“Oh, you are gonna want to do jojoba and sweet almond oil instead of castor,” Whitney White, one of YouTube’s most famous black beauty vloggers, told me over the phone last month. The changing of the ...
Ok let’s be honest: we can get sucked into watching hair tutorials on YouTube for hours. However considering the amazing amount of talent that many beauty vloggers possess, it doesn’t surprise us at ...
Let’s face it, protective styles aren’t always the easiest to maintain. They can be super time consuming or extremely expensive; weaves and wigs can cost in the triple digits while box braids can take ...
She was known for her original and empowering content on natural hair, giving black women around the world a new source of inspiration. Tameka Maria Monroe, affectionately known as Meechy Monroe, ...
The complexities of feelings and emotions of wearing your natural, Afro-textured hair have been well documented over the years through spaces like the YouTube natural hair community, Black spaces like ...
Maeling Tapp remembers the moment three years ago when she saw her mother and sisters wearing their coil-prone hair in its natural state and decided that she, too, would stop slathering caustic paste ...
When it comes to our hair, our edges are the crown jewel. Despite how we choose to wear our tresses—natural, relaxed, or protected—we always seem to go to great lengths to keep them flourishing, even ...