Video of the day: Oprah’s hair nightmare
This is a cute video from Oprah’s website. Thanks Deola for sharing
Click HERE.
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Discount on henna and cassia for BGLH readers!
Lina, a BGLHer who runs The Hair Shebang is offering a discount on all her merchandise (including henna and cassia) to fellow BGLHers (yaay!)
Enter the code “BGLH5″ at checkout and receive $5 off your order of $15 or more. Starting March 5th through March 31st.
Click HERE to enter her store
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Bigups Friday: Who are your favorite YouTubers/upstart natural companies?
The natural hair community stretches beyond blogs. There are natural beauties doing big things on YouTube and starting their own haircare, skincare and beauty companies. Now is your opportunity to give them a shout out!
Show your love in the comment box!
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Quote of the day
I got this one from Twitter, tweeted by @Noireboss1.
“Hair is alive. It absorbs water, reacts to heat and cold. Honor Life. Stop abusing your hair.”
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Quote of the day
I lifted this from my interview with Isabella, today’s style icon, because it sums up the philosophy of this blog:
“Beauty must be defined as what we are, or else the concept itself is our enemy.”
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Leila in Creme of Nature Ad
Hey guys,
I am so excited to be one of five women featured in Creme of Nature’s 2010 print ad campaign. That’s me at the right end of the first row. This ad will appear in Essence Magazine and a few other black beauty mags. Yay!
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Chicago woman goes bald after applying relaxer (Channel 5 news story)
BGLHer Kiki submitted this story to me. It was recently reported here in Chicago.
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BGLH’s first Twitter chat going on now! *Update. Thanks for joining in!
***It was really fun to chat with you guys! I want to do another one next week….***
BGLH will be hosting its first chat on Twitter tomorrow (Sunday) at 9 p.m. CST! (10 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. PST and 8 p.m. MT) If you have a Twitter account, just use the #bglhchat tab to join in!
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Model Nikia Phoenix will be on BGLH
Her recent photoshoot with JUCO (photographers Julia Galdo and Cody Cloud) became an instant hit among black beauty blogs. Now model Nikia Phoenix will be on BGLH to talk more about the photoshoot and her awesome hair. Stay tuned Monday! (In my best Oprah Winfrey voice…)
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John Mayer=epic fail
Okay,
So it’s been a long time since I used this blog to voice my personal opinions. (Remember ‘Sunday Retrospectives’ anyone?) But I couldn’t let 32-year-old Grammy-Award winning singer and guitarist John Mayer’s recent statements about black women go unaddressed.
In a recent interview with Playboy Magazine, he said the following…
PLAYBOY: Do black women throw themselves at [...]
