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Filed under: Hair Care , Product Reviews It’s summer and your hair is doing its best to handle the weather. But with that heat and humidity, your hair might as well ask you – what have you done for me lately? If you aren’t taking the time out to show your hair love with weekly deep conditioning treatments, I gotta ask – why not?

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Everyone Needs a Deep Conditioner

Did you catch the BET Awards? There were some Red Carpet stunners, and one of our favorites was Monica.

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Monica at the BET Awards

Filed under: Natural Hair , Hairstyles , Hair Care , Product Reviews With heat advisories and record temperatures across the country, it’s hard to go anywhere without looking like a melted, frizzy mess. The humidity in the summer air causes the cuticles in our hair to expand, which results in the frizz effect we all love to hate.

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Beat the Heat & Avoid the Frizz

Filed under: Natural Hair , Hair Care , How-To , Trends The temperatures are sizzling, and so are the popular hair colors! Red hair is back with a vengeance, and you’re more likely to see women of color with russet, scarlet, or wine-colored streaks in their hair this season. But what about women with natural hair, or for those of us who may be concerned about the damage hair dye can bring

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Henna: The Healthy Alternative to Hair-Dye

Filed under: Natural Hair , Hair Care , How-To , Trends The temperatures are sizzling, and so are the popular hair colors! Red hair is back with a vengeance, and you’re more likely to see women of color with russet, scarlet, or wine-colored streaks in their hair this season. But what about women with natural hair, or for those of us who may be concerned about the damage hair dye can bring? For us, there’s henna – the flowering plant that’s been used to dye everything from skin to cloth since the Bronze Age.

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Henna: The Healthy Alternative to Hair-Dye

Filed under: Photos , Hairstyles , Trends Last week, instead of writing at the speed of light from my homebase of Chicago, I found myself making a trip to Washington DC. On an absolutely gorgeous Spring day, I visited Howard University’s campus, to witness a unique casting call for Ford Fiesta

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Beauty and Hair Trends at Howard University

Filed under: Natural Hair , Product Reviews , How-To The afro has been a striking and significant fashion staple through the years – particularly in the seventies, an afro came to be anonymous with black power, political statements, and reclaiming one’s roots.

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Know Your Fro

Note: I’ve received quite a bit of negative feedback about my views on the various hair lotions and potions that are for sale and while I take it in stride, I received this great post from a longtime reader. He’s contributed some fine posts about hair lasers and the FDA in the past, and really, his post below sums up my thoughts on the issue:

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Alternative Hair Therapies Are Worthless

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