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Sep 21

My Natural Hair Journey: Patty John’s Story – Learning to Love My Natural Hair

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This is the first 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…

Sep 21

How We Can Discuss Texture Discrimination Without Tearing Each Other Down

By CURLYNIKKI Curly Nikki No Comments

Image: @darknslay Loving your natural hair is a learning experience. Your entire life you are exposed to images of hair that shape and transform your perspective of the person you see when you look in the mirror. That person – you should be happy with her. You should love her fully, from her crown to her heels. But sometimes it is…

Sep 21

Does Hair Grow Faster After The Big Chop?

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Photo Source: Style Weekly by Mary Wolff For any curly girl embracing her natural hair, it is a journey. Some curlies choose the big chop method to jumpstart their hair journey. While the big chop can be intimidating for a lot of women who have never had short hair, it is also an easy way to take that first step…

Sep 21

If It Wasn’t For The Internet- A Look at the Natural Hair Movement

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by Rachel Anderson of LoveTheyIntrovert Okay naturals let’s take a moment to reflect. What convinced you to go natural? Some may say they saw a cute style that another natural had or that they were tired of lifeless thinning hair. Others may say they were tired of being enslaved to the Saturday all day hair appointments and then some may…

Sep 11

On Making Naturally Curly Hair ‘Normal’…

By CURLYNIKKI Curly Nikki 14 Comments

by Amanda Starghill via NaturallyCurly Through the eyes of the unfamiliar, this unofficial natural hair movement can appear to be vain or even political, but it is far more complex than that. Every woman’s reason to big chop or transition varies due to health, aesthetics, convenience, lifestyle and a multitude of other reasons. I can understand how a swarm of…

natural hair community

My Natural Hair Journey: Patty John’s Story – Learning to Love My Natural Hair

How We Can Discuss Texture Discrimination Without Tearing Each Other Down

Does Hair Grow Faster After The Big Chop?

If It Wasn’t For The Internet- A Look at the Natural Hair Movement

On Making Naturally Curly Hair ‘Normal’…

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