black hairstyles
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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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Is the Mainstream Ready for 4c? Mane Traces the Evolution of Natural Hair On-Screen
Online media company NowThis turned heads at the top of 2018 with the launch of Mane, a web series focusing on the intersection between hair and culture. On Tuesday, Mane kicked off its second season with a closer look at how the presentation of naturally textured black hair has evolved on-screen, tracing the current impact…
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What We’re Talking About This Weekend
This is what The Glow Up is buzzing about this weekend: a world of curls; multiethnic, natural-hair care; ’90s-throwback, female-dominated streetwear; and traveling like royalty. Happy weekend! I am dying over HSI’s Groover Curler Master Kit curling iron, with 10 interchangeable curling wands. It’s beach season. It’s wedding season. That’s lots of bridesmaids’ parties and…
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(Do) Touch My Hair? 2 White Brits Specialize in Celebrating the Artistic Potential of Black Hair
A funny thing happened on our way to the royal wedding this weekend: We got waylaid by something else exciting on the other side of the pond. Namely, some of the most striking black-hair portraiture we’ve ever seen, courtesy of British photographer Luke Nugent and award-winning hairstylist Lisa Farrall. But there’s a twist: Nugent and…
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Putting Their Heads Together: How Facebook’s Natural Hair Group Became Over 250,000 Strong (and Growing)
There are groups, and there are “supergroups.” At over 253,000 members—and growing daily—the Natural Hair Facebook group definitely qualifies as the latter. Started in 2013, Natural Hair began as a local Facebook group started by then-Birmingham, Ala., resident Jessica Latten. Having relied on online resources and communities to begin her own natural-hair journey, Latten created…
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Curl Hunting: Nai’vasha Johnson Is Young Hollywood’s Go-to Hairdresser
OK—did you die over Yara Shahidi’s hairstyle when she walked down the red carpet at this year’s SAG Awards? I died. Did you die over her “Weekend In Wakanda”-perfect bejeweled ’fro-cornrow extravaganza on Essence’s latest cover? I died. Hairstylist Nai’vasha Johnson is the one slaying the trendsetting actress’s red-carpet and special-event coiffures that keep us…