OPINION

Are Salons More Respectful Of Your Time Now Than It Used To Be Back In The Day?

CREDIT: Tim Hussin for Wall Street Journal I read an article recently that was about how black salons have failed ...
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“I Am Not Comfortable Rocking A Fro At Work” – Determining Personal Hair Styles At Work

As I’m transitioning into working full-time, I wanted to find alternative ways to wear my natural tresses. Rocking a big ...
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Let Us Take One Last Critical Look At This – Are Extensions On Children A Form of Child Abuse?

After reading a recent post about a mother who received backlash from concerned parents and citizens on social media for ...
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Why Does My Hair Journey Have To Be A Struggle With My Family?

The decision was my own to go natural, but somehow, my hair choice seemed to be always other people’s business ...
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6 Reasons Sitting Between A Relative’s Legs Getting Your Hair Done Is One Hair Tradition We Hope Never Goes Away

For years my mother did my hair, she would sit me in front of her and have all my toys ...
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5 Things Only Natural Girls Understand

There are only a few things in this world only natural girls understand and we would be lieing if we ...
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Does Long Hair Still Mean Empowerment? – The History Of The “Long Hair Perception”

Remember the very first time when your mom felt that you had ‘come of age’, and she finally used the ...
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5 Hair Tips that Simply Do Not Work For Everyone

I really appreciate natural hair bloggers who understand that not all curls are created equal. In their posts, they make ...
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Let’s Put This To Rest – Are Keratin Treatments Really Cheating On Being Natural?

Natural hair is such a vague term that it sometimes causes unnecessary debates between Naturalistas in the natural hair community ...
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8 Things Men Who Have Women With Natural Hair Need To Know

IG: Fros and Beaus I read an article recently where a naturalista felt that it was important to let her ...
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There Is An Obligation Of Honesty When You Are On A Natural Hair Journey – My Thoughts On Natural Hair “Influencers”

When I decided to go back to being natural, it wasn’t an easy decision to make. The process was an ...
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Would You Ever Pay $150.00 For A Hair Product?

The other day I was reading a blog post about Kerastase Chronologiste. Truthfully the product sounds awesome, but before I ...
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4 Things Stylists Wish That We Would Stop Doing To Our Hair

I know you know that the salon business is a huge one. Salons aren’t going anywhere and even though the ...
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The Truth About Your Favorite Hair Guru: 3 Tips On How You Can Become Your Own Guru

Hair care does not have to be so difficult. In fact, hair care should be as simple as eating pie. Seriously, ...
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6 Interesting Ways Female Inmates Take Care of Their Hair while in Prison

Do you watch Lock Up? I know I am about to show how boring my Saturday nights are by the ...
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3 Reasons Some People Doubt that Black Women Can Have Long Hair without a Weave

Courtneynaturalhair Have you ever been weaved checked? To be honest, I haven’t, but I know a few people in my ...
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Overall Health for the Best Hair Should Be Your Mantra this Year

I am on a serious health journey this year, I am talking about whole foods, nothing processed and a ton ...
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What Science Says about Hair Growth and How Real Life Differs

Here’s a fun fact for you: a single bolt of lightning has enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread ...
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5 Reasons the Hair Typing System is Totally Overrated

When I started my healthy hair journey (HHJ) and learned there was a system in place that helps you determine ...
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Melanesian People Can Teach Us a Valuable Lesson in Judgement, Culture, and Race

I bet you didn’t see this one coming. Neither did I. Blacks with naturally blonde hair? That’s strange for those ...
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My Hair Salon Nightmare: Scissor Happy and Rough

A few weeks ago I decided to go to the same hair salon that my sister frequently visits to get ...
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Poets Alysia Harris and Alex Elle’s Story – Being Black with Little to No Hair

mypoeticinsanity.BlogSpot.com For those of you who are poetry lovers, Alysia Harris and Alex Elle is probably all too familiar for ...
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How Young is too Young when Using Extensions in a Child’s Hair?

I am going to venture out on a limb here and say that this is a matter of opinion and ...
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3 Reasons You Should Not Get a Vixen Sew In

So I have another wedding to attend in May, and since I am on this “New Year New me” thing ...
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5 Hair Practices We Do That Everyone Says Are Bad For Us

Okay we get it! We get that we shouldn’t use certain products to care for our hair or we don’t ...
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My Thoughts on White Women Wearing Braids and Other Kinky Styles

This topic has been quite controversial with all of the ruckus about supposedly “white people stealing the black culture and ...
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A Pictorial Guide On What to Do When Strangers Want to Touch Your Hair

Afrobella.com We tackle this subject at least a couple times per year because to be frank, it is a ...
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6 Naturals That You Should Be Following On Instagram

Ladies, I know most of you have Instagram, and if you don’t this might just be the post that will ...
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6 Natural Hair Rules That Need To Be Broken

In current society there are rules whether fully successful or not they are necessary to ward off complete chaos or ...
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My No nonsense Approach To Salon Appointments

It’s that time again to head to the salon! Personally, I don’t go to often because 1. I can do ...
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How My Faux Dreads Landed Me A TV Role: My Story

Around 9:04 AM, on November 9th, my phone vibrated notifying me that I had an email. I thought it was ...
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Habits That Change And Stay The Same When Going Natural

I know you still get questions related to your natural hair: “Why did you go natural?” “What do you like about being ...
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3 More Old Wives Tales We Seriously Need To Let Go Of With Regards To Hair

Old wives tales have been around for centuries. They are superstitions or traditional beliefs that are regarded as truths but ...
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Do Men Prefer Natural Hair, Relaxed Hair or Weave?

We are often told, as women, to get our hair styled to our liking no matter what anyone thinks…especially men ...
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