On the mission to grow out your natural 4C hair, you’ve been following the biggest YouTube vloggers, trying out new protective styles and investing in the most popular hair care products. But many ...

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THE CLAIM: Black hair does not grow easily. “Good hair” or looser curl patterns are special because they can grow more in length. During the five-year process it took to prepare her second album, SZA ...

A Mzansi woman wowed TikTok with her stunning 4C Afro, sharing her simple hair-growth routine after her viral video hit 6.5M views and sparked massive praise.

Caring for 4C hair doesn’t have to cost a fortune. Here are the 7 budget-friendly tools I actually use at home to wash, detangle, style, and grow my natural hair in Nigeria. Almost every time I log ...

Understanding the complexities of 4C hair to best care for yours may as well be considered a fine art. There are a number of factors to take into account at what feels like all times – deciding how to ...

Taking care of your 4C curls can be challenging, especially if you recently went natural. 4C hair is the ‘coiliest’ hair texture – made up of hair strands that have a very tight zig-zag pattern. This ...

On average, certified trichologist William Gaunitz, FWTS says that hair grows approximately one centimeter per month. In the grand scheme of things, 12 centimeters (or 4.7 inches) of hair growth a ...

Growing your hair can be a frustrating process. Sometimes, it feels as though you’re just stuck in purgatory, with no noticeable change happening, and wondering: How fast does hair grow, really? But ...