Alright folks… here is the piece I wrote for Coco & Creme today. In college I didn’t know what my real hair looked like. That’s because it spent 90% of the time in braid extensions. I kept them in for months at a time and had developed a strategic timetable for when to take them [...]
Recently we had a lively, 120-comment-long discussion about whether natural black women fit best with non-black men. I had some thoughts on that, but decided against doing a follow up post. But Jill Scott’s recent commentary on interracial relationship really got under my skin. In an OpEd in Essence Magazine Jill says; My new friend [...]
This article written by Gabrielle Union was posted Friday on urban website Global Grind. See the original article HERE. *** If you ask my parents they would say I was a perfect child, a model child, because I did everything that was asked of me. I got great grades, I was a great athlete, I [...]
Last week I talked about the unique ways in which I deal with my hair given its challenging texture. Seeing how crazy my methods are, I really wasn’t expecting the post to resonate with so many people. Many of you wanted me to go into further detail on the ways in which I deal with [...]
Tired after an hour long battle with my hair I’ve been doing the BGLH blog for about a year and a half now. And in that time it has grown into way more than I thought it would. When I started this I was clueless about my hair. Now, several months and hundreds of BGLH [...]
BelleMuse is a BGLH alum. So we’re about two weeks into the newly designed site (PSA: if you’re still following the old site please switch over!!!) and while Shari was working on it, we were inundated with the phrase “Long Hair”. It came up everywhere… when we were figuring out the logo, the header, the [...]
My daily life brings me into contact with all sorts of people; black and otherwise. And when I’m buying things, I’m not really thinking about whether my products were made by a black person, or whether I’m buying from a black-owned store. And why should I? If we’re trying to get to a ‘post-racial world’, [...]
So BGLH reader Kelly left this comment on the profile of our most recent style icon, Sharri from Harlem: “Great style icon ! and also I notice that a lot of the featured naturals on this blog are from New York… or just NOT west coast at that. I’m in Riverside, California and I’m thinkin [...]
So Rachel, our amazing guest product reviewer, just wrapped up a series on her top 15 drugstore conditioners. Afterwards I asked BGLH readers to weigh in on what they felt about the products that made it to Rachel’s top 15. Yeh, we all have different textures and our hair responds to different things but it’s [...]
“I really believe that natural hair acceptance can be the catalyst to propel our people to new heights. Sounds far fetched, but I believe that if we can learn to love ourselves in our natural state and see the beauty within us, we can start to see the beauty in each other. I believe that [...]
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