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by Deborah Gabriel peoplewithvoices.com
Anyone who has ever visited the natural hair channel on YouTube will be acutely aware that it is dominated by African American women. Afro textured hair is firmly on the mainstream media map in the US with the likes of CNN, The Huffington Post and the New York Times amongst others all running stories on Black women’s hair. In August of this year The Huffington Post Black Voices ran a feature called YouTube’s Top 5 Natural Hair Care Vloggers. Needless to say they were all home-grown naturals from the US with not a single UK natural in site.
But on this side of the Atlantic there is also a vibrant and expanding community of black women who are joining their American cousins both in embracing their natural hair and in sharing their experiences and expertise on YouTube.
I caught up with three UK natural vloggers recently at the ‘Naturally Fabulous’ event in London organised by The Natural Lounge and Naptural Roots magazine.
They are ‘ones to watch.
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