On the Couch - CurlyNikki

Sep 12

On the Couch with PoeticlySpkng

By CURLYNIKKI Curly Nikki 12 Comments

Lynne, aka PoeticlySpkng won the Kim Coles Grow Out Challenge grand prize and was flown to LA last weekend to attend the par-tay. We had an amazing time. Over breakfast she shared this story with me, and now, we're sharing it with you! Lynne writes; Well, I started the Grow Out Challenge back in January. Two months later, I had…

Jan 27

On the Couch with Nidsy- A Dominican Curly

By CURLYNIKKI Curly Nikki 37 Comments

before On being curly in the Dominican Republic I didn’t always like my curly hair. I’m Dominican and curly hair is not really seen as pretty down here... they call it 'pelo malo' (bad hair), which I find disturbing as my hair didn’t do anything wrong. Straight or straighter hair is called 'pelo bueno (good hair), and is desired by…

Jan 27

Tenderly Tending to Brown Girl Hair, With a Smile!

By CURLYNIKKI Curly Nikki 27 Comments

Little Dolls: Tenderly Tending to EveryStrand of Brown Girl Hair, With a SmileBy DENENE MILLNER of My Brown BabyGood grief, why didn’t anybody warn me? I mean, I had a bazillion dolls—most of them black with coarse hair that I spent hours combing and washing and pulling into ponytails and meticulously parting into perfect and perfectly fabulous rows of cornrows.…

Jan 27

Sweetdrk1- My Daughter Did the Big Chop!

By CURLYNIKKI Curly Nikki 37 Comments

Every parent wants the absolute best for their children! As a woman with a daughter, you yearn to be someone she can look up to, someone to be proud of... someone she can shadow. Well being a single parent, I worked hard to be that right shadow. A shadow that leaves just enough room for independence. When I decided to…

Sep 12

Natural Hair in the Dominican Republic

By CURLYNIKKI Curly Nikki 30 Comments

Carolina for Missrizos writes; I know these videos are in Spanish, but the energy behind them is simply incredible. This video goes against the status quo in the Dominican Republic and it is an affirmation that being natural is beautiful. These are called ¨Lessons in the Street". The first one is about what negative things people tell you in the…