We all know about moisturizing our skin, but what about our hair?

How to make a choice between all those new products which are sometimes designed for hairstyle and some other times presented as treating or hydrating products? Some of them are even said to combine all those three actions so… how to stop worrying about that? I propose to give you my hydratation guide in 5 main points:

1/ Water: I know you already know that but i have to say it again: To drink 1.5 liters of water everyday is good for your body, your skin and … your hair!!! If you can’t do this, vaporize your hair with spring water everynight. Yes! Just like you would do for a plant! Add vegetal oil and 4 drops of an essential oil of your choice to the spring water for a maximum effect. After that, you just have to make two big braids to go and sleep while your hair naturally dries.

2/ Dry hair: After every poo, generously apply lukewarm shea butter from your scalp to the ends of your hair. Make big braids until the excess shea butter is absorbed, and you will have beautiful hair for a whole week!

3/ Normal or fine hair: Avoid petroleum jelly. Every day, apply a knob of a moisturizing butter containing shea on your hair. You should first dissolve it by rubbing it between your hands and then gently massage your scalp with the pulp of your fingers.

4/ The day before your poo: make a treatment with a vegetal oil such as carapate, pear, germs of wheat or pips of grapes oil … and so on. Generously coat the hair of oil, put on a cling film and a scarf. The next day, just wash your hair as usual.

5/ 30 minutes before every poo: Use a nutritive mask for kinky hair which contains shea butter, olive or pear oil. Generously apply it on all your hair, then put on a cling film and a towel soaked with lukewarm water. Change the towel when it is completely cold and normally shampoo your hair.

Moisturizing our kinky hair is the best way to take care of it; indeed it protects our hair against breakage while styling it, and also helps it to grow harmoniously.

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This graceful creature is named Jany Tomba. She has Haitian origin and has posed for the magazine Essence in 1970. Besides the delicacy of his profile, revealed by the play of shadows and light of photography, which immediately draws the eye, is the tied of the scarf, commonly called “Wrap”. The head gear is actually composed of several fabric colors, mixed in shaded tones of yellow-ocher, red-orange and fuchsia. The draped is flat and covers the whole head, crossed through the forehead. The scarves pans were wrapped on themselves, then knotted together on the side, in spiral, creating a large flower.

Evidence that we have invented nothing, that this tied scarf is known today as “Nubian”. Unlike scarves tied up in height, which gives a very energetic and “royal” side, the scarf tied more flat as the “Nubian”, gives the face more softness and roundness. They are also easier and faster to achieve, but can range from very simple with a single fabric, to more elaborate, like the one Jany Tomba is wearing. As it is the Seventies, the colors are shimmering and melting perfectly with this beautiful printed silk shawl. The model wearing an orange tee-shirt, black wide leg pants and wedges heel sandals seems ordinary. But the tied scarf, shawl and the attitude, give the Seventies Sista timeless Sofisticate style!

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The seventies is the golden age of Afrocentrism, political speeches, philosophical, but also aesthetic. African Americans have a thirst of Africanness too long obscured. For the first time since the unfinished dream of Marcus Garvey, they go to Africa, the mind alert. Intellectuals, activists, photographers and fashion editors came with Muhammad Ali and George Foreman for their “rumble in the jungle.” They‘re touching materials, fabrics, beads, bringing in their suitcases Kenté, djembé, African statues, but mostly visions of sculptured hair, braids in arabesques, hair with thread. Return to the American land, they explore a new aesthetics; they are attiring with fabrics of Afrocentric pattern, cover their arms and necks of copper, bronze and shellfish.

Such as actress Novella Nelson, simply majestic in this bustier dress in ultra-soft cotton with its princess train. His face, noble and distinguished, is crowned with small “antenna”(as they say in the country) made with thread. She wears a long shawl worn so royally. The assortment and arrangement of African jewels are gorgeous: a bracelet girded the arm while her necklace falls carelessly to the waist, feminizing a very “manly posture “. Simply majestic…

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