Multi-colored hair: Cool?

February 16, 2010 No Comments

Tweet It is with reasonable trepidation that I ask your opinion on the following: Is multi-colored hair okay? I mean we all know that a number of factors come into play when it comes to deciding what hairstyle you should rock: Culture, occupation, image, even head shape (or even your favorite Skittles flavor). But is ...

Women with mustaches: Cool?

February 12, 2010 No Comments

Tweet If you want to be technical about it, all women and men, boys and girls, and yes, babies, have hair above the lips. In the cases of the younger set, it’s just so small that you can’t see it. Genes, hereditary factors and other influences make some people’s whiskers a little more pronounced. But ...

Weave: Why it will never die

February 3, 2010 No Comments

Tweet People have been all over weave as of late, from Tyra Banks declaring a ‘Real Hair Day’ to Chris Rock’s Good Hair” myopic biopic on lye, stop it. Weave is wonderful, though. How else can a person with 1-centimeter follicles enter a building and emerge a few hours later with HTB (hair-touch-butt) syndrome? It’s ...

'Good Hair': Is Chris Rock's Wife Unbeweavable?

October 13, 2009 7 Comments

Tweet As the audiences hee and haw at Chris Rock’s “Good Hair,” a look inside the hairstory of black women, many are taking aim at someone on the sidelines: Chris Rock’s wife.Malaak Compton-Rock has been scrutinized heavily (and that’s putting it nicely) since her husband’s film came out. She’s notably absent from the documentary, many ...

Hair Wars: Don't You Hate when you 'Sweat it Out'?

October 13, 2009 No Comments

Tweet Recording artist The Dream has a song on heavy rotation on urban radio called “Sweat it Out,” where he describes the pleasures of loving and the bad hairdo that comes as a result. Is sweating it out a concern for most women? Me thinks not. (At least I hope not). But sex is not ...

Is it a Wrap for Weave?

August 12, 2009 3 Comments

Tweet It’s been the summer of the shave-off for many women across the land. First the celebrities, (Cassie, Rihanna, etc.) then the regular folks. Is this the end for the long, luxurious weave? Women have been wearing it extra long since the 1970s, when posters of the lion-like mane of Farrah Fawcett used to be ...

Police: Hair weave stopped bullet

February 20, 2009 No Comments

Tweet Can you say Remi(ngton) Steel? A woman in Kansas City, Mo., is probably in church this morning bowed in prayer … or at her hair salon crying and hugging her hairstylist after her hair weave stopped a jealous ex-boyfriend’s bullet. I didn’t know weave could be woven so tight, but if so, then perhaps ...

Chris Rock's "Good Hair" unbeweavable

January 21, 2009 1 Comment

Tweet Comedian Chris Rock said he was apprehensive about bringing his documentary about the black hair experience to the Sundance Film Festival in Utah this week. “Because I think this is the blackest movie ever made,” said Rock, a producer and co-writer on the film. “So I was kind of scared to come to Utah, ...

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