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Conditioning your hair

Conditioning

The key to healthy looking tresses, whether long or short, is a good conditioning system. The key is to find a routine and products that are perfect for you because what works for one woman may not work for you. Try a deep conditionerat least once a month. You can shampoo your hair, rinse, then apply your deep conditioning treatment. Make sure that you comb it through gently with a wide-tooth comb. You can sit under a hooded dryer with it for fifteen minutes or leave it in while you do things around your house for about half an hour. Then rinse it out and style.

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 I t has been a few weeks since the last BB shoot. I am left feeling confused about the mood of the project. I came on to love and uplift all who touched it. It seems as if some got lost. Egos got all over the place.( No pun in the word I used)  With that, some can keep it in check others can't. But who am I to say that they are not checked. In my world I love reasoning and trying to do the right thing. I am learning that my right isn't  always the right of others. That has been my travel down that road to many times. And really it makes me sad. It is sad when sisters get, to wrapped up in the nothing of it, to make it something. Ego I mean did you see Oprah and Iyania yesterday. What in the world was that? Iyania had to  set herself aside and then go to Aunti O to tell her she fucked up. Really. If you never wanted to leave Harpo, why did you leave?
  What is it that keeps us from saying we are wrong? Why is that so bad?  Because even, when you don't say it. You show it. We see it and we just move on. You fix it or.... have I don't care about you way of living. Hell maybe you don't. But I care I care about you and you. We are all mirrors of one another. Weather you want to look or not.

  I am and will make my right, right with me.  D.J. Justice says all the time and Truth is Truth.  You can not get around that. So answer the phone when I call to have a real talk.
 

 

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Circuitously Cute "they're so cute when they're little…" HomeAboutCV Afro & Aura 13 FEB 2011 Leave a Comment by Nicole Ashanti McFarlane in beauty, fashion, film, hair, style, YouTube When you google the search terms *african* *american* and *cute* (with no quotes, of course) the first hits you get are associated with hairstyles. After that there are some hits for baby names. This is a fascinating topic to me and I believe it begs a chapter in my dissertation. Among the biggest vlog topics on YouTube these days is that of one African American woman or another who has embarked on a “natural hair journey” or is otherwise describing some new miracle product that has finally knocked her kinky curls into place. google "black hair" screen capture Hell, I’d be lying if I didn’t cop to picking up a few hair tips in my own quest for cuteness through watching YouTube. Though I can’t help but notice that the YouTube natural hair community already has several of its own clichés like, “Hey Guys! It’s me and blah, blah, blah. My hair is blah, blah, blah. And it won’t ever blah, blah, blah no matter how much I try to blah, blah, blah. Bye Guys!” I even saw an upload titled “My 27 Piece Weave Journey”! (For those of you who are black girl hair challenged, a 27 piece is a short weave like the one NeNe from the Real Housewives of Atlanta wears.) For realers. Very comical. For me, this issue makes me think of Terry Eagleton‘s book, Walter Benjamin: Or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism, especially in the section where he highlights the late 60s – early 70s Black Power slogan, “Black is Beautiful” and discusses how this term is immanently rhetorical because of the way it calls attention to the falsity of Western beauty standards. Therefore, this verifiably questionable discursive utterance is deployed for the purpose of diametrically opposing and dislodging the Kantian assumption about the exclusivity of whiteness as ideal beauty. Of course the period immediately following the civil rights movement, also known as the Black Power era, was the heyday of the afro and, for me, relates very closely to Benjamin’s notion of the hazy, blurry fluffiness of aura as an halo effect. But then the afro and the (black) people who used to wear them have mostly gone out of style. Now we are told that “gay is the new black.” Or “green (politics) is the new black” and recently, I even saw a t-shirt that read “broke is the new black.” (Hasn’t it always been?) Cute is governed by the canons of style (and delivery — as in the case of product packaging). So the racial rhetoric of cuteness is thus problematized, as it constantly moves African Americans in and out of style. As it stands, an entire category of humanity occasionally becomes vogue and then passé… and then vogue and then passé and vogue and passé and so on. In Film Form: Essays in Film Sense by Sergei Eisenstein blonde hair is implicated as the gold standard of photography and cinema culture, quite literally. The golden, yellow hair of the Hollywood starlet is a fundamental pathos of the halo lighting effect used to imply desirability and is employed in almost all Hollywood films. As far as film culture goes, what we have seen little of is afro as aura. Well at least not until this public plural space of YouTube where black women are illuminating their own identities in the digital sphere. Stay tuned. Share this: Facebook Email PREVIOUS Cute Markets LikeOne blogger likes this post. Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Name * Email * Website Notify me of follow-up comments via email. Subscribe to this site by email Blogroll Discuss Get Inspired Get Polling Get Support Learn WordPress.com WordPress Planet WordPress.com News topics Barbie beauty Carl Owens conventions Disney dolls economics family fashion film gesture hair harajuku hip-hop history I-Ching Japan & Japanese kitsch kittens Mickey Mouse Nicki Minaj rhetorics sentiment sex & sexuality space & spatiality style time & temporality toys Uncategorized YouTube February 2011 M T W T F S S « Jan 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Blog at WordPress.com. • Theme: Koi by N.Design.

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I know there is so many of Natural hair care stylist out here. They all claiming that they are the best. I say I have been out here for a long time and we all can shine. I do want to hear from people about what you want to do with your hair. I have had locs for over ten years. Taking them out and playing with my hair has had its upS and downs. All the while having fun with my styles. The products on the market are overwhelming at times. I know with me, I must stick with what works not what is new and packaged pretty. And the smells are great in all the creams and things. But my focus for my hair is healthy clean hair. I wear Be Delicious by DKNY, oh yeah and Heat (rush) by Beyonce. That smell... is sexy like. I leave the yummy smells to them.

 Your hair is your glory and I love my hair. So I am going for it. Changing and along the way telling you what I find. Peace G