Today is Part 6 of our Wedding Hair Series featuring the ladies from my bridal party. If you missed Parts 1 thru 5, check the bottom of this post for links to those posts. Today’s post features another of the natural bridesmaids who has 4b hair.  Her hair is very coarse and extremely coily so can “draw-up” to half  (or less) of its out-stretched length. Her hair was also braided the day before the wedding.  For her hairstyle, she opted  for a simple style that used traditional cornrows.  The hair was asymmetrically braided into a high ‘pile’ on top of her head. ...

Today we’ll cover Part 5 of our Wedding Hair Series featuring the ladies from my bridal party. If you missed Parts 1 thru 4, check the bottom of this post for links to those posts. Our third bridesmaid normally wears her hair in a Jheri Curl. She has 4b, neck length hair. This bridesmaid also reconsidered changing the style she had originally selected after a visit to her scissor-happy-stylist. Luckily she still had enough hair left to accomplish the style. Like everyone else, her hair was washed and conditioned the day before but instead of using the activator to revitalize the Jheri...

Today we’ll cover Part 4 of our Wedding Hair Series featuring the ladies from my bridal party.  If you missed Parts 1 thru 3, check the bottom of this post for links to those  posts. This bridesmaid was the only bridesmaid that was texturized.  I would say that she is somewhere between a 4a and 4b hair type – it’s thick but not very coarse.  Months before the wedding she was sporting a very low boy cut and had opted for a very short flat ironed cropped style.  By the time of the wedding however, her hair had grown significantly.  So much so that she was reluctant to have it...

Curly updo with wispy tendrils Today we’ll cover Part 3 of our Wedding Hair Series featuring the ladies from my bridal party. If you missed Parts 1 & 2 check the bottom of this post for links to those posts. Next up is the lone relaxed bridesmaid who wanted an updo of some sort. She is a 4b/c hair type and her hair is around APL or just above. To achieve this look our stylist prepped her hair from the day before by washing, conditioning and setting in soft bendy hair rollers (we called them benders way back when) with a setting mousse and left to dry overnight. During styling, a serum...

2-strand twists We’re back for Part 2 of our Wedding Hair Series featuring the hairstyles worn at my wedding.  If you missed Part 1 you can check it out here. I’ll start the ball rolling with my Matron of Honour.  She has natural hair; it’s very coarse and she loves to wear it RED! One might think that red hair is outlandish especially for a wedding but it actually complements her complexion nicely and she’s been dying her hair red and orange for so many years that I can’t even remember her natural hair colour.   She opted for a side-swept two-strand twisted style,...

Happy New Year to all the DHO family! Many of you would have known that I was planning my wedding for the past year (hence my absence from the scene for the last few months).  Well I’m happy to report that the wedding was fantastic!  Everything went according to plan, the weather was great and I was early!  Hubby and I were truly blessed that day. Well I couldn’t let the wedding go by without capturing some hair photos to share with you all.  So for the next few posts, I’ll be covering the hairstyles of the ladies in my bridal party.  In this post I’ll start off with some...