Category: Hair Care Tips

Q: How do I protect my curls overnight when I am sleeping?

A: Keeping hair and scalp moisturized is essential to healthy, shiny hair and promotes hair growth. A lack of a night hair regimen can reverse all of the healthy hair efforts you have made during the day! In fact, sleeping is one of the most important times to care for your hair.

Cotton pillow cases and scarves can strip moisture from the hair, cause friction from tossing and turning during sleep and ultimately cause breakage. You can avoid this by lightly misting you hair with Jane Carter Solution Revitalizing Leave-In Conditioner, a former winner of the Shecky’s Beauty at its Best Award, it’ll hydrate and close your open (lifted) hair cuticles to lock in moisture.

Silk is the nearest thing to human skin known to man. Unlike cotton, a very absorbent fiber, silk will not absorb natural moisture from hair while you sleep. As an added bonus, stain pillowcases and sheets help to maintain the moisture in your skin, too!

Making the switch from cotton to satin will protect both your curls and your glowing skin from moisture loss and friction.

If you’re toying with the idea of going natural or trying out a new style, would you turn to your mobile phone? While there are various hair apps out, it’s difficult to find more those that are made for us, by us.

With this app boom, we’ve seen the emergence of game-changing applications that will help those who are transitioning, going under the scissors or just looking to switch things up a bit through their process. There are two apps, in particular, created for women of color by women of color:

• Big Chop

Available later this month, the Big Chop is a hair makeover app that allows users to try out natural styles. To try it out, users must upload their photo to the app and then choose one of more than 250 natural hairstyles, colors and accessories. You can save your style and share it with your network via Facebook, Twitter or email. App users can check out how they’d look with uber-short hair before attempting to do the big chop.

• I Love Your Hair (available for free through the App Store)

This House of Mikko mobile app is comprised of a community of hair care lovers. Users can upload their picture to the platform and search, based on hair color, type of hair, length and style, for a look that best suits them. Get the insider’s scoop on salons in your area, hair tips, among other details from fellow app users..

If you’re toying with the idea of going natural or trying out a new style, make sure you are certain before making your next move. Hopefully, these mobile tools will help you make an easy transition into your new look.

Our hair is considered the most durable because of its elasticity and its ability to with stand all our manipulation, heat, chemicals, twists, locs and dyes. But like your favorite winter jacket, your hair can become weathered if not properly cared for in the colder months. The harsh cold and frosty winds can cause excessive dryness and dandruff, you must retain or replenish scalp moisture. 

If you were lax in your hair care during the warmer months, you may have survived with minor damage, but if you do not take some serious precautions during the colder months, come Spring, you will definitely regret it. Jane Carter Solution Scalp Nourishing Serum is the perfect solution for this plagued with dry, itchy, tight scalp. This leave-in scalp nourisher’s base is hybrid safflower, you need only a small amount, applied sparingly, to see great results. Ylang ylang and cedar extract reduces fungus and bacteria while the sunflower oil works to soothe the scalp and restore it back to good health.