natural hair
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A Tale of Lost Edges: Don’t Try This at Home
Girl. Today in “What is you doin’?” news: Popular beauty blogger Gigi Beauty shared a very personal—and teachable—moment with her fan base, ending with a very big reveal: Girl. Through nervous laughter, Gigi explained that a beauty experiment (read: bad idea) had compelled her to relax her hair not once, but twice. In one day.…
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The Blue Grass Airport TSA Pulled Me Aside to Inspect and Massage My Hair and Now I Have Questions!
I’m writing this from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Ky., waiting on a flight to Philadelphia that will take me back home to Pittsburgh. I came to Kentucky to visit the bell hooks Institute at Berea College for an event with bell hooks yesterday that I’m totally, definitely going to tell you all about soon.…
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On Watching a Black Woman Let Wypipo Touch Her Hair
At the intersection of divine providence and the collection of complex chemical reactions that cause us to convert oxygen into carbon dioxide and that we have chosen to call “life,” there still exists a nether region that can be explained only by the ancient African proverb, “Shit happens.” Shit happened to me last night. Well,…
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Refinery29 Short Cuts Gets Dragged for Its 4C Hair Tutorial Video
If you were ever to ask black women with natural hair what’s the most underrepresented texture when it comes to hair tutorials and available styling products, many would probably say 4c hair. For those unfamiliar with the 4c category of hair, it’s typically described as tightly coiled hair. If you happen to wander down the…
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Watch: The Natural-Hair Movement Keeps on Growing
For centuries, black women have been measured by a white standard of beauty. Lighter skin was preferred to dark skin, willowy figures preferred to curves, straight hair preferred to curly hair; and the list goes on. “I was born in Senegal, and relaxing your hair is, like, as normal as waking up and brushing your…
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Watch: The Power of Representation With Matthew A. Cherry, the Creator of ‘Hair Love’
Representation matters. We know this and still, representation is missing from the media we consume. For Matthew A. Cherry, seeing other black directors in action assured him that filmmaking was an attainable goal after he transitioned from the NFL. Now Cherry is making it his mission to normalize natural hair and black fatherhood in the…
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Natural-Hair Sensation, YouTube Star Meechy Monroe Dead at 32
Sad news for the natural-hair community and everyone else touched by her work: Meechy Monroe, who became well-known via her YouTube tutorials for natural hairstyles, died at the age of 32 at a nursing home in Westmont, Ill., on June 27. Her mother, Patricia Moore, told the New York Times that the cause of death…
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PopSugar Slammed for Whitewashing Natural Hair
Women’s lifestyle brand PopSugar has some explaining to do after recently posting an article boasting about natural hair. People on social media quickly noticed the piece didn’t feature any women of color and had only white women discussing their “natural” tresses. Now, we all know the “natural hair” movement got its footing from women of…
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Fla. Teen Was Asked by School to Change Her Natural Hair Because It Was Against Hair Policy
Another day, another dress code hair policy in need of a change. This time, a Florida teen was caught off guard when she was asked to change the hair that grows out of her head naturally because it was against dress code. “People say they love my hair because it’s so diverse, curly and Afrocentric,”…
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SheaMoisture and Being Black-Owned: Is That Enough?
SheaMoisture had a serious mea culpa this week after it released an ad campaign featuring women talking about learning to love their natural hair—except none of those women were black. Black women are the core audience of SheaMoisture and the brands that exist under its parent company, Sundial Brands. And not just the silky-hair-textured, “They…