The Feminist Stovkel presents: Texture Discrimination – The Problem with...
Guys, even just typing the subject of this post… So. Many. Emotions. But we’re going there. We need to… I visited the venue for our upcoming third Hair Soiree, The Women’s Gaol (Jail) at Constitution...
View ArticleAs I Am’s Leave-In Conditioner – it’s a goodie!
If you have curly/kinky hair I don’t need to tell you As I Am is one of those lusted after international brands I’ve known about almost since I went natural. But (& big BUT) I could never bring...
View ArticleFeminist Stokvel Hair Soiree: Dem Baby Hairs!
Right off the FS press desk… — On Saturday 19 September, The Feminist Stokvel is inviting everybody that is raising a black child (white people raising black children are especially welcome) who need...
View ArticleMoisturizing Natural Hair
Morning! Sorry for this morning’s fumble (you may have received a weird/incomplete post from me *sigh*). Here’s the update – a piece I wrote for Inecto on moisturising natural (in fact all kinky, curly...
View ArticleDesign Essentials Coconut & Monoi
No complaints when some more Design Essentials came across my desk recently. I liked using their naturals range a couple of months back so I was hoping that their Coconut Monoi range would show my fro...
View ArticleDesign Essentials – Almond & Avocado
So more Design Essentials came across my desk recently & if you’ve read any of my previous posts about them you’ll know this certainly isn’t a bad thing! This time they sent me their Almond &...
View ArticleThe best person I met this year
A couple of weeks ago I walked into a restaurant for a Feminist Stokvel meeting. It was a tiny place, maybe 4 tables in total of which 2 were pushed together for our reservation. At one of the other 2...
View ArticleHello 2016 & goodbye afro!
If I didn’t make myself sit down and write this here post you’d be reading it sometime in September. So belated happy new year and all of that stuff – I’m going to jump right in… I have a very...
View ArticleNatural blow-dry/length check – so here’s what we did…
(I’m just realising I’ve typed “what we did” in the title of this post as if I did any of the work – unless sitting on my behind for so long that it felt like it was fusing with the chair counts!) Ok...
View ArticleColour!
Let it be known that 2016 is definitely the year I’m going to enjoy my fro. I started off the year with a blow-dry/length check (my 1st ever since going natural, so in 4+ years) and when that went well...
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