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Roller-Setting Natural (African) Hair
This post was motivated by two occurrences: (1) my renewed interest in roller-setting my natural hair (2) noticing that not many African natural-hair bloggers post/talk about roller-setting, and a desire to help debunk the myth that “African” hair is not amenable to roller-setting… What started it all… Over the Christmas holidays, when time became a […]
Girl Crush by Jodie Patterson: A Discussion on Female Beauty
November 22, 2012
I am on holiday and am making the most of my time off by doing a whole lot of nothing. Extremely decadent stuff. In the course of my “doing a whole lot of nothing” I came across this short video, Girl Crush by Jodie Patterson, collating the perspectives of various women on beauty and the […]
Capital Naturals – Natural Hair Meet-up in Abuja
November 21, 2012
Looks like an awesome event for folks with natural hair living in Abuja! Check the twitter feed @NaturalMane or visit http://www.naturalnigerian.com for more info.
The Sartorialist + South Africa
November 18, 2012
Recently, The Sartorialist visited South Africa for the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Africa. During his time in South Africa, he captured images of style in Johannesburg and Soweto, applying the Satorialist filter to the African style landscape. I am quite late on this as Fashion Week Africa took place in late October, nearly 3 weeks […]
Happy Saturday – Cyd Charisse + Simple Natural Hair Bun
November 10, 2012
As ever, I am incredibly happy to see the start of the weekend. After a long week and the culmination of the political media circus that encircles the election of the president of the United States of America, I am happy to take advantage of whatever respite the weekend has to offer. Ordinarily, when the […]
Five (African) Things
November 1, 2012
I have become addicted to cupcakes & cashmere, Emily Schuman’s blog not the actual things (although I’m not one to scoff at a nice cupcake and/or plush cashmere). One of the features I enjoy most on her blog are her Five Things posts, a collection of bits of inspiration and sources of enjoyment/amusement. I’m totally […]
On Natural Hair, Detangling and Bantu Knots
October 21, 2012
Source – Garance Doré In spite of the naming of this blog I hardly blog about Natural Hair anymore. There are a million and one fantastic YouTube videos and websites providing information on the who/what/where/when/how of Natural Hair, and considering I’m not one to post photos of myself online there really isn’t much of a […]
Maki Oh + Spring 2013
September 22, 2012
The frenzy that was the Nigerian fashion industry circa 2010/2011 where (it felt like) every week a newly knighted fashion designer debuted a collection for the world to see (& BellNaija’s harsh fashion critics to judge) seems to have died down somewhat. The African fashion industry is still making significant strides, but the barriers to […]
Happy Sunday, Real Estate + American Vogue
August 26, 2012
This has been the bankiest of Bank holiday weekends, funky weather et. al. I’ve been listening to a lot of Morning Becomes Eclectic (whilst taking a break from the awesome Gidi Lounge, of course), working against a backdrop of (read: falling asleep to) Real Estate (see YouTube clip of “It’s Real” above) and Jason Bentley’s […]
Braided Updo for Natural Hair
August 3, 2012
Happy Friday! I am one of the laziest people in the Natural Hair World: I’ve gone through the various phases of a newbie natural (style experimentation, obssesive hair forum/blog reading and YouTube video watching, product-junkieism) and settled into a natural-haired version of my formerly relaxed-hair self: i.e. I’m very low maintenance. I’ve tried roller sets […]
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