Black Beauty Natural Hair feature

I bought this magazine well over a month ago. It is published bi-monthly and is one of the best known UK Black hair magazines. I am more of an occasional reader as my obessesion with hair magazines was not good. It was not like I was trying to achieve any of those styles in there. Plus as my hair is natural they no longer really cater for me the way the blogs and YouTube does.

To my surprise this edition contained pages of articles about natural hair care. As usual you get the hairstyles that no one would wear outside of a hair show or photoshoot. Such as the edgy afro pics. Afro's with sharp chunks cut in/out. Then the feature contains a 2 page spread about bloggers and v-loggers who share their tips and tricks tried and tested routines for styling their natural hair. 

The article could have included more wearable natural hairstyles. If someone skimming the pics for hair inspiration I do not think they would be inspired. They would be amazed how beautiful natural hair looks and what you can achieve but little on style. The articles make up for this. It would have been nice to see two makeovers. As they chose to use a model whose hair is about a 3a/b/c very loose curls as opposed to someone with Kinky curly curls in the range of 4a/b/c. Overall a good natural hair feature

Top 5 sites suggested in the magazine to visit are:

Curly Nikki

Hairlista

Nappturality

Pretty Dimples YouTube channel

Kawright1005 YouTube channel

Pretty Dimples mentions me one of her videos as I sent her a copy of the magazine all the way from the UK.

Sometimes I just feel so inspired and appreciate what these ladies do. I will be checking out the other sites which I do not frequent as much.

YouTube Hair bloggers

Just saw this over at AOL Blackvoices. The beautiful Patrice aka Afrobella compiled a list of YouTube hair bloggers. They are definitley worth a look. I have shared a video or two by them on here.

Black Voices top YouTube bloggers

As for my hair. I think I will try to do Kinky twists again or Senegalese twist. Looking for more tips.

Hair Wrap

I am so addicted to YouTube and subscribe to a few people. Although I have a Youtube account I have no videos as I am working on getting a camcorder. However I will eventually begin doing still picture videos

Anyway I so wish my hair looked so lush after wrapping like this



She has beautiful hair, clearly a different texture to my own. So I do know that I cannot get the same results. It looks gorgeous. There a couple of other videos where she does roller set and shows you her technique on a doing a silk wrap

Check out ItsMsHeatherNicole's YouTube Page
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Kinky twist no

I so want some self styled Kinky Twist. The dvd is ok. It is a very simple dvd. My problem was that no matter how I twist tight etc. The hair would look loose and not together. I mean where my hair was the twist was loose but the extension looked good.

Practice sister. I have not given up yet. I have a suitcase full of hair to play with

Braids by Breslin kinky twists

I have known abot Marqueta Breslin's DVD's for years. My friend bought some where as I procrastinate. I have always wanted to buy at least one. So just on a whim I have purchased the above DVD which says is for beginners and experts alike. What is even more useful it states that you will learn both the braid in and the twist in method.

So now I will wait to get the DVD and see if it will teach me the skills I need. Whereas I will not be doing other people's hair I will be doing my own. Will give a review when I get it.

Find out more on what she offers at the Baids By Breslin website.