Clutch Magazine: My Quest For A Stylist Who Doesn't Hate Doing My Hair

It's not much of a secret that I have a love-hate relationship with my hair. Great when it's done, but almost never have any interest in washing, styling or braiding it because there's no such thing as a "quick" way to do my hair other than to just chop it all off. And since I'm not interested in rocking a baldy I've spent most of my life searching for the perfect stylist, which I wrote about for Clutch this Thursday.

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Clutch Magazine: Black-Owned Hair Care Lines Boom From Natural Trend

It's a great day if you're in the natural hair business and you're an outfit run by an African American woman. For Clutch Magazine this Wednesday The Snob penned a piece on how smaller, minority-run hair care firms have become the leaders, leaving established multinational corporations like L'Oreal and Proctor & Gamble scrambling to compete.

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Clutch Magazine: Hair Raising Anxiety

For Clutch Magazine Online, The Snob penned a piece on how the move to natural hair has opened up a whole new bag of anxieties for many women who were already anxiety prone when it comes to black hair and what it symbolizes. How can you separate your politics from your hair when human nature is all about about putting meaning on what others see as meaningless? How do you embrace a movement based on "acceptance" on the one thing you can easily change?

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She's Afro-licious In A Guinness Record Breaking Way (Video)

While my natural may get huge, it's got nothing on the afro of Aevin Dugas. Hers is record-breakingly funky. Get it, gurl. (H/T reader Aabaakawad)

The Snob Returns to Tell Me More on NPR Today

The Snob is making a stop at NPR's Tell Me More with Michel Martin to shoot the breeze during her "Beauty Shop" segment Thursday. I'll be on with political commentator Michelle Bernard, the Wise Latina Club's Vivivana Hurtado and Jet Magazine Editor-in-Chief, Mitzi Miller. We'll be discussing a few things I've been meaning to write about -- the Surgeon General suggestion that some black ladies don't hit the gym because they just spent $100+++ on that 'do and aren't trying to mess it up. Former Dark Lord of the Sith and sometimes for real president, Dick Cheney, living up to his first name and getting all kinds of gully and calling out former Secy. of State Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell of being punk mark ass marks. Twitter "going in" on NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg's horrible Spanglish and Beyonce being pregnant with her and Jay-Z "babyonce."

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Are You Going to "Pledge" The Hair Sorority?

My friend in real life, "in snark" and in afroliciousness FlyBlackChick recently tackled the newest thing to come out of the more ... um ... impassioned end of the "grow-out-your-roots-and-go-natural" movement -- the formation of Pi Nappa Kappa, the Natural Hair Sorority. She wondered if "creamy crack" lovers would retaliate and from "Lye Phi Lye." As long as it doesn't devolve into some "let's wipe out a 100 years of progress" Twitter Team Lightskin/Team Darkskin tomfoolery, I may just give this a polite chuckle and keep it moving. (FlyBlackChick)

Talkin' Bout Strangers Touching Your Hair, Going Natural (Video)

A reader posted a link to my Facebook page of a CNN story about black women, going natural, and dealing with folks asking to touch their hair. As a person with "unique" hair, I've had people ask to touch my hair almost all of my life. And it has been people of all races and genders. Going natural only made folks' desire to touch it intensify.

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Facebook Group Leads Fight Against Community Destroying "Lace Front" Wigs

The famous "Lace Front Baby" is the poster child of this Facebook based "movement."

Finer Negrosity: Because when you clutch your pearls you could always clutch them harder.

In the fight for hair equality, a brave group of Facebook users have banded together to rally against the greatest scourge of our time -- fake hair. Namely, the "Lace Front" a style of fancy wigs that were once only found in the finest of Las Vegas revues and Broadway dressing rooms that have, thanks to the likes of Beyonce, become a hair fashion staple for women who tried wigs after the weave stole their edges.

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The Snob Talking Hair on Tell Me More

I was part of Michel Martin's "Beauty Shop" segment on her NPR show Tell Me More today, talking about the politics of having curly hair. I was on with Michelle Breyer of NaturallyCurly.com and TV reporter Rochelle Ritchie. Strangely, we all have names that ended in "elle."

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