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Basic Care for Naturally Textured Hair: Cultivating Curly, Coily, and Kinky Hair (Personal Care Collection)

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After purchasing Pamela Ferrell's book Let's Talk Hair, I decided to buy this one for more styling options. I was suprised to see the horrible lack of information for hair care and hair styling. This book provides no information on a maintenance regime, the hair products section goes into great detail on all the chemicals and ingredients in products but doesn't tell how to choose products or what products on the market are good, and the styling section has little information for home styling. The author goes into great detail on hair makeup and on what actually is in hair products along with a very detail nutritional guide on all the ingredients in food. The hair styling section is basically about popular braiding styles and a few natural styles like the 'fro and the twist out 'fro, and some information on locking. Overall, don't waste your money or time on this book.

I always look for books on how to take care of curly hair because, well, I have it! This book was helpful within the first three pages but went downhill from there. They're were no pictures, models or hair-y stories from the author. Overall, I just didn't like it. I thoroughly recommend "No Lye" or "Curly Girl" instead of this...just horrible!

If I could give this book a negative rating, I would! First, the title is deceiving. A more appropriate title should be "Very Basic Information About Black Hair". It gives no real useful information about hair care or recommendations on products, which is what we are all looking for. The hair chemistry chapter is very detailed (must have been the only chapter written by the author who has an MD) and should not have taken up an entire section. Chapters 3 and 4 are all about skin with no information about hair. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS BOOK!

The title of this book is very deceiving. It should be titled "Very Basic Information About Black Hair" since the author spends more time discussing black hair chemistry. There's no information about products or what to really look for in a product for natural black hair care. Interestingly enough, chapters 3 and 4 are all about skin care even though hair is mention in the chapter title. Also, the author's solution to hair loss is the addition of artificial hair rather than recommendations on products to use. Again, the title is very deceiving. This is NOT the book to purchase if you are looking for information on caring and working with natural black hair. It is indeed a horrible book!!

It's almost shameful to give this book a star. It's completely worthless. Anyone can get published these days.

This book was a total let down. I decided to go natural about a year ago and thought this book would be great for styling tips and hair care tips since the words "naturally textured" are in the title. WRONG!!! Nothing in this book could help me on my journey of falling in love with my tight curls. The worst part, in my opinion, was the styling section. The only two natural hairstlyes they suggest are a blown-out fro and a twist-out. The rest of the styles require weave, which I prefer not to use. Very disappointing. Take it from me and everyone else...SAVE YOUR MONEY!!!

Yes this another bad review for this book. I was lucky that I was able to look through the book in the store before purchasing it. So I didn't end up wasting money on a book that wasn't helpful. I was looking for a book to give me simple hairstyles for natural hair that a hair novice would be able to do. The majority of the styles were for people with weaves or extensions. There were a few styles for people with short hair. However if you are in between lengths and don't want to put in a weave you were out of luck. You can find better info looking on the internet and spending nothing than buying this book and getting nothing.