by Paula Barker | Dec 1, 2020 | Chemical Straightening, Hair Care, Hair Fails, Hair products, Hair Repair, Hair Styling, Haircuts, Natural Hair, Relaxed Hair, Self Image, Uncategorized
I just came to realize that many people, especially women, have no idea how to know when it’s time for a haircut! As a hairstylist, I think I took it for granted that everyone knows this like they know they need to wash their hair regularly. Well, turns out, it is...
by Paula Barker | Nov 25, 2020 | Hair Care, Hair Fails, Hair Repair, Hair Styling, Natural Hair, Uncategorized
Depending on how often you maintain your dreadlocks, at some point you might have to figure out how do you reattach a broken dread. No one likes to lose hair and If you were to go through a locking process, losing a dread would be catastrophic! Over the years, I...
by Paula Barker | Oct 20, 2020 | Hair Care, Hair Extensions, Hair Fails, Hair products, Hair Repair, Hair Styling, Men's Hair, Natural Hair, Uncategorized
At some point in your hairstylist life, you will have a situation that requires overcoming the language barrier. This does not happen very often, but every now and then there is a “situation”. Most times you can probably figure it out because both sides want to...
by Paula Barker | Oct 7, 2020 | Braids, Child's Hair, DREADLOCKS/LOCS, Hair Care, Hair Extensions, Hair Fails, Hair Repair, Hair Styling, Natural Hair, Uncategorized, Weaves
People with curly hair have regular “entanglements”. We can comb our hair and five minutes later, it goes right back to tangles. Not to say this does not happen to those with straight hair, it just seems to like curly hair more. After a few years, you hopefully...
by Paula Barker | Sep 16, 2020 | Braids, Chemical Straightening, Child's Hair, Coloring Hair, Curls & Perms, Hair Care, Hair Extensions, Hair Fails, Hair Styling, Men's Hair, Natural Hair, Self Image, Uncategorized
Recently, while viewing some videos of people adding hair extensions, I was “shook” (as my 18-20 year old clients would say) because they did not seem to know the importance of good judgement.  I saw ladies who had lost hair, obviously to glue, still...
by Paula Barker | Aug 25, 2020 | DREADLOCKS/LOCS, Hair Care, Hair Fails, Hair Repair, Hair Styling, Lifestyle, Natural Hair, Self Image, Uncategorized
No one likes to lose hair and usually you don’t lose it in the areas you wish you would either. One of the things I am seeing more of are people who have dreadlocks and suffering from hair loss or thinning. Just like grey hair, the places where it appears most are...
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