My Top 3 Natural Hair Blogs
My name is Kayla and I’m a 24 year old self-employed stay-at-home mom. I’ve gone from
wanting to be an actress on Broadway to wanting to create and teach proper eating, cooking and nutrition
techniques but in the mean time in between time, I found a love for my natural hair. Back when I started
my journey in 2007, there really wasn’t much information about natural hair care available. As a matter of
fact, the only sites that you could really find advice were YouTube, photo sharing sites such as Fotki, and
the NaturallyCurly.com forum (yeah, I brought it WAAAY back). I was 15 years old with thin, limp
straight hair and I wanted SO badly to be like Joan on Girlfriends. Needless to say, since then there has
been SERIOUS growth in the natural hair community in terms of products, YT channels and blogs. For
me, there are 3 vlogs/blogs that I watch/read almost daily because the content and advice given is not only
informative, but very unique and fun!
BGLH- Black Girl Long Hair
This is one of the first blogs I found while I was in High School and it was pretty much my go-to
site for hair styles and reading everyone’s natural hair journey. I loved the camaraderie and diversity that
so many of the ladies had and I found that even though everyone’s hair story was unique, they were also
somewhat similar- tying everyone’s experiences together into one beautiful community. They usually
post a few articles per week, probably every other day or so, so there’s always SOMETHING to read up
on. Now, BGLH is where I go if I want to read up on a certain product or ingredient, read the latest “tea,”
or read something empowering. BGLH has expanded into such a melting pot of topics and inspiration that
there’s really no question as to why I deem this blog my #1 choice.
Naptural85
Like pretty much EVERYONE else who started on the natural scene back in ’07-’08, I have been
following Whitney since DAY ONE. Granted, her journey started on YouTube but still. A lot of her blog
posts pretty much just lead into her YouTube videos, so if you’re looking for a blog but aren’t interested
in too much reading, then her blog is definitely for you. Her posts consist of mostly style tutorials, as
well as product recipes, reviews and other hair care tips. You can subscribe to her YouTube channel,
Naptural85, but she also has an actual vlogging channel (DearNaptural85) in which she video-blogs the
realness of her semi-daily life, information about any events she may be attending, advice, stories, and her
hilarious family and friends! She only posts once every week or so, depending on how busy her schedule
is. I’ve grown to love her uniqueness and really appreciate the content she puts out on both her natural
hair channel and her vlogging channel because her information is always very well-researched and her
styles are innovative, easy and cute.
Steel Feather Lace Elephant
I’ve only recently found out about Ask pRoy on Youtube, and was intrigued to visit her website
because of it. Her videos are high quality with amazing graphics and you can tell that she dedicates a lot
of time and effort into them so I knew her website, much like her hair, would be POPPING. Unlike
Naptural85, pRoy puts the majority of her content and the outlines of her tutorials on her website as
opposed to making lengthy tutorial videos. She also discusses a variety of other topics ranging from
fashion and beauty, to fitness and self motivation which is why I’ve been reading this blog pretty much
every day since I found it a month ago. She posts once every couple of weeks as well due to her
schedule, but I am definitely on stand-by waiting for whatever content she comes up with.
While there are many other blogs to choose from, I designated these as my top three due to the
quality of the content and the absolute SLAYAGE that is produced by these amazing women.yg