beauty
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in summer 2010, i made the decision to rid myself of chemical hair relaxers and go natural. this was before natural-textured haircare products were being sold, and the words “natural” & “hair”, ensemble, were part of the beauty industry’s lexicon. for me, it was an embarrassingly long period of trial-and-error with drugstore products that were…
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love & madness,
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this essay was originally penned in august ‘23. I recently read an online piece which discussed masculinity and femininity, and it prompted me to reflect on personal musings surrounding formations of the feminine and masculine in the early part of my life. As a young girl, I hated my hair. After each beauty shop appointment,…
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if i could do it all over again i’d consider dermatology because i am absolutely fascinated by the skin. it’s easy to gloss over the fact that skin is, indeed, our largest organ because it’s not internal, but i’m having a very real obsession avec le peau at the moment. i like to think that…
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beauty is everything to me. c’est les petits choses, the little things. when i lived in New York, before and during the pandemic, beauty is what kept me going and i don’t mean aesthetics. i truly mean the little details about people, from casually eavesdropping on a customer’s order at the Norwegian hall to someone’s…
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by no means am i an expert on all things related to haircare, however, i am quite adept at learning and applying the techniques that work best. upon inquiring a few years back, i was told by a former hairstylist that natural oils are not suited for textured hair as it is difficult to shampoo…
Bojepsÿ 