I worked at L’Oreal from 2016-2017 as the community manager for the Dark and Lovely brand in their multi-culture beauty department (MCB). While there, I remember coming in on the heels of Tracee Ellis Ross’ ending contract with one of the company’s haircare brands for Black women, Amla. With Black-ish airing September 2014, it was…
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With stylists ready to style our hair in the UK, France, Canada and the US, we’re certain Bantu is on to something major. Co-partner of Bantu, Meron Berhe shares the vision behind the app dedicated to Black hair. What made you even think to join Bantu? From as far back as I can remember there…
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Kink isn’t the average self-help book or even a natural hair journey memoir. The UK-based ‘Curlture’ founders, Jay-Ann Lopez and Patrina Charles, could not have given this work a better title. The photography centers cocoa-skinned women with 4C hair, TWAs and dreadlocks—skin tones and hair types often under-celebrated in mainstream media. Most of us sport…
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A candid conversation with the beauty mogul. You started Eden Body Works at 11, which is amazing and crazy at the same time. What were the kinds of sacrifices that you realized you were gong to have to make being a child entrepreneur? Well, I would say the hardest sacrifice I didn’t know I was…
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The beautiful and talented Selina Carerra and I spoke a year ago. This long, overdue interview took me days to cut down, because Selina offered nothing but gems about being a baddass woman of color. You have no idea how hard it was to edit her inspiring words. I truly hope you can pull the…
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Oh, and let us preface this by saying that it’s #BlackOwned. Now, remember that time we talked about Girl + Hair and their amazing new Under Hair Care line formulated specifically for women who love to rock a weave? No, well go read about them now and then come back to this article. But, for…
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Let me preface this by saying that I used to model on the Today Show while an intern for their style editor, Bobbie Thomas, back around 2011. I only mention this because I understand the process (as much as I can remember) of how a fashion and beauty segment is put together and executed. If…
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Beginning her career at Intel, Mahisha Dellinger decided to take her savings and a leap of faith to begin what would become a household natural hair brand, CURLS. BB: Why did you begin CURLS? Mahisha: Towards the end of college when I had my daughter, I couldn’t perm my hair because I was pregnant. I…
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For some reason, I never thought about the issue of people touching my natural hair until it actually happened. My friends and relatives who I know personally do it, but what about when it’s a stranger—who’s white? I’ve felt beautiful, ugly, insecure, nappy, good, bad, #flawless, and flawed the five years I’ve been natural. Accepting…
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What’s better than the natural hair movement? A mobile natural hair salon that sends expert stylists to your doorstep. You don’t have to fight traffic or run to the train and sit in a salon all damn day. Tresse Noire (based in Philadelphia, but expanding to NYC, soon) is the naturalistas gift from the natural hair…
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