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The Truth @bout Natural Hair With Anu: Growing Hair With Vitamins
Dear Anu,
I am looking for a way to grow my hair quickly. Some time ago I went into a salon for a relaxer and a trim something which I do every 4-5 months and unfortunately this women did not do a good job with the trim. She cut more than she trimmed. Needless to say I was not happy with the service given. In my search to grow hair I have come across Hairfinity vitamins. They promise to grow your hair fast and there are a ton of testimonials on youtube. I have taken the Nioxin vitamins in the past and couldn’t really tell if my hair was growing from the vitamins or from me taking better care of my hair. Have you heard of Hairfinity, would you recommend it?
Regards,
Marilyne A
The Truth @bout Natural Hair With Anu: Jamaican Black Castor Oil
This week on The Truth @bout Natural Hair With Anu, Ms. Prestonia helps a reader learn how to help the thinning areas around her temples grow after years of stress on that area. Here’s what our resident natural hair care expert has to say.
Hi Anu,
I’m enjoying your column. Would you recommend JBCO (lavender in particular) for use with locs? Are any conditioners a good idea where locs are concerned?
Many thanks,
Kenya
The Truth @bout Natural Hair With Anu: Re-Growing Temple Hair
This week on The Truth @bout Natural Hair With Anu, Ms. Prestonia helps a reader learn how to help the thinning areas around her temples grow after years of stress on that area. Here’s what our resident natural hair care expert has to say.
Hello Ms Anu Prestonia,
I am a 33-year old female who just decided to go natural over the past 9 months. I remember as early as 9 years old, getting a jerri curl and then a few years later I started to relax my hair. I haven’t stopped chemically processing since I was a child. Needless to say, my hair and scalp have definitely paid a huge price. Since I did the big chop in July, I am learning a whole new side of my hair; but I am also learning just how damaged it is and that is difficult and frustrating.
My relaxed hair would grow no longer than my collar bones and I spent 8 years in the army. Those years of being in Iraq and the putting on and taking off of the head gear (including wool berets) slowly started to thin my temples out. At my worst, I had to cut my hair so that I could slick the hair down and hopefully cover the balding. It has been three years since I have been out the army and my hair is still bald at the temples.
Right now, I am very patient with the grow out process of my transitioning hair, but I am very impatient with the thinning and bald spots. I wash, condition, and keep my hair as moisturized as possible. I just started using Mega Tek and JBCO products in hopes of speeding up the growth process of the temples. I always loosely wrap my hair at night and do all the things I believe I should be doing. I would like to move beyond the baldness so I can focus on the rest of my transitioning hair, since that is the most embarrassing for me. Do you have any tips for women who are having a difficult time growing the thinned/bald temple areas? Am I going the wrong route by using those products I mentioned? Thank you!
Sincerely,
Clueless but slowly learning
Stunning Dolls by Celebrity Stylists, Khamit Kinks
“Carolyn from JIL Creations (a.k.a – The Flying Ewe), takes dolls and creates custom hair as requested by the customer. I love, love her work. Check out her Custom Doll Hair album for more details.” – Source
Khamit Kinks is a well-known salon in Brooklyn, New York, which specializes in natural hair care. Some of its celebrity clients have included Terry McMillan and Oprah Winfrey. They have placed their custom collection of dolls on display as follows…
My Journey to Locdom
This is probably the longest my hair has gotten, with no "sick spot," since I went natural in 2006.
I don’t know why I decided to lock my hair. No, that’s not true. I’m locking my hair because every winter, since my freshman year of college a patch of my hair, which I usually wear in a twist out fro, falls out. I call the patch my “sick spot.” It’s usually the width of three of my fingers behind my right ear.
It first fell out in December during finals week. College was not the best environment for my hair. The city’s water was hard, my diet was sketch, and the stress was outrageous. So every winter, like clockwork my sick spot would return.
This is my first winter out of school, the water is better, my diet is better and I’m not as stressed so theoretically my hair should have stopped falling out. But alas, I became a “picker.” I was constantly fiddling around in my sick spot, trying to determine if that hair was too dry, to tangled etc. So I literally picked my hair to near baldness…again. (Crazy I know.)
My hair had been cut recently, so even though it was relatively healthy, it was still short in the back, so I had to get creative with different styles.
It sounds awful but it’s actually not that terrible. I get the back of my hair shaved to even it up and it’s back by the summer. In the meantime the sick spot can be camouflaged in some of the freshest updos. But I got tired of the process and decided to do something to my hair that I couldn’t (or shouldn’t be able) to destroy.
