H2BN presents the: 2013 Baton Rouge Natural Hair & Health Extravaganza Calling all my Naturalistas!! Men & Women June 1, 2013 Time: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Speakers!! Vendors!! Natural Hair Show!! Mix, Mingle, & More!!! DETAILS COMING SOON! Current Sponsors:  Nourique , Blue Magic, Enticing Objects, Legarde Construction, Urban Rose, Universal Beauty, Darcy's Botanical, Sposh, Curly By Nature, Sympli Mi ...

Chris Rock's 2009 documentary "Good Hair" revolutionized the hair industry and African American women noticed. Women like Charlottean Kobi Brinson. "It doesn't really make sense for me to not have my natural hair texture," said Kobi Brinson. "I don't know what it looks like so we'll see." Kobi has no idea what her real hair looked like. Her mother began relaxing it at the age of 11. "Because once it's relax ...

By: Driadonna Roland The hair on my head has been permed, bleached, mohawked, braided, fried, dip-dyed and weaved. A look at the so-called “Photos of You” on Facebook is misleading. I’ve had so many different looks you can’t tell it’s the same girl! It’s not that I love switching up the game. The reality is I grew up despising my hair. While my sisters had fine hair that turned to springy curls when water w ...

By: Leila Day Gabrielle Douglas, who brought home the gold in the gymnastics individual all-around competition a couple of weeks ago, is one of the many Olympians coming home to great fanfare this week. While the world will remember Gabby's phenomenal skill and poise, a few people decided to focus on something that had nothing to do with her competition...her hair. A handful of negative tweets about the Oly ...

In this video Amber Muhammad shows a great technique for cultivating locs for fullness and a natural look. Filmed at Rasa Salon in Philadelphia. Loc Rubbing is part of the Rasa Styling System technique. Natural Hair Story: This is not a beauty shop story. This is not even a hair story, really. This is a story about a paradigm shift, a radical change in the accepted way of thinking about something. I'm letti ...

   “Take the kinks out of your mind,” intoned Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), “instead of out of your hair.” As founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, Mr. Garvey refused advertisements for products to lighten the skin and straighten the hair of African Americans in The Negro World, the UNIA’s newspaper. That was “back in the day”—between 19 ...