NHDC♥

Super bored with my hair! Living on youtube, looking through style videos… just one of those days. 

Wow! 2 years and 4,440+ followers later… I have learned so much from you all—from your questions, suggestions, and submissions, I have been able to grow in my natural hair journey. I started this blog off originally to encourage myself along my natural hair journey. I never expected so many of you all to respond so positively to my blog and bring even more to it—with your questions, suggestions, and wonderful submissions. Thank you!

Also, be on the lookout for something special in the upcoming weeks!

Today as I stood in line for an omelete in the dining hall, a friend of mine told me how much she loved my hair, and that she wished she had kinky hair. 

I’m sharing this for all the type 4 girls who still haven’t gotten to the point where they’re able to embrace their curly, kinky hair. Your hair is just as beautiful as hair that falls under other categories. There are girls out there with looser curls (or no curls at all) who covet and/ or admire your hair as well, not just the other way around. For all you may know, you could someone’s hair crush. :)

Anyways, be beautiful, as always.

(And I will get to submissions soon! Super busy, but I wanted to make this post before I forgot it.)

- xoxo, Bri 

Hi all!

I finally picked up the Shea Mositure Curl Enhancing Smoothie (now at my local CVS!) and some Eco Styler Gel with olive oil (maximum strength). 

I plan to take out my braids this weekend, so hopefully next week I can rock some well-defined, bouncy twist outs! 

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Also, I’ve been trying to go through my submissions, but each time tumblr takes foreverrrrr to load. Idk what’s up. But hopefully they fix it soon so I don’t have to wait forever for one post to upload. Sorry about the wait!

Sidenote: Don’t forget to tag your posts with #nhdc 2013 challenge so I can see your progress and/or challenges with your hair this year!

xoxo, Bri

Encouraging everyone to join the NHDC 2013 Challenge and post their January 2013 length check pics!

Don’t forget to tag them with “nhdc 2013 challenge” or you can submit them to the blog selecting the same tag. :)

Here are our guidelines for the challenge:

1) Drink LOTS of water. Personally, I drink coffee, and as a college student, I don’t plan on giving it up! Lol. But if you’re like me, don’t forget to drink plenty of water everyday too!

2) Keep your hair in low manipulation/ protective styles. Especially if you live in freezing cold areas like myself, you’re going to want to protect your ends from elements.

3) Trim ONLY when needed.

4) DC every 1-2 weeks.

5) Finger detangle as much as possible.

6) Only shampoo the roots of your hair! 

7) Moisturize daily, at least the ends of your hair if that’s all that’s needed.

8) Use heat no more than once every 2-3 weeks. I generally go 1-2 months without heat, so it is possible!

9) Post pictures of your hair’s progress on your blog tagging it with “nhdc 2013 challenge,” so I can check you out! I’ll be tracking that tag. 

10) Be patient with your hair. :)

Disclaimer: As a part of the challenge, I don’t plan on telling everyone a detailed lists of specific products to use, but if you’re doing the challenge, add these things to the regimen that already works for you! On July 1, 2013, half way through the year, I will open the blog up to a discussion about what worked for some people, what didn’t, and what progress was made in this challenge! 

Have a happy new year and a happy challenge! :)

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Sorry for the wait! I’ve been very busy. 

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Here are the guidelines. Please follow all guidelines (they’re simple!), or your submission will not be eligible for the giveaway.

Good luck to all!

Again, the contest giveaway is July 5th-7th, 2012. Here are the guidelines if you haven’t seen them yet!

Please REBLOG and share this with all the naturals you know on tumblr!

I mentioned it briefly about 2 months ago. The anniversary was May 3rd, but we did not properly celebrate! 

That something special is coming NEXT WEEK! It’s something new that I’ve never done before for my followers!

Get ready. Get pumped. And please spread the word to any natural you know on tumblr!

(** And the blog is now 3,400+ strong! Love you all!! xo)

Hello all,

I just wanted to say, with this blog, I never intended on giving advice or even having so much interaction with my followers. This blog started off as solely a picture blog, and I wanted to keep it that way. But over time it grew, and I could see that my followers wanted more—so I built upon what I had. I never anticipated people coming on my blog, anon or not, and asking me for hair advice. I’m just a fellow natural girl, a teen with a blog, who decided to make a separate blog for one of huge passions—natural hair. Any advice given on this blog is based on my experience and opinion from being natural for that past 4 1/2 years (as well as my early youth, lol). I’m learning everyday just like you all.

I just wanted to put that out there.

Thank you all so much for supporting me and supporting NHDC♥.

How should we celebrate? Features? HUGE promo(s)? Hmm…

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