July 2010 ~ The Afro Chronicles

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

...........Why?

According to society, light skin might be the right skin. A recent Vaseline ad campaign in India recruited Bollywood hunk Sahid Kapoor to be the face for a new skin-lightening cream.Representatives from Vaseline- a subsidiary of the Dutch-Anglo conglomerate Unilever- added an application to Facebook for males to upload a picture, and then “transform” to a lighter skinned version of themselves. Those who oppose the product claim...

How i did my twists..honestly it took pretty long to do like about 45mins Results...

My natural hair journey

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My Hair, My Journey

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Is Relaxing Hair Child Abuse?

Is Relaxing Hair Child Abuse? by Maria of tobeanaturalista.com As we wrapped up my women’s studies course for the semester this week, I was to report a summary of my action project to the class. My action project was the very beginning to creating the Naturalista’s student group which has now, rather quickly, sprung into many different things. My class is small and comprised of white women save myself. They are now well educated...

The ladies over at naturallycurly.com complied this list of crazy hair myths they grew up hearing The reason that there is curly hair is because that person doesn’t drink enough water. — Greatcurls That shampooing twice was the ONLY way to get clean hair. — OperaDiva That black people’s hair doesn’t grow. Why? Because it just doesn’t. — SummerRuby Eating the crusts on bread would give me curly hair. — plunkybug I was told that...

Shaun and Ethnic Hair Straightner

.......BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! R.O.F.L!!!!!!! Still trying to compose ourselves!! ...

Ok ok so I know I said I would be a long term transitioner, but! omg i just could not wait. why? you ask, One Word Breakage breakage breakage!.I Transitioned for abt 4 months and I was planning on going for 8 months but my hair was just not holding up. So at about 12am the 15th of july I decided to chop it all off, and i got to say it felt great! just showing how i chopped it ...

world's longest dreadlocks hair wash video

You know... We ain't even gonna say anything....just watch the video... Check out her website here Taken From Bvhairtalk.com They measure 19 feet, 6 inches long. When dry, they weigh four pounds. When wet, at least 10 pounds. Asha Mandela has the longest dreadlocks in the world, making her an official Guinness World Record holder. For Asha, it's more than just a hairstyle. It is a way of life and an expression of self. "When I started growing my locks, I suddenly became very overprotective of them, as I...

About a week ago I BC'ed. It was like 1 am and I was reading curly nikki when I looked over and saw my sister chopping off her hair. I had promised that I was gonna cut it on my bday but when it came I didn't get the gel I was hoping for. My sister who said she would be a long term transitioner started complaining that her hair was breaking too much. I suggested that she cut it with me but I didn't think that she was serious! My...

I Big Chopped!

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Petrolatum, Sulfate, Silicone and Mineral Oil

Ok...... I have read Countless blogs, watched Youtube vids, and read many product reviews on why using petrolatum, sulfate, mineral oil and silicone are all bad for your hair. But I would have to disagree. I used silicone (cones) in my hair all the time and it doesn't seem to bother my hair at all. Same for petrolatum, sulfate and mineral oil. I see many women who read blogs and forums and watch youtube videos all on the...

Thoughts On My Journey

Ok guys guess what!... Transitioning is getting harder than I thought.Its actually pretty frustrating to be honest, having to wake up everyday trying to figure what style to do next! omg my hair gets so matted is horrible to style it! As in I know you gotta have patience because its all worth it at the end yea yea I know that, but gosh this is just getting hard each month ( trying to reach 6 months mark). I mean I could do a fab...