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
Category: Hair Trends
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
How to Get My Most Popular Hair Looks
A few years ago, I started this hair beauty blog named for myself dedicated to ethnic braided. I’ve worn my hair in variety of braided styles for over a decade and usually get stopped inContinue reading
US Navy Finally Removes Natural Hair and Dreadlock Ban
Hair styling has never really been a “just hair” issue for black women. Whether rocking it in the professional world or during a protest, afros, locs and braids have long served both as a meansContinue reading
Find Your Perfect Styling YouTuber By Hair-Texture Type
My fave hair blog Un-Ruly has an awesome post up featuring various top hair and beauty bloggers by hair texture! Hallelujah because I know I am not the only one who has run to YouTubeContinue reading
International Master of Natural Curls Maya Smith on the Magic of Mousse For Your Curly Hair
learned from celebrity stylist Tracy Johnson and eventually mastered her own craft and blazed her own rails when the military wife relocated to Germany and eventually opened up her first salon The HoneyComb. It becameContinue reading
Get Big Curly Hair, Achieve This Look With The Hair We’re Now SELLING!
After getting a few inboxes and stops on the street from folks wanting to know how to achieve my super big curly hair look I sported this Winter, I have decided to sell the crochetContinue reading
10 Fulani Braids Styles to Try Out Soon!
0 $ I am half Fulani and half Mende so I was quite geeked to notice that Fulani braids are trending in the braiding world. The braids are cornrows and marked by a stripContinue reading
Trending: Side-swept Waist-Length Cornrows
I went to a charity event in Baltimore in the Spring and I spied a lot of the socialites in he room wore one particular style that I loved: cornrows braided around to one sideContinue reading
The Anti-‘Layed’ Edges: The Kinky Edges and the Natural Hair Community Debate
0 $ Finally, the Natural Hair community is discussing the trend and preference for perfectly “layed” baby hairs even on kinky, coarse or non-straight natural hairstyles. See, it’s high time the discussion came intoContinue reading