Braids & Braidouts

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Natural Hair of The Day • Flatironed Hair with Braids

01.16.13 | 0 comments

Chellur ya’ll!  Hope the new year is treating you well thus far. I’m back sharing hair pictures, and what happened next to the flatironed updo from the previous post. I already showed this style in this video a while back, but here are some pictures. All I did was take the bun down and braid it [...]

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Natural Hair of The Day • Flatironed Updo with Braid

12.11.12 | 4 comments

Hey everyone. *waves* Hope you’re having a great week thus far. Like I said in my previous hair post, even though I just cut my hair again, I realized that I had not shared a whole slew of photos so I’m sharing them now . This style below was when I flat ironed my hair [...]

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Hair of The Day • Braidout

11.29.12 | 0 comments

This post is super late seeing that I just cut my hair again but I realized I had not shared these photos here so decided to anyway. This was a braidout with both sides shaved. I learned to love my braidout and for some reason preferred it when both sides were shaved over the twistout. [...]

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Weekly Update • Therapy, Headwrap & Houseful Of Stitches

11.02.12 | 2 comments

Happy Friday everyone! Hope you’re having a great day so far and the week treated you well. My prayers go out to those on the East Coast affected by hurricane Sandy. In 1989 hurricane Hugo ripped the roof from over my head while I was still in our house so I am WELL acquainted with [...]

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Weekly Update • Depression, Hair & Dawnyele

10.26.12 | 11 comments

Tada!  Yep I’m back from a little  hiatus of sorts with this here  weekly update video. LOL! Listen #lifeishappening  … but my sincerest apologies for leaving ya’ll for so long.  Anyhoo, here’s the information I promised to provide in the video above: {DAWNYELE} Channel: http://www.youtube.com/dawnyele Registry: http://www.myregistry.com/visitors/giftlist.aspx?sid=66160cf4-5959-418c-b8a8-… Someone inquired as to why I said “another natural hair YouTuber [...]

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Yeah So This Happened

10.03.12 | 17 comments

If you can’t tell from the picture, what happened is my husband shaved the 2 sides of his hair. We started by parting out both sides like this: Then we mosied up to the bathroom and I got out the clippers like this: And what we ended up with was something like this: After washing, [...]

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Catching Up

09.25.12 | 2 comments

This is a total cheat post but after yesterday’s post about being in the dumps ya’ll will forgive me right? I just realized I’ve posted THREE videos on YouTube that ain’t made near this here blog *oops* sooooo I decided to just post them all at once and duck out before ya’ll realize you’ve been [...]

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Briaded Bun and Verbal Abuse

08.20.12 | 18 comments

Acouple weeks ago my brother sent me this photo of myself: Glamazini circa 1980 Wook at thowse eyes! I was inspired by the 3 cornrows on the top, and it *just* happened that the very woman who did that hairstyle 30 years ago was staying in my house at the time.  {I’m talking about mommy [...]

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Natural Hair • Box Braids, Cornrows & My “I Went Into Labor” Style

08.10.12 | 9 comments

The day before I went into labor I had a hankering to braid the front of my hair. Thank God I did because literally the next day I was giving birth and my hair was totally braided up for my hospital stay. Perfect timing indeed. I started with the “Dollop Updo with Cornrows” which you [...]

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Natural Hair • “Dollup” Updo With Cornrows

08.08.12 | 2 comments

I put a “hair of the day” video up on YouTube with this style like a month ago (taped right before I had the baby) and I’m just getting to posting it here. I wore my hair like this when I went into labor (thank God … oh and I’d actually braided the loose part [...]

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