About Afrobella®

Afrobella® is also known as Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik, a reformed tomboy from Trinidad who now lives in downtown Chicago.

When she was eight years old, she helped out behind the counter at a busy perfume and cosmetics store during the Christmas season. That magical experience sparked a lifelong obsession with beauty products and the women who buy them.

She finally made the decision to lay down the chemical crap and let her hair embrace its natural kink in 2002, and ever since then she’s been on a quest to find the perfect product with which to style her curly tresses. She is willing to try anything, from the cheapest foil-packaged conditioner packs to the most laughably luxurious organic anti-frizz pomades.

Her hobbies include at-home beauty treatments, finding online makeup inspiration, and writing. At night, she dreams of someday having her own syndicated magazine column, and appearing on Oprah.

Afrobella.com was created in August 2006 to fill a void that existed in print and in the blogosphere – a continual celebration of natural hair and women all shades of beautiful. Afrobella readers are enlightening and entertaining, intelligent and glamorous, friendly, fabulous and fun. If you love the skin that you’re in and the beautiful natural texture of your hair, if you enjoy learning about different cultures and listening to eclectic music, if you have an obsession with makeup and fashion and all things fabulous — then this is the blog for you.

Afrobella is dedicated to product reviews, ruminations about culture, music and style, and interviews with women all shades of beautiful. Please send reader input, press releases, and advertising pitches to bella@afrobella.com.

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