I attended the African Hair Summit that was brought together by Adanna Enweozor two days ago. Was it lit??? Oh yes! it was on fire. I saw so many naturalista’s with different hair types that I literally drooled at their curl patterns, the locs on the guys made me start considering Locs. Music from the talented Jessica Bongo’s filled our ears, it was an interesting event.

In attendance was Kate Henshaw who is their ambassador, Chinwe Juliet of Igbocurls, Dr Oluwakemi Osunderu who spoke at length about the various diseases we could get from hair relaxers, there are some shocking ones I tell you and I will let you guys in on everything  that happened. Lots of people were present, Lumo naturals who was giving free hairdo, House of Merola, Natmane, MinaStones, i can go on and on but lets get down to business.

Dr Oluwakemi Osunderu talked on Issues that affect our hair and skin, they include Emotional stress, Diet, Genetics, Hormonal issues, Pharmaceuticals. She also talked about Chemicals that are found in hair products called Estrogen and Endocrine disrupting Chemicals EDC which affect our hormones. EDC’s are found in almost all natural hair products eg detanglers, shampoos and conditioners, gel, body cream, hair oils,  It increases the rate of fibroid in African women through scalp lesions and burns from products. Adanna Enwezor stated she was told by the doctor to avoid relaxers during her second pregnancy meaning that these products can also affect us during childbirth.

The effects of these EDC’s in hair creams include

Breast Cancer,

Heart diseases

Cognitive disorders

Premature puberty

Altered immune function

 Dr Osunderu said something I liked, she said and I quote “God gave us thick hair and skin because of our harsh weather” and when we put relaxers on our hair we are exposing our scalp, same thing happens when we use bleaching creams. Embrace your kinky hair, those people we try to imitate by relaxing our hair now wear braids and buy kinky extensions.

There were lots of questions being asked by the audience but I can’t put them all here so I will just put the one I asked Chinwe of Igbocurls. I asked what her regimen is, I just had to, I mean if you follow her on instagram you will see her hair is long and gorgeous... 

Chinwe’s Regimen:

Always remember that moisture is key in this natural hair journey.

Some pictures i took at the event

And yes, that's all her hair, this picture doesn't do justice to her hair at all, even her mum's hair is beautiful. Like that family is blessed with dark, full, Long and healthy hair. Repeat after me, we will get there...

I will be adopting Chinwe's regimen, question is... will you?

Till next time… love your kinks

Last year I read on darkchildlovethyhair how she tried to make the hair growth trigger using Cayenne pepper and some other ingredients. She complained deeply about the smell and that was how she tossed the hair growth elixir she made. After reading her blog I decided to embark on the journey of making my own. I thought if it smelt so bad, what can make the smell go away??? Lavender oil!

This hair trigger Oil is basically infusing all the ingredients inside an oil for two weeks. The point of the trigger is to increase blood flow in your scalp, and we all know blood circulation helps in hair growth. It’s not a long process if you’re a DIY (Do it Yourself) queen like me. If you’ve been following my channel you’ll know I like to try some of these DIY’s before telling people about them. Lets just say I use my hair as a test subject.

Here are the ingredients;

Cayenne Pepper

Onion

Garlic

Biotin

Lavender oil

Directions

Cut all the Ingredients into small slices and pour in an air tight container.

Fill the container with Coconut oil, you can use any oil of your choice

Cover and leave for two weeks in a dark cool place, under your bed is fine.

After two weeks, strain, and the hair growth trigger oil is ready.

The smell was actually bad at first, I added a few drops of lavender oil and it reduced, I decided to pre-poo with it. On touching my scalp, it was hot but just for a while, I guess that effect came from the cayenne pepper. The smell wasn’t so strong but it wasn’t so lovely either, the lavender oil seemed to have balanced the smell from really pungent to not so bad. I left the oil on my hair overnight and washed the next day.

Moral of the story… 

I will definitely do it again, I mean I’ve only done it once so I can’t say if it’s working or not. I will keep using it as a pre-poo treatment and also use it every other night to oil my scalp.

here's my length check after washing my hair

Till next time… Love your Kinks

Long ago in a distant land... I opened this blog to discuss about hair problems and share hair experiences, maybe talk about life as a whole, that didn’t work out so well and here’s why…

I literally had to beg people to read my blog. It wasn’t easy convincing people to spend their time reading about how to solve their hair problems because gossip was more enticing to read than learning how they can help their hair grow to its full glory in length and in health. I kind of got tired in the long run, I shouldn’t have done that but truth be told, blogging is not that easy, and when you don’t have people to read your content its heart breaking.

Where am I getting at???

There’s a rave about natural hair lately, everyone wants to go natural, they read more blogs to find out as much as possible on how they can grow their hair from a teeny weeny fro to a long luscious mane in less than a year. we all know that’s impossible but shhhhhhhhhh! Don’t tell nobody

I’ve decided to come back to blogging, I have learnt a lot from other bloggers and I’ve come to accept that you don’t have to read my blog if you don’t want to, I’ll simply do it because I have a thing for writing and I’m quite good at it. Of course my hair is Gorgeous but I don’t like to toot my own horn

So whether relaxed, Natural, Transitioning... We don’t judge, stick around lets talk hair, you might learn a thing or two afterall