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This policy is valid from 08 April 2011.


This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact Onyx Rose at onyxroseblogspot@yahoo.com.

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Share your natural hair (and transitioning) journey, opinions, and tips!

Posts can include:

• *NEW* Blossoming Onyx Rose: Show off your progress! Include one picture of your big chop or how your hair was at the beginning of your journey (for those who didn't big chop) and one current picture. Be sure to include the amount of time that has passed between the two pictures. Also, briefly state what has helped you the most on your journey.

• Product Reviews: Review must follow Onyx Rose format: Price, Ingredients, Description, Your opinion, and Rating (on a scale of 5). Click here for an example. Feel free to include at least one picture of yourself and where people can find you online; however, it's not mandatory.

• Styling Tutorials (Video or written): Must include detailed steps, pictures (if written), and products used.

• Opinions on issues in the natural hair community: Feel free to include at least one picture of yourself and where people can find you online; however, it's not mandatory.

• D.I.Y. natural hair recipes that you have created and love: Must include detailed instructions on how to make the recipe. Feel free to include at least one picture of yourself and where people can find you online; however, it's not mandatory.

• Hair care tips that you've discovered throughout your journey and work for you: Feel free to include at least one picture of yourself and where people can find you online; however, it's not mandatory.

 Send all guest blogger posts to onyxroseblogspot@yahoo.com 

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Natural Hair Vocabulary

ACV: Apple Cider Vinegar
AOHR: Aubrey Organics Honeysuckle Rose
APL: arm pit length
AVG: Aloe vera Gel
BAA: Big-ass afro
BSL: Bra strap length
Clarify: To remove build-up from the hair via ACV, lemon juice, or shampoo
Clumping: Strands of hair clumping together to form bigger, chunkier curls
CO-Wash: Washing your hair with conditioner
CON: Cream of Nature
DC: Deep Conditioning
EOs: Essential oils
EVOO: Extra virgin olive oil
HE: Herbal Essences
HG: Holy Grail
HIH: Hand in hair syndrome
ORS: Organic Root Stimulator
Pineapple: Gathering hair gently on top of head with a scrunchie to preserve curls for 2nd day hair
PJ: Product Junkie (addicted to trying the next new, possibly better hair product)
Plopping: Method of wrapping wet hair in t-shirt / microfiber towel to create curls.
Scrunching: Method of applying product by gently squeezing/pushing hair upward from end toward root.
Shrinkage: shortening of length due to curl tightness
SL: Shoulder length
SLS: Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (found in most shampoos)
TWA: Teeny weeny afro

Source: http://www.naturallycurly.com/curltalk/newbies-info-introductions/74759-acronyms-abbreviations-definitions.html

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