Healthy Black Hair: Step-by-Step Instructions for Growing Longer, Stronger Hair [Paperback]

Nicole Smith (Author), Nicole Elizabeth Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2003

Healthy Black Hair combines sensible advice with innovative techniques to help you achieve remarkable results. Included are step-by-step instructions to show you how to rejuvenate your locks and accelerate your hair growth from the inside out.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This book is lively and easy to read; the step-by-step instructions are detailed, yet easy to follow.

From the Author

While written with Black women in mind, author Nicole Elizabeth Smith says her book is for "any woman who chemically treats her hair. This includes relaxers, perms and permanent colors. While we enjoy the effects of these products, they can damage our hair and dry it out. My book will show women how to prevent that damage and care for their hair from the inside out."

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Panacea Publishing (August 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974343277
• ISBN-13: 978-0974343273
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,031,163 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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51 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!!! Must read - this book changed my hair!!!, October 29, 2003

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Susan Thomas (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healthy Black Hair: Step-by-Step Instructions for Growing Longer, Stronger Hair (Paperback)

I bought this book after reading about it online because my hair has always ben short and dry and breaked off alot. But now I understand alot of what i had been doing wrong! I used too much heat and only washed my hair every 2 weeks. She is right, i definetly see a difference in my hair since I started washing it regularly. I also used the protein treatment and my breakage has stopped almost completely.

I read this book in one day it was really easy to read even though it includes alot of information. I am on my second perm cycle and have bought alot of the products mentioned in the book. I like that she included products that are inexpensive. I bought a low cost shampoo but a great conditioner like she suggests. I dont know if the vitamins are working yet, but I feel better anyway! Thank you Nicole this book has changed the way I do my hair. No more heat!!!

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, December 13, 2005

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ProudmamaDivaJ (Greenville, SC) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Healthy Black Hair: Step-by-Step Instructions for Growing Longer, Stronger Hair (Paperback)

I purchased this book during late spring 2005 when I was dying to find an easier way to deal with this thick stuff on my head. :-) I loved the chapter on giving your hair an extended break for maximum hair growth....I followed her suggestions & got my hair done in African Curly Twists; as opposed to braids. I wore my hair that way from June 1 2005 until September 29th (I got it redone mid July) & my hair practically grew like weeds....@ least 2 1/2 to 3 inches in some places! I love her suggestions on extra conditioning (more than once a week) & massaging with essential oils. Now I have even more thick, healthy feeling stuff on my head & I'm lovin' it! Get the book. :-)

37 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This book is NOT what I was expecting..., December 26, 2006

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L.C. "Bath and Body Junkie" (North Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healthy Black Hair: Step-by-Step Instructions for Growing Longer, Stronger Hair (Paperback)

I knew Ihad made a mistake in ordering this book when I read in the forward that it was for women who relexed their hair. This book is for those women who want to keep fighting with the damage that relaxing the hair can bring in order to have long, healthy looking hair. It can be done. I wore a relaxer for years and when I got serious about taking good care of my hair, it grew to about nipple length (pardon my French) from top of shoulder length in about a year and a half. But that process was expensive and kept me from working out (for a healthy body) for fear of screwing up my hair's progress and shampoo cycle. In September 2005, I decided to transition my hair and opt for a more natural course of care...Plus I really needed to do some heavy working out and my relxed hair was holding me back.

So, if you're looking a book on natural hair products and/or natural hair care for afro-textured (wavy, curly, kinky, thick, medium, fine, short, long or anywhere in between) this book is not for you. For my beauties out there still on the relaxed and un-natural train, from what I have read so far, you may reep value from this read.

Just be on the look out. This author is really into chemical hair products and recommends using petroleum-based hair pomades, protein hair gels, silicone-based, and mineral oil based products.