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Summary: Great book to have in your African hair care library
Review: The author explains the basics of African American hair care all the while embarking on self-acceptance and positive self-image issues in African American women surrounding hair. Her objective? To convince African American women that natural chemical free hair is beautiful and healthy. And one's true spirital being is connected into this natural part of the African self. She argues that chemically processed hair is damaging to African American hair and to the phyche. Why? Because African Americans has embraced and is embracing a Eurocentric form of beauty due to years of racism and internalized racism even if this embracing means the demise of mental and physical health or the risk of losing the hair permanently. I found this book to be more of a spiritual awakening and should also be listed under the "Self-Help" or the "Spirituality" sections of the bookstores. I enjoyed reading it. It is very liberating, easy to understand and quite simple to follow. This is a great book to include in your African American hair care library. For those persons who has reached a place in their lives where natural hair is the preferred way or for those who have always been there you may find this book to be refreshing and may want to purchase copies as gifts for your sisters who are struggling with issues surrounding Black hair.
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Summary: Next!
Review: The author turned me off as soon as she started classifying all the textures of coarse black hair as "rough". Long winded information about locs and dreads weren't what I was expecting either. We need more information and pictures of individuals with free flowing, healthy, lengthy "kinky" black hair. When that's done, we can get to the different styles such as dreads. I hope the title of the next edition is changed to more accurately reflect what the book is really about.
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Summary: Next!
Review: The author turned me off as soon as she started classifying all the textures of coarse black hair as "rough". Long winded information about locs and dreads weren't what I was expecting either. We need more information and pictures of individuals with free flowing, healthy, lengthy "kinky" black hair. When that's done, we can get to the different styles such as dreads. I hope the title of the next edition is changed to more accurately reflect what the book is really about.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This book has greatly helped me to get started on the right foot on my journey to healthy, natural hair. The book's strength is Ms. Kinard's thorough review of hair structure and honesty about the products we incorrectly use. Its minor weakness is its limited number of natural style photos that one can wear to the corporate office. Buy this book to keep in your personal library as reference. I wish every natural hair care professional would seek out her expertise.
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Summary: Well written & arranged!
Review: This book is to the root of all that's natural. Our ethers appreciate Tulanis detailed concerns about our royal crowns.Not only well written, this book has ALL of the information needed to maintain a healthy, natural crown.
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Summary: Free at last, I'm no longer a slave to my hair.
Review: This book should be in every black womans library whether she goes all natural or not. It is loaded with a lot of great facts for black hair care. This book helped me see the light. After 15 years of braids and no growth, I decided to loc. Already I see improvement. I wish I had done this 15 years ago.
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Summary: Great Pics and Good Infomation
Review: Tulani has done an excellent job of putting together the much needed info for caring for natural, chemical free, hair. Why there are so few books on the subject is a mystery to me given the health ramifications involved with continuously using caustic chemicals on ones scalp. But, the need to "fit in" is greater than the need for a healthy life. Well I am finally brave enough and secure in my own heart to know that whatever God gave me is what I have and if it sticks straight up then it sticks straight up. I use this book as a reference guide along with Pamela Ferrell and Lonnice Bonner's books. It helps to re-read some of the sections when you are staring in the mirror with a head full of nappy hair and thinking why oh why don't I just get a perm. Whenever I feel the urge to take that road I read one of my reference guides. Not only for the how to info but the moral support as well. My hair is now 6 to 7 inches and growing like crazy. In other words it quit breaking off and I think that the longer it gets the easier it will be to manage. I look forward to the day I can easily wear buns and do single braids. This isn't far off but until this time I will deal with the twisting and braiding while I wait for a few more inches to grow.
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Summary: This book is now my "Bible" on natural hair care!
Review: Tulani Kinard has really captured the spritual reasonings for keeping our hair natural. This book is my guide (along with my loctician) as I grow my baby locs. Anyone wanting guidance for keeping your "God" given hair beautiful should have this book, and that's "No Lye"!
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Summary: Still Walking in the Way of Love
Review: Tulani, I remember when you first started braiding. The day you had an aha! experience and knew there was more to this than just the physical. You've taken an idea and turned into a masterful piece of education and spiritual wealth for all women, because whatever frees some - frees us all, whether we agree with your research or not, at least we are now educated to have the choice to agree with it or not. Your book is exceptional as has of all of your accomplishments - even in terms of negotiating and fighting to make natural hair styles acceptable in corporate environments. Actions taken from this type of work have birthed an entire generation of folk who empower themselves to say - I will accept this part of myself - floppy, frilled, or grilled! Keep on showing informing and enlightening us because it's more than a hair thing, my sista, it's a self esteem, a self love, an acceptance, a fearless, a no mo'shame, and more thing! So keep up the magnificent work. Keep looking ahead when some are trying to get even, and most of all keep "walking in the way of love." Peace, Yasmeen and Summer
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Summary: Still Walking in the Way of Love
Review: Tulani, I remember when you first started braiding. The day you had an aha! experience and knew there was more to this than just the physical. You've taken an idea and turned into a masterful piece of education and spiritual wealth for all women, because whatever frees some - frees us all, whether we agree with your research or not, at least we are now educated to have the choice to agree with it or not. Your book is exceptional as has of all of your accomplishments - even in terms of negotiating and fighting to make natural hair styles acceptable in corporate environments. Actions taken from this type of work have birthed an entire generation of folk who empower themselves to say - I will accept this part of myself - floppy, frilled, or grilled! Keep on showing informing and enlightening us because it's more than a hair thing, my sista, it's a self esteem, a self love, an acceptance, a fearless, a no mo'shame, and more thing! So keep up the magnificent work. Keep looking ahead when some are trying to get even, and most of all keep "walking in the way of love." Peace, Yasmeen and Summer
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