Natural hair blog that celebrates the positive expression of positive black aesthetics. Don't forget to visit our natural hair directory, and shoppe.
Random Thoughts
I guess on the outside, looking in… Black women have a different obsession with hair. (This is a fact, especially coming from a hair obsessed blog).
Now, when trying to market to Black women, I don’t think it is wise to mention our hair obsession, and lack of Vagina obsession. Just saying.
I mention this because of the recent Summer’s Eve’s Advertisements. (Click Read More for Video)
A Black hand talks about all the time spend in the club and, “hair on your head”, and the neglect to the hair down there while drawing a cactus.
The Latino hand starts off by saying “Aye, Aye, Aye” and then in a heavily accented voice mentions the “trashing the tacky leopard thong.” She evens mentions the ease of child birth while several storks carrying babies are displayed.
I visited Seriously Natural, An older Natural’s perception blog in which I first heard the TSA asked to search a woman’s natural hair.
I always try and support the TSA agents because they are doing their job, and trying to keep us safe. I do not fly often..but the few times this year I have had body scans, and pulled to the side to have my liquids tested. Forgetting the TSA Horror Stories I patiently stand a side and follow their directions. I have heard heard stories of people protesting by walking through the security points in their underwear or naked. (I thought to myself these people are being bratty. Imagine if they were a minority that face regular suspicion). How quickly we forget how we felt the fatal day of 9/11.
With all the said, I would be very cheeped out if a stranger had to put his fingers in my hair. Yuck-o. Click read more for the video about the TSA’s natural hair search.
Do you think the TSA was racially motivated?
Read More
Random Thoughts • Conspiracy Theory • Issues of Race • Finds • Boadcast • Videos •
Ms. Tanene Jackson is the owner and operator of Locs of Soul, and the founder of Natural Hair & Wellness Expo June 18, 2011 - Mobile, AL. She shares with us…
“How to Stay Natural”
How to Stay Natural
Self Love and Preservation
“How to Stay Natural”…. Okay, most of you are wondering, “Who is this trying to tell me how to stay natural? I got this!” Well you probably do. BUT! Not without issue. I have been natural for 19 – 20 years (wearing locs for 13 yrs). In this time I have seen natural hair come, go, re-vamp, re-energize, and re-store itself. I have seen the lawsuits around the country via the news; the self-esteem issues of women rise and fall, the politics of “good” vs. “bad” hair, the negative connotations and uber affirmations.
The “sistahood” seems like a club that you automatically become indoctrinated to when you start transitioning from relaxed to natural. The key is you have to follow through with your journey to be an “official” member. With that being said, let us not forget the conscious level of everyone is not the same. Many women transition as a rite of passage to self-awareness, others for the style, while others are due to health issues. Seeing women look like ourselves, presenting confidence and reassurance, hopefully will give you insight to what you want and strive to be as a woman – a natural woman. At the end of the day we realize that we are just as beautiful if not more beautiful naturally.
Inspiration • Napp-trepreneur • herStory • Contributor • Why I Went Natural • Random Thoughts • Just Sayin' • Finds • Web Links •
Last December I had a post about Movies with Natural Hair Creatures. For whatever reason, pop culture equates natural hair with alien life forms.
Latest example is Katie Perry featuring Kanye West in her music video ET
Osama Bin Laden’s Hair Type ?
I am assuming it’s wavy or curly.
I don’t really care about Osama Bin Laden’s hair type…but it is a hair blog after all.
After 9/11 there was a new hatred in the American air.
Read More
