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24 The Secret to Steady Hair Growth Is…

The Secret to Steady Hair Growth Is…

Hair always grows. The trick is keeping the hair you’ve grown from breaking under pressure. Here’s how.


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6 Is Your Hair Enjoying the Proper Moisture and Protein Balance?

Is Your Hair Enjoying the Proper Moisture and Protein Balance?

Too much moisture? Hair breaks. Too much protein? It’s break then, too. How to know when enough is enough.


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52 Four Hair Colors Not Made From Nature that Women of Color Should Avoid Like the Plague

Four Hair Colors Not Made From Nature that Women of Color Should Avoid Like the Plague

We all like a little variety and spice when it comes to coloring our hair. The beauty industry makes it easy for us to color our strands any shade of the rainbow. But just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. We keep seeing this over and over, but someone needs to tell these offenders that Crayola hair is generally not a good look. So we will, as lovingly as we can muster.


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140 How Blackistan Deals with ‘Fast Girls’

How Blackistan Deals with ‘Fast Girls’

Icon Oprah Winfrey was raped by her 19 year old cousin at the age of nine and later abused by a neighbor and an uncle. Renowned author Maya Angelou was raped at seven by her mother’s husband and spent the next five years as a mute. In the midst of having to fight off everyone laying claim to her young body, here comes the females of blackistan who tell her she is at fault for what is happening to her. She is whooped , cussed out and blamed for the black males around her who exercise no self-control. If she is develops faster than the other girls around her, she becomes a prime target for harassment and blame.


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7 Dry, Damaged Hair? Author of “The Science of Black Hair” Give Five Tips to Make it Better

Dry, Damaged Hair? Author of “The Science of Black Hair” Give Five Tips to Make it Better

Hair-care advocate and health scientist Audrey Davis-Sivasothy gives tips on how to regain hair health.


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6 Shine Has it’s Place, but Not on Your Face. Three Anti-Shine Formulas We Love!

Shine Has it’s Place, but Not on Your Face. Three Anti-Shine Formulas We Love!

Think of makeup as furniture and your face as a bare room. If the room isn’t prepped and ready, free of blemishes, discolorations and distractions where there shouldn’t be, no amount of fabulous furniture will ever do the room any justice. So if your nose is so oily and shiny that flies never land, but slide off and catapult across the room, you might want to consider a little priming before you paint.


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126 Beware the Terriorism of ‘Blackistan!’

Beware the Terriorism of ‘Blackistan!’

Yes; ‘Blackistan’ is a real place. It’s in just about every city in the U.S.


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