In a world where hair care often leans toward trends and products, Saniyyah Sahar is returning the practice to its roots, transformative ritual and spiritual healing.
Known as a “crown healer,” Sahar is redefining natural hair care for Black women as more than just maintenance. For her, it’s sacred work.
Based in the U.S., Saniyyah Sahar is not your typical stylist. Her sessions are part ceremony, part therapy. Clients don’t just get their hair done, they are invited into an experience that centers rest, breathwork, and ancestral connection. Through her unique blend of energy work, intuitive touch, and deep hair knowledge, she transforms every appointment into a space of softness and surrender.
“Hair is a portal,” Sahar has shared in interviews and online. “Our crowns hold stories, stress, lineage. My job is to help women release what no longer serves them through care that honors their full being.”
Using techniques rooted in African traditions, Sahar starts her sessions with intentional grounding. She may burn sage, incorporate sound healing, or simply ask her clients to breathe deeply and call in peace. From there, she detangles, hydrates, and styles with the same reverence someone might show in a sacred temple. Her wash days are slow, intentional, and infused with oils, herbs, and affirmations.
Her message resonates in a culture where Black women’s hair has long been politicized and commodified. Sahar offers an alternative: a return to softness, to slowness, and to self-knowing. On social media, she shares snippets of her process, hands gliding through coils, laughter between client and healer, candles flickering in quiet spaces. Each post serves as a reminder that beauty is not a performance, it’s a practice.
Saniyyah Sahar’s work is part of a growing movement to reclaim hair care as healing. Whether it’s through reiki-infused scalp massages or simply giving clients permission to rest, her approach honors the full spectrum of Black womanhood.
In her hands, hair becomes more than style. It becomes ceremony. And every crown she touches is reminded of its inherent divinity.
