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Singer Kelly Rowland rocked a head of big, bold beautiful curls (circa Diana Ross and the Supremes”> on the red carpet E! Entertainment’s 20th anniversary celebration on May 24 in West Hollywood. Kelly also performed at the event, along with several others.
Kelly wore a sheer side-paneled mini dress on the carpet and a tight-fitting, futuristic purple and blue tinted pantsuit on stage.
Some entertainment Web sites see Kelly’s natural curls as a hair faux pas, but here at NaturallyCurly.com, we see her curly hair as yet another example of how someone in the public eye has accepted and embraced her natural curls.
Kelly also sported her gorgeous curls while attending the De Grisogono Party at the Hotel Du Cap on May 18, held during the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.
So this begs the question: Is this a permanent look for the former Destiny’s Child member? We sure hope so.
Sarah Jessica Parker shows off her impeccable fashion sense along with her beautiful wavy hair at last night’s premiere of “Sex And The City 2” in New York.
We know many curly girls suffer from dry hair. With all the products we use on a daily basis, it’s hard not stress out our locks. Here are five easy tips to squeeze into your daily routine to help heal dry hair.
1. Rinse with cold water. As much as you love your steamy showers, super hot temps can fry your hair. Cold water seals in the moisture you need.
- 2. Let loose while sleeping. Remove all elastics, clips, bobby pins, etc. Let your curls be free!
- 3. Take a break from heat tools. Give your hair a day off every now and then from the curling iron, blow dryer and flat iron.
- 4. Deep condition. This is no joke—deep condition as much as possible. You will truly see a difference in your hair’s health factor.
- 5. Work with second day hair. Washing your hair every day will really dry out your curls. Instead, discover how to work with second-day hair. Maybe it’s wearing a headband. What about half-up, half-down? Or perhaps using a curl revitalizing spray. Figure out what works for you, on a night when you don’t have a hot date, and you’ll be much happier with your curls.
MIchelle Obama’s curly hair is just gorgeous!
First Lady Michelle Obama showed off some gorgeous curls last night at the White House’s state dinner honoring Mexican President Felipe Calderon and his wife, Margarita Zavala.
The Internet and TV morning shows are buzzing with positive reviews about Obama’s new look. Said NBC’s Al Roker on The Today Show this morning, “I like her hair!”
The evening’s fashion report was heavy on women in bright, vibrant colors and strapless or one-shouldered gowns.
Obama set the tone with a one-shoulder, shimmery, cobalt blue floor-length gown by Peter Soronen. Zavala wore a plum-colored, sleeveless gown with an Aztec-inspired blue border around the square neckline.
What do you think of the new look? Tell us below, in the comments section!
A different view of Obama’s new ‘do.
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Her review is of – Healthy Hair Plus Emu Oil Shampoo
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Overall, she loves this shampoo and said it was great for moisture.
Meet DeDe (aka Pretty Dimples”>, another one of NaturallyCurly.com’s natural hair video bloggers.
Pretty Dimples has been natural for five years and she has enjoyed every part of the journey—she has not regretted anything she has done!
She did her big chop November ’09. She only went through transition for 4 months because she couldn’t take the two textures.
Now she does protective styles—she will continue to do protective styles because she is seeing growth.
She encourages you to try new styles—it’s fun!
Tyra Banks
Yesterday the Tyra show turned its focus to natural hair. As we all know, Tyra is rocking her own hair now and decided to dedicate a show to styling natural hair. The show focused on makeovers to help women embrace their natural hair. We are so happy to see Tyra spreading the curly love, though there was not much curly love at the beginning of the show. The first few curlies hair were straightened but it got better! One of our community members reports on the events . . .
Daniella Ayala Reports:
OK, the first woman they had on stage is getting a touch up done on her relaxer. I hope they do some non-chemical treatments and styles as well.
The second woman had big, puffy curly hair, like a white-girl afro. It would have looked awesome with proper products, but they wanted to relax it. Unfortunately, she had just colored it. So they are blow drying and flat-ironing it instead. Damn.
The third woman had a TWA, and is now getting pressed with a hot-comb. I appreciate that it is a temporary straightening method, and it turned out great, but I really hope she leaves somebody curly today!
The fourth woman got a Brazilian Blowout. The stylist said “beautiful hair . . . I can make it better, though.” They made her 100% straight.
Yay! Woman #5 got a bunch of teeny coils! Super cute.
OK, it’s getting better. Woman #6 got cornrows in front, and woman #7 is got two-strand twists that turned out gorgeous!
All in all, a fun show that generated a lot of conversation on Tyra’s website, with questions about keratin treatments and frizz. Great fodder for future shows, we say!
Summer is a carefree time when you want to grab your beach bag and go.
But you also want your curls to look their best, even as they’re facing the rigors of the salt, chlorine and sun.
Enter PhytoSpecific Integral Hair Care, a do-it-all product that instantly detangles and smooths straight hair, and redefines curls. A unique botanical complex of hordeum pulp, sandalwood, and philodendron hydrates and detangles. Red algae and vitamin B5 repair and strengthen. Wheat protein smooths hair and protects from heat styling while sunflower seed oil protects against UV rays and heat styling.
PhytoSpecific was created by French hairdresser Patrick Ales, founder and chairman of the Ales Groupe. His company is known for its ‘Phyto’ haircare lines —Phytotherathrie and Phytologie.
Ales felt there was a need for a full prestige line of products for curly, frizzy and wavy hair using botanical extracts and plants. While customers loved his Phyto products, there had been infinite requests from customers asking for specialty products for this hair texture.
Have you tried Integral Hair Care? Add your review here!
He enlisted the help of Dr. Fatou Batchily-Plat. Batchily-Plat, who has been recognized for her extensive studies of plants and has studied internationally. For Batchily-Plat, a curlyhead, it had long been her own dream to use her knowledge of phytochemistry to develop a line for naturally curly, frizzy and relaxed hair based in active botanical ingredients. Ales wanted a luxurious line with beautiful packaging and concentrated formulas.
The PhytoSpecific line was launched in France in 1997 and introduced in the United States in 1998.PhytoSpecific Integral Hair Care has emerged into one of its superstar products.
More than 500 concerned citizens used hair mats to soak up oil from San Francisco’s Ocean Beach after the Cosco Busan Oil Spill.
Along with the rest of the world, curlies are concerned about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
But did you know that just by having a haircut, you could be helping clean up spills like the one threatening the Gulf Coast right now?
Matter of Trust is a philanthropic organization that collects hair clippings from all over the world, and ship them to U.S. manufacturers who weave them into mats that can soak up oil and clean beaches and harbors.
Encourage your salon to learn more about Matter of Trust.
After the Exxon Valdez oil slick disaster, Phill McCrory, a stylist from Alabama, realized that hair was an efficient and abundant material for collecting and containing petroleum spills.
So, get your hair cut, and save a fish.
Any curly girl knows that she has to become a makeshift chemist, creating her own mixtures of products in the search for the perfect cocktail. A well-made cocktail is both an art and a science. Your curls are ever-changing and unique.
NaturallyCurly’s Curly Cocktails™ were created using some of our favorite Holy Grail products and lots of experimenting. You may mix a little more of this and a little less of that, depending on what your curls look and feel like on any particular day.
And today, we’re thrilled to announce the release of our Transitioning Tonic—the newest addition to our Curly Cocktail™ lineup. This one was created to take care of both of your hair textures during the transitioning process. The products are specially selected to keeping your new growth, the demarcation line between the textures and the relaxed part of your hair healthy and moisturized. Transitioning Tonic contains a hair care plan that will enable you to embrace the joys of your natural hair journey.
Transitioning Tonic includes:
HPO Happy Scalp Oil to soothe roots and stimulate your scalp
Kinky-Curly Come Clean Moisturizing Shampoo for gentle, sulfate-free cleansing
Aubrey Organics Honeysuckle Rose Moisturizing Conditioner for daily conditioning
Carol’s Daughter Black Vanilla Leave-In Conditioner to lock in moisture
Curl Junkie Hibiscus & Banana Deep Fix Moisturizing Conditioner for deep-conditioning treatments
Miss Jessie’s Curly Meringue for protective styles during transitioning
Miss Jessie’s Curly Buttercreme to moisturize new growth while your hair is in a protective style and to fight fuzzy hair lines
The Transitioning Tonic Curly Cocktail™ retails for $70.90 and is available in CurlMart.
In this video, Justin offers Julie a prescription for products for her wavy/curly hair.
Layne Webber remains active with alopecia, sometimes wearing a hairpiece, other times opting for a hat.
Layne Webber, an electrical engineer and mother of two in Denver, Colo., wrote this touching note to a total stranger whom she learned also had alopecia, and with whom she wanted to share her experience of this bewildering and frustrating condition.
Alopecia universalis or alopecia areata universalis is a medical condition involving rapid loss of all hair, including eyebrows and eyelashes. It is the most severe form of alopecia areata, and there are no standard treatments, although many have been explored, as Layne shares with us.
Believe me, I was totally shocked when my hair started falling out. Since high school I’ve dealt with periodic bald spots but they were always small and easy to hide. And they always grew back. About two years ago, after my daughter was born, my hair really started falling out. At first I thought it was just the usual hair loss after having a baby, but it didn’t stop. About two months after my hair started falling out, I was diagnosed with Alopecia Universals. I immediately went on a high dose of Prednisone (I think I was up to 60mg at one point”> and Rogaine. About 3 weeks after starting, this my hair started growing back. In the meantime I blew up like a balloon, gained 20+ pounds and had bad afternoon headaches. But my hair was growing and I was totally excited. My doctor started weaning me off—it took 6 months to finally be off the medicine. Then about a month after going completely off the meds my hair stared falling out again. I immediately went back to the doctor. I didn’t want to go back on the prednisone but I was pretty freaked out and probably would have done it if he recommend it. Instead he put me on Methotrexate (apparently a drug used during chemo to knock out your immune system”>. It didn’t work, and finally last spring I lost all of my hair. I then tried Clobetasol. This was a cream I put on my scalp every night and then wrapped my head in saran wrap—it wasn’t as bad as it sounds. My hair grew back a little but not enough to make a difference. At that point he told me my only other option was to induce a poison ivy-like reaction on my scalp and then use medicine to knock it out. He said it works in a very low number of patients. At that point I just wanted to stop all medicine.
I’ve been pretty lucky—my first dermatologist was VERY caring and easy to work with when my hair stared falling out. One of the doctors in his office even started looking into alternate treatments and at one point put me on Sulfazine—it was part of one of the studies she had read and had helped one of her Alopecia Areata patients. I, unfortunately, was allergic to sulfur medicine and had to stop after my first dose. I then found a dermatologist at the University of Colorado Hospital campus that specializes in Alopecia. He is an expert—if you can call yourself that for a condition that they really don’t know much about. He was the doctor that put me on the high dose of Prednisone, the Methotrexate and the Clobetasol. You might want to look into the alopecia registry. I believe it is out of MD Anderson in Houston.
I’ve also been lucky because I found an awesome wig stylist. She is a cancer survivor and started a shop to provide hair pieces to cancer patients and now alopecia patients. She is awesome. If you are looking for a wig I would recommend trying to find someone that works with cancer/alopecia patients. I’ve also bought a wig online but I had to take it to her to style. It was just too fake-looking out of the box. I actually get more compliments on my hair now (from complete strangers”> than I ever did with my real hair. I’ve even had friends ask if my hair grew back because it looks so real. And it is very easy—I just shower and throw it on—no styling. I use two-sided tape on days I know I’ll be busy with the kids otherwise It just seems to stay in place with no tape. I only wash it about once a month. I bought a few swim caps for days at the pool. It is a little embarrassing because I feel like all eyes are on me but I’m starting to get over it. I also got my eyebrows tattooed on (by a medical permanent makeup artist”>. I never used to have very dark eyebrows but I love the tattoos. They stay on all day—even when I swim.
I do have to admit I cried every day for almost a year when my hair first fell out (and even now as I write this”>. I wasn’t really afraid of what people would think—I’ve actually been very open about it. I don’t go out without a wig or hat but I’ll tell anyone. I’ve found that people aren’t really freaked out by it like I thought they would be. They might be shocked if I showed up bald. Hopefully someday I’ll have the guts to actually go out without my hair. I’ve been most sad about my kids having to deal with it. My daughter may never know me with hair. And my son is young enough to not remember when I had it. But then I think about how they are going to grow up accepting the differences in people and actually feel like it is a good thing in a small way. I’m fine on just typical days, but freak out a little when something unusual happens—swimming with the kids, skiing, biking, etc. So far I haven’t changed my lifestyle too much—I just figure out a way to do what I want to do.
I hope this helps a little. You’ll be surprised by how many people know someone with this same condition. I feel like whenever I tell someone they know someone who has it. Here are some websites I’ve found helpful. I spent the first month pouring over the internet trying to find out whatever I can. I ended up realizing that they don’t know much about it and that every site says basically the same thing.
Jess shows us how she gets second-day hair after doing the accordion technique from Lorainne Massey’s “Curly Girl: The Handbook” book.
MahoganyCurls does a video review of Curl Keeper by Curly Hair Solutions. A little goes a long way. Smells good! Works with a shampoo free method.
The main goal for this is to control frizz and it does!
We know you love the look of messy buns—aren’t they just so cute?
CurlTalker redcelticcurls offers these adorable style for messy buns:
Redcelticcurls messy bun style.
Another look from redcelticcurls
For more bun hairstyles (including more from redcelticurls”> and to upload your own, check our photo galleries!
Eugene Souleiman
Julianna Margulies is in a very small club of female celebrities: those who actually wear their naturally curly hair in public. The actress’s first cover of “W” celebrates the curl in all its glory; the natural part—not so much. Hairstylist Eugene Souleiman talks to us about creating Margulies’s “bubbly, full curls” (believe it or not, hair extensions were involved”> and how a non-professional can achieve her soft-yet-voluminous look.
Tell us about the inspiration behind Julianna’s hair on the May cover.
I wanted to turn the volume up on what was originally there. It almost has that slight feeling of the early seventies, Guy Bourdin thing, but also very Mediterranean and sexy, like an amazingly beautiful Sicilian woman.
Did it take several industrial fans to get her hair flying around like that?
I was actually flagging her with a big piece of polyboard to lift her hair and make it fly! (See Julianna and Eugene in action in our video HERE“>.
Walk us through how you achieved the look.
To create volume, I sprayed Wella’s Crystal Styler [Editor’s note: this product is only available in Europe] in her hair when it was wet, then blew it out so I could control the texture of her hair so it didn’t look too frizzy. Then, we used a curling iron. We also curling ironed two packs of weft [strips of faux hair]. We put the wefts in and just brushed it and brushed it, so it just kind of looked very, very light and soft. It was also a little more raw, not too polished, or controlled.
That does not sound like a wash-and-go style.
It may look like it, but that’s the thing when you look at stuff like this. It’s been worked in the right way so it doesn’t look worked, you know what I mean?
Sure. But is there any hope for the rest of us?
Once your hair is curly, put your head upside down, go through it with a brush, and then throw the hair dryer onto it to loosen everything up and get a little air in it.
— “W” magazine
