All 2024, I saved my empty bottles as a reminder of the things that carried me through. I hope if you try these products, it will be under easier and brighter circumstances!
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All About Mielle Organics’ Cooling Avocado and Tamanu Anti-Frizz System
This post was sponsored by Mielle Organics. In beauty and haircare, innovation is the name of the game. Top brands are continuously exploring new ways to include buzzworthy ingredients. If customers are searching online for new ways to increase their hair length, strength, moisture, or shine, there’s a brand looking to deliver the goods on…
#ShowYourRoots — Inside My Clairol Root Touch-Up Experience
This post is sponsored by Clairol. I’m a natural hair blogger who adores her texture. I do everything I can to preserve my hair texture at all costs. My hair color, however? I’m willing to play with – as long as it doesn’t affect my hair texture. In high school, I wore my…
Products With Purpose — Moroccan Elixir Pure Argan Oil
Some brands donate proceeds for a day, others do it for a whole month. And some brands are based completely on charitable donation and through their purchase, we the consumer can support an important cause in an ongoing way. That’s what this new category is all about. Every month I’ll be featuring Products With Purpose,…
Natural Hair And Salt Water – How To Care For Your Hair At the Beach
It’s about to be beach and swimming pool season and those of us with natural hair – heck, let’s just say black hair in general – are about to encounter a universal, life long struggle. What do we do with our hair when it’s time to get in the water? That’s me, in the…
Looking For a Satin Lined Knit Hat? Look No Further Than Shepiji on Etsy!
Funny thing about Spring – you hear that the season’s begun and you go into expectation overdrive. “Soon there’ll be sunshine and flowers and happiness everywhere!” you think. And then you wake up in the morning to snowflakes outside your window and black ice on the sidewalk. Seriously. I almost busted my butt on the…
What’s In My Shower? Amazing Bath, Body and Hair Products For You to Get Into
Some showers are about pure function and speed – you gotta go somewhere and you gotta be clean. Other showers are more about an emotional experience, a nurturing that you need in your soul. I needed that kind of shower today. I created a whole shower experience to deliver the kind of soul soothing I…
10 Natural Hair Drugstore or Beauty Supply Brands With Products That Cost $10 (Or Less)!
There are so many ways to live this natural hair life. You can be the DIY natural who buys her own oils and butters and whips amazing concoctions up in your kitchen. You can be the fancy natural who splurges on pricey hair potions and is always down to try the new and the…
Deep Impact – New, Super Summertime Moisturizing Natural Hair Products
When I lived in the Caribbean and in hot, humid Miami, I had no idea how seasonal my hair would turn out to be. I didn’t understand how my hair’s needs would change depending on the weather, and I had no clue that my curl pattern would shift with the seasons. It turns out my…
Five Little Independent Hair Brands Doing It Big
What with the proliferation of natural hair brands taking over retail store shelves at places like Target and Walgreens, it’s even easier these days for aspiring naturals to enter into the world of natural hair products (and potential product junkie-ism). There are indie brands who have made it big, big brands who continue to…