Monique Allen is a wig enthusiasts who creates flawless custom units for her long list of clients. Before starting on her entrepreneurial journey, the self-taught stylist revealed she was dealing with extreme hair loss. Monique worked as a registered nurse, with plans on becoming a Nurse anesthetist, but her own struggle with hair loss sparked […]
Moms, aunts, sisters, and grandmothers are typically the ones responsible for doing hair in the household. So when African Pride asked a group of fathers to do their daughters’ hair in the “Daddy-do” contest, we didn’t know what to expect. Well, let’s just say, the results were entertaining! Poor baby with all that product in […]
Why do you think that black hair is always such an issue for other people? Kids get in trouble for having black hairstyles at school and adults at work. Jasmine shares a story about a time her white boss made her take her Bantu knots down before entering the studio. Hair will always be an identifying […]
Mahisha Mahisha Dellinger is the owner of the hair care line, Curls and is now the star of OWNs Mind Your Business. She talks to Krystal Lee about how it all began. Dellinger was a young mom who faces horrible workplace racism at her corporate. She was also newly natural and realized that there was not a […]
Octavia Spencer and LeBron James are coming for those edges as executive producers of Madam C.J. Walker, a limited series about America’s first black, female billionaire for Netflix. Spencer will star in the eight-episode series, which is based on the book On Our Own Ground by A’Lelia Bundles, Walker’s great-great-granddaughter, who will also serve as a consultant. The show will recount the […]
Find out how you are potentially creating a breeding ground for fungus and why you shouldn't flake on anti-dandruff shampoo.
Black-owned luxury brand MADALI Hair will now be available on Amazon’s Textures & Hues section. The curated storefront gives customers a hair care experience that highlights popular hair care brands for women of color, such as Miss Jessie’s, Carol’s Daughter, Shea Moisture and Cantu. According to the official press release, “Amazon’s Textures & Hues curated […]
Celebrity hair stylist Hair By Ivy turned what could have been the end of her career in the launching point for her successful business. Here's how she did it.
Sisters Jayonnah (10 yrs) and Aiyonnah (8 yrs) are killing the game with their hair braiding skills. The world got a glimpse at the two girls after their mother posted videos of them on Facebook. 10-year-old Jayonnah was slaying with the feed in “Lemonade” braids while her little sister showed her skills as well. We know […]
Rachel Dolezal is reportedly catering to the hairstyling needs of black women across the Spokane, Washington, area, Daily Mail Reports. The former NAACP leader, who claims to be Black but was outed in 2015 as a white woman, operates a hair salon in her home and boasts about her skills via Instagram pictures of her clients’ various styles. Dolezal, who will star […]
2/13/18- It’s never fun when a stylist can’t do your hair and Black women in the entertainment industry suffer from this greatly. Tisha tells the story about getting her hair done on a show only to hear the stylist behind closed doors say, “I hate doing Black people’s hair. It feels like pubic hairs.” READ […]
*Now how can you be mad at her, I ask you? As the saying goes, “When life gives you lemons, doggone it! Make lemonade!!” That’s exactly what Shia Yearwood did when she seized the moment and used her mugshot photo as an opportunity to promote her hair business. Arrested and charged with violating a domestic protective […]
