By Tiffany Davis When a rapper casts a woman with dope natural hair in his video, I stand up and pay attention. Take, for example, the Dead Prez video “The Beauty Within”. It starts with “Dedicated, not to America’s top model, but to the natural girls right next door”. Love it. For weeks now, I’ve been hearing Wale’s latest single …Read more »
By Tiffany Davis This spread in Vogue Japan featuring Ethiopian model Liya Kebede should be called “How To Be Fab on Public Transportation”. Seriously, though. Kebede was photographed by Mikael Jansson for the April 2013 edition of Vogue Japan looking fab on the A line of the NYC Subway. Pictured with model David Agbodji, Kebede rocks black and white with splashes of color. Here’s …Read more »
The actors in this Pizza Hut $10 any pizza deal commercial really love pizza! And they’re really excited about the deal. So excited for the deal that the price for the special is repeated 7 times during the commercial (see transcript below). 7 times! One of those times, you see a beautiful woman with natural hair who reiterates the deal with a visual …Read more »
By Tiffany Davis Let’s face it. There are certain natural hairstyles on black women that are generally more acceptable than others. If this blog has taught me anything about marketing and natural hair, it’s shown me that the most popular hairstyle seems to be the twist-out. Not the TWA (teeny weeny afro), not a big afro, not two strand twists, and …Read more »
Dominican models rocking afros in French magazines? Yes, that.just.happened.British blogger Natalie @beautypulse_ldn found it!#naturalhair
Natural hair is everywhere in the Fall 2012 “This is a pair of Levi’s” campaign.
Dope #fro in this #advertisement for @Macys Impulse Sweepstakes. #Naturalhair
After losing 40 lbs, Keishia is #natural and fierce in this @Nutrisystem #advertisement
In this Ikea commercial, you see a black couple in a bedroom designed by Ikea. What I like about this commercial is twofold – the woman has a TWA (teeny weeny afro) and the personalized nature of this campaign. Very rarely do you see a black woman (or man, for that matter) with an afro in a “modern” commercial. As …Read more »
Finally joining the likes of Progressive, State Farm, and Allstate, Nationwide’s recent advertisement welcomes them into the realm of using models with natural hair. This advertisement was found on Yahoo’s web site, and is the first Nationwide advertisement I’ve seen of it’s kind. Lean in close so I can tell you what’s different about this advertisement. Unlike many commercials and …Read more »
