Girrrrrrrl, Teyana Taylor has been doing the media circuit in New York to promote her new show that she will be featuring in along with her husband, Iman Shumpert, and their adorable baby girl.
But BUMP…ALL…THAT!
You see her blonde hair color and cut though?!?!
This woman’s hair and style is FIERCE! She gonna have me grabbing some scissors in a minute if she don’t stop playin’ with my dang emotions, lol.
Everybody knows that Teyana Taylor used to have a head full of lusciously long hair, she would often give love and credit to Mane Choice hair vitamins, and maybe when/if she decides to grow her hair back, that will be her secret weapon again. But for now…. Honeeeeeey, she is ROCKIN’ THE MESS outta that cut.
The crazy part is that I’ve NEVER been a fan of the blonde hair dye on black women, bit just never looked right TO ME (don’t bite my head off for my humble opinion), but girrrrl, Teyana is changing my mind. At least she’s changed my mind for how it fits her.
I will post a few pics below in the gallery so that you can see what I’m talking about.
Could You Rock This Blond Bombshell Look? Would You?
So now, I wanna hear from you in the comment section below. Could you pull this look off? Would you cut your hair to try this look? Or is this a “Hollywood” look that isn’t practical for the normal person out here in the skreets?
Yes, I said “skreets”. Don’t Judge me…
Anyway y’all… Keep an eye out for her new show coming out soon called “Teyana & Iman”, it’s on VH1, so we’re just gonna have to pray that the show aint super-ratchet. Lord knows I can’t mess with none of the “Love & Hip Hop” shows no more. Girl, I feel like I’m disrespecting my ancestors watching that foolery, lol.
Hopefully Teyana’s new show will help show a beautiful example of REAL Black love, family and positivity.
Like Drake says, “WE GON’ SEE!”
So check out her SUPER CUTE photos that we captured from various interviews, the photo gallery below has them all and even a cute pic from when her hair was super long and full and she was reppin’for Mane Choice Hair Growth Pills.
[Photo Gallery] Teyana Taylor – Short Haircuts For Black Women
Hey my Lovelies, I am SOOOO EXCITED for you right now! You wanna know why? Well hunnnnnty! If you haven’t heard about The Mane Choice’s new product line specifically for TYPE 4 HAIR yet, don’t feel bad sis, it’s SO DANG NEW that most Lovelies out there haven’t seen it yet either.
Still, you are gonna love these 3 in-depth reviews we’ve collected for you, because these products are getting some MAJOR LOVE from the melanin-blessed beauties who have been fortunate enough to get their hands on these BAD GIRLS.
And the first review vid from AseaMae is definitely BlackHairOMG APPROVED! Her review was my favorite of the bunch, because the sista breaks down the pros and cons of every single product in the brand new product line.
She shows how she got one of the BEST TWISTOUTS EVVVVVAAARRR on her type 4 hair!!
She also mentions that it is a manageability line that makes type 4 kinky hurrr super soft and that Hair Type 4 Leaf Clover Shampoo Smells so good that she almost wants to eat it, it smells like candy! And she is like me, because she loves that foam baby! This shampoo foams up really good giving you that feeling that it’s really going to work and getting your luscious crown good and squeaky clean.
Listen… I loved how she takes you step-by-step through using the products showing how her hair looked and reacted each step of the way.
Check it out below and make sure to subscribe to her channel…
REVIEW VIDEO: MY 4C HAIR IS POPPIN! The Main Choice Hair Type 4 Leaf Clover Full Collection Review + Twist Out
So as you can see, the final results were SLAYING EVERYTHING MOVIN’ honey!
Now our next review from One Smart Fro is raining down praise on the new line as well, one of the only things (halfway) negative things she said is that she felt she had used alot of the 4 Leaf Clover Conditioner because it’s alot thicker than the other conditioners in the other lines like the Heavenly Halo conditioner and the Ancient Egyptian conditioners.
And at the end of the day, she does love thick conditioners, so she couldn’t really complain.
Check out her reviews below…
My BEST Braid Out w/ The Mane Choice Hair Type 4 Leaf Clover
And lastly, check out this great review from SouthernSophis, she also RAVED about how the shampoo didn’t strip her hair of it’s moisture and left it super-soft.
Girrrrl, this looks like a long-awaited gift to us type 4 hair beauties! Check out her review below and I’ll let you know where you can find the line below, because many are saying the stores are sold out and the hunt for this line is off the hook right now.
TheManeChoice Hair Type 4 Leaf Clover First Impression!
You know whaaaaaaat??? Some of y’all are A MESS, LOL!
Soooo here’s the deal… My girl Whitney A.K.A. “Naptural85” gave an amazing recipe for a DIY shampoo made from Alaffia – Authentic African Black Soap that she says is the “most moisturizing shampoo” she has EVER used.
And if Whitney says that, that’s saying a whooooole lot, the girl aint no joke, she has literally tested 100’s and 100’s of hair products on camera.
So then, riddle me this batman…. Why some of the ladies in the comment section start dragging Whitney because she said the recipe was “simple”??? LOL! (light-heartedly draggin’ though… No super-mean stuff thankfully…)
For instance, check out this comment from Brianna Evans about the claim that the recipe is easy:
“I promise you guys it’s super easy” ? *then uses 30 different expensive essential oils
Brianna betta get up off my girl! And got 260 dang “LIKES” on her sarcastic-behind-comment haa!
Others were saying that they aint got enough money to be buying ALL THESE INGREDIENTS.
Now I’ll admit that it’s not the cheapest recipe, she used 10 ingredients besides water. BUT THE RECIPE IS BOMB! Let that sista be great and teach y’all to be great too, haaa!
The DIY shampoo recipe incorporates the medicinal power of Alaffia African Black Soap, along with 9 essential oils & nutrients known to get your hair regenerating by regulating sebum production, and heal scalp damage!
Here’s the complete list of ingredients for Whitney’s Super-Moisturizing, hair growth shampoo:
WARNING! Guard your ovaries guurrrrl, cause I promise you that you’re gonna want to have more kids after seeing these adorable lil’ hair models and you’ll also get some very cute hairstyle ideas for the little ones that are already in your life!
Stylin’ in everything from afro puffs to advanced cornrow designs to the CUTEST braided styles, these natural hairstyles for kids are the perfect complement for these precious little faces and gorgeous smiles. When it comes to our little princesses, as mothers, we always want them stepping out in style and hair “poppin’”.
In our photo gallery below you will find beautiful hairstyle creations that can inspire your creative side to invent your child’s next hairstyle.
Some of these hairstyles are very easy to duplicate and do yourself, while some of the others are more intricate and you just might need to holla at a professional hair dresser so that they can hook your kid up RIGHT. So you may wanna get your hairstylist number ready, because I’m sure you will be inspired by all this cuteness!
If you are looking to have edges that are SLAYED TO THA GAAAAWDZ, you are gonna love this little known secret. Many kinky-haired sistas thought that gorilla snot was the only help they could get for fighting against disobedient edges, NOPE.
As you already know girl, luxuriously kinky hair usually starts curling up as soon as water touches it so gelling any part of your hair can be a pain in the butt.
But this edge laying technique using Got2b Ultra Glued Invincible Styling Gel is just KILLER! Jazz Nicole shows you how to make those edge lay down and beg for mercy honey! Put in a chokehold and have NOTHING move an no need to put more gel on every-dang-night!!
In fact, Jazz says she gets 3 days of LAID edges from her secret hair gel technique! Check her out and see the products she used listed below the video!
Secret Hair Gel for Coarse Natural Hair [Video]
Products used in the video to lay those edges with AUTHORITY…
To finish up this wonderful technique you can either wrap your hair in a scarf overnight or speed things up and use a blow dryer, Jazz demonstrated the second option and used the blow dryer. The proof is in the puddin’ honey, her edges are LAID and getting 3 days out of this is amazing for kinky type 4 hair.
You don’t even have to be afraid of a little bit of rain or sweating a bit, those who have tried the edge-laying routine say that it holds like NO OTHER! So try it out and let us know what you think about this method in the comment section below!
The genius of the Natural Hair community is ALWAYS on display. The different ways that we invent homemade natural hair & beauty products and creative ways to protect our lusciousness in order to keep the curls POPPIN’ never stop! And one great example of this is the nighttime hairstyle started by beautiful naturals called “pineappling”.
When you stop over-shampooing your hair, it’s a MUST that we find ways to make that BELOVED wash day definition last much longer. And guess what boo!! Pineappling is a wonderful technique for preserving those precious curls while you’re rolling around in bed (snoring all loud, lol), giving you your best 2nd, 3rd and even 4th day hair.
What is a Pineapple Protective Style
Gotta love that protective pineapple, haa. The pineapple is a loose, high ponytail on top of your head, that prevents the frizz, knots and flattened curls that come with lying on a pillow. This way, only the sides and back of your hair will be subject to your tossing and turning.
For extra protection, a satin scarf, bonnet or pillow
The scrunchie or ponytail holder should be loose/tight enough that you loop it around your hair just once if possible. This stops a dent or crease from forming while you sleep. Many naturals prefer to use a satin scrunchie to stop accidental hair breakage and that depressing feeling of tearing hair out with normal hair ties. Ugh…
Many natural ladies also wrap their pineapple in a satin scarf or bonnet to protect their hair from the knots and dryness that comes with rubbing on a pillow, but if you don’t like to sleep with that on your head you can just sleep on a satin pillowcase.
What If You Have Type 4 Coils
If you have highly-textured type 4 hair, you may find that scrunchies or elastic still leaves an indentation in your luscious natural hair, if that’s happens then you can pineapple just using a satin scarf and bonnet. This is especially helpful for shorter hair.
How to Pineapple
Now remember, this is pineapple is going to be a very loose ponytail, so we suggest that you start pineappling it right before you lay down for the night. It may slip a little but your hair should still be protected and don’t forget your satin pillowcase boo!
BEND all the way forward.
GENTLY gather your hair on top of your head.
SLIDE a scrunchie, elastic or special No-Crease Snap-Off Hair Tie around the base of the ponytail only once (or as loosely as possible) The looser the better to avoid creasing.
*OPTIONAL STEP: You can clip the ends of your pineapple to your head or try NOT TO pull the ends all the way through to create a loose bun.
PUT ON your bonnet or scarf last.
How to Take Down Your Protective Pineapple
The pineapple takedown is as important as putting it up. You can’t simply take your hair out of a pineapple and expect to walk out of the crib, you’ll need to perk things up with some light styling.
This is how our Type 4a Editor Amanda takes down her pineapple.
Now don’t get me wrong, a pineapple is definitely not the only way to sleep with curly natural hair. If you’ve tried it and it didn’t work for you, that’s OK. We’ll be highlighting other methods to protect the luscious, so stay tuned Lovelies!
Natural hair is a real luxury and our absolute PRIDE when it is healthy and well-groomed. But how to keep our locks looking irresistible and playful when heat, dust, salt water, and other factors regularly damage them, causing the hair loss, split ends, lack of shine and beauty
The solution is not so difficult, though. It doesn’t necessarily have to consist of expensive salon treatments and using professional high-class hair products (which are not so perfect as adverts promise, by the way). If you really want to restore a healthy look, shine, and beauty of your hair, turn to the natural remedies for help. They are the option number one not only due to their cosmetic effect, but also the healing properties.
Remember, that healthy and beautiful natural curls are definitely one of the best and most fashionable fade haircuts for black women of all time.
Magic of Vegetable Oils
When talking about natural remedies for hair, we simply can’t ignore vegetable oils, so they are deservedly at the top of our list. It’s well-known that plant oils are a gold mine of vitamins and nutrients, they easily penetrate to the hair shafts to help retain moisture. Use olive, burdock, coconut, argan, rosemary, jojoba oils to restore hair that has become damaged from curling irons and coloring, to add a natural shine, healthy look, softness, and resilience to your hair. You can either rub the pure oil into the scalp or make a natural hair mask:
The hair mask with burdock oil is a simple and effective way of nourishing the hair follicles and is perfect for all types of hair. Mix 2 tablespoons of oil with an egg yolk and massage your scalp with a warm mask for a few minutes, rubbing it into the skin and curls, focusing on the tips. Then, wash your hair with an ordinary shampoo. Use this remedy once a week.
Take 3 tablespoons of olive oil and add 5 drops of the ylang-ylang essence, apply this mixture on wet hair and сover it with a shower cap. Keep this remedy on your head for about 15 minutes, after that thoroughly wash the hair.
If your hair is naturally oily, don’t abuse vegetable oil treatment, while the dry hair can be restored in this way even twice a week.
Onion Juice Treatment
Do you know that the onion is extremely rich in vitamins and has medical properties? Can you imagine those fantastic results you’ll get after regular usage of onion masks?
Grate 1 onion and squeeze out the juice. Then add 2 tablespoons of burr or castor oil, 2 teaspoons of squeezed lemon juice, and a banana mashed with a fork. Apply the mixture from roots to tips and leave it on for about 15 minutes. The mask is perfect for weakened hair with oily roots.
Onion juice significantly heals, strengthens, revitalizes the hair, accelerates its growth, prevents and stops hairloss, improving the structure of your curls as a whole. The only con of the onion treatment is the smell you can’t get rid off when your hair is getting wet.
Power of Eggs for Afro Curls
Most of the nutrients of the egg are concentrated in the yolk – it’s a trove of vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. Vitamins A, D, E, B, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, folic and nicotinic acids restore the hair structure, strengthen, refresh and tone, prevent hair loss and stimulate growth, protect from negative environmental factors, make your curls smooth and shiny.
Try the egg yolkshampoo instead of your ordinary one twice a month to give your cute curls a new life. Beat 2 yolks, add 2 teaspoons of purified water and 2-3 drops of your favorite essential oil.
Or treat your hair with this fairy egg yolk mask: make a mixture of 2 yolks, 2 tablespoons of honey, 1 tablespoon of castor oil and a teaspoon of brandy (or cognac), heat it up and apply from roots to tips. Cover your hair with a plastic bag and a terry towel. Keep this remedy for 1-2 hours and wash with your favorite shampoo.
Exotic Coconut
Coconut is rich in proteins, iron, potassium, and other essential nutrients, so that it promotes hair growth, repairs damaged hair, prevents hair loss, breakage and dandruff.
Use a clear coconut milk or oil: gently massage the product all over your scalp (or on the targeted areas only), keep it overnight and shampoo as usual next morning.
Experiment with coconut oil mask: mash a half of banana with a fork and add 2 tbsp of coconut oil and 1 tbsp of sour cream. Mix all ingredients thoroughly and heat the remedy up, apply on the hair and rinse off in 30-40 minutes.
Honey Natural Care
Honey is another natural remedy that your curly hair is gonna fall in love with. No matter if you use it in its pure form or as a part of a homemade hair mask, honey will restore your hair, prevent loss and can even be used as a lighter.
Honey conditioner recipe: mix 100 g of heated on a water bath honey and 2 tbsp of olive oil. Massage it over the scalp and keep for 40-50 minutes, then rinse with a mild shampoo. Besides strengthening, this remedy will moisturize, nourish, and stimulate the hair growth, making your natural locks silky and shiny.
Another honey-based mask idea: all you need is 1 tbsp of honey and the same amount of aloe juice. This treatment should be applied for about 10 minutes before washing the hair twice a week. Besides, this super mask has a great advantage: it can be kept in a fridge, prepared in advance.
Avocado in Action
Avocado fruit is an excellent means for growing and strengthening natural hair. Whether it is the fruit, seed or its oil, avocado contains all necessary vitamins, potassium, iron, folic acid, and copper. This winning mix of nutrients makes all avocado-based hair masks one of the most effective for home hair treatment and restoration.
Make a hair mask with a mashed ripe avocado, 1 tbsp of olive or jojoba oil and another tablespoon of yogurt. Use this remedy once a week to maintain the luxury look of your Afro curls.
Besides, you can massage avocado oil into your scalp once or twice a week to keep your hair moisturized enough, healthy and shiny.
The Best of the Dairy Products
Do you suffer from excessive dryness of hair or tips? If so, this hair conditioning treatment with mayonnaise is what you need! However, ladies with normal hair can also get additional nutrition and moisturizing, following this easy tip:
Apply mayonnaise to wet hair and leave it on your head for 1 hour. Then rinse it well and shampoo. Voila! Your hair will be grateful!
Yogurt is the second best dairy product for hair treatment, strengthening and preventing dandruff.
Take a pure yogurt and spread it over the hair, massaging it into the scalp. Then cover the hair with a plastic bag and wrap with a towel for about 20 minutes. After that shampoo your hair like you always do it.
Rye bread = Strengthening + Growth
The use of rye bread (which is rich in B vitamins) for hair helps to prevent hair loss, strengthen, normalize the hydrolipid balance of the scalp, as well as to clean it mildly.
Soak some slices of rye bread in water, then mash it with hands and add a couple drops of camphor oil. Apply this mixture on your hair, cover it with a plastic bag and a towel. In one hour shampoo your flirty locks thoroughly to be sure no bread crumbs left in your shag.
Hair Conditioning with Apple Cider Vinegar
Our hair has an ideal pH of 4 to 5. The acidity of the apple cider vinegar rinse means that it helps maintain the pH balance of your hair and remove buildup without stripping the hair of its natural oils at the same time.
Apple cider vinegar should be used instead of your regular hair conditioner after shampooing your hair. Just dilute 2 tablespoons of ACV with 1 cup of water and apply this mixture after shampooing, massage your scalp during a couple of minutes and then rinse your hair thoroughly.
Lemon Juice for Healthy Hair
Ordinary lemon is a strongly recommended and trusted ingredient to fight against hair loss and strengthen it. Containing vitamins C, B, and various minerals, the lemon has become a must-have of many homemade masks and conditioners.
Squeeze 2 lemons into a cup of water and use this mixture after shampooing just like it’s described in paragraph 9 about the apple cider vinegar.
P.S. Remember Lovelies, love yourself and take care of your gorgeous hair to look your best and turn a lot of heads under any circumstances. Use rich gifts of nature, listed above, to restore, strengthen and treat your magnificent curls. And if it’s not enough for you, check out one extra sweet idea of natural remedy for hair strengthening right below!
What’s your hair type? Are you a 3b or 4A hair type?
We’re asked very often about hair typing systems. More specifically – many naturals are interested in how to determine their hair type. Generally speaking – we don’t discuss hair typing very often because there are many things that each person must do to care for their hair regardless of their individual hair type.
Having said that, we do recognize that there are some differences associated with caring for certain types of hair. Furthermore, many women utilize hair typing systems to describe the way their hair looks.
Now look, we recognize that the system created by Andre Walker (Oprah’s stylist) is popular and so we talk about it. This doesn’t mean that Andre Walker’s system is necessarily the best or most accurate.
Oprah’s stylist for 25+ years… Andre Walker created a hair typing system that many use today….
Disclaimer: It’s very easy to incorrectly determine your hair type if you only look at the pictorial representations that have been provided. Please don’t rule out a particular hair type simply because your hair doesn’t look like the pictures below.
Andre Walker’s Hair Typing System
Andre Walker is famously known for creating a hair typing system or infamously known depending on your perspective. Andre reveals his hair typing system in a book titled Andre Talks Hair!
Andre makes it very clear in his book that everyone has good hair regardless of ethnicity. He was hoping to immediately debunk the often ridiculous good hair vs. bad hair debate prior to diving into a discussion about hair typing.
Even if you have a negative opinion of Andre Walker, I encourage you to read the book yourself and develop your own opinion of his hair typing system in Andre Talks Hair!. Andre’s system isn’t communicated accurately on many popular blogs that have written articles about the system. Having said that, let’s discuss the hair types defined in Andre Talks Hair!
Type 4: Kinky Hair
Type 4 Kinky Hair: Type 4 is “kinky” or more appropriately full of tight coils (tightly curled hair). Typically, Type 4 hair is also extremely wiry and fragile. Often times, it appears to be coarse, but it is actually really very fine, with several thin hair strands densely packed together. Note that type 4 hair is one the most common hair types found in black hair (African American hair).
Type 4A hair is full of tight coils. It has an “S” pattern when stretched, much like Type 3 curly hair.
Type 4B hair has a less defined pattern of curls and looks more like a “Z” as the hair bends with very sharp angles.
Type 4C hair isn’t a part of the Andre Walker Hair Typing System. Please see the “what’s missing” section below for more information.
Type 3: Curly Hair
Type 3 Curly Hair: Curly hair textures have a definite “S” shaped curl pattern. Since the cuticle doesn’t lay flat, you will notice that curly hair isn’t nearly as shiny as Type 1 (straight hair) or Type 2 (wavy hair) hair types.
Type 3A hair is very shiny and loose.
Type 3B hair has a medium amount curls, ranging from bouncy ringlets (spiral like curls of hair) to tight corkscrews (spiral-shaped corkscrew curls).
Type 3C hair isn’t a part of the Andre Walker Hair Typing System. Please see the “what’s missing” section below for more information.
Type 2: Wavy Hair
Type 2 Wavy Hair: Type 2 is wavy hair that usually isn’t overly oily or very dry. The thought is that Type 2 hair falls right in the middle of Type 1 and Type 3.
Type 2A hair is fine and thin. It is relatively easy to handle from a styling perspective because it can easily be straightened or curled.
Type 2B hair characteristically has waves that tend to adhere to the shape of your head.
Type 2C hair will frizz easily and it is fairly coarse.
Type 1: Straight Hair
Type 1 Straight Hair: Generally speaking Type 1 hair is straight; this hair type into three very specific segments – Type 1A, Type 1B, and Type 1C.
Type 1A hair is described as fine, very thin and soft with a noticeable shine.
Type 1B hair is medium-textured and has more body than Type 1A hair.
Type 1C hair is the most resistant to curly styling and relatively coarse compared to other Type 1 hair types.
What’s Missing? Now, Let’s Discuss Hair Type 3C and Type 4C
You’ll notice that Type 3C and Type 4C hair types aren’t mentioned in the discussion above, that’s because they were not included in the original Andre Walker system.
Type 3C was created after Andre Walker released his hair typing system by a community member at NaturallyCurly.com. The prevailing thought was that the original hair typing system left this hair type out. Consequently, Type 3C hair has been defined as tight curls or coils that look like corkscrews.
Type 4C, like Type 3C, isn’t an actual hair type according to Andre Walker’s Hair System. His comments are actually very simple regarding Type 4 (Kinky) hair – if you can see a definite curl pattern, then you have Type 4A hair. If you can’t identify a defined, specific curl pattern, then your hair type is 4B. I would imagine that the Type 4C hair type was created by a member within the natural hair community – just like the Type 3C hair type.
This time she gives you a thorough SoftSheen Carson Optimum Salon Repair Deep Conditioner REVIEW and she also lets you know how Softsheen Carson Optimum Salon Repair Intensive Reconstructor worked out for her hair as well.
You know how she is, if she doesn’t like it, she will tell you the truth. So check out what she has to say!
was the only help they could get for fighting against disobedient edges, NOPE.
to stop accidental hair breakage and that depressing feeling of tearing hair out with normal hair ties. Ugh…
to protect their hair from the knots and dryness that comes with rubbing on a pillow, but if you don’t like to sleep with that on your head you can just sleep on a satin pillowcase.
, rosemary, jojoba oils to restore hair that has become damaged from curling irons and coloring, to add a natural shine, healthy look, softness, and resilience to your hair. You can either rub the pure oil into the scalp or make a natural hair mask:
, apply this mixture on wet hair and сover it with a shower cap. Keep this remedy on your head for about 15 minutes, after that thoroughly wash the hair.
, 2 teaspoons of squeezed lemon juice, and a banana mashed with a fork. Apply the mixture from roots to tips and leave it on for about 15 minutes. The mask is perfect for weakened hair with oily roots.
Use a 
or oil
after shampooing your hair. Just dilute 2 tablespoons of ACV with 1 cup of water and apply this mixture after shampooing, massage your scalp during a couple of minutes and then rinse your hair thoroughly.
Andre Walker is famously known for creating a hair typing system or infamously known depending on your perspective. Andre reveals his hair typing system in a book titled 
