So, let's say you would love to wear some cute ringlets or spiral curls, but are unsure how to maintain them throughout the week. Here are a few tips and techniques to keep your curls bouncy and fresh.1. Less is More
If your hair is set on rollers or rods, make sure to use a minimal amount of product during the week. Heavy oils and moisturizers will quickly weigh down your curls and make them lose their bounce and luster. Instead, mist hair lightly with a liquid leave-in and scrunch into hair daily.
2. Don't Give Up
If the curls separate and or start to look droopy, you might be tempted to brush or comb the hair into a ponytail and call it a day. Instead, try misting the curl with a setting lotion. Then, use your pointer finger to reform the curl and pin it up for 5-10 minutes. The curl should regain its original shape and structure.
3. Opt for Tight Curls
The tighter the curl, the longer it will last. So, if you are looking for a style that will withstand wind and humidity, go for the tightest curl possible.
Natural Hair Looks
Goapele
Neo soul senstation Goapele, who wore her hair in long locks for many years switched it up and now can be seen with a short afro.
Lisa Lake, WireImage.com
India Irie
Singer India Arie arrives at the 2006 Annual GRAMMY Awards with double stranded twists and a nice tapered cut. Chile, we know you are SO not your hair. But if you were, you would be so very pretty.
Gregg DeGuire, WireImage.com
Jill Scott
Singer Jill Scott arrives at the BET Awards '08 Pre-Party with shaved sides and "faux" locks with highlights throughout. This is a very modern, very, sexy look for the buxom beauty.
Chris Pizzello, AP
Joan Armatrading
Some ladies still wore afros in the '80s -- when it was not quite as de rigeur. British soul singer Joan Armatrading is one of such daring divas, as evidenced in this 1983 shot.
Chris Walter, WireImage.com
Joie Lee
Joie Lee, actress, director, and Spike's baby sis has always kept a natural coif and this natural 'do taken in 2006 really takes a que from nature -- it looks very trees and branch like!
Brad Barket, Getty Images
Lauryn Hill
She's had many incarnations of natural hair, but one look we love best is when Lauryn Hill sported her budding locks in this '98 Fugees-era flick.
John Spellman, Retna
Ledisi
The oh so talented Ledisi arrives at the 38th Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Ceremony with her signature locks, curled up and pinned.
Stephen Lovekin, WireImage.com
Les Nubians
They used to have dreads, but now soul duo Les Nubians both wear their naturals out in texturized 'fros. Here they perform in July '07 in the ATL.
Moses Robinson, WireImage.com
Pam Grier
Taking it waaaay back, this 1974 photo of actress Pam Grier shows that she was indeed, brown, foxy, and with the perfectly framed fro.
AP
Terry McMillan
Wildly successful author Terry McMillan sports her locks pulled up on top of her head and dyed a nice burgundy. Gotta love teh look in this 2002 photo.
J. Vespa, WireImage.com
4. Work with Freshly Trimmed Hair
A fresh trim will help your hair retain curl and keep your style looking fresh and neat. Use end papers while setting to keep the ends protected and healthy.
The best thing you can do to keep curls overnight is to pin-curl or add satin rollers. However, you can also try flipping your head over, gathering the hair in a high ponytail and covering with a satin cap. The main goal is to keep your curls on the top of your head so that you can avoid sleeping directly on them overnight.
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By: black hair care on 10/30/2008 7:15AM
Your Hair care tips are very nice and easy to follow. I hope you will add more simple tips. I to have some tips. Check it out
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By: Tolu on 11/02/2008 7:24AM
I love bounce in my curls like in my walk:)
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By: Ria on 11/02/2008 7:44AM
In the pictures that was displayed of "natural hair looks" I wondered why pictures of Alicia Keys when she first emerged on the scene with all types of braided styles wasn't included. Aren't braids considered a "natural hair look"?
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By: Sister Theresa on 11/02/2008 11:34AM
What many Blackfemales don't realize is that white fashion designers encourage them to wear curls, because it makes white males feel more comfortable approaching them. It's been noted in the "strong" Black journals and papers for decades.
Checkout the hairstyles most actresses, models, and A-A females in commercials are shown wearing, and most of them are the Euro-segmented curls. Anything white males can promote towards B/females, to make them seem more white male appealing, the corporate media promotes.
Yet, why don't you see the media promotong white females with Dreadlocks, bushes, cornrows? Even in wig or semi-form, it's still the equivalent of how everyday they push B/girls, looking and acting white.
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By: george sparky smith on 11/08/2008 5:10PM
get that stinky weave out of your hair. Gosh, after you take the fake weave, the fake eyelashes, the fake bank account, the fake I only have 3.5 kids and no job, you just gets tired. dang
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By: francine wilson on 11/02/2008 2:46PM
For so long, our people were told our hair is ugly, and some of us believed it, and still do believe it. I have always believed that white
hair looks like spaghetti, uncooked. Who wants to look like that but a fool.
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By: junie on 11/02/2008 2:48PM
I find that the comments re: Sister Theresa has made is the exact reason why we are still having racial issues today. I am married to a black male for 13 yrs. I have friends from all races. I have natural currly hair that looks at times like a nappy head. Its how you wear it, take care of it. If we continue staying in that backward thinking, then we are always going to have divison between eachother. Girls enjoy your CURLS and wear them WELL!
Junie Bug
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By: blckmoses@sbcglobal.net on 11/02/2008 5:22PM
I feel ya Sista Theresa. Sick of compromising, butt dancing Black anglophiles too. The Black woman didn't come over here a nappy headed ho or bitch, someone needs to find out who drove this old funky bus into the ditch. Keep it real sistas. The Black woman still walking around with that old funky perm or weave, it must be the white man or sell-out negroes they are trying to please. Blacks have been falling for the hair trick for too long. Like Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing teaches, "if you don't understand the system of white supremancy/racism, everything you think you know will only confuse you." It is embarassing watching it become a rite of passage for Black girls to finally get their hair straighten. How pathetic is that?
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By: Lisa on 11/02/2008 8:03PM
I witnessed something that I have NEVER witnessed before and didn't even think it would or could ever happen: I was at my stylist getting my hair done, when a white girl came in asking about relaxer services. No she was not mixed, she was 100% caucasian. I know the look I had on my face said everything, and I even thought the girl actually came in and was pulling a joke. My stylist, without the least bit of shock or questioning in her voice, asked her what had she used before. The girl informed her she had used a do-it-yourself relaxer- Soft and Beautiful. I almost fell out my chair. She said that it made her hair really straight and lasted six months. I had to tell the girl that I had never witnessed a white girl needing a relaxer- she understood my shock. My stylist went on to make the appointment for her to get a relaxer treatment. When the girl left, I told my stylist I had never witnessed that before- to my even greater disbelief, my stylist told me she wasn't the first white woman that she has given a relaxer to. That girl would make her THIRD white woman client to get a relaxer. The phrase "I have now seen it all" never applied more to me that day.
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By: Lisa on 11/02/2008 8:05PM
I witnessed something that I have NEVER witnessed before and didn't even think it would or could ever happen: I was at my stylist getting my hair done, when a white girl came in asking about relaxer services. No she was not mixed, she was 100% caucasian. I know the look I had on my face said everything, and I even thought the girl actually came in and was pulling a joke. My stylist, without the least bit of shock or questioning in her voice, asked her what had she used before. The girl informed her she had used a do-it-yourself relaxer- Soft and Beautiful. I almost fell out my chair. She said that it made her hair really straight and lasted six months. I had to tell the girl that I had never witnessed a white girl needing a relaxer- she understood my shock. My stylist went on to make the appointment for her to get a relaxer treatment. When the girl left, I told my stylist I had never witnessed that before- to my even greater disbelief, my stylist told me she wasn't the first white woman that she has given a relaxer to. That girl would make her THIRD white woman client to get a relaxer. The phrase "I have now seen it all" never applied more to me that day.
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