Summer styles from Annabelle
One thing is very clear — African inspired prints are becoming increasingly popular in fashion and personally I find it refreshing to see modern remixes of traditional designs.
It kind of reminds me of how natural hair — which many people associate with the 60s — is being remixed and reinterpreted in new [...]
February 7 to 13 is BGLH’s second annual guest blogger week. I will be turning the mic over to BGLH readers to say what’s on their mind. Simon is our first guest blogger and the first dude to ever post on BGLH.
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Before I begin I must admit that growing up, I never found natural hair [...]
BGLHer RiSheka is currently living and working in the Dominican Republic. Check out her reflection on her time there…
I am currently living and doing volunteer work in the Dominican Republic. I view this opportunity as not only a privilege, but a road that will lead me on a journey to discovering the person [...]
A’Lelia Bundles is the great-great granddaughter of Madam CJ Walker and author of the best-selling biography, ON HER OWN GROUND: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker. A Harvard University graduate, Ms. Bundles became a fulltime author and professional speaker in 2006 after a 30-year career as an executive and producer in network [...]
A’Lelia Bundles is the great-great granddaughter of Madam CJ Walker and author of the best-selling biography, ON HER OWN GROUND: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker. A Harvard University graduate, Ms. Bundles became a fulltime author and professional speaker in 2006 after a 30-year career as an executive and producer in network [...]
This question was brought by Shari, our resident graphic designer…
“I was reading a review for that movie Avatar and the reviewer said the blue alien people had dreadlocks when they clearly had braids. And it pissed me off…lol.”
For those of you not familiar with the upcoming film Avatar, here’s a pic of the “blue alien [...]
Christina was recently featured as a style icon. Peep what she has to say…
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I really do believe that my hair is nappy. There may be tighter curl patterns than mine, but I still have nappy hair. It’s tightly curled and can be very fuzzy. Stripped of its social stigma, that’s what “nappy” means.
As Black women, [...]
Wow, BGLHers have been sending in natural hair news alerts all over the place.
This is 7-year-old Lamya Cammon. Her teacher took her in front of her Milwaukee public school class and cut off one of her braids as punishment because she kept playing with her hair. The teacher has received just a small fine [...]
So yesterday I posted HaitianRoot’s bantu knot out and a BGLHer left an interesting comment:
“This hair style looks very nice! Her hair looks very healthy! I am sorry but I must admit that I have always envied Hatian women’s hair! One of my childhood best friends was from Haiti and she had the shiniest, thickest, [...]
A couple BGLHers notified me of this.
“Researcher Professor Nick Martin told a packed crowd of reporters that his team discovered that variations in the trichohyalin gene which is responsible for the curliness or straightness of hair. Before this discovery, scientists believed that the trichohyalin gene’s sole responsibility was for the development of hair follicles.
And it [...]
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