Books about Black Hair Care

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Milady Standard Natural Hair Care & Braiding

Milady Standard Natural Hair Care and Braiding is designed to be the training resource of choice for individuals committed to nurturing textured hair and providing excellent natural hair care services. This book introduces the technical and creative aspects of braiding, styling, and grooming hair that is naturally curly, kinky, or multi-textured. More ...
The Science of Black Hair: A Comprehensive Guide to Textured Hair Care

The ultimate consumer textbook on black hair care. Technically oriented and detailed throughout, this book was written with the serious hair care consumer in mind. Hair science, research and testimony combine in this carefully written text designed to examine black hair on a deeper level. With its light academic style it is truly the last hair book you ll ever need. More ...
Better Than Good Hair: The Curly Girl Guide to Healthy, Gorgeous Natural Hair!

In Better Than Good Hair, this gifted curl whisperer educates women on how to transition from relaxed to completely natural hair, with advice and styles for every length, from Fierce Braid-and-Curls to Fancy Faux Buns. She also counsels those considering the "big chop", cutting it all off at once to sport a bold and beautiful teeny weeny afro. More ...
The Black Woman's Hair Bible: Everything You Have Always Wanted To Know About Your Hair!

The Black Woman's Hair Bible is the complete 'How-to' on Black hair care and maintenance. Here is just some of what you will learn: Frustration-free hair maintenance... Tips on how to properly take care of your natural hair, relaxed hair or weave. The 13 things that stop you from getting longer hair and the 10 things you can do, starting today, to grow your hair longer. More ...
If You Love It, It Will Grow: A Guide To Healthy, Beautiful Natural Hair

Thanks to Dr. Phoenyx Austin, M.D., fitness specialist and natural hair guru, we now have a fabulous book that explains how to grow and maintain healthy and longer afro-textured hair. And with a head of gorgeous natural hair herself, Dr. Phoenyx proves that she's not only talking the talk, she's walking the walk! More ...
Grow It: How to Grow Afro-Textured Hair to Maximum Lengths in the Shortest Time

Grow It walks you through a simple six step process to help you understand which actions contribute to gaining healthy length and which actions do not. Who says afro-textured hair can't grow long? The more you know the more you grow! Discover and learn how to: Detangle your hair an minimize breakage, Cleanse your hair for easy comb out, More ...
Coils & Curls The Hair Product Handbook

There is so much hype about hair products, but does it really matter which ones you choose? Are expensive products really worth paying for? This book teaches you everything you need to know about products for coils (spiral-shaped/afro-textured hair) and curls (S-shaped hair). Also included: product recommendations, sample hair care routines, and ideas for homemade recipes. More ...
Natural Hair Care and Braiding

An excellent resource for students and hairstylists wanting a better understanding of the holistic approach to hair care. This instructional handbook introduces the technical and creative aspects of braiding, styling and grooming naturally textured hair. Covering the professional consultation, appropriate holistic hair care products, braiding and sculpting techniques. More ...
Basic Care for Naturally Textured Hair: Cultivating Curly, Coily, and Kinky Hair

Amazing locks, braids, weaves, twists, and wraps define some of the hairstyles worn best by those with very curly or African hair. Black Hair Care not only covers the internationally renowned and latest styles, it also shows how to care for your hair, and gives professional advice on hair coloring, chemical treatments, styling, and sculpting techniques. More ...
Going-Natural: How to Fall in Love with Nappy Hair

With 73 percent of African American women suffering from hair breakage due to the use of straightening chemicals, this guide is the perfect resource to help them on their endeavor to go natural. The book not only describes the phases of this process, but also shares recipes, inspiring styles, and valuable tips to make the transition easy and rewarding. More ...
Creating Beautiful Locks on a Dime

This comprehensive manual is an 8x10 inch text book that guides the professional and novice through the intricate process of installing, growing, maintaining and designing locks holistically at home or in the salon. It is an excellent resource for students and hairstylsists wanting a better understanding of the holistic approach to hair care and dreadlocks. More ...
Managing Tightly Coiled Hair at Home

An opportunity to embrace the physical and mental journey of going natural. It's about so much more than hair: this book gives a voice to women with extremely coiled hair and the complexities of transitioning from relaxed to natural hair by explaining the foundation and economics behind natural hair in the beauty industry. More ...
The Black Hair Manual: A Pocket Guide For Choosing Your Best Hair Products

The Black Hair Manual is a little pocket guide that will help you to select your perfect hair products. A trip to your local beauty supply store or even an experience at a seminar or beauty event may heighten the confusion of knowing if a product is truly best for keeping black hair healthy. Working with black hair alone may be very easy or difficult, depending on your practices and knowledge. More ...
Essential Oils For Hair Growth Manual: A Step By Step Guide For Understanding Essential Oils

A pocket guide that will provide hair care information and oil recipes that you can formulate in the comforts of your own home to recover from a variety of hair issues! Some of the hair issues that will be discussed in this manual are ways to fix dandruff, thin hair, lice, both forms of alopecia, and so much more! More ...
How To Fix Thinning Hair Manual: A Step By Step Guide For Growing Thicker Hair

A pocket guide that will help you to successfully revert your thinning hair to achieve thicker hair! There are a variety of reasons that could have caused your hair to thin such as; health issues, aggressive styling, or a natural progression of thinning from aging. Growing back thicker hair is possible and your process to doing so will include a wide array of solutions. More ...
Dieting For Hair Growth Manual: Using Food To Grow Long & Healthy Strong Hair

A pocket guide that will enhance your hair growth through means of eating foods that specifically aid the growth of your hair. We will talk about foods that promote a healthy body with hair growth being one of many desirable byproducts. There are a variety of reasons why someone wants to grow longer hair whether they are recovering from hair loss, thinning hair, or maybe even for just cosmetic appeal. More ...
The Hair Edges Manual: A Step By Step Guide For Growing Back The Edges Of Your Hair

A pocket guide that will help you to successfully grow back the edges of your hair. There are a variety of reasons that could have caused you to lose the edges of your hair such as; health issues, aggressive styling, or a natural progression of thinning. Growing back the edges of your hair is a process that can include a wide array of solutions. More ...
The Transitioning Hair Care Manual: A Step By Step Guide To Transition From Relaxed Hair To Natural Hair

A pocket guide that will help you to successfully grow back the edges of your hair. There are a variety of reasons that could have caused you to lose the edges of your hair such as; health issues, aggressive styling, or a natural progression of thinning. Growing back the edges of your hair is a process that can include a wide array of solutions. More ...
The Relaxed Hair Bible: The 10 Commandments of Long Healthy Relaxed Hair

Author Breanna Rutter breaks down everything you need to know to achieve long healthy relaxed hair. In this comprehensive guide, some things you will learn are the differences between relaxers and which type is best for your hair, a step by step hair care regimen with products that will maintain healthy hair before and after a relaxer. More ...
The Locks Hair Care Manual

A pocket guide that will help you to successfully maintain Dread Locks (Traditional Locks), Sister Locks and Free Form Locks with step by step details! Even though there are differences in maintenance required to keep up the look of your specific choice of locks, their hair care needs are very similar. More ...
The Hair Care Regimen Manual

A pocket guide that will help you by providing hair care techniques, growth advice, and hairstyles that will help you to care for your relaxed, transitioning, or natural hair. A quality hair care regimen is the key to flourishing healthy hair. Only healthy hair can truly reach longer lengths, especially if growing your hair is a major goal of yours, this manual will teach you how to grow your hair longer. More ...
How To Fix Damaged Hair Manual: A Step By Step Guide To Reverting Color, Heat, And Protein Damage

A pocket guide that will help you to gain your healthy hair back since experiencing hair damage with your hair. There are a variety of reasons why you are experiencing damaged hair and the most common forms of hair damage that will be discussed in this manual is; heat damage, color damage, and protein damage. More ...
The Children's Hair Care Manual: A Step By Step Guide For Taking Care of Your Child's Hair

A pocket guide that will help you to successfully take care of your child’s hair. You may have chosen to pursue this self-education about children hair care for a variety of reasons; a curiosity to learn proper hair care or maybe because you have limited access to professional hair care services. More ...
The Natural Hair Bible: The 10 Commandments of Black Hair Care

This book breaks down everything you need to know to achieve long healthy hair for your specific hair type. In this comprehensive guide, some of the things you will learn are a plethora of homemade product recipes, tables, and graphs that you can use to buy the appropriate hair products that you will need for your specific hair type. More ...
Healthy Black Hair: Step-by-Step Instructions for Growing Longer, Stronger Hair

Healthy Black Hair combines sensible advice with innovative techniques to help you achieve remarkable results. Included are step-by-step instructions to show you how to rejuvenate your locks and accelerate your hair growth from the inside out. More ...
No Lye: The African American Woman's Guide To Natural Hair Care

For years, African-American women have relied on harsh chemicals and relaxers to "manage" their hair, which more often than not did more damage than good. Improper braiding techniques have also contributed no small amount of harm, resulting in frail, damaged hair and even pattern baldness in women. No Lye! offers a safe and easy alternative. More ...
Twelve Steps For Growing Black Hair

This book presents a natural method for growing Black and African hair. The author discusses the twelve steps that have helped her to grow longer, healthier hair naturally, without relaxers. The book discusses how to wash, condition, and style natural Black hair to prevent breakage and encourage growth. More ...
Hair Care Tips for African-American Hair

Do you want to know how to take good care of your black hair? Black hair can be prone to dryness, which makes it frizzy and rough. You end up with hair which is difficult to detangle and style. Most people with black afro type ethnic hair find it difficult to manage their hair and they don’t know how to take proper care of it. It may be tough, but it is not impossible. More ...
Hair Rules!: The Ultimate Hair-Care Guide for Women with Kinky, Curly, or Wavy Hair

For too long, hairstylists and hair care companies have ignored the needs of women with kinky, curly, or wavy hair, focusing on it as “problem” hair rather than celebrating its unique texture. But now hair care and style expert A. Dickey, considered by top magazine beauty editors to be the foremost authority on caring for, cutting, and styling curly hair, has written Hair Rules! to end the frustration faced by women with curly hair every day. More ...
Hair Loss and the Black Woman

In here you will find information about all typed of Alopecia (Hair Loss), what causes it and treatments that are available. You will also understand the process in which hair grows. If you are suffering from Alopecia, there's information to help you understand the difference between a Trichologist and a Dermatologist and what role the cosmetologist should play in all of that. More ...
A Parent's Guide to Natural Hair Care for Girls

A how to guide for healthy and gorgeous black hair plus and introduction to natural hairstyles. Written for mothers of all races who have a child of black or mixed decent, A Parents Guide to Natural Hair Care for Girls is your ultimate step-by-step guide to caring for your daughter’s natural hair from birth to early childhood. More ...