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Beauty: The Versatility of Natural Hair

Posted in AfroSphere, tagged , on March 27, 2010 | 4 Comments »

{images from Arise magazine} The natural hair shots here are almost aerodynamic in their structure and dimenson. The saturated colour of her lipstick and her accessories clashes in majestic harmony with the crown of gorgeous Afro hair. With the natural hair the possibilities for beauty are endless. I am biased though. I’ve been part of [...]

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Do Black Men Respond To Natural Hair?

Posted in Life, tagged , on May 13, 2009 | 80 Comments »

[Cross-posted from 17 March 2009 on Charcoal Ink, my personal blog] One of Charcoal’s regular readers, lifeisannoying, left a fascinating comment on a previous post that I’d like to share. Please do not judge her and I hope this can start conversation that’s healthy. Ok, let me just get up on my soapbox!( shuffles, stumbles finds [...]

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10 Things I Noticed in the Black Hair Salon

Posted in Black Women in Europe, tagged , on March 31, 2009 | 17 Comments »

Last weekend, I went with a close friend of mine at a hair salon in east London. My friend was getting a weave done, however, just sitting with her was such a ripe opportunity for me to observe how some black women act within the space of the hair salon. 10. The sharp smell of [...]

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Does ESSENCE know how to promote Natural Hair?

Posted in Black pride, Hair, Women, tagged , on March 6, 2009 | 10 Comments »

Each month, I always buy ESSENCE.  Even though I am not American, it still speaks to me as a young black woman although it needs a *lot* of tweaking. In the March 2009 issue of ESSENCE with the beautiful Halle Berry on the cover, there was a section of the mag that troubled me. The [...]

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