Step 1: Wash my hair with just my Pierre’s Caribbean Secrets and detangle with a wide tooth comb. Step 2: Add a small amount to the top area of my hair where I will do my two strand twist. Step 3: allow hair to dry over night and be sure to cover your hair before […]
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I love sparkle! Am I the only one? What makes you happy ladies? Did you know many people suffer from depression during the winter months? During this time of year, try to stay alert, get moving and don’t let holiday shopping stress you out. Keep the sparkle in your eye!
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Wearing your natural texture has its perks… However you must know when to take advantage of such perks. Here are some tips to consider when visiting the beach this season.
Do’s
1. If you aren’t wearing a textured look, Do a high pony or bun will survive the beach humidity
2. If you are brave enough to sport straightened hair, Do wrap your hair with scarf. This will help you avoid my mistake of a frizzy Mohawk.
3. Do consider the weather when styling your God given tresses
Don’t’s
1. Don’t get upset when your straight hair turns in a frizz ball
Welp, that’s my only don’t so enjoy your day and avoid frizz this summer!
Here I tried to overcome the frizz with a braid.
Kurlfriends enjoying Beverly Hills.. Totally unbothered! My Kurlfriend Nedra and I took over Beverly Hills! We let our hair blow in the wind and we took in the beautiful arichitecture of the historic Rodeo Drive luxury stores. I hope you all enjoyed your weekend with your mothers and if you’re a mother I hope you enjoyed your time with your children – time is precious and not replenishable.
I’ve always been fascinated with hair color ever since childhood. My mom rocked honey blonde hair for as long as I could remember. As most little girls I wanted to emulate her beauty! My dad was very firm on his stance against blonde during my teenage years. From a distance for years, even as an adult, I still held on to that admiration for blonde tresses. I watched from afar. I was told many times by stylists that blonde was too strong with my relaxed hair. Around 2010 I began to experiment with colors that were close to blonde but not all the way there. By 2012 I was blonde… well the front of my hair was blonde and for me that was enough.
I was in love with my blonde just as I had been in love with my mom’s. I loved the way it brighten my face and lightened the appearance of my dark brown eyes. Honey, you couldn’t tell me anything!
My stylist at the time took me over a gradual lightening process absent bleaching my hair – she wanted to maintain the integrity of my natural hair. So over several months from February 2012 to about July 2012 – she gradually colored my hair to my most coveted hair color. It was admired by Caucasian and Black girls alike!!
I know, I know, you’re thinking – well what happened? Life happened I suppose… I moved to a different state and I let someone else color my hair and unfortunately they did not follow the same philosophy as my last colorist. The change in stylist and the lack of care I took for my colored tresses proved to be detrimental to my hair.
What I learned about blonde and natural hair is that it needs more TLC than your uncolored, unprocessed natural hair. I learned that all stylists are not created equal. Most importantly, I learned that blonde does not equal unhealthy hair – unattended hair = unhealthy hair. I miss blonde but until I can reclaim the healthy state of my hair, I dare not touch blonde until then.
Now that I’ve shared my story with you all I would love to know what made you go natural? Was your hair severely suffering from breakage? Did you need a change or to reinvent yourself? Did you want to become closer to your natural roots? And since you’ve been natural how has your journey been? I rarely meet natural women so I can’t wait to hear your stories! God Bless ❤
No really! We always say Kurlfriends are necessary! 💋
Terresa Harris gathered six different women, and two girls, for a photo shoot of different types of natural hair. Click image to enlarge. Photo Credit: Pink Images
Last week I forayed into the Dallas suburb of Irving, something I don’t do often as I find the suburbs to be not my metropolis-centric cup of tea. This adventure off my well-beaten Uptown track was for a good reason and well worth it. A fellow Instagrammer, @ProjectNaptural, had invited me to take part in a photo shoot that would be part of a socio-cultural project that may result in an application for members of Team Natural everywhere. This project is part of her Master’s thesis at the University of North Texas, a different location from the campus where the shoot took place. I have modeled before and still jump at the chance when the opportunity presents itself as it tends to…
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Natural goes to Spain. Muy interesante!
She created a story in her own image. 🙌🏾
One young lady has inspired girls to love themselves and their hair with her award-winning comic book, BuzzFeed reports.
Troubled by her natural tresses and skin tone, 7-year-old Natalie McGriff and her mother Angie Nixon from Jacksonville, Fla., came up with the idea of the comic, The Adventures of Moxie Girl. The main character, Moxie Girl, uses a special shampoo that gives her magical powers to combat book-eating monsters.
With the help of the crowdfunding site One Spark, Moxie Girl was placed amongst over 500 other entries at their annual festival and received $16,424 towards a publication fund.
Nixon says she wanted her daughter to know she?s beautiful just the way she is, even if it doesn?t fit society?s norms.
“I decided to help Natalie write this book because she was having self-esteem issues regarding her hair and she hated to read,” Angie said in a statement. “She now realizes how…
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We love it!!
Curlfriends: Samantha-Jane, Eleanor, Mandy
Naturally all of us who spend time on social media have people we communicate with regularly but every now and then you connect with someone online and instantly hit it off. Amanda Cooke, aka The Mandy Expedition, has been one such person. Over the course of the last year we have been in regular email contact, we’ve been following each other on Instagram, featured each other on our respective natural hair blogs, and have since also become Facebook friends. So when we finally met up in person during late December 2014 we both knew it was long overdue.
We had arranged to meet at Tasha’s, a cute café at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, for brunch along with one more of my online friends, Samantha-Jane Samaai. When I walked in and told the waiter that I was meeting two girls he immediately asked me if it’s…
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