Description:
We celebrate Afro hair at every stage of life; starting with a focus on postpartum hair care, and maintaining healthy hair during this crucial period. For parents and kids, you’ll learn to create sustainable routines, and prioritise the nurturing of hair textures in children. Continuing through the life cycle, we also address menopausal and greying hair, supporting the transition with expert hair and scalp care to support healthy hair throughout your years. We’ll tackle the widespread myths that surround Afro hair and debunk common misconceptions, replacing them with evidence-based practices.
Your Educators:
Her practice focuses on diagnosing and treating hair loss and scalp conditions with customised approaches that include nutritional therapy, prescription products, and advanced regrowth treatments like PRP therapy.
With her expertise, she will lead several educational courses at Ruka, including Foundations: Hair & Scalp Fundamentals, focusing on the basics of scalp care, Consumer: 0 – 100, Not So Quick, which offers an in-depth look at consumer haircare practices, and Consumer: Protective Styling (Beginner Friendly), designed to teach safe and effective protective styling techniques for all hair types.
Ideal for:
- Parents wanting to learn more about their children’s hair.
- Women who have given birth or are pregnant and concerned about post partum hair.
- Those who have grey hair / are greying and want a deeper understanding of the nature and science of textured hair and scalp to help better care for their hair.
Course Covers:
- The structure of textured hair
- The scalp, sebum, and their functions
- Key characteristics and needs of textured hair
- Hair growth: the cycle and how to optimise it
- Applying textured hair science to practically meet texture hair needs
Tools + Requirements:
- Notepad, laptop or tablet
- Pens/pencils
Learning materials required for this course will be provided.
Itinerary:
The structure of textured hair & scalp
- Internal structural layers of textured hair, their contents + functions
- Structures of the textured hair scalp + their functions
- Sebum: content + functions
Key characteristics and needs of textured hair
- Shape/texture
- Growth rate
- Thickness
- Density
- Porosity, cuticles, and susceptibility to damage
Hair growth: myths, the cycle and how to optimise it
- Identifying common hair growth myths (especially around textured hair)
- The hair growth cycle (incl. live microscopic demo of hair bulb in various phases)
- How to optimise hair growth (nutrition + care)
Applying science to practically meet texture hair needs
- Practical tips on handling coily, kinky shapes/textures
- Practical tips on minimising susceptibility to damage
- Practical tips on increasing volume: Thickness + Density
- Practical tips on scalp care