About the Book
Does your hair seem to reach a certain length and refuse to grow any longer? If you suffer from dry, brittle hair or excessive breakage, this book is for you!

Healthy Black Hair combines sensible advice with innovative techniques  to help you achieve remarkable results. Included are step-by-step instructions to show you how to rejuvenate your locks and accelerate hair growth from the inside out.

Discover:
• The 5 principles of Healthy Hair
• How to achieve your hair length goals regardless of hair type or texture
• How to improve your hair’s strength and appearance
• How to style and maintain your hair without heat
• What supplements you shouldn’t live without
• What you must know if you take thyroid medication
• How to use natural herbs to stimulate hair growth 

What are you waiting for? Long, healthy hair can be yours — start today! 

About the Author:
Nicole Elizabeth Smith has spent the past several years researching relaxed hair and has written the book she wishes were available to her long ago. She is a freelance health and beauty writer and a graduate of Michigan State University. She and her son Zack live in Michigan. This was her first book.

About the Book

“If We Were Girlfriends, This Is What I’d Tell You” is a Christian based non-fiction book about life lessons that every teenage girl will face at some point in her life.  In this book, I give straight talk to young women about how to deal with issues of self-love and self-awareness, relationships, responsibility, and goal setting for the future.  I also provide real life examples for the reader to fully understand how these issues may apply to them specifically.  The book challenges young women to find their God-given purpose, love and respect themselves, and be the best they can be.  I have included scripture references (and humor) because I believe no matter what your spiritual belief is, the Bible is a road map to how we should live our lives.  At the end of the book, I have provided a work section to help the reader take an introspective look at herself as she begins her journey to womanhood and to becoming a better person.
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Excerpt 1 (on loving yourself)

Loving yourself is an essential element of self-respect.  By loving yourself, I am not encouraging you to be conceited, self-absorbed, or selfish.  To love yourself in a healthy way means you are not willing to allow someone to mistreat you inside or out.  It means that you believe you are important and demand that others treat you with respect and common courtesy.

Excerpt 2 (on relationships)

When someone respects you, they don’t hurt you with their lies.  They don’t hurt you with their hands. They don’t hurt you with their tongue by calling you names or saying mean things to you. And they don’t hurt you by neglecting you. 

Excerpt 3 (on relationships)

Another aspect of relationships is choosing to be with someone who wants to be with you.  You should not go out there looking for a boyfriend and you certainly shouldn’t be with someone that has not first expressed a clear interest in you and only you.  That’s right, if you meet a guy who is in a relationship with someone else, but says he is interested in you, you need to give him time to resolve and dissolve that current relationship before he starts dating you.