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Giveaway Presented by African Pride #FreeToBeMe Giveaway

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In celebration of Black History Month, African Pride has teamed up with Nearly Hair and would like to present the [#FreeToBeMe Giveaway]. For the entire month of February, you lovely readers will have a chance to win a full set of the African Pride Olive Miracle or Shea Butter Miracle Collection. African Pride Hair Care’s nationally charged “My Pride. My Way” campaign celebrates the individual style, innovation, and beauty of all women because “When it Comes to Hair, We Write Our Own Rules.” Join us as we celebrate healthy hair, individual style, beauty and your African Pride in the [#FreeToBeMe Giveaway]. African Pride Hair Care continues the conversation surrounding the brand’s nationally charged “My Pride. My Way” campaign just in time for Black History Month. “My Pride. My Way” is a national campaign celebrating the individual style, innovation, and beauty of all women because “When it Comes to Hair, We Write Our Own Rules.” Join us as we celebrate healthy hair, celebrate your individual style and beauty, and celebrate your African Pride. Info below via African pride About African Pride Olive Miracle Deep Conditioning Hair Care helps provide moisture and nutrients the hair & scalp desires, because it helps replace the moisture and elasticity lost to styling and environmental factors. Naturally rich in vitamin E and other powerful antioxidants, African Pride Olive Miracle Deep Conditioning Hair Care helps restore and retain hair and scalp’s health, vitality and natural luster. There are numerous benefits from Olive oil, which is the oily fat from the fruit of the olive tree, Oliva Europea, found originally in the Mediterranean. Scientists have found that Olive oil works to help heal, restore and protect our skin, hair, nails. Olive oil must go thru through extensive purifying processes to become useful as the fluid base for cosmetics, shampoos and moisturizers. African Pride formulators have worked tirelessly and successfully to find ways to incorporate this purified form in the new Olive Miracle hair care line to achieve dramatic results! Our corporate website has been designed with you in mind – to help you discover the perfect combination of African Pride products that help prevent and correct your unique hair and scalp damage. Chemical processing, use of heat styling tools and even daily brushing & combing, damage hair in completely different ways. That’s why each African Pride product is uniquely formulated to help stop specific types of damage. Giveaway Rules: Tweet and follow @CiaE7, @myafricanpride . When you tweet us use the #FreeToBeMe hashtag on how you embrace freedom when styling your hair. Winners are based on random selection. Follow me on Instagram (@ciae7) for an additional entry linking my name and the hashtag #naturalhair with a picture of anything (appropriate pictures, preferably hair photos) Two (2) winners will receive a full set of either the African Pride Olive Miracle or African Pride Shea Butter Miracle collection. Selection is based on winner’s preference. African Pride will send product directly to the winner. Winner will be announced 24 hours after February 28th, and if they do not respond another winner will be chosen. The winners should also state in the email which product they would like. Winner Information Needed: Full name, Mailing Address (Must be in Continental U.S. & No P.O. Boxes), Phone Number, & Twitter Name Want to learn more about African Pride? Check them out here…Website www.african-pride.comFacebook http://facebook.com/MyAfricanPridePinterest www.pinterest.com/myafricanpride Twitter (@MyAfricanPride)Check me out on these media outlets!?@CIaE7 Twitter@CiaE7 InstagramSheacutey YT Actual begins February 1st – February 28th surrounding Black History Month.

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Maxim Bobbi Boss Asia 1b mb200 Wig

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After falling out of love with my best lace wig, I took it upon myself to find a wig I was most comfortable with. I made my way to my favorite beauty supply store and took a gander at their wigs. The first wig I spotted I automatically knew was coming home with me! After 15 minutes of searching I made the decision to stick with the 1st wig. I adore this week. Though it is not human it is human blend, meaning I can use minimum heat. The shedding is Impeccable. Best of all, it keeps my hair protected in a jiffy. Maxim Bobbi Boss Asia 1b mb200 Price: $49.99 Type: Human Blend wig You can view my wig review below: The hair is almost tangle free and requires minimum work. Those who saw it did not believe it was a wig but a weave instead. How awesome is that!!??

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Hair Lovers Holiday Sales

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Check both list because there may be a vendor on one list and not on the other Courtesy of Confessions of a Blog Vixen: Aa Ambrosia Hair Sale Date: Nov 1-31 Sale Details: 15% OFF of Satin Curls Detangling Leave-in Featured Product: Satin Curls Detangling Leave-in [+] Anderson Soap Company Sale Date: Nov 23 Dale Details: 40% OFF using ‘BlackFriday’ Featured Product: Pomegranate Olive Oil Soap Bar [+] Anita Grant Sale Date: Nov 23-27 (British Standard Time) Sale Details: 15% OFF using ‘I am Beautiful’ Featured Product: Rhassoul Deep Conditioner [+] Bb BASK Beauty Sale Date: Nov 23-25 Sale Details: 20% OFF using ‘Thankful’ (24% OFF coupon code will be posted on Platinum PJ’s FB on 11/23) Featured Product: Cacao Bark Deep Treat [+] Beija Flor Naturals Sale Date: Nov 22-28 Sale Details: 20% OFF using ‘Beija2012′ + Gift w/ $65 Purchase Featured Product: Creme Brulee [+] Belle Butters* Sale Date: Nov 23 | Nov 26 Sale Details: 20% OFF $25+ using ‘BBBF’ | Free Shipping using ‘BBCM’ Featured Product: Pumpkin Pie Butter [+] Butters-N-Bars* Sale Date: Nov 23-25 | Nov 26 Sale Details: 25% OFF Butters using ‘JusButters’ | 20% OFF Everything using ‘CyberMonday’ Featured Product: Raw Organic Butters [+] Brown Butter Beauty Sale Date: Nov 23-25 Sale Details: 25% OFF using ‘BlackFriday’ Featured Product: Babassu Cream Deep Conditioner [+] Cc Camille Rose Sale Date: Nov 23 Sale Details: Buy One Curl Maker Get Fresh Curl Free Featured Product: Curl Maker [+] Coco Curls Sale Date: Nov 23-26 Sale Details: 25% OFF + Free Shipping on $75+ Featured Product: Coco Curls Styling Aid [+] Curl Junkie Sale Date: Nov 22-23 Sale Details: 25% OFF $50+ using ‘Thanks2012′ Featured Product: Hibiscus Banana Deep Fix [+] Curly Kinks Sale Date: Nov 23-25 Sale Details: 30% OFF Full-Sized Products Featured Product: Satin Roots [+] Cush Cosmetics Sale Date: Nov 18-30 Sale Details: 40% OFF Featured Product: The Ultimate Elixir [+] Dd Darcy’s Botanicals Sale Date: Nov 23 Sale Details: 25% OFF using ‘ThankYou’ Featured Product: Sweet Cocoa Bean Whip [+] Ee Eden Body Works Sale Date: Nov 26 Sale Details: 50% OFF Everything Featured Product: Jojoba Monoi Coconut Oil [+] Hh Hairitage Hydrations Sale Date: Nov 23-26 Sale Details: 35 % OFF using ‘BlackFriday2012′ Featured Product: Green Tea Time [+] Hairveda Sale Date: Nov 23 Sale Details: 10% OFF of sale prices using ‘FabFriday’ Featured Product: Sitrinillah Deep Conditioner [+] Hydratherma Naturals Sale Date: Nov 23 — 26 (11am — 11am) Dale Details: 20% OFF Feature Product: Amino Plus Protein Deep Condition Treatment [+] Jj Jamaica Hut Sale Date: Nov 23-26 Sale Details: 15% OFF using ‘Jhut26′ Featured Product: Jamaican Black Castor Oil [+] Jessicurl Sale Date: Nov 22-26 Sale Details: 25% OFF using ‘BFJ2526′ Featured Product: Too Shea! Extra Moisturizing Conditioner [+] Ll Love Child Essentials Sale Date: Nov 23-24 Sale Details: 15% OFF $25 using ‘Vixen15′ Featured Product: Heritage Basic Beauty Kit [+] Mm Miss Jessie’s Sale Date: Nov 18 — Dec 1 Sale Details: BOGO Free! Featured Product: Pillow Soft Curls [+] Nn Nyenzo Natural Boutique Sale Date: Nov 21-23 Sale Details: 15% OFF + Free Shipping on $45+ Featured Product: Nature’s Blessings Pomade [+] Oo Ouidad Sale Date: Nov 18-27 Dale Details: 25% OFF using ‘FFcurl’ Featured Product: Climate Control Defrzzing Conditioner [+] Pp The Pomade Shop Sale Date: Nov 23 — 26 Sale Details: Free Shipping on all 4 oz. pomades Featured Product: Sweet Simplicity Hair Styler [+] Pura Body Naturals Sale Date: Nov 21 — Dec 31 Sale Details: BOGO Sapote Hair Lotion, Cupuacu Butter, Murumuru Moisture Milk, Chocolate Hair Smoothie Featured Product: Cupuacu Butter [+] Ss Sage Naturalceuticals* Sale Date: Nov 23 (In-Store Only 6am — 7pm) | Nov 26 (Online Only 12:01am — 11:59pm) Sale Details: 25-30% OFF Everything + In-Store style demos | 20% OFF Everything using ‘cyber12′ + Flat Rate Shipping (by region) Featured Product: B.A.S.K. Beauty Cacao Deep Conditioning Hair Treat [+] She Scent It Sale Date: Nov 23-26 Sale Details: 30% OFF Everything. Spend $75 recieve sample of choice. No coupon needed. Featured Product: Avocado Conditioner [+] Shi Naturals Sale Date: Nov 21 — 27 Sale Details: 25% OFF using ‘Angels’ Featured Product: Garlic Conditioner for Shedding [+] Tt Tasti Kiss Essentials* Sale Date: Nov 23 (9am -3pm PST) | Nov 24 (3am — 12am PST) Sale Details: 25% OFF using ‘TastiFriday’ | 20% OFF using ‘PinkSaturday’ Featured Product: Ayurvedic Hair Butter [+] Derby City Naturals list: Amazing Botanicals Friday 11/23 3 x $15 Pumpkin Pomade or Hibiscus Gel + Free Shipping $5 off any order over $20 + free gift with code: DERBYCITY Friday 11/23 thru 12/3 Anderson Soap Company Friday 11/23 Midnight thru Saturday 11/24 11:59 pm 40% off everything in store with code: blackfriday Anita Grant Friday 11/23 thru Tuesday 11/27 GMT 20% off everything in store with code: Derby City Naturals *Spoiler Alert* New Clay Wash Product will be introduced as well B.A.S.K. Friday 11/23 Midnight thru Sunday 11/25 11:59 pm 20% off full-size products with code: THANKFUL PLATINUM PJ SAVINGS: 24% off Site-wide by LIKE PlatinumPJ on fb on 11/20 to get the specialty discount code Free 2 oz jar of Muscavado Vanilla Pecan Whipped Custard Souffle Body Cream with purchase of $50+ Be Beautiful Natural Products Friday 11/23 Midnight thru Monday 11/26 11:59 pm Free Shipping on all orders $25 and up No Coupon Code Beija Flor Naturals Thursday 11/22 thru Wednesday 11/28 25% off + Free Gift with $65 purchase code: BEIJA2012 Belle Butters 20% off order of $25+ with code: BBBF Friday 11/23 Midnight CST Free Shipping on your order with code: BBCM Monday 11/26 Midnight CST Blended Beauty Friday 11/23 Midnight thru Monday 11/26 11:59 CST 1 item—5% off code: cblack5 2-5 items—20% off code: cblack20 6-14 items—30% off code: cblack30 15+ items—40% off code: cblack40 Bobeam Friday 11/23 thru 12/31 12% off with code: HOLIDAY12 3 x 2oz butters & 3 x 2oz shampoo bars for $20 Brown Butter Beauty Friday 11/23 Midnight thru Sunday 11/25 11:59

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What Products to use now? via Naturally Curly

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Pic Source Source If you’ve ever been in search of a new favorite product, you know how horrible the process can be. Some people simply pick it by the color of the bottle while others read the label to see if it’s for coily hair. But if there’s one thing to take away from all of the frustration as a newly natural, it’s to read some of the hair product ingredients. Importance of Ingredients Hair product ingredients are important in three different ways. For one thing, type 4 hair is fragile and often times brittle. The wrong hair care product can make a hair “situation” worse instead of better. If you know what’s in it, you have a better chance of finding what your hair needs. Also, you’re not just fighting the hair battle against your hair, but your scalp and body as well. Ingredients that are toxic can damage cooly hair or irritate your skin. These are important to note on any hair care label. Ingredients can also be hidden on labels, so you really have to dig to find what you know should not be put on your head. Finally, hair care products may often boast one thing, but the ingredients in the product may scientifically lack the ability to do that thing for your hair. So if you’re weeding out shampoos, conditioners or styling products, the ingredients list is the place to look first. The Best Ingredients for Coils There are a variety of fantastic and well known hair product ingredients that are helpful and healthful for type 4 hair, specifically emollients and silicone. Silicones are actually not bad for your hair and can actually help restore it. Unless you’ve recently big chopped, silicones will do more for your hair than not. An emollient is really just a fancy term for an oil or ingredient that contains fatty acids. These fatty acids penetrate the hair cuticle, giving nutrients and moisture the opportunity to absorb into the hair. Olive oil, macadamia nut oil, sesame oil and jojoba oil are fantastic emollients that can be found in everything from shampoo to styling products. Some emollients penetrate better than others, such as sesame and olive oil (which are both anti-inflammatory, as well). For coily hair, all emollients work to help bring back that strength in shine. That being said, an emollient works even better with silicones. Silicones, often known under the more common dimethecone, place a light film over the hair cuticle to protect it from the damaging effects of daily wear and tear. This is fantastic for an emollient in that it not only protects the hair from splitting or breaking, it also keeps nutrients and emollients inside the hair cuticle. And because it creates that protective film, silicone (and to some extent the lesser ingredient, collagen), makes combing and styling coily hair much easier. Keep note, however, that if you do use products that contain silicone, you will need to shampoo your hair more often. Many in the textured hair community prefer to avoid silicones in order to avoid shampoo. Silicones are actually not bad for your hair, and can actually help restore it. Unless you’ve recently big chopped, silicones will do more for your hair than not. If you are concerned about silicones, check out this article about which are water-soluble and which aren’t. The best offense to a silicone defense is to be educated. To read more click here

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My first time diffusing experience!

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Not quite a tutorial guys just experience

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Natural Sunshine: She loves her Blow Dryer

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Via Natural Sunshine I know many naturals have sworn off of heat styling, and I do go for long stretches of time without using any heat. Recently I’ve been impatient with drying time and I’ve been enjoying the look of blow dried hair. So for the past month I’ve been blow drying my hair after my weekly washes. AND (are you ready for this?) I haven’t been using protective styling that much. As it turns out heat doesn’t have to be my arch nemesis. Are there other naturalistas who would defend their blow dryers like a play cousin in the hood? Before we were so close I was afraid of blow dryers. Like, I would cross the street and grab hold of my purse if I saw one… they scared me so much! For years blow dryers meant tired arms, lots of breakage, somewhat straight roots and crunchy frizzy ends. There is nothing attractive about any of that. But I no longer have that association with my blow dryer even though it is the same ole’ dryer from high school! But the results are drastically different. What changed? I learned about deep conditioning, diffusers/comb attachments and heat protectants. Now that I am diligent about the use of all three, I can blow dry my hair in a fraction of the time, I have much less breakage and my hair is smooth from root to tip. I deep condition my hair in twists after detangling. I finger detangle again while adding my homemade heat protectant. I prefer my comb attachment over a diffuser and separate comb, its seamless and wide-toothed and concentrates the heat on my strands for faster results with less effort. And um yes, I am using a $1.99 comb attachment from the beauty supply store! All three things in conjunction improved the experience but I think I owe the majority of my success to my homemade heat protectant. Its worked so well for me I just had to share the recipe with you all. Click here for the full recipe and post your results if you use it. How do you feel about your blow dryers?

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Product Build up: The truth

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Pic Source Via Virtual Hair Care Most people have heard the old wives tale “that you should change your shampoo from time to time as it “builds up”. This is not entirely untrue as some products (those with cheaper ingredients) do often leave a film on the surface of the hair and scalp that can build up over time. Then there is also the obvious over use of styling products! The first signs of product build up are your hair looking or feeling lifeless, or when you comb or brush it you get a flaky powder along the hair shaft, this is not dandruff, its more likely to be a buildup problem. Buildup occurs when: Certain products like non-water soluble waxes are used to style the hair. 2 in 1 shampoos are used continuously. Certain shampoos cause buildup due to the type of cheaper ingredients they use to give instant combability. These can form a film on the hair or you may have to use a large amount to make your hair feel clean also resulting in buildup. Hair sprays applied too close and in too strong a concentration to one area e.g. the fringe, leave a flaking powder on the hair after brushing. If gel is applied in a blob it cannot spread through the rest of the hair causing build-up on that spot. We sometimes find that wetting your hands before getting the gel out of the pot and mixing it can solve this problem. To cure a build-up problem: Use a special purifying shampoo to remove previous products. Change your habits; apply spray further away from the hair approx. 15cm or 6″, work gel around your wet hands before putting it through your hair. Try awater-soluble wax. Separate your 2 in 1 shampoo and conditioner by getting a good old fashioned 2-step process. Use professional products, as the ingredient quality is where the money is spent not on expensive TV ad campaigns. As a general rule, use less than you think, resulting only in a shape that won’t last as long. Too much will leave the hair sticky or heavy and hard to work with. When applying any product to hair always pop it onto your hands first then work it around them. This will spread the product so that as you put it into the hair you won’t get patches of too much. A good tip from a hairdressing friend, is to use a dilution of bicarbonate of soda to rinse your hair and remove hair spray build up.

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Tea Tree Oil is the bees knees!

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So guys I think I have encountered a miracle!!!!!!!!!!!! My itching has subsided… not so much my dandruff. Well before I used the tea tree oil I did not remove the dandruff like I should have so I am unsure of the oil’s capability to reduce dandruff however, the oil’s ability to reduce dandruff is real! Although I used the tea tree oil on my already dandruff filled hair I want to day 75% of the itching stopped the following day. Isn’t that amazing? I used 1/4 parts tea tree oil and 3/4 parts water. It doesn’t get any better than that guys! The only con is that the smell is really potent so I mask it (or try) with Oyin Handmades Juices and Berries. I am going to use this spray probably 2-3 times a weak and keep you posted =)

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Summer 2011 Curl formers

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Not sure if I showed these pictures and “documentary” of my curl formers experience but here it is guys. I think I had these files lost for awhile but they are found! My struggle with them: