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22 Things I know about Natural Hair Care.
It’s 2022 and thought why not share 22 things I know about Natural hair care. I started embracing my hair back in 2016/2017 and cut most of my hair like twice. Catch up on my hair journey and a hair care routine. Happy 2022 Tribe!🎉🎉🎊How excited are you about the new year? How was your 2021, smashed some hair goals? Hello ManEmbracers, I hope your hair is growing and skin glowing. Welcome to my blog and be sure to keep it here for everything hair care. To my loyal ones & day ones welcome back. Let’s dive into the 22 things I know about hair care. Consistency is Key. Whatever…
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Why sectioning Natural Hair is important.
Sectioning is an ultimate natural hair care game changer. Sectioning your hair into smaller parts goes a long way in minimizing breakage & the amount of product you use, gives access to the scalp and helps you give your hair the TLC it deserves. Hello ManEmbracers, I hope your hair is growing and skin glowing. Welcome to my blog and be sure to keep it here for everything hair care. To my loyal ones & day ones welcome back. Sectioning is an underrated hair care hack. When I started embracing my natural hair, I never sectioned my hair cos I didn’t know better and around that time I used to…
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JustNaturalKe ; Yes I believe that African natural hair is alive.
Remember the what’s natural hair to you series? Well, here is to comeback or may not. Hello ManEmbracers, I hope your hair is growing and skin glowing. Welcome to my blog and be sure to keep it here for everything hair care. To my loyal ones & day ones welcome back. Who is Chebby Karimi, JustNaturalKe I am Chebby Karimi, an African girl from Nakuru Kenya, a happy soul, a believer, lover of love, natural hair, nature & African cultures. I am an upcoming naturalista (I’m only 1yr 8 months in). I am currently a freelance natural hair stylist in Nakuru town among other things & an Instagram content creator…
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Moisturizing Deep Conditioners for Type 4 Dry Natural hair.
How often do you use a moisturizing deep conditioner or should I ask, do you know what’s a moisturizing deep conditioner? Hello ManEmbracers, I hope your hair is growing and skin glowing. Welcome to my blog and be sure to keep it here for everything hair care. To my loyal ones & day one’s welcome back. Deep conditioning is an essential step in your hair regimen that you shouldn’t skip as long as you’ve shampooed your hair. What do I mean by deep conditioning? Deep conditioning is the process of applying a deep conditioner to restore moisture and elasticity (moisturizing deep conditioner), repair damaged hair & strengthen the hair (protein…
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5 Steps to prep your Natural hair for Protective Style
Do you prep your hair for protective style or you just wake up, install and rock that protective style? Hello ManEmbracers, I hope your hair is growing and skin glowing. Welcome to my blog and be sure to keep it here for everything hair care. To my loyal ones & day one’s welcome back. You don’t wake up at midday days after your wash day and wear a protective style to last you weeks to a month. Just like you don’t watch a series all night and wake up to take a chemistry test, you have to prepare for it. Preparing for a protective style is essential and it’s easy…
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Co-wash Review; Same conditioner, 2 Natural Hair types.
Same conditioner different hair types co-wash review. Not all conditioners are formulated to co-wash, I bet that’s why brands are formulating cleansing conditioners/ co-washes. That said let’s dive into the co-wash reviews. Hello ManEmbracers, I hope your hair is growing and skin glowing. Welcome to my blog and be sure to keep it here for everything hair care. To my loyal ones & day one’s welcome back. I did a thing guys, co-washed my hair, my fellow natural friend co-washed her mini twists with the same product (Mikalla honey & butter conditioner). Did it work for us or not? Read on I first co-washed my hair while in mini twists…
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10 Best Co-washes & Cleansing conditioners for Natural Hair
Missed the detailed co-wash post? Catch up here Hello ManEmbracers, I hope your hair is growing and skin glowing? Welcome to my blog and keep it here for hair care tips. Co-washing can be an alternative if you have extremely dry hair or need mid-week cleansing. Using a shampoo twice or more a week can strip off your natural oils & to avoid/minimize it, co-wash mid-week then shampoo weekly to get rid of the dirt & product build up. Here are cleansing co-washes for natural hair. Top 10 cleansing co-wash products EDEN BodyWorks Coconut Shea Cleansing Cowash Product Promise, “The Cleansing CoWash conditions the hair between regular shampoos, bringing back…
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6 Months Length retention challenge with Mini Twists.
This is the last post of the natural hair length retention challenge with mini twists. Hello ManEmbracers, Welcome to my blog, I hope your hair is growing and skin glowing. If you have been following my socials or blog posts, you know have been on length retention challenge since February. So far so good and am more obsessed with two strands than I did prior to this challenge. Do I notice more length? Yes, I do though I didn’t enjoy the twisting part of this challenge. My mini twists tip; start off with twisting medium/chunky twists then minimize them. Length retention challenge post you might have missed; Natural hair length…
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Maintaining Mini Twists for 6 weeks
Update on my 6 weeks old mini twists. How I have been maintaining them from moisturizing, washing, conditioning & stretching for more length. Hello ManEmbracers. I hope your skin is glowing and hair growing. Welcome to my blog and keep it here, you’ll learn & love it. Have had mini twists for the longest time and for some reason I feel so proud of myself. The longest I’ve worn my mini twists is 3-4 weeks, the urge to see my Afro out doesn’t let me wear protective styles for longer. The mini twists started off as medium twists. Installed medium size twists then reduced them to mini twists. I love…
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My first Rice Water trial on my Type 4 Hair.
So, I hopped into the Rice water bandwagon. I’ve been a chicken about it for the longest time cos ain’t so much into hyped stuff but I do get FOMO sometimes. Hello ManEmbracers, I hope your hair is growing & skin glowing. Thank you for stopping by & for my being here tribe thank you sticking around. Let’s get into my first rice water trial but before that, check out a detailed post on the history of rice water, its benefits, and how to prepare and store it. How I prepared the rice water. I ended up using fermented rice water though it wasn’t the initial plan. The plan was…
