Anonymous asked:
I know you don't normally answer questions like this but in your new hat post (fat hat btw!) what did you do to your hair? Is it a braid out? And also what products do you normally use in your hair, or just for that style you did in the post? Thanks! Peace!

Hey there! Hair questions are my favorite actually!

In that pic, I’m wearing two-strand twists that I bantu knotted the night before. I pulled down the knots but kept in the twists… with the cold weather, my hair doesn’t seem to dry out as much if it’s kept twisted. I twist it every other night with a mix of coconut and grapeseed oils. I use heavier oils and butters on wash days.

So long as I keep her cleaned and moisturized, my hair doesn’t require much in the way of hair products. Plus I’s cheap!

‘Valentine’ by Jessie Ware and Sampha

this track is so pretty.

ahnka:

from Dada Masilo’s Umfula Wa Ma Dada (Swan Lake)

i love the musicality in this piece. she dances it so beautifully!

good morning!

armand van helden | “you don’t even know me”(1997)

Wagogo girls, Uganda, 1948© George Rodger/Magnum
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~   Og Mandino
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you MUST let me know how this turns out! Is it color or just the conditioner?

Hey mama! Both actually. It keeps my hair dark, so when summer comes the sun doesn’t turn my hair brown. and the conditioning is the best part. i rarely have the time to putter around for 6 hours to do this, but it turns out just how I like it every time… dark and lovely heheh :)

working on my bantu knots… pictures by morning.

what does the coffee/tea do?

Two things:
1. Henna requires an acid to get the color release going and while coffee & tea are acidic, I’ve found they aren’t nearly as harsh or drying as lemon juice (which is the generally recommended acid ingredient). ACV is pretty harsh too, but I only used a little to loosen my curl a little. 

2. I have dark brown hair that lightens significantly in the summer and adding strong coffee or black tea slightly alters the color that the henna deposits so my hair gets really dark. 

Here’s my favorite site on henna & hair [www.hennaforhair.com]. Enjoy!

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