6 Natural Hair Tips for Busy Naturals

If you agree that healthy Black hair in general is a lot of work but you just don't have the time and energy to devote to prepping your hair every morning and night like you see your favourite YouTubbers do, you can easily simplify your regimen by trying the recommended tips below.

1. Build a regimen and space out your hair rituals
You can schedule your deep conditioning treatments over a month long period so that you don't do every hair treatment known to man in one day. For instance, you could shampoo your hair in the first week, do a hot oil prepoo treatment on week 2, clay wash on week 3 and co wash on week 4. A regimen like this gives you a plan which will make wash days predictable and standardized.

2. Stretch out your wash days
Rather than washing your hair weekly, you can instead wash it every two weeks, this way, you can save yourself a few hours every other weekend to spend on other productive tasks. To ensure that your hair stays moisturized in between your wash days, you should keep it bounded.

3. Keep your hair bounded
Hair that is twisted, flat twisted, braided or corn rowed away doesn't require as much daily maintenance, therefore, giving you that extra time in the morning and night to spend on other activities.  Also, hair that is in these type of styles holds in moisture longer and requires less products and upkeep and so a light spritz few times a week will help to maintain the hair while it's in a style.
Protective styling is also great for those times when your schedule gets more hectic than normal. Just make sure you don't neglect your hair. For more blog posts on protective styling, please read the following posts.
a. Hits and Misses with Protective Styling
b. When Protective Styling is NOT Protective 
c. Wash days with protective styling

4. Keep it Simple
Who needs 50 products and a 10 step wash day system when you can simply stick to a few basic products and practicing an accelerated wash day system? In terms of styling, you can stick to simple styles such as twists and braids that lasts longer than a complicated "three strand twist out" or a rod set which only lasts for a few hours.

5. Tune Out
With all the hair tips that are given out there on various social media sites, one can feel guilty by not following the latest hair tips or trying out the latest hair product. I find that spending less time on hair forums has helped me to really stick to my regimen and eliminate my product junkiness. Think "out of sight, out of mind".

6. Keep it Short
If all else fails, you can keep your hair in a TWA or in a short afro. Small afros are small enough to rock a wash and go and long enough to be braided with hair extensions on days you feel like wearing long hair. For motivation on TWAs, please click this link to read about the "10 advantages of TWAs"

Are you a lazy or busy natural? If so, what are some additional tips you could share with us? 

I practice the first 5.