Jamelia on Natural Hair

I saw the singer Jamelia on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff today. She has been on the panel all week.

Jamelia says she has relaxed her hair for 20 years, but now she has decided to wear it natural.

Her two young daughters told her "When we grow up, we want to have straight hair like yours" and she said, "No, I love your big, bushy Afros".

This led her to question what type of image she is portraying, so she has decided to "bring back the Afro".

Well done, Jamelia. I hope more celebrities will follow your example.

Celebrating Nappturality

I have recently discovered this website and these excellent blogs that celebrate natural hair and nappturality.

Nappturality includes advice on styling and transitioning. It also gives you the opportunity to blog.

Holistic Locs contains amazing photos plus uplifting, inspiring and sometimes amusing videos, like "Can I Touch Your Hair?".

Napptural Beauties celebrates sistas with napptural hair.

I remember when someone slammed me on Facebook because I used the word "nappy", which she somehow found offensive.

We need to unlearn all the negative stuff we have been taught about our hair, our appearance and ourselves. We need to celebrate ourselvs in all of our nappiness, naturalness and nappturality. I'm so glad to see these sistas doing that.

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