Ngozi Opara is the founder and CEO of the Heat Free Hair brand. She started out as a financial analyst but pursued her passion for natural hair care on the side until she decided she just had to pursue her dreams full time.
She obtained her license in cosmetology and even moved to China to gain experience as a hair manufacturing technician. She has been recognized by Forbes and several well established publications and this is just the beginning for her.
Heat Free Hair is the story of a woman entrepreneur with a passion for natural hair combined with the entrepreneurial drive to start a business providing natural hair extensions, plus a movement to educate and inform women on how to care for their natural hair.
Ngozi Opera is the first manufacturer of Virgin Hair exclusively created to blend with African American textured, kinky, and curly hair.
The company provides hair extensions in the form of wefted hair, clip-in extensions, and wigs. The Heat Free Hair Movement expands beyond the company’s products and focuses on the education of the natural hair community through seminars and instructional videos, as well as events for natural women to network with other women alike.
Ngozi Opara believed that the uniqueness and versatility of natural textures was something that couldn’t be explained from afar. And that hair extensions for such a diverse group of beautiful textures couldn’t be created by anybody - at least not correctly.
So in 2012, Ngozi moved to China to study the entire hair manufacturing process, from start to finish. One year later, Ngozi opened the Heat Free Hair Factory, an exclusive factory that would produce only the authentic textures known to Heat Free Hair extensions.
