Sunday, July 21, 2013

3 - Welcome to The Curly Buzz.

The Curly Buzz is an online broadcast of interesting people, information, events and products that are buzzing in the virtual natural hair community.
Today’s topics are Youtubers, Hair Typing, Getting Your Fit On and Styling Options
YouTuber Spot Light

Today we are going to spotlight three tightly coiled natural hair YouTubers.
NotoriouslyNappy1 has been natural for a little over two years and she makes some creative natural hair tutorial videos.  Her natural locs are so thick and luscious and she has a retro inspired pin up hair style that’s to die for.
20PearlsnCurls started making YouTube videos when she 6 months natural and has been documenting her teeny weeny afro journey.  For those of you who are newly naturals her channel gives great styling options for TWAs.
TheNaprika is a London natural who gives hair tutorials, product reviews  and has a new question and answer series that features her mom. 

Hair Typing
Hair typing is a really huge deal in the natural hair community.  Hair typing is simply determining your natural hair’s curl pattern on a range of one to four and your hair’s texture on a range of A-C. 
Hair typing is quite controversial but Keythema gives five great reasons why knowing your hair type is important.   When you know your hair type, you can search for other YouTubers with the same hair type to find styling tutorials, product reviews and tips for hair care.  
There are some YouTubers who don’t want to be put in a category but 11zeaky has a video discussing this subject and she compares hair typing to being typed for makeup foundation for your face.
BlackWomanScholar even chimed in on the hair typing topic and said that when someone states their hair type then she can visualize their hair styling issues they are dealing with.  She also talks about the cunta kentee references to natural hair.
If you guys know of someone with a really good current video on hair typing let me know and I can add it to the description of this video.


Get your fit on
When I decided to focus on growing healthy hair, I realized that I was spending a lot of time on the external.   I later decided that I needed to put just as much emphasis on my internal health as I was putting on my hair.  If the internal is healthy then it passes through to the external.

Evelyn Prather’s YouTube channel is dedicated to helping you become a healthier you.  Not only does she have natural hair videos, but she also has exercising, eating and drinking water challenges.  She’s a vegan who’s lost a ton of weight by making healthier choices.

If swimming is your exercise of choice then have no fear that your natural hair will get damaged by all the chlorine in the pool.  Cassidy from NaturalSelectionBlog has a great video that shows you how to prepare your hair before jumping in the pool and she shows after pool care for natural hair.

If you need any inspiration then there’s BudgetQueen79’s YouTube channel.  This natural has lost over 60 pounds and doesn’t look like she’s planning on stopping anytime soon.  She talks about not being sabotaged, healthy eating and she does exercise videos.

Styles
Learning to style your natural hair is like a rite of passage. And for many learning to style can be daunting and somewhat overwhelming.  But never fear, there are YouTubers with excellent, easy to follow tutorials to help you learn styling techniques.

Twists – AfrikanHairGod has a really detailed tutorial video on 2-strands flat twists.  He and yes, I did say he, is awesome at doing 2 strand twists.  He has several video on styles that incorporate 2 strand twist in one way or another.

BlessedCurlyGurlz has a video that shows the slow motion technique of cornrowing hair.  She is cornrowing her daughter’s hair and gives a basic guide to learning how to cornrow.

Toliahli has a really nice tutorial for doing finger coils that she later turns into a twist out.  She also has a tutorials on starter loc twists.

Thank you for viewing “The Curly Buzz” and Please take a minute and check out these YouTubers and let them know MsRosieVelt from “The Curly Buzz” sent you!

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