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Me 'n My 'Fro: On Being Natural - How it began

I mentioned the first article I wrote   about my hair that I would share with you my hair journey curvy divas. For the next couple of Wednesdays, that is what I will do on this blog.  If you are black aka African American as we say here in the United States (technically, I'm Caribbean-American), you know the ins and outs of our hair journeys. The success, when you rock your hair and look fierce; the woes, when you just give up and put on a hat!lol! And even wear a hat, just because you wanna rock that new hat!   I have always had what some called "a head full of hair", so much that the authenticity of my hair came into question quite a couple of times.  My mom loved to style our hair (my sisters and me) and would always have her girls looking beautiful in ribbons and hair clips where ever we went!   There are two incidents I remember distinctly, as a child, and as an adult.  Once in Primary school (that is Elementary here in the USA), a teach...

Hair Trends: My Fascination with Red Hair!

I don't know what it is curvy divas , just as much as I love stripes, I'm drawn to red hair like a moth to the flame! I absolutely LOVE RED Hair! Not just any red, my favorite red heads are of the copper-toned and deeper red-hued variety!  Ever since I grew up and could color my hair, as I loved to do even when I was wearing straight hair, my color choice would be a shade of red. Now that I am wearing my hair in it's natural (non-relaxer) curly state, I still do color, and I often opt for... RED !  I have been in search of that shade of red that will give my hair the oomph that I want to have.  My latest shade of red have received some complements and it's a color I have used again and again over the last two months. My hair color is a reddish-brown combination and works well for now! I read Marie Claire magazine online and they featured copper toned red hair in a recent article entitled "To-Die-for Copper Hair" , showcasing a number of celebriti...