WELCOME HOME


Nappturality has been online since 2002. Dedicated to all the women in the diaspora who proudly wear their highly textured hair naturally. Nappturality.com is the place to find photographs,, forums, information and links about the care, maintenance and politics of natural hair. Natural napptural hair. Here you will find photos of all natural styles, comb coils, two-strand twists, afro puffs, afros dredlocks (dreadlocks), locs and many other natural styles. Styled by natural napptural haired women on their own hair.

For a few months, I have been overwhelmed with work. Far too much work for one person but work I needed to do for my job. It meant my natural hair styling took a back seat. I wore ponytails, puffs, single braids... etc during this hump. Styles that didn’t require daily maintenance but dangerous styles for me to wear day in day out. Combing, brushing, elastics and dense tangles and breakage ensued... I paid a heavy price for that laziness. It took a week to get all the tangles out, I lost a lot of hair out of my tender scalp in the process and a month ago I had to cut 6 inches of damaged ends and broken off hair off.

This is the start of my complete 180 regarding combs and brushes.

Since that date I have not used a comb or brush. No, I am not kidding – not once. And my hair has thanked me for it.  I have come to the conclusion that combs, brushes, picks etc are not friends of my natural hair. Here’s why.

  • My hair breaks easily. It is very dense but fine.

  • My hair wants to wave up on the top and coil up at the ends. This means it will clump up and wrap around itself. I am not fighting that.

  • When my hair fights the comb, my hair always loses.

  • nocombhair image

So, this is my routine.

1. When it is time to detangle/restyle without shampooing, I thoroughly wet my hair under a running shower.

2. With the water running through it, I grab a section of my hair with one hand and gently pull apart the clumped coiled sections of hair.

3. At the same time, I detangle the ends by dragging my fingers through my hair, taking out the shed hair as I go. I do this all around my head.

4. After the ends are done, I drag my fingers through my hair in sections, from scalp to ends, removing shed hair and working through any major clumps. This only takes a minute or so.

5. Then put conditioner on, work it through each section of hair, through the coils  and leave in as long as I need to.

6. Rinse out conditioner while working fingers through hair from scalp to ends.

7. Squeeze excess water out of ends. Do not shake head (this will create tangles)

8. Use a super absorbent hair towel to squeeze water from ends then place on head and press (do not rub) to absorb water from head.

9. Apply leave-in, stying mousse/cream from scalp to ends, gently separating clumps/coils that naturally form.

Style as required.

For shampoo days, shampoo apply shampoo before conditioning stage, being careful to get to the scalp but not rubbing up and down and adding to tangles.

I can twist it at this stage or coil it around my fingers to make it look like locs. But I do not use any kind of styling tool – just my fingers.

When my hair is thoroughly dry, it shrinks up and clumps into coils and its own sections. It holds its form until the next wet session.

I may use a light conditioning spray between wetting sessions, depending on the weather and the style I am wearing my hair in.

This works for me, it may or may not work for you. But you may want to give it a try. Check out the *new* No Comb No Brush Challenge board on our Forums for updates and help!

~Dee~

Nappturality Shoe 300 faded

Your Natural Hair is NOT a Fad

Wearing natural hair is not a fad. It is not a fashion trend. It's the natural hair you were born with. So why can't you wear it?
Don't believe the negative hype..

Heeyy Jessie2 Tammy Mariano Jaunene Jones Bokua Adwoa Bray Bryanna Knight Sarah Moore 2 Hairbyjuanibless2 Natanya Jones Raticka Scruggs2 Shadi Shukuma Maepa Chenay N. Bryant Lekeytha Dukes Shaw Hairbyjuanibless3 Monique Colon2 Sophonie Bien Aime Cheryl Freemon Watts Essie Dodson Mary Wells Angela Watkins2 Destiny Hawkins Vicky Hightower Bokua Adwoa Bray 2 Naiesha Howell Gloria Obruche 1 Daphanie Brooks Queena Beenblessed Williams Chelsea Patterson Sanders Leslie Blakely2 Eiimariiee Rosee Lynn Kaynisha Renee Martin Ashley Erica Holmes Hale Leslie Blakely9 Jay Roge4 KaRen Antoinette Jeaninne Kimberly Montague Leslie Blakely8 Heila Da She Serumula 2 Maya Mj James Adrienne Lifeisgolden Skinner2 Gloria Obruche 2 Jariel Deanna3 Tiara Shinae Urecha Dunn Adey's Natural Hair Tips Juanita Simmons Selena So Blessed Mckibben Toma Thornhill J LaKayle Jones Divinity Starr Sasha Stoute Notm Pressed3 LaCharla Figgs KaRen JackSon2 Miz Jones Heeyy Jessie Ednasia Green EJ Thompson Frankie Monroe 2 Sarah Moore Leslie Blakely5 Hairbyjuanibless4 Emmanuelle Key Dickerson2 Jay Roge Monique Colon Mysteek NaturalHair2 Monique Colon Trina Smith 2 Andrea Cantrell MrsNohaterallowed Taylor Talishia Robins2 LaShawn Richeau Breland Andrea Cantrell 3 Angela Watkins3 Angie Knight2 Curley N Cynthia Simpson Regina Ellis Livingston Emmanuelle Key Dickerson Lysa Davis Melody Dark Gema Ebanks Jacqueline Parker Angie Knight Nadia Newton Marenda Eison Princess First'Lady Briggs Nikki Poole Karmen B. Jones Daniella Cardoza Adaleia Coultman4 Vanessa Agee Cynthiakim2 Mysteek NaturalHair Monica Evans3 ShaRon Hicks2 Rhonda Littles Solange Campos 1 Nikki Poole 2 Kaleta Battle Monica Evans Raticka Scruggs Cynthiakim1 Chasity Williams Kennedra Tucker Adaleia Coultman2 Shalari Drakes Keia Parker Queena Beenblessed Williams2 Lauren Foster Walls Chara Harris Jariel Deanna1 Brandi Murphy HairbyJuanibless Kathy Terrell 3 Leslie Blakely7 Kathy Terrell 2 Debra Chatman Princess First'Lady Briggs2 Jennifer Bass Michele Washington Monica Evans4 Marilyn E Lowe Star Bullard Leslie Blakely Lisa Amos Wilson Tamara Hinkle Moore Monica Evans2 Urecha Dunn2 Sonya Makeba Samantha Jordan Jewel Grant Shekera Combs Frankie Monroe Hairbyjuanibless5 Jagged Edge3 Sasha Stoute2 Natanya Jones2 Kayla Bush Nikki Poole Jillijoy Holloway Dominique Truthfairy Williams Watt Sylvia Randi Carroll Courtney Davis Leslie Blakely4 Shannon Bell Latanya Coverson Maya Mj James2 Irena Shipley Notm Pressed Msincognito Shades KaTina Smith Walker Tammie Braggs Betty Alexander McGriff Princess First'Lady Briggs3 Talishia Robins Adrienne Lifeisgolden Skinner KaTina Smith Walker2 J LaKayle Jones3 Bella Negra1 Sheila Da She Serumula3 Kenita Mitchell Linda Brown Campbell Lorraine Gray Diamond Mull Denise Billings Tiffany Smith Leslie Blakely6 Khady Didi Sow Jazmine J. Boss Jagged Edge Trina Smith Jariel Deanna2 Jay Roge6 Jillijoy Holloway3 Daniella Cardoza2 Melinda IzsoDivine Akeisha Sheila Da She Serumula2 Abigail Boyce Trina Smith 3 Gilly Dee Cheryl Freemon Watts2 Amanda Flowers Peterson KaRen JackSon Ayesha La Vonia Boyd Tammie Elkerson Mcgill Sheila Da She Serumula Solange Campos Princess First'Lady Briggs4 Jay Roge3 Sharea Twymon Summers Saundrea Arila Mendez Sheila Da She Serumula Natanya Jones3 J LaKayle Jones2 Leah Prater Iman Whitmore Raven Nacole Madison Jariel Deanna Sonjia Murphy Bella Zambezie Iman Whitmore 2 Jagged Edge2 Adaleia Coultman3 Angela Watkins Michelle Hudson Gilly Dee LaJoia Hamilton Monique Wilson Kathy Terrell 4 Da OC Ann Brown Nicki Wade Troya Sowell KaRen JackSon Nyree' Allen Alnita Reaves Vaught Candace Montgomery Andrea Cantrell 2 Carolyn Parker Adrienne Lifeisgolden Skinner3 KaTina Smith Walker3 Mary Wells Leslie Blakely3 Yasmeen Cookngd Ali Brown Lakishia Brown Tracy Gary Kim Lewis Frankie Monroe 1 Katrina Stallworth Adaleia Coultman MrsNohaterallowed Taylor2 Tonyelle Bennett Jillijoy Holloway2 Kathy Terrell Raticka Scruggs