curly hair
I have had multiple beaus tell me to straighten my locks. And it was a ton of horseshit. My curly hair is BEAUTIFUL and I should own it more.
hair
I’m trying to decide if I should just totally give up on making my curls look professional and like, marry my flat iron already.
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Apr 23, 2013 at 9:00am | 326 comments

1970s
I will never have hair as voluminous and curly as Marc Bolan's, but I can try.
plopping
I tarted plopping (aka plunking), and I’ve never looked back. After much trial and error and many many blog posts read and YouTube video viewings later, here is the method I’ve perfected:
in

Mar 22, 2013 at 2:30pm | 155 comments

curly hair
My hair is natural for the first time after 13 years of relaxing it. I am keenly aware that I’m the only one in my family full of women who wears her hair this way.
curly hair
Since I am someone who is a former hair abuser (there’s a record on file: feel free to see previous photos of my hair on the Interwebs), I like to say "I’m sorry” to my hair at night a couple of times a week.
ihtm contest
Initially the wigs were a last resort for bad hair days, but over time I became dependent on them, it was like a sick addiction that I couldn’t shake.