Taking the Beast Out of Beauty: A Collection of Hair Care Secrets from 34 Years of Experience

By Lesia M. Davis

This book is for people who want to grow and maintain healthy hair.
What it consists of is botanical formulas, techniques and instructions that will empower you to maintain the integrity of your hair, keeping your hair feeling and looking young. This guide will enable you to create salon results at home using techniques that have been used by the author over the course of 34 years.

What often occurs is once a clients hair has been restored and is at the pinnacle of health; they stop coming to the salon and return to their old habits. Upon returning the restoration cycle starts over. Having this book will remind you Simplicity Isn't Easy. Using the methods I have used through out my career you can remove the doubt out of the process. After reading you will have learned to enjoy the process, reap the results and Love on your Hair.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Dec 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781667802589

Lesia M. Davis

Lesia M. Davis is the owner of U salon located in Buckhead - Atlanta Ga, established in 2003. She is married to James and mother to Marsalis, she is an avid gardener whose love of beauty transfers to her passion in haircare. She has traveled the world to assist her clients with their hair care needs. Lesia has been featured prominently in the following publications – Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ladies Home Journal, Black Hair Magazine, Atlanta Hair Magazine, The Atlantan Magazine and other industry trade publications. Previously she traveled as a hair care educator, now she is most passionate about cultivating a harmonious community for creative artists and like-minded individuals.

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Contents

FOREWORD

Simplicity Isn’t Easy…

SHAMPOOING

Shampoo:

Filters:

Dry Shampoo:

CoWash:

Color Enhancing Shampoo:

pH: Potential Hydrogen

Botanicals:

Saturation:

Frequency:

CONDITIONING

Is This Really Necessary?

Supple Application:

The Spiral:

Detangling:

Stress-less Hair:

DETANGLING AGAIN

Implements:

FINISHING

Flat Iron:

BRUSHING

VITAMINS, NUTRITION, and ESSENTIAL OILS

PSYCHOLOGY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

RESOURCES

FOREWORD

Long Hair Goals-

Healthy Hair-

Treat your hair as you’d treat your skin!

(Just imagine what would happen!)-

Hair Harmony and You-

Simplicity Isn’t Easy…

I use these phrases often because of the many people I encounter; many absolutely hate their hair. Once I realized my super thick hair had started thinning from all the tactics I’d use to transform it into something it wasn’t, I had an epiphany: STOP and LOVE on your hair!

Hair has been my obsession since I was four years young, from styling my grandmother’s wigs on Sundays to cutting my doll’s hair and then onto live bait—my family. It was my medium for creating textures and experimenting with products designated for certain hair and skin types. I saw beyond the skin tone; I just saw universal texture. I focused on creating solutions for what seemed like the impossible.

The possibilities were endless. I had a vision and I wanted to conquer the world!

Since beginning my career I have had the fortune of experimenting on and practicing with my clients, who have taken me to Vienna, Rome, Miami, New York, DC, and places in between.

It has been an incredible journey that has allowed me to incorporate all of my experiences to enhance my application to hair along the way.

This handbook is meant to reveal how these simple techniques toward grooming, restoring, and transforming your hair and body can give you the beautiful head of hair you were intended to have with the hair texture you are blessed with.

Once you have made peace with your hair and have improved your habits, with some patience you will truly be surprised at how simple healthy hair can be…

SHAMPOOING

Water, shampoo, CoWash, or dry shampoo? The first step…

My clients frequently ask how often they need to shampoo. Do weekly suds and water dry out the hair? How frequently should they clarify? Is a shampoo for color-treated hair necessary?

How efficient is dry shampoo, or is a CoWash technique best?

What I am about to share with you is what I have experienced