Taliah Waajid is concerning the enterprise of magnificence. She is an entrepreneur and pure hair advocate with years of expertise in working with completely different hair textures. After studying learn how to type her pure hair as a baby, she determined to launch a line of merchandise to assist folks in all places really feel lovely with their pure tresses.
Waajid spoke with rolling out about her experience with pure hair, which merchandise are buyer favorites, and the way she is sparking a motion together with her occasion World Pure Hair.
Are you able to share some recommendation on pure hair for inexperienced persons?
So, one of the best factor to do is to study your hair texture and [if] you don’t have time to study it I like to recommend you go to an expert pure hair stylist. [Someone] who’s educated about not simply completely different curl patterns however completely different hair dense densities and hair porosity. These [are the] issues that make up your hair texture, it’s not simply your wave sample. You probably have like tightly coiled hair and also you’re making an attempt to outline your curls, heavy cream works finest for you, or when you have like wavy [hair], a light-weight souffle will work finest.
Which Taliah Waajid merchandise fly off the cabinets essentially the most?
Curl lotions are nonetheless our primary factor. We’ve curl definers, curl lotions, and largely for tightly coiled hair. So, these are our top-selling gadgets. [Also] development oils as a result of folks [are] at all times making an attempt to determine learn how to make their hair develop, or some kind of harm [was done] to their hair and so they’re making an attempt to get that little spot to return again. So, development oils at all times work properly for us too, and go away in conditioners. These are go-to issues that we discover are our prime sellers and might’t neglect that edge management. You’ll be able to have an afro, however you’re [going to] get some edge management.
How is the World Pure Hair: Magnificence and Well being Motion including to your trade?
Effectively, we don’t name it a hair present anymore. It’s like a life-style expertise and it’s extra of a motion. It’s the pure hair motion and it’s a cultural motion as a result of it’s so linked to who we’re as a folks, earlier than all the opposite further stuff. [We just focus on] pure hair, pure well being, well being and wellness, and pure magnificence. [Also] maintaining a healthy diet, and ensuring that you’re studying about what we’re placing in our physique. So, that’s all going again to nature. Being pure or as pure as you could be.
What would you like attendees to remove from the occasion?
Effectively, there’s going to be a lot to remove. I suppose the principle factor is seeing all of those Black folks working collectively over the weekend. We’re [focusing on] enterprise, it’s a fantastic setting, the vibe is very nice, and [we hope that] you may have a very nice time and [that] it was one thing that was price your time of being there. [We hope you] stroll away with one thing, you realize, I can’t let you know what it was, however we tried to place issues there. In all the pieces we do, there’s one thing optimistic that you may stroll away with. So hopefully, if you attend you [can receive] that and we’ll see you subsequent yr.
