Hey Curlies, How often do you dedicate or find time to yourself? Kids have school events, spouses need time too and your job…let’s not even go there. Seriously…think about this. When was the last time you gave yourself a little TLC? **Moment of transparency** Self care is so important and the older I get, the more I learn of its…
Hey Curlies, It’s time for another round of “Drop a Natural Hair Selfie!” This round will take place all day Friday, Aug. 5. The purpose of this is for you all to show off your confidence. To see photos from the last round, click here. Simply take a photo of yourself and upload it to the event page here. I…
Hey Curlies, Lately I’ve had a lot of people ask me about heat damage and how to reverse it. I want to first start off my saying that heat damage is not reversible, but their are some things you can do to help bring your curls back to life. For those that do not know what heat damage is, it is…
Hey Curlies, Random thought: I really love reading the Huffington Post’s Black Voices page. They always have interesting stories and blogs to keep me up to date on what’s going on in the community. The other day I ran into an article about a exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in New York titled, “Braids” created by…
Hey Curlies, I got a new job! Previously I spoke about my position as newsroom manager at a historic African-American newspaper in Indianapolis, but now I am the digital content producer for RTV6, Indy’s ABC affiliate news station. I’m excited to get started and gain some new skills. In fact, I start tomorrow so I’m sure I’ll be super busy!…
Hey Curlies, I wanted to show you all the results of my twistout from using the African threading method. The heat index has been over 100 degrees and the humidity has been off the charts, so I knew my twistout wouldn’t last that long. To see how I created my twists, click here. This was my hair two seconds after…
Hey Curlies, I’m back with part two of the “Stretching my Natural Hair” series. If you missed part one, you can find it here. Yesterday I washed my hair using Urbanaire Gypsy’s Cray Cray Clay Co-Wash then proceeded to stretch my hair. In my last post I talked about the banding method, but this time I used another similar method…
Hey Curlies, I teased the photo below on social media of my hair in a stretched state and I’ve gotten lots of questions about exactly how I’ve been keeping my hair stretched. Click here for part 2. This is a very old twistout from earlier this week. I used two products from Urbanaire Gypsy to create my twists and let…