Ladies, How Often Do You Wash Your Braids?

My wet braids, not that you can tell they are wet.

You know as Black women, there is so much that we can do to our hair. The options are almost limitless.  A lot of people don’t know it, but my hair is natural now. I have not had a perm in it for a while now, maybe almost a year? I don’t know the date exactly. I went natural because I started wearing weaves often, and I would perm my hair and put a weave in two days later, which {Read More}

All Marci’d Up

Marci---Hair

Last week Tuesday, I visited Marci of Marci Weave to get my hair done. I did not know what I wanted done; I just knew I wanted a style that covered all my hair, and so, when Marci said she would give me side bangs, I said, let us go there!! These pictures don’t do the hair justice because I just couldn’t roll my hair to look the way it did when she rolled it. I mean, look at this {Read More}

Do Men Really, Really Like Bald Eagles?

Watching Showtime’s original series, Californication the other day, Hank Moody, the main character made a point about pubic hair that I had never really thought about.  I know I asked you about [Igbo] men and chest hairs on women, but this time, I want to know about men and pubic [vaginal] hair. More so, the lack of it. The general consensus in Women Land is that men do not like pubic hair on women. But how true is this?

This Quest To End My Anonymity

When I decided to stop being anonymous, I did not think it will be this difficult. The closer I come to the day, the more nervous I become. No kidding. I have been anonymous for so long that I cannot even comprehend not being anonymous. As in, I might run into my online friends? Cheeeeiiiii! God ohhhh, make this pass me by.

How Human Is Human?

For the past five years, I have not had straight weave on my head.  My hair style has varied from braids to my permed hair to braids to my permed hair to braids — you get the picture.  In my defense, it’s been different types of braids: regular braids, regular twists, and kinky twists.  Hey, that’s three different types!  But thanks to someone, I decided to try straight weave again (after that first and only time I did it for {Read More}

The Case Of The Hairy Legs

I must have been about 13 or 14 when I first witnessed my friend, Isabella shaving her legs with a shaving stick. Prior to that, I don’t think I knew that people even do stuff like that. I was a late bloomer in every sense of the word. After the first time I witnessed Isabella doing it, I witnessed her doing it a few more times. I distinctly remember she got cut by the blade at least once. Being of {Read More}