African American women often encounter many surprises and troubles with their natural hair. It’s either difficult to style or lacks length for versatile impressive hairstyles you can see there on Internet. The other problem is when your hair is getting extremely dry and brittle due to experiments with styling products and styling procedures. Sometimes the only way out in such cases is to have a short haircut and wait for the new healthy growth. Meanwhile the other puzzle that emerges is how to style your short natural hair so that it looks decent. Don’t worry, there are many fantastic stylish hairstyles for your short hair.
12 Natural Hair Styles What does it mean to be natural?
Being natural most black women who chose not to permanently alter their hair with chemicals. Natural hair refers to texture not color. While dyes change the natural color, they do not affect the texture significantly. As Head Naturalista in Charge at my university (literally, I started an org "Naturalistas" and am the president) I get boatloads of questions about what does it mean to be natural. I have for the longest wanted to give a clear definition so here's my chance. The following are responses to some of the most common questions I get about natural hair. Here are some natural hairstyles of black women.
Natural Styles
Two-Strand Twist
This look is a must try whenever going natural. It's super easy to create and can make your curls last for days.
Finger Coils
The clean, polished look of finger coils gives us an innocent play on Shirley Temple circa 1935 in The Littlest Rebel. These ringlets are super playful, fun, and a gorgeous way to display fresh coils.
Inverted Bob
Not everyone wants to be team "long hair don't care"--and the bob has just the amount of sophistication and sexiness to prove that short cury hair is awesome, too. Sometimes referred to by stylists as the stacked bob or angled bob, this style is more popular during hotter seasons when we need to get all that heavy, curly hair off our neck in the heat!
Blowout
Whenever you need a trim or just want a fluffier, fuller mane for a few days, the blow-out is perfect. And what else is great is the fact that it isn't necessary to use heat in order to achieve this look. There are many different kinds of blowouts--Dominican, Japanese, and Brazilian, and the heatless blowouts are among the most common.
Heatless Waves and Curls
Believe it or not, re-texturizing hair does not necessarily call for hot styling tools like a flat iron or curling wand. When us curlies feel like changing up our hair's natural texture temporarily, we turn to easy-to-use tools like perm rods, flexirods, or Curlformers. The look won't permanently alter our hair, and there are many tutorials to help us achieve this look with ease.
Bantu Knotts
With bantu knots, you can get the definition and voluminous curls you want.
This protective style is an easy way to retain moisture in your mane while looking cute and ready for a night out on the town!
Goddess Braids
Extremely similar to the halo braid, this updo is a chic and sophisticated look that a lot of natural brides are sporting.
Fro-Hawk
Growing out your TWA can be tedious for the impatient naturals out there.
The frohawk is a great way to hide the awkward middle stages of growing your natural hair out by pinning it up into a faux hawk and pairing with some big hoop earrings for a street chic look.
High Bun
While exercising those extra pounds off in the new year, or attending an important meeting with colleagues, the high bun is versatile for many occasions.
It’s another protective style that doubles as a nifty way to mask split ends.
Twist-Out
As a natural, the twist-out is one of our go-to styles whenever we want lots of volume and hold in our curls.
Depending on the products used and the size of the twists, this look varies and is extremely popular among naturalistas everywhere.
Pompadour
This ‘do is classic, but made more modern and edgy with Janelle Monae’s debut in the new millennium.
Now natural ladies everywhere want a fierce pompadour updo to show just how big their big hair can get.
Afro
We will also adore the ‘fro for tons of reasons. One is because to us, it epitomizes the era of true texture self-love. And us curlies have our own ways to decode what type of afro we are rocking: from the TWA (teeny weeny afro) to the BAA (big a** afro). They say the higher the hair, the closer to heaven