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Natural Hair Bride: Asimbuyu

In all the years this blog has been around, we have grown a sizeable fan-base and had the privilege of meeting a few of you in person. But some of our readers stand out more than others and this is why...

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Chanda – Natural Hair Bride

ZedHair is excited to share Chanda’s Natural Hair Bride story and amazing pictures with you. Chanda is based in Lusaka, Zambia. Pictures by JJArts Photography. Over to you Chanda. Chanda – Natural Hair...

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Hairspiration at the Olympics : Alysia Montaño

So the title of this post is a little misleading, but I’ll get to that later. First! The Olympics are here, and I’m so very excited. I’m also likely to attempt to prove I’m still somewhat athletic and...

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Calling All Natural Hair Brides

For some women, choosing the right dress is the biggest decision they make for their wedding day. Not so for Team Natural. The question of what to do with your hair is one that keeps naturals up at...

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Weekly Challenge Friday – Retro Flat Twist ‘n’ Curl

I got home from work and asked my neighbour’s niece to help me make the back parting straight. I admire those Naturals who can do such things themselves, but I ain’t one of those sisters. I very...

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Weekly Challenge Thursday – Sectioned Updo

Last night I spritzed the hair and made four sections, each with chunky twists to stretch the hair. I sealed the ends with shea butter. In the front I did much smaller twists in order to create twist...

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Weekly Challenge Wednesday – RTP Updo

Today’s RTP style took absolutely ages because I couldn’t get the top right as I wanted it to meet with the bun. This was frustrating me until I finally realised that it was because the last time I did...

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Weekly Challenge Tuesday – Halo Flat Twist

I have been wanting to do a halo flat twist for a very long time and I am glad that I finally managed to do it. Ordinarily, I would have wanted it to start at the back of my head, slightly below the...

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Weekly Challenge Monday – Flat twist/Chunky twist Combo

Monday – Flat Twist/Chunky Twist Combo One of the things that has helped me tremendously over the years as a natural is participating in hair styling challenges. Whatever the type of challenge, they...

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Eat Shea and blog about it

About two weeks ago, a housemate came home with a small collection of interesting looking fruit that she swore to me was edible. Shea. So I tried it and documented the experience.  Not a particularly...

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How to get your hair to do everything you want!

Every day at ZedHair we get emails and messages from people asking all sorts of questions about their hair. How do I get my hair to grow long? My edges are thinning. How can I fix that? My hair is thin...

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The Day I Went Natural

From Locs to TWA Six years ago today, I did The Big Chop and returned to my natural hair. I had talked about it and prepared friends and family for months, although they didnt think I was serious....

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2016 Hair Growth Challenge: 1st Quarter Regimen

Last week I introduced you to my 2016 Length Retention challenge and promised to share the regimen I am following during these first 3 months of the year. Well, here it is complete with products. A...

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Hair Growth Challenge 2016

Hey guys! You know that meme going around about how 2016 starts in February for some?! I’m one of those people. I spent much of January still in a sort of holiday mode. In my last blog post I spoke...

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ZedHair Workshops Are Going International!

ZedHair is about to cross the border with our first natural hair event of 2016. One of the best things about being natural is the support from the natural hair community, both online and in person....

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My Year in Hairstyles

If you had told me at the beginning of last year that I would have been able to demonstrate 49 different ways to style my natural hair I would have shook my head in disbelief, I might even have...

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Protective Style Challenge:Week 47; Flat Twist and Roll

I’ve had to miss posting as couple of weeks because of tech issues but I couldn’t quit so close to the end so this week you will get a triple dose of hairstyles. This hairstyle is a play on the...

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Afro – the down side

First published August 2011 In my last post on the up side of afros, I shared about how much my confidence has grown. However, I have also been given pause for concern. As my hair grows, the afro will...

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Afro – the up side

First published August 2011 One of the inspirations for going natural was to be able to rock a massive 4-inch afro. In fact, my hair goal was to emulate a picture of my mother in the 1970s, where she...

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Protective Style Challenge: Week 46;Roll & Pin

This is officially my last week playing with rolls, well, I may revisit them in the next few weeks but I’d really like to try and do some elegant updo’s to show what can be done with natural hair...

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