The Bridge to Bliss

Happy Saturday! A few weeks ago, I was fortunate to win an Instagram giveaway sponsored by COCOTIQUE , a deluxe beauty box subscription service for women of color and diverse ethnicities. It's a monthly box that costs $20, including sample and full sizes of various products!  My box, the June 2016 edition , just came in the mail and I am very satisfied and excited to try everything out! Check out what came in the box and how I plan to use everything!!! This is how the box came assembled! The excitement builds... Hallelu!!! This brand of edge control is literally one of the TWO brands in the world that actually work for my hair! This comes just in time for the NABJ convention next week! Necessary. I'm big on lipstick, but not always so big on lip care. I'm also prone to bite my lips when I'm nervous, so this seems like just the thing I need to give my lips a nice healing. I have never heard of this stuff before! Apparently it's a smarter a...

CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO --- When July gracefully arrives on a Friday, that calls for celebration! You got through the week AND the month in one piece - let's hear it! For me, celebration means dropping a new YouTube video! I hope it will help some of you like it helps me. In the natural hair community, it's common for looser curls to take position as representative of what natural hair "looks like." But hair isn't a monolith! There's a multitude of beautifully different textures that all deserve to be celebrated. I have thick, kinky, type 4 hair. What does that even mean? My "curls" are coils; tight and glorious. As a type 4 chica, it's often depicted that certain styles aren't for "my kind of hair," as if they just won't work. One of those styles? Rod sets. Whether perm rods, flexi rods, curlformers, or anything in the family, type 4 hair folks looking to achieve spirally curls are often disappointed in lack of represen...