a chicago style blogger and digital account exec, Andrea is a no holds barred woman who has grown to discover that she really loves her hair and that she make no apologies for it.
andrea, your hair is so pretty! what’s the story with the hair?
i don’t know! [laughs] my mom has auburn colored and looser curl hair and my hair is nothing like hers. but my father…my grandmom, his mom, is hawaiian and philippina and my grandpa was polish so my dad has really very coarse hair. so i’d say it’s more of my father, but then my hair is blonde, so…
my parents actually thought [click to continue…]
ebony is a natural and she is truly proud. learning to love her natural hair after recovering from a few stumbling blocks; she went back to relaxing for a while when she couldn’t figure out exactly how to care for her natural hair, she feels like she finally gets it and that being natural is part of who she is and identifies with as a curly woman. she chops it up to show off her kinky side and share what makes her a kinky girl and how she rocks her natural so…naturally.
“Relaxing my hair was not an option anymore.
In the grand scheme of things, it just didn’t make sense.”
what’s the best part about having textured hair?
my favorite thing about having textured hair is that i can do whatever the heck i want with it. i can wear it kinky/curly if i want, twisted, straightened, etc. i absolutely love the versatility and the fact that if it rains i don’t really care. lol!
being a kinky and curly girl can be much more fun than a lot of people still believe. what influenced you to go au natural and step into the shoes of a curly woman? [click to continue…]
having gone natural to end her limited styling options, andrea of for kinky girls is a natural maven who isn’t afraid to use color to express herself and her natural hair. this shea butter and michael kors loving natural dishes on her favorite fashions, hair products and what her man thinks of her kinky mane.
what song would describe your natural hair? [click to continue…]
natasha, an assistant fashion buyer based in manhattan, is extremely passionate about natural hair and style. through her blog, asili glam, (asili means natural in swahili) she’s working to to create a site where all curly women can come and learn and grow from each others experiences and journeys. in six questions she shares a few things that make her hair and her style all come together. [click to continue…]
what’s the most unexpected thing you’ve experienced with your hair since going natural?
how well my hair has responded to this change. i had a relaxer from the age of 6 until 26, so i wasn’t sure how my hair would respond to my sudden desire to wear it naturally. i stopped getting relaxers and started wearing a weave until i was ready to really come out of the “natural hair closet”. i sat in the chair and went back and forth with my stylist about if i my head was the right shape, what my hair texture [click to continue…]
