Natural Hair Styles for Black Hair and African American Hair

One of the beauties of natural black and african american hair is the multitude of styles that can be accomplished with it. It can be braided, twisted, wet styled, afro styled, the list goes on and on. The books below just begin to cover the subject of natural black and african american hair styles and styling.


If you are looking for an easy way to maintain your natural black hair, you may want to consider "wet styling." This is where you use water, conditioner, and pomades to bring out the natural curl pattern in your hair, and shape your hair into different styles. The book Natural Black Hair talks about this method. For information about this method, click here.










J.D. Okahi Ojeikere in his book Photographs documents some of the traditional hairstyles of Nigerian women. These styles aren't worn so much today as they were in the past, but these photos show some of the creative things that can be done with natural black hair. For more information about this book click here. For more information about these style visit our historical pictures page by clicking here.








Braids are a beautiful option for natural black hair. In her book Hair Talk, author Duyan James provides background information on the history of African braiding, as well information on how to braid black hair. For more information about this book click here.