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London Workshop Recap + Full Gallery!

03.31.2012 Europe2012

200 London naturalistas come out for a phenomenal Loving Your Hair workshop! Check out the recap and full gallery!

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Europe2012: LondonTown Fun!

03.30.2012 Europe2012

Wrap up on day one in London: tons of time on the Tube and a swanky salon launch party!

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Just touched down in LondonTown

03.30.2012 Europe2012

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I See London, I See France! The Adventure Begins TOMORROW!

03.28.2012 Europe2012

Can’t believe it’s time to hop on the ol’ jet plane and head back across the pond tomorrow! Well, actually I can. It’s been seven years since I’ve been to Europe and I’m so excited to be making the return! I wanted to share with you all the itinerary of the trip so you know where I’ll headed to keep up with the adventures.

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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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NATURALS IN PARIS (#thashhhhhcray)

03.14.2012 Europe2012

I’m uber super jazzed to announce that NATURAL SELECTION IS GOING TO PARIS!!!! Woot woot! On March 28th, I’m headed across the pond with my amiga Miss Felicia Leatherwood for a pair of natural hair workshops in London and Paris. As y’all know, you don’t have to ask me twice to hop on a plane in the name of naturaldom, but this Euro-trip is actually very special to me.

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Adventures in the Windy City

03.09.2012 my adventures

I’m just getting back to San Francisco after a whirlwind week in Chicago with the NaturallyCurly Fam. We were there for America’s Beauty Show a.k.a. ABS a.k.a. the largest professional beauty event in the country a.k.a HAIR AND MAKE UP HEAVEN.