Blog entries

The Big Chop

Atonne Hunter — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:20:45 +0100

I started my journey in April 2011 when I decided that I was going to get my last perm for Easter. I'm the type of person who always wanted to try different things with their hair but usually was afraid to. But around this time my roommate was going through her transitional phase from relaxed to natural and I really liked her hair so I was like " I want to try it". But fast forwarding to this past week. So my last perm was 9 months ago and I really hated getting my hair styled because it was ...

My Daughter's Natural Hair

Kay — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:29:39 +0100

Hello. After going through so much with hair breaking and perms and finally being natural, I would never think about putting a perm in my kids hair. It is tough combing it sometimes but I love her curly fro!

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The Ignorance of "straight hair" conformity.

Damaris — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:06:05 +0100

Ok, I live in Arizona so the percentage of blacks is really low. The last time I checked it was 5% on the census of 2011. I work with mostly Causcasions so you know where I am going with this. I was the only Black person working there and they recently hired 2 more Black people. (yey)
One male the other is female. The female looked latin from a far distance, then when I finally met her I realized she is light skinned. (I'm from New Orleans so I would say that she is "RED BONED") Tw...

MY FIRST WEEK OF BEING NATURAL!!!

Vonda Robertson — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:16:43 +0100

I really love being natural. I have been natural before, but this time I feel as if I have a new feel and groove about me, with this natural look...I am more confident and much more focused. I am and acheiver, I have overcome some major obsticals in this walk of my life, I am victorious no longer will I be the victim... Into each life some rain will fall but always after the rain I gain NEW Strength .... I am forver loving this new me! pictures are coming soon.

Eternall...

New Day

Saudia — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:02:32 +0100

It has been a long time since I have wrote to update on my life since doing my big chop. I have to say I am still very happy with that decision of getting rid of my relaxed hair. It has been worth it through the compliments and complaints that people have made about my hair. One thing that bothers me is that all the complaints have come from other black women. Most of the compliments have come from people of another race and culture which disturbed me alot of times.&nb...

Going Natural

Precious — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:04:40 +0100

Hello,

I have decided to start this new season of my life off with going natural. I have made this decision because it is the perfect start to an amazing change in my life. I have been growing my perm out since August and I think I am ready. I still have stringy permed ends that are damaged but I am afraid to cut them off. I believe it symbols something inside of me that I need to let go of so I can be free of it. Those stingy ends will have to go. I don't know I have been ...

my journey to natural

lynne — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:52:35 +0100

okay so im trying this new thing called natual and its not as esay as it is well i guess maybe its because i am so darn lazy like i dont know how to wash my own hair cause it always get tangled and then i rip it apart which hurts really bad. but all my hair througout high school i had extention until i move out of state and it was hard finding someone to do my hair. but i have always seen people with fro's and all that and i always wondered how it was like. well last week i decided to do a ba...

My Mistake

Falon Self — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:32:57 +0100

I really dont know what to do it's been almost a year and I have texlax my hair twice. I started out going natural but i got so frustrated with my boyfriend and others make remarks about my hair. There was a point where i wish I had never told anyone I was going natural. People treated me like I had a disease and my boyfriend told me that natural hair was wrong. Really! How can something god gave you that grows from the scalp of your head be so wrong. What the hell is wrong with our...

Updates

Mireille Wirht — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:59:55 +0100

Site updates going on now

Hair disaster

Jennifer — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:54:16 +0100

Hi I just did the big chop well what was left of my hair i been getting perms since I remember it always broke off my poor hair I use to hate getting perms but I thought that was what I was supposed to do my mom is puerto rican im mixed with black she been perming my hair since I was 7 I definitely don't know my curl pattern because getting perms is all i know so about a mouth ago I went to the salon to get a color correction from jet black to honey blonde the color came out beautiful but eve...

Twist are truely special

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:10:55 +0100

I was on the bus heading home listening to music on my Zune...(its slightly outdated but who cares)...and was interrupted with a tap on my shoulder. It was 2 girls I never met before complimenting me on my hair. That day was the first time I twisted all my hair in two strand twist, each about a finger thick. I have thick hair so I had a ton of twist. Anyways, I didn't realize how fascinating this do was until they asked me what I do to keep it from coming out at the ends and that it was sooo ...

My story till the BIG CHOP

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:53:01 +0100

Let me take you through my story so far….

JULY 2010

No! Anu, I love my woman to have hair…Buh baby…No, I really
cant stand hair-cuts on women no matter how nice it is…*sigh…

Ok..so that was a typical conversation between my boyfriend
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Introducing....Nushy

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:07:09 +0100

Ok…so for a first blog entry I guess I have to introduce
myself…sooo here goes..

An eccentric, sanguine-melancholy, Nigerian young lady, my
name is Anuoluwapo Soloye… Anuoluwapo in direct translation to English would
mean “God’s mercy is abundant” and my last name, Soloye would mean..errr..
never mind J…..
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Im just gonna cut to the ...

Having fun and loving it

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:04:30 +0100

Hello

Well like my title says I am loving going natural. But the only thing that has been boring me is that my mother and sister are trying to go natural with me. Not that I dont think it is a good thing for them. Feels good that I can inspire people to go natural just like myself. But I just dont want it to become some sort of competition. And I kind of was doing this all on my own and I kind of enjoyed that feeling. Plus my mother is starting to go to the same hair supply as me. ...

Hoping for the best

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:08:06 +0100

Hello,

Today would have been on the day last year my second daughter Naomi was born. She would have been one this week. Feeling depresed and down on myself. Wanting this journey with my hair to help me show that I am beautiful inside and out. Knowing that my hair does not control my beauty by being straight. Loving this week on being natural. Using the Uncle Funky's Daughter really is helping. I know we all say dont be a product junkie but when it works it works. Plus the price isn...

Happy and Nappy to be here

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:12:29 +0100

Hey,

I am so happy that I found this website. Most of the sites I found were not really what I have been looking for. I have been relaxed free for four months. During the first months I just didnt get a relaxer. I was not aware that I was going to take the journey to become natural. I had been wanting to for the longest but my mother kept scaring me about cutting my hair. After I lost my second daughter my mother had cut all her hair off. But she did a chemical curl and thats...

Enjoy this beautiful day and I hope your doing the same!

Courtney Williams — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:40:34 +0100

Enjoy this beautiful day and I hope your doing the same!

The Talk

Shelia O — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:48:26 +0100

Wednesday, September 21, was an interesting day for me. This was a day that I was approached by someone who wanted to share with me their revelation and realizaton of what we, as women of color, have gone through over the years to uphold a standard of beauty in our lives that society has placed upon us. Let me explain.

I had just finished taking one of those corporate-sponsored classes at work (about communication styles, and by the way, I learned a lot) when I was in line to...

10 Dreadful Mistakes

M Michele George — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:02:10 +0100

Creating Beatiful Locks is about embracing heritage, not dogmatic rules and methods. The art of locking is about listening to the hair and hearing the needs of the hair, then partnering this knowledge with the biological state of the hair and lifestyle choice. Time and time again, those who adorned their heads with locks have turned this albatross of shame into a crown of glory, embracing the power of the kink as it emerges from an intricate pattern into a matted chord of hair.

Cr...

Hello

Regina Jones — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:17:30 +0100

I'm really excited to be able to share my natural hair journey and learn new ideas!