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Author: jjbraids
JJ is a Univ of MD BA journalism degree holder who is also a recovering attorney, currently running her own digital media company. She fancies herself a social media butterly and tech inclusion advocate and enjoys writing about pop culture, politics, braided hair, parenting, fashion, celebrity and lifestyle topics on various forums including her family of blog properties.
How to Do No Cornrow Crochet Braids
Trend Alert! No Cornrow Crochet Braids. How to Install it Braid as many individual braids as you’d like. Then attach the added hair by pulling it under the base of the braid (loop first) usingContinue reading
TV Anchor Finally Allowed to Wear Braids After 10 Years
TV News Reporter AJ Walker says being allowed to wear her hair in braids after 10 years in the field, she hopes it inspires other black women and girls and “sends a very strong messageContinue reading
Braided Styles On The 2019 Oscar Red Carpet
This weekend on the Academy Awards red carpet I noticed that a few celebrity women chose to wear braids. To me, it a celebration of the style and affront to people like Wendy Williams whoContinue reading
Barbie First Time To Release Doll With Microbraids For Kids
For much of the last 60 years, Barbie has been scrutinized as an impossible physical ideal for young girls, so this step into more diversity bodies and inclusive dolls is huge—and Mattel knows it. On the toyContinue reading
Kerry Washington’s NYFW Look Celebrates Kinky Textured Extensions
The Internet is abuzz talking about with the natural short curly hair that actress-director Kerry Washington wore to New York Fashion Week shows. A lot of people likened it to a look the Whitney HoustonContinue reading
Hair Texture Discrimination in the Natural Hair Community and the Loose Curl Pattern Privilege
Hair texture discrimination in the natural hair community is a real thing. It involves preference for hair with looser curl patterns categorized as 3b – 4a while hair that has less defined curl pattern, shrinkContinue reading
All Things Unicorn Braids {LOTS OF PICS}
The mermaid, rainbow and unicorn hair trends that feature exotic hues like aquamarine, purple, pink and orange when fused into the individual hair braid culture is exciting. I first saw Alicia Keys in Unicorn BraidsContinue reading
Trend: Asian Men Doing How to Get ‘Nappy’ Hair Tutorials
So you might have heard about the recent trend of white Instagrammers tanning their skin, getting lip injections, and altering their hair texture so to appear more ethnic and racially ambiguous but did you knowContinue reading
Report: Hair Relaxers Will Be the Smallest Segment of the Black Hair Market
When Supermodel Naomi Campbell went to Kenya for the Holidays this year, she decided to do a first: publish a photograph of herself in her own natural hair, cornrowed from the front of her templesContinue reading