Holiday Gift Guide: Black Owned Businesses
Christmas season is here. Man!! Where did the year go?? Anywho, I love Christmas. Celebrating the life of Jesus is the most important reason for this season. In the midst of that, one of my favorite things about the holiday is the gifts. Am I right? Well, I am providing a holiday gift guide of black owned businesses to shop this year. If you’ve read my blog, then you know that I love to put a lot of focus on black owned businesses. If you are a new subscriber, here and here are my blog posts on affordable black owned clothing…
How to: Flat Twist Out Tutorial
Happy Wednesday!!!! I hope you’ve had a great week so far. So I’ve decided to start posting new posts on Wednesdays to be more productive and organized. So be on the lookout for my posts, especially for the holiday season. I’m here with a new video on my channel. I will show how to do a flat twist out using Salon KLS Kollection’s Hair and Scalp Buttercream and Moisturizer. Enjoy the video. And don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe. Love y’all!!!
Sleek Bun Tutorial (NO GEL!!)
Happy Friday!!! To distract everyone from the election, here is a new video from my channel. I show how I was able to achieve a sleek bun using no gel. In my tutorial, I used Texture ID Styling Creme and I love this product. My bun was sleek without the hardness of gel and it was well moisturized. Here’s my sleek bun tutorial and enjoy the video. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe to my channel. Love y’all!!!
Bad Hair Movie Review
On my channel, I give my thoughts on the movie, Bad Hair, a satire horror movie that was written and directed by Justin Simien, who is also the writer and director of Dear White People. I usually do not have any intentions on doing movie reviews on my channel. However, I had to give a review for this particular movie as it dives into the issue of self-acceptance of natural hair in the workplace. So here’s the Bad Hair Movie Review. Enjoy!!!
My Signature Afro Tutorial
Hello ladies and gentlemen!!! I’m so excited to add another venture into Hometown Girl n’ Curls. It took a lot of blood, sweat, and tears…well not really! Lol! But it definitely required a great deal of learning with technology. And your girl is not tech savvy. Anywho, I now have my own YouTube channel!!!! YAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!! Y’all, I’m so happy to go this route with my blogging and I can’t wait where God is going to take me. But have no fear, this blog will still be here. I’ll post my YouTube videos on my blog so y’all will have early access…
Affordable Black Owned Businesses to Support: Part 2
Hey people!!! Long time, no see! It’s been a hectic couple of weeks but I’m back! I received so much feedback on my black owned businesses blog post. So I decided to come up with another post for black owned businesses to support for my budgetnistas and budgetnistos. Lol!! Plus you can never have too many options, am I right?? These companies range from natural hair care, fashion, and accessories, so here you go: Sassy Jones – If you’re looking for statement jewelry that’s full of color, this is for you! This business has everything from earrings and necklaces to handbags…
Affordable Black Owned Fashion and Hair Businesses
A couple of years ago, I had a bad experience at a nail salon. I regularly go to this nail salon every two weeks to get my usual, a gel manicure. At this visit, the nail tech was very tough on my fingers. She filed my nails and cut my finger!! As I’m preparing to pay for her services, I was charged full price!! I was in shock because I came in to relax and left with a bloody finger and unsatisfied feeling. Venting to my friend led me to find a black owned nail tech ASAP. I found one and…
Last Minute Memorial Day Sales
Happy Memorial Day!!! A day that we choose to remember those who risked their lives to serve our country (moment of silence). It’s also a day filled with BBQ, a trip to the park, and online shopping sales. But you realized you haven’t done any shopping for Memorial Day sales and you had ALLLLLLLL weekend. You start thinking, “Dang it!! I’m too late!” I’ve been there since I’m the queen of procrastination. Lol!! But have no fear!!! I got you boo!! I came up with a list of Memorial Day Sales of my favorite stores. These sales, with the exception of…
Why I Went Natural?
My natural hair has been my pride and joy for almost 7 years. It’s funny because a lot of people don’t remember me or have never seen my hair in its relaxed state. I also never shared my story on why I went natural. So here it goes!! Picture this, summer of 2013 in Atlanta (in my Sophia from Golden Girls voice). I just graduated from grad school and was scared out of my mind about my next step into adulthood. When a big change happens in my life, I always change my hair. For example, when I graduated from college,…