support each other

Agree; cheap hair product which contains a lot of either mineral oil, or petrolatum!

I wanted to tell you this since I have started following you: () Thank you! Your curiosity and initiative to start this thread may have just saved my life.
I wanted to PM you but I wasn't sure you still came to TSR so I didn't. Did you change anything about your regime? Did you reach other lengths? I have been checking your blog but no updates have been made on the hair

And... (sorry) about the deep conditioning, I have been researching this and no-one seems to add an egg to it. Am I crazy for wanting to do that? I have been doing with honey, coconut oil (extra virgin) and 1 egg but I'm thinking I should drop the egg... but then again the hair mayonnaise you suggest on your blog has an egg because I will be applying heat to it, I'm not sure if it will end up a mess. What do you think?