With Solange Knowles as a welcome member of the “natural hair community”, we are seeing so many mainstream examples of natural hair in the media.Just yesterday, Solange tweeted that she was on the cover of Time Out New York magazine. As the cover girl for the Spring Fashion issue for Time Out New York magazine, Solange rocked florals, chevron prints, …Read more »
Network HGTV is currently advertising new episodes of their show, House Hunters. House Hunters follows people as they look for new homes. HGTV’s campaign features both print and television advertisements, asking “what kind of house are you?” The above ad, found on an online website, features a natural with a funky twist-out. Interestingly, her image is paired with the vintage …Read more »
Blogger Patti, of Natural is Cool Enough N.I.C.E. is today’s Monday Around the Web feature. On a quest to explore the existence of women with natural hair in advertisements, she found this Dove ad featuring a woman with natural hair. She states: “As I continue my quest to determine if black women and natural hair is becoming part of the …Read more »
The 5 most-viewed posts on Natural Hair in the Media (NHM) this week: 5. Sears: The Truth Room Commercial 4.Top 5 Most Controversial Advertisements with Natural Hair 3.Product Review: Nothing But Curly Pudding 2. Natural Hair in Italian Vogue 1. Gain Detergent Commercial* *5 weeks in #1 Spot0
Great news, everyone! I am teaming up with Sofn’free to give away free products to not one, but TWO lucky readers. In another post, I talked about Sofn’free’s new natural hair care line. Read my reviews on the Nothing But Curly Pudding, Nothing But Clarifying Shampoo, and Nothing But Cleansing Conditioner. Part One of the contest will be for Twitter …Read more »
Fashion and natural hair are having a love affair. No, seriously. Lately, I have seen lots of retailers featuring natural hair models in their commercials, campaigns, and advertisements. Just tonight, I saw a DSW commercial featuring a woman with BIG, gorgeous natural hair! Since this is a shoe commercial, the focus of the camera is not on the faces of …Read more »
Natural hair and Fashion! What could be better? Thanks to my Twitter timeline, I saw a tweet by SheaMoisture about natural hair in Italian Vogue. In this summary on natural hair in the fashion world, author Marjon Carlos details the increasing trend of well-known black models choosing to wear their natural hair on the runway. Among the shout-outs are models …Read more »
Blogger Sunflowernbklyn, of Loving Your Natural hair started a new blog on her loc journey. I was so excited to find a blogger on WordPress with locs. If you think back to an earlier post of mine and an Ebony article titled “Loc’d Out: Has the Style Lost its Luster?”, there aren’t many well-known bloggers with locs. As today’s Mondays …Read more »
Before using the Nothing But Cleansing Conditioner that Sofn’free sent me, I washed my hair with the Nothing But Clarifying Shampoo. Click here to read the review. Basically, I started the conditioning process with stripped and tangled hair. Ingredients: Water (Aqua), Glycerin, Cyclopentasiloxane, Dimethiconol, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil, Polyacrylamide, C13-14 Isoparaffin, Laureth-7, Fragrance (Parfum), Acetamide MEA, Hydrolyzed Keratin, Panthenol, Propylene …Read more »
The 5 most-viewed posts on Natural Hair in the Media this week: 5. Viola Davis Rocks Natural Hair to the Oscars 4.Sears: The Truth Room Commercial 3.Top 5 Most Controversial Advertisements with Natural Hair 2. Oyin Handmade Snack Pack Giveaway 1. Gain Detergent Commercial* *4 weeks in #1 Spot
