Low porosity characteristics and hair regimen tips to care for your natural hairs’ needs

As I mentioned in the previous post, hair porosity is very important in properly caring for your hair. This porosity level means that your hair cuticle layers are tight and lay flat.  This hair is generally healthy but difficult to process. However, bad hair practices may increase your hair porosity such as; excessive washing, combing, …

What hair porosity is, the types and how to test it for natural hair

What is Hair Porosity? Hair porosity is your hair’s ability to absorb and retain water or any other penetrating substance. In the past, I didn’t pay much attention to this, because I thought it was just more natural hair vocabulary I didn’t need. It was only 3 months ago when I started doing my research …

Tips on How to Blow Dry/ Heat style your Natural Hair using the tension method to avoid Heat Damage

I love the diversity in the natural hair community, ranging from hair thickness, hair porosity, hair density, curl pattern, texture, sebum level and perhaps many other traits. People with less dense, high porosity, looser and finer texture would most likely not need to use heat to achieve stretched hair. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links, …