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My Natural Hair Journey Ohiozoje Okugbe's Story - Before, Now, and Everything in Between

My Natural Hair Journey: Ohiozoje Okugbe’s Story – Before, Now, and Everything in Between.

By Curly Nikki, Natural Hair, Trending No Comments

This is the final in our six-part series featuring real Black women and their thoughts about their natural hair. We’ve featured them each Monday to celebrate our natural Black hair and ALL that it means in our lives. We hope these stories help you to enjoy a feeling of empowerment about your coily, wavy, or curly hair no matter how…

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My Natural Hair Journey Seigrid Spencer's Story – Things I learned on my natural hair journey

My Natural Hair Journey: Seigrid Spencer’s Story – Things I Learned On My Natural Hair Journey!

By Curly Nikki, Natural Hair, Trending No Comments

This is the fourth in a six-part series featuring real Black women and their thoughts about their natural hair. Join us each Monday (until the end of February) to celebrate our natural Black hair and ALL that it means in our lives. We hope these stories help you to enjoy a feeling of empowerment about your coily, wavy, or curly…

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Light Skinned Girls Perpetuate Colorism

Do Light Skinned Girls Perpetuate Colorism?

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Do Light Skinned Girls Perpetuate Colorism? by Veronica Wells of NoSugarNoCream.com Sisterhood is something many Black women strive for. But despite our best efforts, we all fall short from time to time. Sometimes we intentionally choose words we know will cut. Other times the disregard, disrespect is less sinister and due to years of consuming Eurocentric beauty standards, internalized racism,…

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Skincare Guru on Why Skin Lightening Can Be Good for Black Women

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By Lenora Houseworth There is a common belief that black women either don’t need or partake in cosmetic surgery or other procedures. You’ve probably even used the term, “Black don’t crack.” Well, this is not completely true. As an aesthetician, esthetician and Director of Skincare Services/Partner of Lavish Medical Spa, Leslie Nesbitt has seen the cosmeceutical aka the non-surgical industry…

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Gabrielle Union Had to School Dwayne Wade’s Sons on the Beauty of Dark Skin Women

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Getty images By Erickka Sy Savané You would think that marrying a beautiful brown-skinned TV and film star like Gabrielle Union would be enough to show Dwayne Wade’s sons that darker-skinned women are beautiful. Think again. Continue In a recent interview with Refinery29, the Gabs revealed a very important conversation that she had with NBA star Dwayne Wade’s 3 boys,…

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