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Occasion Ready
07/02/2025 Copyright © OD AND ODJI Occasionally Ready : THE PONYTAIL
Why your ponytail is the best healthy, natural protective go to Hair style for ALL occasions:
Occasions will never get missing! Or get missed.
Well, we believe that a beautiful appearance requires, especially in dark skinned communities a wild, full and long, hair-appearance to be considered as healthy or even to proven point that you have “Good” hair!
Let’s erase those thoughts, shifted and negative blurring weight of your and our shoulders.
A perfect staged Ponytail, a messy bun or a sleek high or low pony, is suitable to all occasions of your choices and easy to switch into cosy, while respecting your every day regimen and Hair Care journeys.
The Practice :
- Let your hair breath!
A wisdom from mothers - braiding, weaves and instalments, make it a hard for your own hair under to breath! Let your Hair and scalp get a “breather”!
- Time your hair Treatments on easy to remove, every day Hair styles - Pony, Pony - all time ponytail or Chignon.
- Embrace every moment in your hair. Even if not perfectly put down or missing a trick.
- Note to oneself: There are some good “handy“ invention, helping you to put down every strands: gel, lack, pin - use them! If needed!
- Be a natural with your hair ! Be and feel natural, in tone with your hair. Build this relationship in knowing your needs and every strands - it’s a life long story.
Happy Lovers Day !
Take on: (Re)Normalise “Ponytail”,
Up-dos as dark skinned Women. Back to your cheeks, they are looking great!
OD
No Protective Styles - Brush and stretch
14/12/2024 Copyright © OD AND ODJI UG No Protective Styles - Brushing
Brush twice !
Curly, Coarse, Coiled.
Brush, Set, Go - Brush your Hair twice and moreover.
Why brushing your hair twice and often as a curly, coarse and coiled head, will have you and can be beneficial to your thick hair.
100 Times before Bed! 🛏️
Specially Coily hair will benefits from constant stretching and combing and brushing through your hair!
While we all agreed on the less manipulation, less manipulation on your hair or the famous protective style.. to be protective - skip it, it’s over! Archived, ad acta.
Keep a healthy Care routine in taking active
Care in Moving from New to OLD!
The 100 Times rule, applies to healthier hair and is one of its secrets!
While coarse hair is tempted to be more time consuming in its constant maintenance, more tempting in some wisdom and better is done, in less manipulation, We will prove it, to be wrong!
Here is why:
Brushing your hair more often will assist in reordering the natural sebum product on your scalp moving to your oldest hair strands without additional remedies and stimulate the natural blood circulation on your scalp, which are crucial to hair growth and hair density.
The Hair strands to your hair tips are the most fragile enteritis of your hair. Once reached a certain length and density, keeping those old strands hydrated, can be considered, a task
by itself.
So sticking to: no touching, no manipulation, specially for African rooted hair texture slows down the natural growth and life circule of your Hair folicals and is visible in your hair strands, best known as splits, *frizz and breakage.
Looking back regardless of its transformation ways of signature africain braiding, this braidings are signature of a hole world and believes that are still needed, that are beautiful helping generations to maintain their hair, in a everyday life functionality of making, taking care of other things, easier, but are ment not to last for ever in your hair!
Keep your hair lively, take
‘proactively’ care.
Further Tips for Africain rooted, decent Hair: Coils, Curls and Coarse Hair that can help in maintaining your split ends:
Frequent trimming at Least quarterly or trimester (every 3 month) to every 6 month yearly and latest every 8 month yearly.
For at Home and
Self-Care Maintaining,
Do it yourself use a ***Split End Trimmer, (best on blowout), every 4 to 6 month in a year circle.
Focus on density, health and volume rather than overall unreasonable, unhealthy length retention.
Gentle and directed finger detangling with care, involving the whole layers of your hair and hair strands from root to tips incorporating a lightweight oil or hair mask of your choice.
Brush, Comb twice, often, make it a ritual to yourself. 100 times before bed! Give yourself the opportunity to really feel yourself and this Hair strands of yours!
Plan ahead and wisely, know your schedule before protective hairstyles - plan determined, not loosy!
Secret tip from our Mothers:
Brush, Comb your Hair before Shampoo and shampooing. This helps loosen up, loose Products in your hair like **gels or serums.
Last: make it to Finish-line.
Seal, Seal, Seal!
Preferably choose: Leave In.
Leave the Leave in, in your hair.
Seal your Africain rooted, decent (Coils, tight Coils, coarse and wavy) Hair Crown, always. Accordingly and distribute ODs Hair Sealing properly to your hair, however the sealing, *gel or leave In. Let’s develop a healthy habit, properly.
Let’s go from New to OLD: Repeat : We Don’t hide them anymore!
*frizz can also be caused to specially African rooted and decent Hair through humidity or geographical humide areas and needs attention to prevent from getting overly troubled in humid regions - review styling.
**gel and holding Stylers will need frequent Wash to maintain a healthy scalp environment. Plan accordingly to your wash routine.
***product
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Bounce Back Hair “done” Care
9/11/2024 Copyright © OD AND ODJI UG
Bounce Back hair “done” Care
Clueless about the next hair adventure?
How about to keep it lay-low ?
Indulge in the cosy pre winter season with the ultimate “pampering”, a break, for your hair during the upcoming “colder” seasons.
Shea - the Hair winter Cold Coat for
every hair type and texture. Harvested from
the shea nut of the African shea « si » tree.
Prepare your hair for the high ponytail and lustre straight look or festive messy bun.
A week Regiment:
the OD way:
DAY O:
Deep cleanse your Hair with
A Hot Steam Herbalist tincture.
Add some Drops/Tea spoon of Cinnamon and Lime into a bowl add some cardamom seeds.
Cover your tincture with Hot Water, boiled Water, let it cool down to a responsible roomy/room temperature, lukewarm steam (Our Founder secret tip : at some Watermelon juice) hold your Hair on to the bowl and let it steam for about 10 to 20 minutes.
Instructions:
Get your hair over the room temperature,
lukewarm swirl to penetrate your hair and scalp.
Hair Steam Treatments allow your hair folic and Hair shaft to open up and penetrate moisture or deep conditioning nutrition or treatments.
Stay over steam as long as to your own comfort, but no longer than 20 minutes. and relaxing benefits.
Our Founders tip, if not following
up with sailing:
Finish up with using tincture
to rinse as Hair rinse** throughout hair.
Let your Hair Air dry, dry out, finish.
Day TWO:2️⃣
Scalp Massage:
Fingertip massage your scalp during your favourite relaxing activity.
Or use the OD Combs.
Day Three 3️⃣:
Add some Shea-Shine
Follow up with some raw organic shea butter that you massage pointedly around your hair line and hair parting, consider parting your hair onto two or four sections depending on your hair volume or density.
Massage, dissolve Shea butter from your Fingertips to the parting, leave it there, part the parting in two parts, dissolve Shea* into the created two parts split, massage from roots to tip covering the entire hair part.
Repeat.
Repeat on remaining parting and parts, start
from the outside and along the hair parts to
the tip.
Comb trough every parting separately.
Put hair into high ponytail. Finish.
(Be realistic in Shea Butter amount combined, incorporating, a not well balanced amount can and will weight down the Hair strands)
Day four 4️⃣:
Scalp massage
Day five 5️⃣:
Deep conditioning your Hair
Day six 6️⃣:
Hair Rinse
Day seven 7️⃣:
Deep conditioning Hair Mask
Day eight 8️⃣:
Steam Treatment
Hair Rinse
Day Nine ..
* Shea Butter Raw
** can lighten Hair when used frequently