Coif Cuisine: Natural Hair Recipes & Sides Dishes for the Natural Hair & Now
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Learn how to make products from the founder of CurlPrep Natural Hair Solutions. Get in the kitchen with Five time Emmy-nominated journalist Candace Kelley who shows you how to nourish your hair by whipping up ingredients from your kitchen. From making natural color concoctions and hair butters to conditioners to storing, the book is chock full of hair craving recipes, photos and spicy hair stories from her journey as creator of the natural hair line Curl Prep Natural Hair Solutions. Do like your grandma used to do, march over to your kitchen cabinet and get to mixing! Fall into one of these luxurious treatments tested by the Curl Prep team. Coif Cuisine is also filled with amazing natural hair artwork from artists Lavett Ballard, Daisy Giles and Yvonne On-que. A great 116 page read!
Candace Kelley
Candace Kelley is a 5-time Emmy nominated writer, creator of Curl Prep Natural Hair Solutions [curlprep.com]. She has been making natural hair recipes from her kitchen since the 80's and is often hired to do live demos and natural hair mixing workshops around the country. She is founder of NYC's natural hair expo the Let Your Hair Down EXPO [letyourhairdownexpo.com], Executive Producer of Superatural: The Play [www.supernaturalproject.org] and co-author of Little Black Book of Rules for Curly Girls with Tameeka McNeil-Johnson [www.jadedtresses.com].
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Coif Cuisine - Candace Kelley
COIF CUISINE
Mother Nature provides all you need for a holistic approach to healthy hair.
Candace Kelly
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Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2011 Candace Kelley
http://www.curlprep.com
E-mail: curlprep@gmail.com
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any means in any form, photocopied, recorded, electronic or otherwise without the written permission from the publisher except for brief quotations in a review.
Photographs: Darryl C. Walls, Candace Kelley
Cover Design: Rowen Samuels
Editors: Gilda Rogers, Darryl Walls, Margaret Kelley
Artwork: Lavett Ballard, Daisy Giles, Yvonne Onque
Disclaimer: Readers of this book should use their best judgment in using the recipes in this book. The author and the publisher are not professional hairdressers, beauticians or cosmetologists. If you have had extenuating problems with your hair, please consult a doctor to guide you in this book’s use. This book is for educational and entertainment purposes. The publisher and the author shall have neither responsibility nor liability to any person with respect to any damage or loss caused directly or indirectly from the information on the following pages.
Acknowledgments
This book would not have been possible without my parents George and Margaret Kelley, the salt of the earth, who have been with me every step of the way filling bottles and giving me the love and encouragement that I needed to grow. I will never forget those days around the kitchen table when you teased me that you would form a union. I know I worked you! Thank you to my sister Palisa. Starting this company would not have been as fun or as successful without you. Thank you to my sister Audrey for your artistic vision and tenacious spirit to do what you have always wanted. It has always inspired me. A loving thank you to Darryl Walls who has helped shaped the tools that have molded my purpose and vision. Your loving advice has made my ideas come to life. You have sacrificed so much for me. A special thanks to Gilda Rogers and Caryl Lucas. Your dynamic spirits and energy kept me going the whole time. Gilda, your priceless ideas shaped this book into something beautiful. Rowen Samuels, Lavett Ballard, Daisy Giles and Yvonne Onque, you make natural hair even more amazing with your creations. With vision and the stroke of your brushes, you awaken each page. Finally, thank you to all of the ladies who have supported me and the Curl Prep Natural Hair Solutions line, especially the thousands of women who shared their stories and inspired me to write about something so seemingly simple - hair. From street corners to church pews, your candor has kept me going. Thank you.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Your Hair IQ
Before the Mixing Begins
Butters
Conditioners
Color
Shampoos
Clarifiers
Bottling, Labeling & Preserving
The Supernatural Project, Inc.
Artist’s Lounge
Elongate Your Hair with Curl Prep Natural Hair Solutions, Before & After Pictures
Author Contact Info
1
Introduction
In the Beginning
Oooh, I love your hair!
I had heard this enough times and had waxed poetic on many a street corner over the past 20 years. All of the good conversations inspired me to start a website about natural hair. Because I was always in the kitchen mixing it up, I learned ways to master the perfect whips, creams and potions. Soon people began asking me to bottle up my latest creations. It took me several years, but in 2009, I finally gave in to my creative energies and instincts and created my own line of products, Curl Prep Natural Hair Solutions.
The company grew each time I hosted natural hair seminars. At these events, women would gather to discuss how to do natural hair, and how to become more comfortable freeing themselves from chemical perms. And, of course, there was chew and chat.
There is an automatic bond between the women at these seminars. From those with basic natural hair questions, and those with cancer and other health issues, to those who felt completely empty and needed a new hair beginning, the events were about more than hair. Breakthroughs actually happened.
The gatherings have been especially empowering because women from all walks of life and cultures and countries let their hair down - literally. The wigs come off, the braids come undone and not so new naturals share their wisdom about their natural hair journeys.
I’ve been clean for a year,
one woman tells me as she introduces herself at a Natural Hair Seminar. There is a common thread that those with questions about natural hair all share and there is a fear and trepidation about the process that I have seen up close and personal.
This is why, besides recipes, the book is filled chock