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Curly Hair Etiquette – Acceptable And Unacceptable Things To Say To Natural Girls

Curly Girl Etiquette refers to way other people treat our hair on a daily basis. By treat I mean, comment, ...
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Does Your Man Like Your Natural Hair And Do You Care?

Well, does he? And yes, do you ACTUALLY CARE? I find this topic or problem perplexing on so many levels ...
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Learning To Love Your Naked Hair And A Natural Hair PSA

Its the simple things sometimes that makes this life amazing, hot cocoa in the morning picked fresh from a chocolate ...
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It’s Perfectly Fine To Fail Occasionally In Your Natural Hair Journey

A wise woman once said “Its my party and I can cry if I want to” and a famous black guy once ...
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8 Great Black Owned Natural Hair Businesses

They say that when you work for yourself you work the hardest you have ever worked in your life. Have ...
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Long Hair Psychology 101: The Reasoning Behind the Necessity of Long Hair Of Your Own

Since citing reasons for the necessity of growing long hair of our own despite the availability of weaves and wigs ...
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Natural Products Are Desirable But Not Necessarily Better Than Synthetic Ones

Raw foodism has gained in popularity in the last decade or so with restaurants and online stores popping up everywhere ...
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What Does Natural Hair Mean To You?

If you Google the question “what is natural hair?” one of the first websites to pop up will be Wikipedia, ...
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Is Long Hair of Your Own Even Necessary When Wigs and Weaves Are So Readily Available?

Yes I know. I can just see some of you screaming or rolling your eyes at the screen like “Just get ...
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Is Natural Hair Helping Or Hurting Black Women Today?

Let’s face it, the idea or the perception in the world about black women is clear; we are strong, mouthy, ...
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Biotin And Skin Break Out Issues – Be Cautious

If by chance I was hired to be an ambassador for biotin or any other pills related to encouraging hair ...
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9 Overrated Natural Hair Practices

Simple Simon was that dude that tried to catch a whale with his mother’s pail and it didn’t work out ...
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The Forgotten Mature Naturals: Embracing The Gray And Hair Tips

We are familiar with some of the anecdotes related to the mature woman; “with age comes wisdom, experience teaches wisdom.” ...
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Tips to Teach Children How to Accept Their Natural Hair Even When Others Don’t

Little black girl cries because she does not have long curl hair. It’s that time again when the spirit of ...
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What The Beehive: Rave Reviews On The Benefits Of Bee Pollen In Hair Care?

The hair care community and more so the beauty industry keep us in the know as it relates to doling ...
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Top 20 Reasons To Return To Natural Hair

One of my favorite poems of all time is Still I Rise by Maya Angelou. The words of the poem ...
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Putting Relaxer On Your Eyelashes?

When I first saw the title of this video pop on on YouTube I automatically assumed it was a joke ...
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Can You Teach Your Kids To Love Natural Hair If You Are Relaxed?

I was going about my business recently when I saw the caption on a T-shirt: “I don’t need a relaxer; ...
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Do You Check With Your Man Before Changing Your Hair?

“You talking bout the braided pull up joint? If we talking about the same thing then I’m not a fan. A ...
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A Relaxer To Deal With Central Cetrifugal Cicatrical Alopecia?

Recently I came across the video below from popular YouTuber glamfun who’s had some distressing news from her dermatologist. In ...
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How To Fall In Love With Your Natural Hair

It is a hot summer night and you are at your favorite look out spot with your man. You know what’s ...
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Youtube Hair Gurus: Do Advertisements On Their Channels Diminish Their Worth?

Before the advent of cinema, celebrities were those who had the good fortune of being born in an upper class ...
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But My Stylist Said . . . ?

But my stylist said . . . co-washing is absolutely ridiculous there is no way you can ‘wash’ your hair ...
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20 Of The Best Black Hair Memes

I’m a stickler for good language. I don’t use slang too often and even when I do I want to ...
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Can You Learn Anything From A Naturalista With A Different Texture From You?

NaturalNeiicey & I am Lewa ‘Guuurl there is no way, that sistah with the 3C curls is going to be able ...
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Products That Naturals Wish Someone Would Invent Already!

How many times have you seen a simple invention and slapped yourself silly in your head thinking, dang I could ...
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Natural Hair At Work: 6 Best Practices To Remain Professional

Back in March, the Huffington Post did an article surrounding the topic that black women worry that their natural hair ...
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Why Is Hair So Important To Black Women?

I think probably the worst subject I ever took in school was Statistics. I hated everything about it, and what ...
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The Dark Side Of Hair Growth Supplements And Why You May Want To Reconsider Using Them

Even though I prefer to give advice that applies to the majority of our readership, it's difficult to talk about ...
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Why Do Women Still Use Relaxers? – A Retailer’s Perspective

We receive very interesting emails here at BHI and while most of them are your standard ‘help me make my hair better’ ...
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I’m So Much More Natural Than You! – A Protective Styling Debate

I saw this comment on a post this week : I do not, however, feel that someone that always wore ...
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CRINGE – Crimes Of Hair Fashion That You Should Not Be Committing

I hate the word ratchet, but when I see hairstyles that are a little tasteless that’s the only word I can think ...
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Have We Replaced Relaxers With Twist Outs Instead Of With Natural Hair?

The other day I looked up the definition of natural hair because sometimes with all the chatter about it, I ...
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Response To “5 Hair Blogger Falsehoods Debunked by a Professional Cosmetologist” On Afrobella Part 2

In Part 1 we were introduced to Camille Reed who was interviewed by Bella creator of Afrobella.com. Camille, a professional cosmetologist had expressed concerns ...
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Response To “5 Hair Blogger Falsehoods Debunked by a Professional Cosmetologist” On Afrobella Part 1

You know what makes twitter amazing? The fact that you can listen to a conversation and not ever be called ...
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