Photo by Cathy Metschar of BambiniStudio.com

Caring for our hair doesn't have to cost a fortune. You just need to know seven basic steps to make it happy.

Thank you for visiting! My name is Teri. I came by my super-curly hair being half black and half white, and my biracial hair is so curly it catches around buttons, sequins, and other people’s watches. I spent my entire life struggling with my super curly hair. I read countless books and articles, tried numerous products and asked dozens of professionals to help manage my hair. None of the books, articles, products or people helped. Even books that specifically said they were for tightly curled, “kinky” hair all seemed to give the same advice, and none of it worked. So I began to try to figure out what my hair needed on my own. It took lots of searching and experimenting, but I finally figured it out. I went from short, crunchy hair that always felt more like a nest than hair, to long happy spirals that now reach my hips.

This site is devoted to helping others struggling with their tight coils. Treated correctly, those curls can become your unique trademark, and your friend.

I don’t want anyone else to suffer for thirty years with their hair when they don’t have to. I am working on a book on how to care for tightly curly hair, but I wanted to make some of the information available now to those searching online.

The information on this site is a brief overview of all that I've discovered in my struggles to grow my tightly curled hair long. The majority of my information is in my book Curly Like Me: How to Grow Your Hair Healthy, Long, and Strong, (Wiley, May 2010.)—available for preordering now: It's the off-the-grid, do-it-yourself owner's manual for tightly curly hair. It has over 250 black and white photos and 22 illustrations (done by yours truly). It's due out in early May of 2010 (I'm so excited!).

For more of my Before pictures, see my Hair History section. For more of my After pictures, check out the Notes section or the Hair Shots section (this page also has pictures that show the size of my curls up close).

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