Hair Tips & Trends for Cooler Weather

By: Chandra Gore

The changing of the season from summer to autumn brings a temperature drop and also an array of reds, oranges, and yellows. These changes are also an inspiration for hair trends. I spoke with Celebrity Master Cosmetologist and Educator of The Kia Xperience, Lakia Diggs, about what we can look for and how we can help keep our hair healthy during fall/winter.

Diggs shares that we should look out for multi-colored and dimensional tones of browns and coppers. Also, the goto colors are wine and burgundy shades. More individuals will welcome Silk Press season as people feel that they last longer after summer. You should always seek the services of a professional to ensure you do not experience extreme heat damage. 1. Moisturizing sounds like the cliche thing to say, but honestly, hair is made up of more protein than moisture, so we can’t afford to lose moisture. 2. Lower the amount of manipulation on hair to give it time to recover and take in the love you need to give it. 3. Drink plenty of water and add vitamins and supplements to your daily regimen.

Lakia Diggs is a highly-skilled, extensively trained Master Cosmetologist with over twenty years of experience behind the chair. Lakia Diggs is the proud owner of The Kia Xperience, LLC. She takes her passion for hair far beyond creating innovative styles for her recurring clientele in New York, the DMV area, and Atlanta on shows such as The Real Housewives of Potomac. The creator of The Kia Xperience Follicle Stimulant Drops in both an Original Formula and a Dry and Itchy Scalp formula. Diggs took the time to combine her original formulation and also the education obtained from the Hair Loss Practitioner classes to offer a new product geared to relieving fungal properties that cause Itchiness, dryness, and other effects.

“Home” for the Holidays By: Malcolm Anderson

As the holiday season comes around, so does the ambiguity of relationships. The levels of friendship, the severity of significant others, and the depth of family comes into play every year around this time in particular. There’s pressure to be with family, the pressure to be with friends, even the pressure to have the right plus one or have any plus one at all.

Albeit stressful, this time of year is one of the few that make all the other crazy days worthwhile by giving us something to look forward to. Regardless of what or how you celebrate around this time of year, the common denominators of good food, good times, and good people still remain the goal. But, because this is reality and people suck sometimes, you’ll get some improper fractions from these common denominators.

Being a product of a large family, I can sympathize with those who don’t have the best relationship with everyone, and honestly, that’s the toughest pill to swallow. Simply accepting that things aren’t going to be 100% smooth 100% of the time is probably one of the hardest factors of growing up.

To be fair, the older I get, the more I understand that the family you’re born with isn’t necessarily the same family you grew up or grew out with. We organically build bonds over time with other people, and sometimes they outweigh