how to perm african american hair?
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Well, I will tell you I know how not to.  The hair is thick, too thick to do it at home with one friend, the solution does not get put on in a timely matter.  I think CHI  is a great idea, it makes your hair soft, lasts a long time, looks natural.  It is expensive, I have it done at 450.00 a whack, get it done every 8 months or so.  I am a white girl with super duper curly hair, I keep it long and like it straight, then curl it how I want.  I will never go back to curl again.  Rats nest is what it was.  I felt like a troll doll, short, small, thin, and then this big lblast of hair.  Cripes.  Good riddens to it.  It would grow outward b4 down.  CHI here is a pic of what can be done: \nhttp://www.best5star.com/CHI/chi.html\n\nI don't know this salon but it demonstrates the CHI.  It cannot be done at home because you need the kit and need to know how to do it and it takes about 4 hours. \n\nThe flat iron is used when doing this permanent straightening but the flat iron alone will not do it.  It is like a perm by the way.  So I thik I am answering the question, however long windedly. Sp.\nGood luck to you.
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Bleach it first and then color it.\nThat's the only way I was able to color my hair.\nWhen I had hair, anyway!
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good luck doing this on your own. might just want to go to the barber. When i cut my husbands hair (low fade) i use the inch blade on top and the slanted one to do the sides.
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Easiest question tonight. Use Lady Clairol hair dye. Just For Men dye for beards also works but it costs more per tail to use.
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if your hair is black you cant do an at home treatment to make it blonde. you are lucky it came out light red instead of orange. i would call your hairdresser and make an appointment with her so she can do it for you. it will be more expensive but at least it wont fall out or turn orange. it should tell you right on the box that it is not made for black hair.and also if you dye your hair it will not be a natural blonde
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All you have to do is work up a certificate on your word processing program. Just be sure that you do not exaggerate.\n\nExample of content:\nCERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION\nThis is to certify that (name) has completed a (length of time, such as one week) course in Hair Extension.\n\nSigned (your name)\nCourse Instructor
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black hair hummmmmmmmmm the deepest the color the better!!!
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The straightening comb is actually credited as first being invented by the late 19th century French hairdresser, Marcel Grateau, who also invented the curling iron, the permanent wave and later the Gillette safety razor, which became popular in Germany after World War I.\n\nEntrepeneur, Madame C.J. Walker is noted as being the first Black woman millionaire in this country who made millions in the early 1900's introducing a "straightening comb", and promoting other Black hair care products that allowed Black women to get the "kinks" out of their hair.
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A few points of clarification.\n\nFirst an etiquette suggestion. People from Africa don’t “have hair different from ours”. You should realise that people from Africa are ‘allowed’ to use the internet too. Whatever hair type you have, you need to realise that it isn’t shared by everyone else reading.\n\n\nSecondly you need to realise that people of African decent don’t have any common hair type at all. People of African descent have straight blond hair, wavy brown hair, curly black hair and every other possible combination. In short people in Africa don’t have hair “have hair different from ours” It becomes a real problem when people speak of ‘Africa’ as though it’s some sort of united whole. People in Africa include:\n\nTypical white-skinned people of Egypt or Libya who regularly have blue eyes and blond hair.\n\nAsian Malay people of Madagascar who have the typically ‘Asian” brown skin, epicanthic fold and straight black hair.\n\nGolden-brown skinned San and Hottentot people of southern Africa who normally have an epicanthic fold and very tightly curled hair of extremely determinate growth.\n\nAnd of course all those groups blend with one another seamlessly. As a result there is simply no basis in saying that there is any typical African hair type.\n\nBeyond that I’m not quite sure what you are asking. \n\nDo you want to know why people of African descent have evolved to have that hair type?\n\nOr do you want to know what makes hair grow in that fashion? \n\nThe first question entails a very complicated answer. The first I assume you are asking why many  African Americans, who are mostly of West African Negro descent, have a common curly hair type. But even that is somewhat misleading because people who have lived in northern Europe for millennia also have the same hair type occasionally, it’s just rarer there.\n\nAs for why that hair type, the answer probably lies in our ancestry. Humans evolved in Africa and spread out from there to cover the rest of the world. The first humans are assumed to have had hair similar to the modern San and Hottentot groups. That is tightly curled coarse hair, but hair of determinate growth. In some ways San hair is more like pubic hair or many types of beard in that it grows for relatively short periods of time before it falls out. As a result the hair always stays short. That make sit very easy to manage. For our first human ancestors that was probably advantageous since it reduced the opportunity for parasites like lice to take hold and made it very easy to manage since it never requires cutting.\n\nLater humans, still confined to Africa, developed head hair of the same basic tightly curled type, but of indeterminate growth. What that means is that it will keep growing for months or years before it falls out. As a result the hair needs to be trimmed or it will grow into an ‘Afro’ or dreadlocks. Exactly why this change from short to long hair occurs is a mystery, but it was probably simply because people find long hair sexually attractive. \n\nAfter a few people moved out of sub-Saharan Africa a hair type developed which was less tightly curled leading to wavy or even straight hair. Once again there is no sensible reason why this occurred, though it has been speculated that the fact that straight hair becomes greasy may have aided in cold tolerance or may have assisted in parasite control in climates where the head was covered with clothing.\n\nSo in short African Americans commonly retain the ‘second’ type of human hair, being long and tightly curled. Many other people have a third hair type that \n\nAs for why African-American hair grows in that manner, it’s largely genetic. Hair is produced from hair follicles, which almost ‘squeeze’ the hair out of a hole in the skin like tooth paste being squeezed out of a tube. In people with straight hair the hole is round and so the hair is round. People with curly hair have flattened holes and the hair i
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1. Shave your head\n2.Dye it a different color \n3. Wait until it grows long enough and cut it off
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mum say olive oil or brandy. apply at the root of the hair. but i never try b4
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1.  Have it trimmed. Cut off the dead ends.\n\n2.  Shampoo with Finness \n\n3.  Condition it with Herbal Essence\n\n4.  Use Frizz Ease if it is out of control\n\n5.  Give it a VO5 oil treatment once a week to make it shine.\n\nThat's what I did when my hair stopped growing....Good Luck!
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assuming you look like your avatar.\nlong black hair is gorgeous. so long as it's natural.\njust make sure you take care of it.\n\n(I'm a guy)
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blonde hair or some color\n\n:> peace\n.
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4-6 weeks is great you could also go up to three months inbetween trims but just remember your hair grows on average of 1/2 inch a month so just trim those ends unless you are african american and your hair grows about 1/4 inch a month. Also look into getting a good deep conditioner at a local salon and they can help you pick out the best one for your hair type.
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They have hair straighteners in stores, but some are better than others. IF you are of African decent, I believe Just for men has a special line of products.\n\ngo to the hair care aisle in Walmart or wherever you shop, and look. There are chemical straighteners and the iron type. Take your pick.\n\nHopefully you are not wanting straight hair just because someone said something rude about it. If someone said something rude about it, pizzz on them!
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Contact the National Hairdressers Foundation (NHF).  They should be able to help you.