Reed Between The Lines

I am loving BET's Reed Between The Lines. The first couple of episodes showed potential, then the next few delivered! I especially loved the "Let's Talk About Hair" episode where the older daughter considers getting a relaxer to please a boy - of course we love this episode - and I really loved the episode where the son cheats in school and takes forever to admit it to his parents despite the fact that he had plenty of opportunity to own up. Also a fav for me is the episode where the son is running for freshman class president and his sister enters the race to encourage him to do his best. This show really is following the legacy of the Cosby Show, as Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Tracee Ellis Ross intended. I'll be watching - you should too!

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Let's LOVE Being Natural

This past Saturday I went to my stylist Giselle for a trim. We started talking about how the rise of some negativity in the natural hair movement has saddened us. Some of this is from women who are glad they went natural, but are not satisfied with their "grade" of hair and cannot see the beauty in their hair and themselves. Others are criticizing women of mixed ethnic heritage or whose hair is a looser curl pattern, saying that those women's natural hair experiences don't really count because they don't really have "kinky" or "nappy" hair. Giselle's new location is great; check it out!. Salon: Dailey & Co. Address: 1105 Mt. Vernon NE, Atlanta, GA 30328 Intersection: Mt. Vernon Highway NE and Peachtree Dunwoody Road NE My discussion with Giselle reminded me of a post a friend of mine forwarded to me by a blogger named Veronica titled “Why I Stopped Blogging About Natural Hair.” The writer bemoaned the o...

Review of Komaza Care's Olive Moisture Mask

Yesterday I tried Komaza Care’s Olive Moisture Mask for the first time. I LOVE IT! First of all, it smelled refreshing, almost like cucumbers, so it scored points for smelling good, but would it give my hair the deep conditioning treatment it promised? So I moved on to applying the product, which was nice and creamy with no greasy feeling to the touch. After washing my hair, I worked it through section by section, put on a conditioning cap, and wrapped it up in a scarf topped with a hat so I could head out to the grocery store, fix lunch, etc. Later, I found the product was easy to rinse out and left my hair so curly and soft, I didn’t want to touch it! After checking myself out in the mirror for a while, I went ahead and did my usual routine of putting in my leave-in conditioner (Komaza Care Coconut Milk) and styling products (Qhemet Biologics Honeybush Tea Softgel and Kinky Curly Curling Custard). When my hair was done and dry, it was still curly, soft and to...

I Give Up!

Over the past 10 months of my hair being natural, I have encountered many women who have asked me what I use in my hair, how do you get it to spiral like that, etc. I see many women whose hair I LOVE and admire, so of course, it felt good to be complimented and asked for advice. However, one recurring theme struck me - how many women have given up on going natural because they couldn't figure out what to do with their hair. I really wanted to say to them NOOOO!!!! DON'T GIVE UP! but most times, I keep my cool, saying that everyone's journey is individual, while encouraging them to stick with it by trying a new approach - go to a professional who will teach you what to do with your hair. We forget that we were all taught what to do with relaxed hair for most of our lives. Just because our hair is "natural" doesn't mean that we "naturally" know what to do with it.

Love Being Natural