Helen is a college student in the UK who grew her hair down to her waist to push back on the belief that people with 4C texture hair cannot grow their hair very long evenContinue reading
Category: How To
How to Style Passion Twists {I Totally Got this Style All Wrong}
During the quarantine when everyone was experimenting with doing their own hair, a lot of us were forced to learn how to trim, braid, cut, dye and process our own hair. We failed a lot.Continue reading
My First Time Doing My Own Curly Crochet Braids
Graduate’s name, degree awarded, educational institution, academic honors received, major. Because of the pandemic, a lot of us are not able to get our hair professionally done. People like me who rely on another personContinue reading
Basic At Home 4C Hair Maintenance During Coronavirus Quaranting
Photo by Caio Cardenas from Pexels Man… a couple weeks ago, I wanted to do a YouTube video but realized my nails were busted and my governor had urged people not to patronize non-essential businesses and eventually shutContinue reading
How I Styled My Lemonade Braids While On Vacation
I just came back from vacation. I wanted Lemonade braids and to have them installed via crochet versus as individual braids because it takes 2 hours for the former and about 5 hours for theContinue reading
Let me Be Your Holiday Hair Muse {Shop the Looks}
JJBraids Rewind A few years ago, I started this hair beauty blog named for myself dedicated to ethnic braided. I’ve worn my hair in variety of braided styles for over a decade and usually getContinue reading
The 5 Maintenance Products to Use While Wearing Braids
Here are the haircare maintenance products I’ve come to rely on as a decades long consistent braided hairstyle wearer. Braids are a protective style that are often worn by women when they need a no-fussContinue reading
43 Ways to Wear Your Locs, Compliments of DMX Challenge
I saw the most versatile amount of ways to wear locs on a woman doing the DMX Challenge (the latest online challenge that features women showing off 43 different hairstyles they’ve worn over the femaleContinue reading
It’s Still Bold and Controversial: Another TV Journalist Goes Natural
This is a new trend I like. Another television news personality has shed her weaves, straighteners and wigs that covered and “tamed” her natural hair. Charlotte, North Carolina newscaster at WSOC-TV, DaShawn Brown, changed herContinue reading
24 Ways to Tie Your Hair This Summer!
Summer is here! I’m all about head scarves as a cute and fun style and go styles. I shared a blog post on my parenting blog you can see here with scarf styles. For myContinue reading