"You got good hair." "She's pretty for a "dark" girl." "She's "light" skin but she has "bad" hair." "Girl you need to perm that "bad" hair of yours." No matter where you are on the color line and no matter what your texture of hair, these are phrases that many Black girls are familiar with. Many of us grow up wishing we had lighter brown skin - often times … [Read more...]
Why an Afro State of Mind
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Hey folks! So I've been getting a lot of questions about why I started this project and what motivated me to take on this topic. If you're familiar with the natural hair movement, then you know that many natural blogs tend to focus a lot on styling and hair care tips (and I thank God that they do because I learn a lot from them!). But this blog/project tends to focus more … [Read more...]
Confessions of a Jheri Curl Junkie (in recovery…)
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My name is Lurie Daniel Favors and I am a former Jheri Curl addict. I say former because by the grace of God I was able to work that particular fix out of my system. But man, was it a process. When the Jheri curl came out I was young and impressionable – I think around 8 or 9. So by that time, like most Black girls, I’d been subjected to nearly a decade of images that said … [Read more...]
Black Hair 101: Thank You Melissa Harris Perry
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Class is in Session! Ahh Black Hair 101. I have long wished that there was a class or some sort of program that I could send people to when they have questions about Black hair. When I cut out my perm it was rare to see a Black woman in a natural style. So rare that one of my earliest memories of seeing a natural Black woman was watching Freddie on Bill Cosby's A … [Read more...]