Lola = My Hair

I decided to give my hair a name because I write about her so dang much. If I treat her well, she’s good to me, but if I don’t then I can fully expect a natural hair tantrum. Why Lola? She is a showgirl. And whatever she wants…she gets.

Getting Back to My Roots. Literally.

05.04.2012 color

Ruh roh! Lola’s on the grow and it SHOWS!

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Always a bridesmaid…now what to do with Lola?!

04.26.2012 beauty

Well it’s finally started to happen, my friends are starting to get betrothed. I always knew this day would come and this upcoming summer, not only do I have two weddings, but I’m [honored to be] IN both of them! Yay! Two of my best friends are getting married in Minneapolis, respectively in June and July. I’ve been in cahoots with both of them as all of the details have been arranged: from their dresses (amazing) to the venues (top notch) to the bridesmaids dresses (flattering!), all of the planning has gone super smoothly (on my end at least).

That is, until the question of wedding hair came up…..

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COLOR ME RAD: Lola De-Virginized (part 2)

03.26.2012 color

Let’s see…now where did we leave off in the story of Lola’s virgin color. Oh, right. Me leaving you hanging for three days waiting for the final color pictures! Muahahahaha…sorry about that, but wait no longer!!

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COLOR ME RAD: Lola De-virginized (part one)

03.23.2012 my lola

Three weeks ago, a teeny weeny ‘i need to color my hair’ seed was planted in my head at ABS in Chicago and yesterday it finally came into full bloom! Marie France, my Madusalon stylist, has long told me that color would be the next inevitable step in my natural hair journey so when the itch finally came about I wasn’t terribly shy to scratch it. Yes, there was a bit of an identity crisis, but per the support of you my readers, I moved forward and did the damn thang!

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Hair Color is TOTES Happening for Me. TODAY.

03.22.2012 my adventures

Thanks for all of your thoughts and words of advice regarding my little existential crisis last week regarding hair color, but sometimes a gal just says eff it and goes for the gold! And in this case, I’m going for a rich hue of coppery-cinnamon brown. I’m nervous, but here goes! Woo hoo!

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My Natural Hair Identity Crisis! Help Me!

03.15.2012 my lola

Most often when we refer to “natural” we’re talking about relaxer-free, naturally-textured hair. That’s what this movement is all about, right? Giving up chemicals in order to set our kinky, coily, curly heads free. But there are certain hair practice techniques that call my own personal definition of “natural” into question. In particular: COLOR.

To color Lola or to not color Lola– that is the question!

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Let’s talk about why I love this haircut.

02.15.2012 my lola

The Damn Fade was out, my hair hadn’t been trimmed, and I had 48 hours in which to get Lola in shape for my trip to NYC. Here’s how I got Lola trimmed, clipped, shaved and ready to go!

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Au Revoir Damn Fade! It’s Been Real….

01.31.2012 my lola

After six weeks of being Damned, it was time to set Lola free!

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Ringing in the New Year with Pomp and a Pompadour

01.10.2012 how to

Well after about 48 hours of stressing about what to do with my hair for New Years Eve, I found myself in my bedroom trying to get ready with a vision and cursing the fact that I only had six—SIX—bobby pins. WHERE do those things go when you really need em!?………

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It’s 2012! Well, Now What?

01.09.2012 my lola

After a year of natural hair events across the country, a particularly sad experience with heat damage followed by some seriously awesome cuts, I closed out 2011 on a high note with the whole Damn Fade thing. I’ve been absolutely loving it and have gotten more positive feedback on this style than I had ever anticipated. Issue is all good things come to an end; my time in the Damn sun is about to be Damn over and the Damn hair must come out. Damn.