OK, so this blog posting by actress Joy Bryant is getting a lot of chat on the blogs. Click here to read it for yourself. [*Ed. note: Essence took the blog down after getting bashed with negative comments. Meh. You can find the blog excerpted here.] I don’t know if this is supposed to be…
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Doing the ‘do: Flat twists
So tonight I’m going to see Maxwell in concert (Chrisette Michele and Common are opening! Yay!) and I decided to try out my flat twist style. Yesterday, I co-washed with Suave Naturals, then conditioned with Kiss My Face Whenever Conditioner. I sprayed in my Infusium 23 leave-in, moisturized with my super moisturizer and then sealed…
Hair care – My fall/winter hair products
Tuesday was the start of fall – my second favourite season of the year. I took my boots to the shoe repair to get them ready and thought: “I don’t spend time really thinking about what to do with my hair for the season.” Yes, I actually thought that. I am scheduled to get my…
The Major Trim of ‘09
It’s a sordid tale, my friends, stemming from my experimentation with the Jamaican Mango & Lime Resistant Formula Locking Gel. Anyhow, after using the gel, my hair just didn’t feel like how it should feel. My ends were rough and knotty; the hair itself just wasn’t as moisturized as it normally was. While all that…
Hair Politics: Hair at work
This weekend, I heard some women who I volunteer with talk about their hair experiences at work and I was fascinated. One of them is a transitioning sister who wears her hair is a gorgeous fluffy ‘fro, another is wearing kinky twists, two more are relaxed and there’s me. The woman with the fluffy ‘fro…
A new favourite style???
Last night, I felt like playing around a little with my hair. It was really soft from my protein deep treatment and not looking like how I wanted it to. I had untwisted the six flat twists I had in the front of my hair and the wavy, curly thing it was doing was so…
Shake your body down to the ground
Today, the husband and I are celebrating two years of marital bliss – how great, right? We wanted to do something fun for our anniversary – but what? As far as I know, Toronto doesn’t have a dinner and dance joint – not a restaurant that turns into a club after 10 pm. Not a…
My one-year nappyversary
Yay me! Today marks my first year as a naturalista and it’s been great. During my first year wearing natural hair, I was clueless to a lot of what I should and shouldn’t do. I tried a lot of stuff and a lot of stuff didn’t work. But I did learn some really valuable things…
A wigalicious winter?
Last winter, I had been natural for a few months and my hair wasn’t long enough to do much with – including protective styles. I didn’t know what products to use and the winter – the dry, cold, bitter Canadian winter – was getting ready to deal cruelly with my kinks. In November, I got…
The Black Snob: The Wet And Wavy Womanizer and the Long Hair Fetish
Since Chris Rock’s been talking about and promoting Good Hair everyone and their mother has been discussing hair and its affects in the Black community. Read what Danielle Belton of The Black Snob had to say about some of her hair experiences: “Can I touch it?” He could barely get the question out before his…
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