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 ...

Report: Black women exercise less to maintain hair. Really?

September 2, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Is it true? Do more black women skip going to the gym to preserve their hair? Not so, according to a columnist in The Chicago Sun-Times, she should know. She avoided working out as a youth, until her body developed a terrible abnormality. “I just never got it until I was diagnosed with breast ...

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, ...

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 ...

What ‘Going Natural’ Means

August 24, 2009 No Comments

Tweet When you think of the phrase “going natural,” it is common to assume that one means growing a ‘fro. But natural doesn’t have to mean a fro, it could mean braids, it could mean corn rolls, it could mind many things. Read: Mighty Afrodites (PHOTOS) Imagine if “getting a perm” meant that your hair ...

Will the Jheri Curl Come Back?

June 5, 2009 6 Comments

Tweet For those who remember the blemished pillow, the small can of clear activator that had to be constantly on standby and the plastic cap that was required at bedtime, the laborious maintenance could only mean one thing: Jheri curl. The Jheri curl was very common and popular in the black community in the late ...

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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