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Aging with Dreadlocks: Embracing Hair Loss and Loving Ourselves

Caring for African Hair Lesson 3: The Art of Parting | Cornrows.co.uk

Typical Village African way of blow drying Hair Using broken pots

Caring for African Hair Lesson 1: Basic Overview | Cornrows.co.uk

Caring for African Hair Lesson 2: Natural Options and Beading | Cornrows.co.uk

Smoky Eye Eyeshadow Instructions for Darker Complexions

How Hair Discrimination Affects Black Women at Work

Ya’ll Not Tired of Leaving out 4c Hair when Discussing Texturism?

Sanitation On The Go: Tips and Safe Practices for Festival and Beach Braiders | Cornrows.co.uk

How to Put Extensions in Very Short Hair | How We Make Our Hair in Countryside

Dealing With Local Braiding Laws

Before you consider braiding in festivals or any other career in natural hairstyling, you must be aware of your local laws. This article contains a few tips that may be helpful, but it is no replacement for professional, licensed, legal advice. Laws and level of friendliness or hostility towards African...

Braiding – Institute for Justice

Natural hair braiding is a beauty practice popular among many African, African-American and immigrant communities in the United States. Braiding is a very safe practice as braiders do not use any dangerous chemicals, dyes or coloring agents and do not cut hair. Yet in many states, braiders have to endure...

Hello World and Dedication

Eshu Elegbara! Master of the Gate between the Orun and the Ayé! Thank you for the opportunity to build this site for the benefit of the children of Oduduwa, Auset, and other great African and diaspora Ancestors! Eshu Elegbara! Master of Fortune and Misfortune! May we continue to be a...

I gave my girl a typical african traditional hair cut

In many Uganda primary schools, kids have short hair, so Rosie helps her friend by giving her a good haircut. She follows the growth pattern to keep it short and neat.

Flamingo Phoenix Eyeshadow Instructions

The Flamingo Phoenix is a very beautiful but flamboyant style meant for performing, stage, and photography situations. It’s definitely not a day look unless whatever you’re doing involves patent red stilletto heels. Here are the basic palettes for this look. Notice that not all of the colors for the cool...

Aging with Dreadlocks: Embracing Hair Loss and Loving Ourselves

Aging with Dreadlocks: Embracing Hair Loss and Loving Ourselves When we first start wearing dreadlocks as young people, we often go through what is called an “ugly phase”, but eventually our hair rewards us for letting it grow naturally. We usually experience a wonderful time of thick, lusciously full hair...

Do you know what’s in your lipstick? Watch this video from Style Theory: You Eat 9 POUNDS of Lipstick in Your Lifetime?!

If you’ve ever worn lipstick, lip gloss, or chapstick at some point in your life, then you know how difficult eating and drinking can be. Of course some of the application goes onto your food, but where does the rest go? That’s simple: into YOUR mouth. That’s right, you are...

Caring for African Hair Lesson 3: The Art of Parting | Cornrows.co.uk

The Art of Parting Parting is half of the beauty of any braided hairstyle. Even if you are not so good at cornrows yet, being good at parting will at least make your individual braids look fabulous. You should use the stick end of your rat tail comb for this. ...

Black NAPS provides a safe place for women to embrace their natural locks

“In 2010, Ariane Williams started her natural hair journey when her hair started breaking from the relaxers she was using. She realized there were not many resources or information geared toward black women to learn how to care for and style their natural hair, so she started Black NAPS. Black...

Typical Village African way of blow drying Hair Using broken pots

Heat straightening is apparently an African thing. Before blowdyers and hot combs, there was the hot pot.

Black Student Suspended Due to Locs Forced to Complete Schoolwork In Isolation Cubicle; Family Sues Texas Governor and Attorney for Neglect for Allegedly Turning a Blind Eye

Darryl George, a Black high school student from Texas, and his mother, Darresha George, are suing the state’s governor and attorney general, claiming that these officials failed to enforce a recent Texas law designed to prevent discrimination against people with race-associated hairstyles like Darryl’s locs, thereby violating his civil rights....

How to Braid Cornrows

Cornrows are braids that lay flat along the head. They are similar to French braids except that they are braided using an underhand technique, more like a Dutch braid. Unlike Dutch braids or French braids though, they’re done along narrow sections of parted hair. In some cultures, they are symbolic...

How To Do Braid Fusion Extensions

Before we begin, I will be very frank and state that hair extension and replacement is an art. To master this or any other technique will take time and practice. Adding extensions by pinch braiding is called braid fusion. Bulk hair is braided with the natural hair to hold it...

Caring for African Hair Lesson 1: Basic Overview | Cornrows.co.uk

Caring for African Hair Overview Welcome to Caring for African Hair! I know that some of you out there have already had the experience of doing African hair. If you’re here, then it means this experience might have been difficult. Because of the curliness, many people view it as hard...

Caring for African Hair Lesson 2: Natural Options and Beading | Cornrows.co.uk

Natural Hair Style Choices There are many styles that can be done with naturally curly hair. When you are washing and moisturizing it properly, the trick to manageability and great looking styles is simply not ever allowing the hair to matt. This can be difficult with children and people with...

Smoky Eye Eyeshadow Instructions for Darker Complexions

The “smoky eyes” look refers to a variety of eye shadow styles that both make the eyes look more deeply set, and create a dark but soft frame around them. Darker skinned people already have naturally well defined eyes, so we don’t need to darken the eye socket so much...

How Hair Discrimination Affects Black Women at Work

Despite some progress over the past few years, race-based hair discrimination still remains a widespread issue for Black women in the workplace. A recent study showed that Black women’s hair was two-and-a-half times more likely to be perceived as unprofessional, and one-fifth of the Black women surveyed between the ages...

Ya’ll Not Tired of Leaving out 4c Hair when Discussing Texturism?

Why is our real curliest hair texture being left out of public discourse about texturism?

How to braid cornrows for beginners Beginner friendly Cornrow tutorial With Alternative Hand Positioning

In this video, Nana shows a cornrowing hand position that may be easier for beginners and others who find the usual two hands lateral position doesn’t give desired results.

What Young Women and Femmes Need to Know About Skin Care While Aging

Most of our parents taught us to study hard so that we would have more choices in life than we would if we didn’t. Well, the same thing goes for skin care and makeup choices. The things you do or don’t do today will have an affect on your appearance...

Sanitation On The Go: Tips and Safe Practices for Festival and Beach Braiders | Cornrows.co.uk

Sanitation is one of the areas that far too many festival and party braiders let go. This is mainly because of a combination of lack of education and desire to cut costs on the part of both braiders and potential clients. Running a clean operation is a bit more expensive,...