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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.

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26 August 2020
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A couple of times a year, this subject come around. Like a comet, it blasts through natural hair groups, discussion forums and social media. Is the word "nappy" good or bad? Should we use it or not?&n...
11 September 2019
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Back when I wrote this article about Viola Davis and her big beautiful afro at the Golden Globes, I was super excited. No one had dared to wear their natural hair so OUT and so BIG before, and she abs...
25 August 2019
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When I first went natural, I was really on a tight budget. And I had no idea about styling natural hair let alone what products to use. There weren't any products for natural hair anyway because it wa...
16 January 2020
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This natural hair revolution has meant different things to different women. For some it changed their lives by giving them a reason to stop destroying their hair. For others it didn't play a big part ...
21 June 2021
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First, I need to explain what I mean by this term. It's not a medical term – nor something I found on the internet. Congested Scalp and Hair (CSH) is a condition I have found that happens with my own ...

The week between the injury and the surgery I wasn't concerned about my hair - the pain was the concern and I simply wore a puff, pulled tightly by putting a knot in one end and placing that end into a drawer, closing the drawer then pulling the other end with my good arm until it was taut.

It was only after the surgery that I started worrying about my hair. As I have been doing the no-comb challenge for months, I was going to write a blog about how to do natural hair in no-comb with one hand but soon after the surgery I was confronted with this reality. There is no easy way to do natural hair with one hand while you are in injury recovery. Period. That's it.  Just get braids, a weave, a wig, concentrate on recovery and be done with it. 

Now I'm not saying to give up. There is another reason why I say this. The effect general anaesthetic can have on your hair. It can be devastating, as it has been with me. After surgeryAbout 2 weeks after the surgery, and continuing through today, 6 weeks after that - I have experienced extreme shedding, texture annhiliation and excessive dryness. My hair became unruly and has become something unfamiliar to me. It's like someone removed the hair I know and transplanted an entirely different head of hair up there. Now I am learning to work with what I am left with. I have lost several inches in length, a bit of density and a lot of my texture has changed. Most of my hair is above my shoulders again after being mid back stretched.

Personally I considered a wig or a weave, braids or something but decided to just reduce my styling, wear a scarf often and remove as much as the shedded hair as gently as possible, as often as possible. It's going to come out anyway so why delay the process. Braids or weave would put more pressure on my hair and I never could stand wearing wigs. Besides I still have so much hair that a wig would probably sit too high to look natural anyway.

My hair is "not just hair" to me. This experience has confirmed that. You are never too old to learn something new about yourself. After 13 years of being napptural I am still learning what a role my hair plays in my self-image and exploring why.

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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..

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