Braid with me! Best Passion Twist DIY Tutorial

Hey, ya’ll what’s up. If you’ve been following the blog, you know how much I love healthy natural hair. In essence, there is nothing more beautiful than the hair that grows out of our scalp. All it needs, it’s a little love and attention to get it to do what we want. But I’ll fill…

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5 Lessons My Natural Hair Journey Taught Me

Natural hair–the process of growing, keeping it healthy, enjoying it–I find to be one of the most daunting yet special experiences. Growing up, my hair was relaxed and lived at a decent length, but like most young black women over relaxing my hair caused it to become damaged. During my last year of college, I…

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Say it with me: Yes, I can Love with an Open Heart

Love is great in the commercial sense–especially around February. In reality love can be difficult–this we don’t talk about. We post all the #MCM and #WCW and #BAE pictures, right. Yet, we don’t  talk about the push, pull, the communication, the growth, the selflessness, the intimacy, the messy, down right dirty components of growing in love. We don’t talk about the arduous task of breaking down walls when you are a woman who has lock her heart in a stainless steal safe, next to a glock nine (just in case) , underneath a grenade, surrounded by an alligator inhabited moat, within the  land mines hidden around the circumference.

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