Curly Hair Tips

Protective Styles

Whether you have 4c hair or 3a hair, you can benefit from the use protective hair styles. For kinkier hair types there are:
corn rows
locs
box braids (or any braids)
bantu knots
twists
a bun

For looser curl types, even just a simple bun or braids (like one or two braids or dutch braids and french braids) can work as a good protective hairstyle. 

The protective styles that I mentioned for kinkier hair types are only for them to do (or basically just for black people). For those that need explaining why: 1. it is part of their culture and these hairstyles have history behind them and 2. straight hair (especially white people's hair!) isn't made for these type of protective styles!!. This means if you go ahead to put in box braids it can quite literally damage your hair, especially since many times when a white person gets locs or braids installed they don't do proper research on how to care for them and wash them properly. If you do decide anyways that you want to ignore what I wrote and still do it: research, give credit where it is due and please be respectful. 

It's not the first time someone who is white will wear locs or box braids and get complimented but then when a black person does it they get harassed for it. Many times they are seen as 'unprofessional' hairstyles and believe it or not natural hair (meaning type 4, coily hair) is seen this way as well! None of the hairstyles or hair type mentioned are unprofessional, people! Nothing is unprofessional about the natural way that hair grows out of someone's head.