Hair Blog - Dominican Hair Alliance

4/9/2019

The 5 Best Conditioners for Low Porosity Hair

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Most natural hair bloggers like to emphasise routines over products.

But if you have true low porosity hair, you already know products make all the difference. Especially when it comes to conditioners.

Here's our guide to the top 5 conditioners and treatments that penetrate and smooth the surface of low porosity hair.

14/8/2019

6 Dangerous Natural Hair Trends

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These days, hair trends spread like wildfire on social media.

But most information isn't passed on by experts, and many people who share fail to check the facts first.

All this means the fallout from dodgy beauty remedies can be pretty bad.

31/7/2019

What are the problems with sulfate-free shampoo?

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Woman sulfate-free shampoo, Demorris Byrd.

Just because you've given up sulfates, doesn't mean washday becomes a haircare utopia. Sulfate-free shampoos come with their own set of problems.

Here's how to spot the biggest ones and how to choose the best sulfate-free shampoo for your hair.

10/7/2019

Is sulfate shampoo good or bad for natural hair?

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Are sulfates good or bad? What do they do to natural hair? Does sulphate-free shampoo make hair greasy?

Sulfates are the most controversial ingredients in haircare, but most of us don't know why we hate them so much.

Think you know all there is to know about these ingredients? Well here's the whole truth about sulfates.

30/6/2019

4C hair: 3 Tips For 3B Hair You Need To Stop Using

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Girl touching 'fro.

Can you treat 4C hair the same way you treat 3B hair? If you listen to most curl tips, it would be easy to think Type 3 curly hair advice is universal. But it isn't.

Following certain 3-centric curl tips on 4C hair could be what's making your hair seems unmanageable or difficult right now.

We just need to jettison some of the "rules" that don't work for this hair type at all. Rules like:

17/6/2019

Hair growth: How to grow your hair with iron

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What should you do the next time you hear about a "miracle" product that promises it can speed up hair growth, stop hair loss, make thin hair into thick hair, and turn grey hair back to black?

a) Dismiss it as yet another piece of too-good-to be true hair industry hype or b) call your doctor?

29/5/2019

4C Hair: Why This Popular Curly Hair Advice Won't Work

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The worst curly hair tips possible if you have 4C hair? When 3B/C curl advice gets tossed out as general, one-size-fits-all curly wisdom.

This Type 3-obsessed curl dogma has taken over the way we talk about and treat all curly hair, even when it doesn't apply. Especially when it comes to 4C hair.

22/5/2018

Capilo Leave-In is BACK!

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The Style Guide:

Same great product In different packaging...

All you need is a little leave-In.....

14/8/2016

How to Run Away From Reversion— Successfully!

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Let's face it: avoiding reversion is avoiding moisture. It's the only way to prolong your sleek 'do! Moisture hides, and when your hair is freshly straightened it seems like—it's everywhere. On guard, ready to sneak up on you and transform your sleek, laid strands into flying frizz. So how can you beat it? How can you stay sleek?

22/3/2016

IAITI: Ingredients for Stretching Sets

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This latest edition of It's All In The Ingredients, is a tell-all on reading ingredients lists for the ingredients that stretch your hair. In a naturalista's epic battle against shrinkage, DHAdiy brings the war to the words on the ingredients label. Learn how to check if your chosen product is a win against shrinkage.