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Inspiration for Natural Hair Brides
If you look around online, you’ll find inspirational photos of natural haired brides on the best natural hair sites. Curly Nikki and Black Girl With Long Hair both offer regular photo features of natural bridal hairstyles, for ideal example. But every so often you’ll hear about a bride who isn’t down with natural hair at…
Sam Fine + Fashion Fair. What Are Your Thoughts?
Makeup lovers have been buzzing this week over the big news — venerable cosmetics brand Fashion Fair has hired legendary makeup artist Sam Fine to be their creative makeup director. Photo above and info below via WWD: “Fashion Fair Cosmetics has appointed celebrity makeup artist Sam Fine as its creative makeup director. The Chicago-based prestige…
Shower Music — What Do You Listen To in the Morning?
What are your absolute essentials when having a shower in the morning? For me, it’s hot water, awesome body wash, my favorite face wash….and music. I can’t think back to a time when music wasn’t part of my shower experience. When I was younger, I used to sing. Around high school, I started finding ways…
Natural Hair Love in the NY Times Style Section
This weekend the New York Times featured the stunning Esperanza Spalding on the cover, and devoted part of their super stylish, ever inspiring T Magazine to celebrating natural hair. With images this beautiful, I’m motivated to subscribe! The Nightie Aphrodites feature was photographed by Alice O’Malley and styled by Susan Winget. These are stunning images,…
How Do Offensive Ads Get Made In the First Place?
There’s a cycle that happens in the advertising world. It goes a little something like this. Company goes to ad agency to create a new ad campaign intended to speak to the African American demographic. Ad agency comes up with something that runs the risk of offending the target audience. Ad gets released into the…
Missoni For Target. I Want!
I gotta hand it to Target, they know what creates buzz in the fashion world and they know how to keep their cash registers ringing. Unfortunately, they still don’t show plus sizes any love — the latest designer collaboration, Missoni for Target, is epic and amazing and just might change the designer collaboration game in…
My Thoughts on Hair Touching
Maybe you read Los Angelista’s first post from 2009, titled No You Can’t Touch My Hair. Maybe you read the CNN article which highlighted the issue, bringing much thunderous outrage to Los Angelista, What Tami Said, and Womanist Musings. I loved the original posts on Los Angelista, What Tami Said, and Womanist Musings – but…
Summer, Skin and Shaving
While I know many women who shave daily and I respect their upkeep…I am not among their numbers. Hi, I’m Afrobella and I’m an irregular shaver. My razors and depilatories tend to get the most use in warm weather, when my sleeveless tops and shorter skirts come out to play. And I’m not alone —…
September 17. Toronto, Save The Date!
I made such a brief visit to Toronto when I came to visit the MAC factory, but I did LOVE everything I saw and experienced. Toronto is modern and clean and there’s a wonderful sense of Caribbean community there from what I’ve seen so far! And I’m SO excited to announce that I’ll be back…