I always thought this 70’s picture was so cute!
by Miss Gee
Mireille of Going Natural sent me an awesome gift pack a while back. It had some of her products along with products from Jamaican Mango & Lime and Sula NYC.
The product I was most curious about trying was Going Natural’s Silky Shea. When I opened the jar, the silky shea looked hard. However, as soon as I scooped some of the product out onto my hand, it melted instantly, and it was ready to use. The silky shea left my hair moisturized for days. In my almost four years of being natural, this was the first time that a product has kept my hair moisturized for more than day, so I’ll be looking forward to getting more in the near future.
Afro Glitz is doing it’s first give-a-way. Whoever gives the best answer to the question below will receive a jar of Going Natural’s Silky Shea. Here’s the question:
What has going natural done for you both inside and out?
by Miss Gee
CNN wrote an article about Benetton’s global model casting called, “It’s My Time.” In the article, they featured photos of many naturals who are contenders. Here are a few below:
From the Benetton website:
IT’S MY TIME is a Global Casting Competition
It’s not about catwalk cliches and model attitude.
We’re looking for natural beauty and fresh faces.Build your profile and vote for the finalists.
The 100 highest voted entries get featured in our new book on global style and win 200 euro to spend in Benetton.
From these, 20 will be selected and flown to New York to be in the Benetton 2010 Fall/Winter campaign.
We don’t care where you’re from, only where you can go.
Now IT’S MY TIME.
And guess what? The contest is still going on. Be sure to enter by going here.
by Miss Gee
Afro picks and combs were cheap back then…wow! Only .99 cents, $1.00, or $1.50? Then again, the Dollar Tree recently started selling afro picks for $1.00, and they always had regular combs.
by Miss Gee
Chris-Tia, author of Thank God I’m Going Natural, is really serious about her mission: to promote the beauty of natural hair. Today, she was on ABC News Chicago to promote her book and give helpful tips on how to maintain natural hair (view the video here). The models were so beautiful and had various styles and natural textures. In addition, Chris-Tia was also on the Garrand McGlendon show.
I feel this is going in a great direction. In the future, we won’t have to listen to people chastising us for wearing our hair natural. In the future, going natural won’t cause women to pace around in panic because they’re too afraid of what others may think, or because they feel like they won’t know what to do with it. Maybe then, many of the myths will actually be known as myths. I’m so proud of you, Chris-Tia. Now if we can make natural hair the norm by the time my daughter is a teenager, we’re good. LOL.
Last but not least, Vogue Italia launched Vogue Black today and their writers are Patrice of Afrobella and Andrea of Fly. There was also a section for the curvy beauties on the site. If you don’t speak the language written on this website, you can view it in English through Google translate buttons. Also, for Google Chrome users, there’s an translator extension that you can add here. From what I’ve read, they’re getting mixed responses on this venture. While many are proud, there’s others who are wanting to know why it has to be separate, or why this couldn’t be put in a separate publication all together.
I, for one, am so happy. (Now if we were being misrepresented, it would be a different story.) We’re more visible now than we were before and it makes a great stepping stone to reach to even greater heights.
