Basketball Wives’ Jennifer Williams reps Weave Shop

September 21, 2011 No Comments

Tweet The newly single “Basketball Wives” star Jennifer Williams appeared at For Sisters Only in Atlanta this weekend, repping the Weave Shop. At the expo, Williams got her “hair did, nails done, everything big” as she sat down for a mini-makeover from the Weave Shop. The business, founded by LaTonya Saunderson marries hair extensions for affordable ...

Study: Weave tied to baldness

May 6, 2011 No Comments

Tweet That new weave you wanted to rock? It could be causing baldness. That’s the word from researchers. Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia, or C.C.C.A., is a type of central hair loss diagnosed only in black women, a new study in the New York Times reveals. The hair loss is also tied to Type 2 diabetes ...

Is Weave Getting Out of Hand?

September 27, 2010 1 Comment

Tweet One day, you see a woman. Her hair is neck length. You can actually see her back, the nape of her neck. The very next day you see her with hair down to her hamstrings, and her hair is blowing in the wind, flowing. Now, you know this woman. One day it was short, ...

The Creamy Crack: Like putting a gun to your head?

September 22, 2010 No Comments

Tweet Okay ladies, by now you’ve heard all about the chemical dangers associated with getting a perm. You’ve seen Chris Rock’s documentary, you’ve heard countless testimonials from various Nap Turners (lol). But here’s more about sodium hydroxide. Just how toxic is it? And is it like putting a gun to your head? Is weave the ...

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: Cut it Out, Already

August 16, 2009 No Comments

Tweet Amber Rose is ground zero of the revolution that has taken hold of black women’s hair this summer. If you’ve got a mane of curly locks or even a slick-back style that has never hurt anyone, you’ve found yourself on the frontlines this time. You’ve been told for ages how bad a perm is ...

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 ...

The Big Shave-Off: Would You?

April 14, 2009 4 Comments

Tweet When long-delayed-album Bad Boy recording artist Cassie half-shaved her hair off last week it signaled the emergence of a new radical style among women. Women everywhere started to go to their barbers and salons and request half-off, or the “fiddy cut”. Taking it all off is not as popular (of course, if Beyonce did ...

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 ...

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