black hair
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Naturally Beautiful: The Best of CurlFest 2018
What happens when 25,000 natural hair aficionados get together? CurlFest, that’s what! On Saturday, July 21, #TeamNatural gathered in Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Prospect Park for the world’s biggest—and most beautiful—celebration of natural hair. Celebrating its fifth successful year, CurlFest 2018 was a multiethnic, all ages and genders-welcome event that boasted all types of textures, hues and…
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Winner's Circle: Serena Williams Scores Natural Hair Products at Target—Just Like Us!
Picture this: You’re cruising the natural haircare aisle at Target, marveling at the selection, when you run into … Serena Williams? “Beauty wise, I go to Target, and they literally have everything,” Williams recently told Yahoo Lifestyle. “Anything that says ‘curls,’ ‘manage your curls,’ ‘proud of your curls,’ I’m drawn to it.” Girl, we know…
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School Bans Durags Because They Turn Black Boys Into Bald-Headed Gangbangers
A Massachusetts charter school has partially reversed its ban on durags after students convinced administrators of the rule’s unfairness, successfully arguing that the head covering isn’t a gateway drug that leads to gang-banging or even worse—male pattern baldness. According to the Daily Item, Kipp Academy Lynn Collegiate School had been issuing in-school suspensions to black…
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Grab Your Girls and Celebrate Your Curls: CurlFest Returns to Brooklyn This Saturday!
New York naturalistas, where you at? If you’re a devoted member of #TeamNatural, you’re hopefully already familiar with the experiential marketing group known as the Curly Girl Collective, and if you live in the New York City tri-state area, this is the weekend to take part in the largest celebration of natural hair in the…
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Free Wigs 4 Kids: How One Woman Is Restoring Children's Confidence, One Wig at a Time
Hair is Quilla Bohannon’s passion; it has been since she was a schoolgirl, feigning attending after-school extracurricular activities so she could braid the hair of her classmates for extra spending money, as she told The Glow Up: I like to say I got the gift of doing hair from my grandmother. … The first time…
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Fresh Cuts: Lena Waithe Loses Her Locs!
Sometimes, you just gotta let it all go … which is exactly what writer, producer and actor Lena Waithe did over the weekend when she traded her trademark locs with shaved sides for a low fade with a curved side part, created by Barber Doll the Slayer. While we can’t guarantee that this transformation will…
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A Breakthrough for New Jersey Braiders: New Legislation Won't Require a License to Practice
Big news for braiding entrepreneurs in New Jersey: Legislation that would exempt hair braiders from the state’s current licensing requirements has received legislative approval and will now be submitted to the governor. The bill, sponsored by Assemblywomen Angela McKnight (D-Hudson) and Shanique Speight (D-Essex), would not only remove the stringent and expensive licensing regulations currently…
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New Growth: Sally Beauty Wants to Help Develop the Next Big Female-Owned Hair-Care Brand
Are you a female hair-care entrepreneur? Professional beauty-supply juggernaut Sally Beauty recently launched a business-accelerator program specifically designed to help female beauty entrepreneurs grow their businesses. Sally Beauty Cultivate—For Women by Women is actively seeking out the next line of innovative hair-care products, offering one phenomenal female-owned brand entrepreneurial mentorship, $25,000 in financial support and…
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She Got That Glow: How Zendaya Got Slick for the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards
“Whenever I’m doing Zendaya’s hair, it’s always a collaborative effort between her, her stylist Law Roach and myself,” says celebrity hairstylist (and The Glow Up fave) Ursula Stephen. The hair aficionado has made a name for herself teasing the tresses of some of the best-known beauties around, including Rihanna, Kerry Washington, Nia Long, Laverne Cox…
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Bye-Bye, Heat Damage; Hello, Protective Styles!
The relationship a black woman has with her hair is ever changing. One day our hair looks flawless; the next day we’re tying our hair down with a scarf to hold down our edges and whatever might be going on in the “kitchen.” Summer is always a trying time for us because of the humidity,…