Anyone who has ever visited the natural hair channel on YouTube will be acutely aware that it is dominated by African American women. Afro textured hair is firmly on the mainstream media map in the US with the likes of CNN, The Huffington Post and the New York Times amongst others all running stories on…
Okay so we all love afros and ‘big hair’ is en vogue among naturals (black women who wear their afro-textured hair in its natural state, free of chemical straighteners, perms and hair extensions). But there are literally hundreds of other styles as I observed at the recent natural hair event ‘Naturally Fabulous’ organised by The…
Oh my God I thought. What am I going to do? My hair was just coming out in droves. Separated and now a single parent, I thought who is going to want me? I am on the shelf at 30. I eventually plucked up the courage and went to see a trichologist, one supposedly experienced…
Almost three years ago I made one of the most challenging decisions of my life. I decided to put down the tub of relaxer, pick up the pressing comb and head towards a ‘natural’ hair lifestyle. The decision for me to leave the box of relaxer on the shelf and put an end to the…
This book offers a refreshing insight into the politics surrounding black women’s hair and a moving collection of writings from women across the
The Science of Black Hair lives up to the promise of its title in every way – because it is an in-depth, scientific guide to caring for afro textured hair. At 8×10, 240 pages long and written in double columns, this is a hefty piece of work that clearly took years to research and write….
I am writing this comment to in regards to the somewhat general perception that we black men only seem to appreciate black women with relaxed, weaved or any other type of straight “good hair”. Personally I find black women with natural hair extremely attractive and really wish there were more sistas out there that did…