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Finding my way back

The past couple years have been such a journey for me. Whoever said that we are supposed to have it all figured out by age 30 lied... yup that was a flat out lie!!  I've always known that I wanted some kind of digital presence, I've always known that I wanted to be an entrepreneur but I've never quite got it to click. Over the past years that I have been absent from this blog I've gone from working a fulltime 8-4, to creating my own hair product line, opening an online retail store, having several part time jobs, whew I am getting tired just writing this lol.  Then came 2020..... the year covid hit. There was a lot of silence, stillness and healing in 2020. I needed a time out. I needed to stop.  If I am being totally honest 2020 rocked me in ways that I still cannot quite put into words. Maybe one day, far far into the future looking back I could explain. At present I sit here in June 2021, still trying to catch my footing, not wanting to go back to the mundane activit

Healthy Hair Styling: Bantu Knot Out

Ok ladies..I'm Back!! Sorry that I have been MIA for a little while. But to make it up to you Im back with a healthy stretched style that is to die for.... the BANTU KNOT OUT!! Again these stretched styles are key in maintaining the health and length of our hair as it reduces tangles, single strand knots and painful damaging detangling sessions. It is also low manipulation & low maintenance which = less breakage/less stress on our strands This style is even easier than a braidout for me and the results are just as beautiful. So the process for doing this style is very similar to the braidout: Wash and deep condition hair, spritz with leave-in, seal with hair butter, evenly distribute gel/holding product to each section then twist around and around until it starts to knot at the bottom.. continue to wrap the hair around itself until you reach to ends. This is what it should look like when you are done: I did 8 large knots and went under the dryer. The most important ste