Darling Introduces A Breakthrough New Hairstyling App

Darling, the leading hair extensions brand in Sub-Saharan Africa, has stormed the digital space in Nigeria with the Darling Hair Booth App. The app will help women be their own stylists, transforming the way they style their hair.

Speaking about the breakthrough hairstyling app, Mr. Sanjiv Jetly, Managing Director, Darling Nigeria, said: 

"We are very pleased to offer this digital innovation which strengthens our commitment to bring the latest hairstyling trends to our customers in Nigeria. The Darling brand stands for beauty and is an enabler for every African woman to transform the way she looks. With this app, we have created an avenue through which women can express themselves in an exciting, dynamic way. Our customers can now try new and trendy hairstyles on the go!”

The Power to discover your new hairstyle, now on your fingertips!

We know you love to experiment with you hair styles, transforming from a curly diva to the braided girl next door.

But we admit choosing you next hairstyle is never an easy decision. Whether you should rock the straight hair look, you saw on instagram or emulate the style of your favourite celebrity, is always the question.

But not anymore!

For the first time in the history of Africa, discovery of your next hairstyle is at the touch of your fingertips. Nigeria's leading hair extension brand, Darling, is transforming the way you style your hair and gives you the power to be you own stylist with the Darling Hair Booth app.

Darling wants to empower women with the tool that makes the process of choosing their next style fun and easy. With the Darling Hair Booth app, you can now be your own stylist. Choose your next hairstyle from a variety of Darling styles and try it out LIVE!

You can also share the look with you friends or just save it for your next hairdo.

And that's not all! The app has a lot of other exciting features and amazing rewards.

For more information:

Download the App here: http://bit.ly/1MVjjDT

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DarlingNigeria

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DarlingNG

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darlingnigeria

Favourites Friday: Natural Hair on YouTube

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Hey guys, another Friday and another favourites post. 

Today I'm sharing my top 5 natural hair channels on YouTube. I follow a lot of them; some new and some old, YouTube really helped me with my transition/big chop phase 5 years ago. How time flies. Some of the ones who really helped me pull through that delicate phase have stopped recording over the years and I'll share their channels later on, but here are the new ones I'm in love with at the moment.

BeautifulBrwnBabyDoll

Donedo

LoveYourTresses

Naptural85*

NaturalMe4C

*Naptural85 She is my all time fave, my day one from big chop till now. My hair crush all day everyday #fangirl

As a bonus, I'll share two of my fave all time oldies with you. 

KimmayTube

Nikkimae2003

These ladies just recently made a come back after a few years. They both got married and started their families and of course, the internet must be put on hold when life calls!

Please don't forget to share some of your favourites with me, I'm always looking to find new ones. Also, share some of your fave Nigerian bloggers from my last post too.

TGIF! Oh yea! Have a great weekend guys! x

Hair Talk: Confessions of a Natural Girl

A handsome man once sang, 

"These are my confessions"

Hair Talk: My Routine

Everyone has a routine that works for them, it could be for skin care, exercise and fitness or even a routine to simply get ready in the morning. In this post I'll be talking about my hair care routine that has been the norm for me for over 2 years. This could help inspire your hair care routine (if you don't already have one) and help create something that works best for you and the health of your hair.

MY HAIR CARE ROUTINE
I’m always doing one protective style or the other, which I usually have on for about 2 weeks to a month. While my hair is hidden I spray a water and coconut oil mixture in my hair whenever I feel it getting a bit dry. Sometimes if I can, I'll put in some leave in conditioner or I might even co-wash my hair depending on the protective style I have on.

The Curly 'Fro

When I take the style out I detangle, wash and deep condition. When it comes to deep conditioning, some people do it before washing and some people do it after, sometimes I prefer both because I love to co-wash my hair. I just really love having conditioner in my hair and I think co-washing and deep conditioning are about the same if not very similar. What do you think? And do you prefer to deep condition your hair before or after washing? (Leave a comment and let me know :)

Depending on how my hair feels I could do a protein or hot oil treatment but my favourite thing to do is deep condition.
After my wash day process, I do bantu twists myself for a twist out look the next morning. This is my favourite natural hair style to rock, the curly 'fro.

Hair Talk: Simple Tips

Although I've done quite a number of hair features in the past (and left the links here on my blog), I guess it's not the same as having a post about my hair on my blog because I still get a lot of questions about my hair. I'm sure I've mentioned a few things in the past but I don't expect every one to go through my whole blog in search of my natural hair tips and care routine... Long.

Before I get into anything serious, I want to let you know that the hair on my hair growing out my scalp is not the same as yours. We are not the same person so we do not have exactly the same hair. Basically, what works for me may not necessarily work for you. So if you do everything I write here in this post (and others after) and you get results you aren't happy with, Eki is not to blame. I'm just sharing MY routine so practice/copy it at your own risk. Also, I've never said I am a natural hair guru because I really am not and I don't know it all, in a few years all I've written here might change because just like you I'm also learning everyday.

I have a lot to say in detail when it comes to my hair so this post will be broken down into several parts over time. For my relaxed/permed hair sisters out there, I'm also working on getting my cousin to share some of her hair secrets as well. She's started paying more attention to her relaxed hair and it's grown so much over the past few years, so hopefully I can get her to share some tips as well.

So let's begin!



PROTECTIVE STYLING
This has to be the number one on my list because my hair is always hidden, my cousin Omozo of O'Naturals calls me "a natural in hiding".
Braids and wigs are major for me, I'm not a fan of weaves because I don't like the look of a closed weave and I don't like to leave my natural hair out because it can get damaged, I learnt that the hard way. All the straightening left me with bald spots and then straight hair right in the front, the worst.

Hairspiration Feature

Hey guys!

This is just to let you know I've been featured on The Kink And I so click this link here to check it out!

Thanks so much Ekene! :*

Been working on a new post which should be up next week so look out for that, I won't tell you what it is just yet. Hope you've all had a great week so far and thanks for following too... x

Hair Talk: Twist Out Lessons

In April it'll be four years since I did my big chop and went natural and again, it's one thing I really don't regret cuz I've always hated relaxing my hair. Handling my natural hair can be tough sometimes especially as it gets longer but it's all worth it when I see the final result and how nice and healthy my hair looks.

POST ON THIS OUTFIT COMING SOON

When I do my twist outs I always do it on damp hair. I don't like my hair to be too wet cuz then drying may take longer and I'll wake up the next day with a damp twist out and wasted efforts because I prefer to air dry and not use heat. To avoid having a damp-twist-out-bad-hair-day I spray my hair with A BIT of water. Sometimes I mix the water with oil or a leave in conditioner depending on what my hair needs at the time... listen to YOUR hair.