I Was Going Bald via Scalp Fungus + How I Grew Back My Hair | EfikZara Zara is back on CurlyNikki! She’s a fabulous naturalista who shares her natural hair journey with her followers. That includes more than 170K subscribers (aka ZeeStarz) on her EfikZara YouTube channel! Going bald due to a scalp fungus is no joke. No one wants…
Photo BlackLove.com By Courtni Guevara I didn’t want to wash my hair. No, that’s not accurate. I wanted to wash my hair, but I was scared. My scalp burned as if it were on fire. The water would soothe it, but it would also cause so much more of it to fall out all at once. There were already the…
Lena Waithe By Erickka Sy Savané When I saw Lena Waithe recently, sporting her new do on the red carpet, my first thought was, “Oh shit, she looks like a straight up dude.” Continue I mean, she was no Hollywood glam queen in the first place, but the locs did add a pinch of femininity. And funny enough, when she…
Sanaa Lathan By Erickka Sy Savané If you’ve ever wondered what it might look like to see all your black girl hair issues on film- can’t leave the house without your hair whipped, growing up with white dolls as the standard of beauty, spending yo’ last dime to get yo’ hair did- uhhhh, the Nappily Ever After movie starring Sanaa…
By Kaila Boulware I am a 23-year-old African-American woman, and for the past ten years, I have been dealing with alopecia. My condition is one that is not uncommon, but given societal expectations of beauty, it is one that is rarely, or never talked about–and when it is talked about, it is demonized to the fullest. I mean really, who…
C&D Journey By Erickka Sy Savané We talk a lot on this site about the benefits of embracing our natural hair, but the truth is, many women, even within the natural hair community, still wear weaves either to switch it up or as a protective style. Vlogger Sierra Baynes, 20, from Georgia, is a reminder to all, better yet, a…
Actress Sanaa Lathan By Lenora Houseworth-Weston Shakeya “Shakey” Mervin, known as “Shakey-da-Celebrity-Barber” on instagram knows about a bomb cut. The self-taught, Harlem-based barber began professionally cutting hair after she struggled finding a new job as a teacher just six years ago. During that time, she leaped head first into the male-dominated field after reading a Craigslist ad–and soon found…
Sanaa Lathan Like Beyonce dropped Lemonade, Sanaa dropped us a video of her new baldie for the movie “Nappily Ever After’ and the internet hasn’t been the same. What’s the big deal? Women cut their hair everyday. Let’s take closer a look. Continue Reading Let’s be real, it’s not everyday that a woman shaves her head. When Britney Spears…
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