Natural Hairstyles for Black Women

 African American women often encounter many surprises and troubles with their natural hair. It’s either difficult to style or lacks length for versatile impressive hairstyles. The other problem is when your hair is getting extremely dry and brittle due to experiments with styling products and styling procedures. Sometimes the only way out in such cases is to have a short haircut and wait for the new healthy growth. Meanwhile the other puzzle that emerges is how to style your short natural hair so that it looks decent. Don’t worry, there are many fantastic hairstyles for your short hair.  

 How much time daily would you like to spend on your hair styling? I bet minimum but you definitely wouldn’t like going out with your hair sticking out in some sort of explosion on your head. Well, African-American women are blessed with thick dense hair that can be skillfully shaped into breathtaking hairstyles. However, natural dryness and brittleness of kinky hair is the other side of the medal that needs special care. Protective hairstyles aim to limit the stress of environmental factors on natural hair. Explore protective hairstyles and how to care for your natural hair. 

 Are you bored to wear your hair curly, wavy, unbraided? Well, then it’s time for twists! Twist hairstyles are an alternative to braids for natural African curls. Twists have one evident merit, compared to braids – they are faster and easier to make, which is crucial for beginners. Other than that twist hairstyles provide the same benefits: protection of natural hair, length retention and a great base for versatile hairstyles. Twists differ in caliber and type (hanging loosely twists and flat twists plaited close to the scalp like cornrows) There are also Senegalese twists, Havana twists, Marley twists, kinky twists. 

 Many black women rock relaxed locks these days, because relaxed hair looks breathtaking in any simple or sophisticated hairstyle. However, the exposure to aggressive chemicals is very harmful for your locks, while natural black hairstyles can be as exquisite and showy as hairstyles for relaxed hair. Naturalness is the main hair trend in 2020, so why not to use the unique texture and fabulous volume of natural hair to your advantage? 

 Braided hairstyles are by far the oldest way to style your hair. Women all over the world use braids to protect their beauty from environmental damage as well as show off their wild imagination. Get inspiration and find a way to express your creativity through one of these sophisticated yet not so hard to recreate hairstyles!

 Almost synonymous with Black identity itself, the afro became popularized in the ‘70s during the Black Power movement, and was glamorized by Hollywood bombshells like Pam Grier and Diana Ross. We’ll always stand a good twist-out or braid-out, but there’s just something about the classic afro that is timeless.