Natural hair has never really had a mainstream form of beauty tips and tricks. The Natural Hair movement mostly sprung up and took off through YouTube and various other blogging platforms. As a result, research for Maryland M.A.N.E.’s newsletter will be more heavily focused through popular blogs, websites, and YouTube Channels, because that is how so many women in the natural hair movement share and find tips and ideas to better their hair care treatment. Because of this, it is even more crucial to verify the data that I find, and not just settling for any old tutorial link that I happen across.
I feel the best way to go about researching information for Maryland M.A.N.E. is to treat my blog and vlog findings like Wikipedia—in the sense that there are going to be several different opinions and suggestions, and the best way to validate their suggestions is to compare results to other results, and if other people cite their sources (much like how Wiki does), to go back to those original sources and check them out as well, whether they be other blogs, vlogs, or even a product website.
The larger the following, the larger the validity. For example, Nikki Walton, author of Better Than Good Hair and creator of CurlyNikki.com, started off by following and participating in several forums on NaturallyCurly.com before launching her own website in October 2008. Her website consists of different posts and interviews of different women who have natural hair, but also links to different websites and Youtube vlogs, such as NaturallyCurly, for more a more official insight on what your hair is like and for tips on what to do with your hair such as this video from Naptural85:
All in all, you start broad and narrow down from there.
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