
My name is Alma Campbell and I am the founder of BlackHairInformation.com. I am a writer and a mother. I started my hair journey in July of 2008 with neck length breaking relaxed hair. At that point it had never even occurred to me that black hair could grow long. You either had the genes or you didn't, I thought.
At the time my hair would definitely grow because I would always have new growth to retouch but the length remained the same year after year. I stumbled on a hair forum online while I was searching for a product that could strengthen my hair and there I discovered how to care for black hair properly for length retention.
I decided to go natural simply because hair is strongest in it's natural state and I also started using healthy hair practices and techniques.. After transitioning for just over a year, I chopping all the relaxed ends off! The rest as they say is history. My hair is currently mid back length about 2 inches away from waist length and it continues to grow! Read More
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Quick update. After 20 years of being overweight, I have finally come to the conclusion that no diet will ever work for me. I will shortly be having gastric band surgery (can't wait). I am starting a new blog about it so if you are interested in weighty issues and the like just mozy over ...

So we are half way through the year and the time has come for a quick look at my progress so far. As I've previsouly stated, I only get 4 inches of hair per year but I'm glad with my progress. My hubby finally told me that I had long hair today. Before this he ...

Just a follow up post from the review I did on the 1.5" HANA Titanium. Here are all the pictures I took of Tasha on the day. She has 4a/4b hair which was washed in braids, blow dried and straightened with just a heat protection serum:
Here is the HANA as it arrived in the box:
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It seems that I only get braids once a year. It was around this time last year that I last dipped my toe in the braids pool before I got wooed by weaves. For some reason last week I got the itch again and before I knew it I was rummaging through my old stash. ...
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How strange, when I first started my journey to long hair I used to drool over length pictures of ladies with BSL hair just praying for the day mine would reach that length. Well today is that day and yet . . . . I still don't feel like it's long enough! I mean sure, ...