Welcome Stylish Thought & Friends! This is a great guest post from the lovely Retro Natural! She blogs about vintage style and shoots phenomenal videos on how to create retro hairstyles on natural hair! Pop over and say hi! I’ve loved this photo of Coretta since laying eyes upon it. I finally got around to [...]
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Elissa at Dress with Courage wrote a great article on hair and how it affects us! It made me think of this post I wrote a year ago about not being defined by my hair. Elissa’s post stirred old emotions and inspired me to revisit what hair truly means to us. The following is the old post [...]
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In the black community there are so many taboos. From our hair texture, size, education to skin color. Among Black women, issues of not being beautiful are pervasive and damaging and there is a great divide between light-skinned women and dark-skinned women. With all of the preconceived notions of beauty and the divisiveness among black people, one [...]
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{She Bangs! She Bangs!} Bangs don’t make the woman…. the woman makes the bangs. Remember when I waxed poetic about having a serious case of hair envy? Well instead of sitting on the sidelines of the awesome hair parade, I decided to jump in (or was pushed by my good friend Alicia) and CUT MY [...]
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Every 6 months or so I go through this phase I like to call “Hair Envy”. I get down in the dumps about the capabilities of my own hair and start to endlessly search the Internet for hair inspiration. While stalking sites like Le Coil and Black Hair Media are great for the sane, I [...]
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I had never done it before. I would see other women doing it and secretly wish I could do it too. The movies were full of them and watching starlets on screen so effortless made me wonder what I was missing out on. But no, I could never be as cool and seductive as them. [...]
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“You got your toes done up with ya finger nails matching”- Kid Sister Salons across the world are stocking up with the latest trends in nail color; last year was dark hues: black, cranberry. This summer we’re tickled with mint green, neon or white. So why all the fuss over a chemical paint that chips [...]
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Long before Beyonce donned a Bettie Page wig and became Hunny B, beautiful women in contorted positions, curled hair and round hips were the epitome of sex appeal and fantasy. From Jane Mansfield to Dita Von Teese, the art of the Pin-Up is alive and seductively kicking and recently I got to experience the feminine [...]
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