I’m a product junky, so I was thrilled when I was invited to check out some holiday goodies from the The Body Shop. The picture above displays some of their newest makeup products. It’s lip gloss, a gold smokey eye kit, a black smokey eye kit and glitter. And if you continue past the jump…
Last week I was invited to attend Kitty Bradshaw’s Meet ‘N Tweet, which was a gifting suite where bloggers were treated to product galore and got to mingle with other bloggers and brands. The gift bags were insane! I got so much good stuff that I didn’t want to post everything at once because that would be sensory overload, so I chose my favorite products first.
I blogged about how much I like Sally Hansen’s Salon Effects Polish strips here. They’re a convenient way to keep your nails looking good. Now that it’s holiday time you can take your pick of these limited edition designs for that office party or end of the year shindig. These special prints include Plaid About You (red and black plaid), Peppermint Twist (red and white candy stripe), Snow Bunny (white with red snowflakes), Prep’s Cool (black and silver argyle), and Winter Funderland (black, silver and blue glitter). They are available at local beauty and drug stores. Enjoy!
Last month I attended an editor’s round table for Ambi, where they explained the brand’s mission, products and presented skincare facts for women of color. Ambi was founded in 1966 in Africa. For 45 years they have been known for fade creams and soaps. Today, the brand is globally known for several skincare solutions for brown girls but they still need help spreading the word.
I wrote a story for TheGrio.com, about positive and beautiful women who are successful in their careers but just happen to wear their hair loc’d. I felt it was important to write the piece because for a long time, women with loc’d hair have been overlooked. In various mainstream media reports about natural hair and even in Chris Rock’s Good Hair (which was wack, but I digress…different blog), locs were not discussed. There’s even a divide in the natural hair community between locs and loose naturals. The latter was a topic I wanted to tackle in my piece but when I realized that there was so much to cover in general, like the origins first, that I focused my piece more on the silly things people say and believe about locs. I think it’s a beautiful informative piece but of course, like everywhere online, the comments reflect just how much people lack reading comprehension and how much people are ok with being ignorant, even when presented with actual facts. I’m going the tackle the issue of locs a lot more here, and I will share my own story with my natural hair story since I haven’t done it. But in the meantime, CLICK HERE to head over to the The Grio and leave your thoughts.
As much as I love to have my nails polished, I don’t always have the time or funds to get gel manicures or to sit and wait for the base coat, polish and bottom coat to dry. Enter Rimmel London’s Lasting Finish Pro…
I got a goodie bag back in September that had some cool products but in some cases too many. Hence, I bring you Max Factor Vivid Impact Eyeshadow duo:
I got them in five different shade combos but each had a duplicate and I don’t wear eyeshadow like that so I wanted to give them away. Max Factor no longer sells products in the United States but they were a drug store brand that I liked a lot (le sigh). More details on the product and how you can win after the jump.
I’ve been dying my hair red since I was a sophomore in college, before I had locs. It was what made me a little more comfortable with wearing my natural hair out. I initially made the big chop shortly before my second year in college, in a haste and subsequently fell into shock and wore headwraps every day until my roommate/bff convinced me me to dye it. I used Clairol’s Tones & Textures in Red Hot Red.
The picture above is me some time last year, right after a touch up (which you can read more about that process here):
Lately I’ve been craving a change…
Queen Latifah teamed up with Cover Girl a few months ago to find five talented femcees who would remake her classic ‘U.N.I.T.Y.’ Their journey will be chronicled in a series of webisodes entitled The Road To U.N.I.T.Y. Part one debuted last week and I missed posting it on time but here it is anyway. In this inaugural episode Queen, MC Lyte, Lady of Rage, and Yo Yo talk about the trials and triumphs of breaking into the music industry:
Mary J Blige is going on HSN this Saturday (7/31) to launch her new fragrance, My Life. In an effort to send women to college this fall, Mary, FFAWN and HSN have teamed up and $1 from each sale of the fragrance on Saturday will be donated to FFAWN. Hopefully several young women will benefit from this.
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