With Health Comes Length
We wrote about Meechy a while back as she battled a rare form of brain cancer here and here so I won’t rehash all that. The popular blogger and YouTuber who’s signature style was the ‘Meechy twist out’ finally lost her battle with cancer on the 27th of June and died at age 32. She […]
Black Twitter is the mvp online. From poignant hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter to hilarious ones that have us rolling like #blacksalonproblems. But you don’t want black twitter to be mad at you. Really you don’t. Just ask Shea moisture, Kendell Jenner, Vicki Johe, Remy Ma, Pepsi… the list goes on. Recently black twitter came for Victoria Secret for […]
A Harlem barber has been criticised for cutting a 1-week old baby’s hair. The barber put up a video on instagram sharing his experience cutting the infants hair. He apparently told the mother that children’s hair is not customarily cut until the child can talk but the mother insisted that it was her religion after […]
I wake up to a full inbox daily, usually full of work emails, newsletters and spam. The usual. This morning however I woke up to an email from one of the students from Mystic Valley Regional Charter in Malden Massachusetts, Deonna, who wanted her story told. Students at the Malden school who wear hair extensions […]
Yesterday Shea Moisture released the first of an ad series to promote their products and to say black women were outraged, might be the understatement of the year. Before I go any further, watch the ad for yourself: I was honestly truly disappointed with the ad because last week I sat and watched for at […]
If you are a mom of a little girl with afro textured hair then you know how important it is to ensure that she knows how beautiful she is and how beautiful her hair is. Recently one mom, Lekia Lee, was recognized for going the extra mile for her daughter by when she rented a […]
Gabrielle Union recently announced that she is launching her own hair care line called Flawless. The same company that created the Macadamia Line who we are very familiar with teamed up with Union to create this one. Read more via WWD: “For me — having skin in the game — it deepens the connection,” […]
It’s 2017 and women are still being told what they should look like and what chemicals to use to tame their “unacceptable” natural hair. Recently news broke of a black woman who was seeking a job at the well known high-end store Harrods in London. To get the job she was told she had to […]
“Dad, I’ll never be beautiful. I need yellow hair and white skin so that way I can be beautiful.” That’s all it took Angelica and Jason Sweeting to hear from one of their daughter after picking her up from a school book fair where she couldn’t stop crying. They knew they had to do something. […]
Are you considering cutting your hair? I have! As a matter of fact it has been a recurring thought for me, one which I plan to act on very soon. I have had long hair for most of my life, there were periods during my relaxed days when my hair was cut short but even […]
A couple months ago [email protected] on Instagram had the daunting task of removing a woman’s weave that was left in her hair for 9 months. According to the post, the client was disabled suffering from a broken arm and could not remove the weave which was left in even after the arm had healed. This was […]
Last night the who is who of the hair blogging world attended a party hosted by the beautiful Tahira Joy co-founder of The Cutlife and Maybach Music’s Rick Ross. The party can be found under the hashtag #BeautyandBelair on Instagram which by tomorrow will have way more pictures than you see here in this post. To […]
A father took to Facebook to expose the mother of his child when she vehemently expressed that she hated her biracial daughter’s hair styled in cornrows. We all know that biracial children tend to have very thick or fine curly hair, and so one of the best ways to care for it is through protective […]
Who would have thought that you could look at a magazine cover that clearly says “Black Hair” and see a white British model with a fro? Well in this day and age you can! Model Emily Bador a model from the U.K., a white woman blew the whistle on herself and the magazine “Black Hair” […]
In “let’s make fun of Afro’s” news reality star Mandy Rose got herself in a little hot water yesterday after snapping about how annoying a black woman’s afro was to her while traveling. According to the above photo the “Afro Annoyance” happened to her three times and I am trying to figure out a few […]
What would you do if you received that note from a teacher about your daughter? I had a pretty interesting discussion about it on my own Facebook page and I have to be honest, I would have been offended. I know there is a theory out there that black people get offended at everything but […]
Remember a few weeks ago when we told you that a Federal Court ruled that it is not racist to ban dreadlocks at work? Well the chickens have come home to roost yet again as a suburban teen was told in no uncertain terms that dreads are not allowed at her job. Tyler House showed […]
Last weekend Raissa Santana became the second black woman to be crowned Miss Brazil in a pageant history of over 60 years. We have discussed countless of times how hard it is for women in Brazil who are Latina by birth, but who have darker skin due to their African heritage to be included in […]