natural hair
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Can a Naturalista Find a Sweet Spot with…Suave? Our Writer Tries Out the Old-School Brand's New Product Range
I’m a lazy natural. I’m two years into my second big chop, and a year into growing it out—and admittedly, that Caesar life was sweet. But it’s hard to be lazy when you have kinky 4c hair like mine, since it’s so dry. The first time I went natural was back in 2001, when natural…
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Education, Not Discrimination: NAACP Legal Defense Fund Asks Florida Schools to End Biased Hair Policies
As children returned to school this fall, new teachers and classmates weren’t the only things that greeted some students. More than one story surfaced of children being turned away, or sent home from school, because of culturally-specific hairstyles like braids or dreadlocks. One such child was six-year-old Clinton Stanley, Jr., whose story went viral when…
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Watch: Amara La Negra Shares Her Natural Hair Journey
Amara La Negra is a proud Afro-Latina who “embraces her truth.” For La Negra this means that rocking her hair in its natural form—an afro. But the pop star’s striking hairstyle hasn’t always been so well received. “I’ve had so many stones, and so many rocks thrown at me that eventually it just stopped hurting,”…
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Celebrating the Natural Hair Journey: Behind the Scenes at Texture on the Runway
New York Fashion Week is well under way, and models with various textures of hair sashayed down the runway to represent. Why have a show dedicated to showcasing coils, curls and kinks, you say? Because natural hair matters. Texture on the Runway—founded by Naturally Curly—featured braids, afros, up-dos, and locs as styled by some of…
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Loc’ed Out: In Jamaica, a Battle for Equality Rests on a 5-Year-Old Girl’s Head
Come January, Jamaica’s highest court will hear the case of “Z,” a little girl with dreadlocks who was told she couldn’t attend a prestigious public school unless her hair was cut. Z’s mother, Sherine Virgo, wasn’t having it. As the Washington Post reports, Virgo refused to cut her daughter’s hair, telling the paper that the…
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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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Meet 21-Year-Old Nia Imani, CEO of the App Hair Days
Meet 21-year-old Nia Wellman, known as Nia Imani on social media. Nia is a jack of all trades. She became a YouTuber back in ‘07, then started the college service-based organization Campus Curlz Inc., and now she’s the CEO of a hair growth-tracking app called Hair Days. Nia’s YouTube channel focuses on beauty, but she…
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For Colored Girls Who Tried Braided Wigs and Clip-in Afros When Sitting in a Chair for 12 Hours Was Too Much
Yasss! Box-braided and cornrow wigs are a thing. So are curly and kinky Afro clip-in hair extensions that fluff up like clouds. Meaning: Naturalistas, rejoice if you are looking to make your protective styles even more protective this summer. Our hair is some of the most versatile and the most delicate on the planet, meaning…