Ballerinas Backstage 1897 - Edgar Degas

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fuckyeahblackbeauties:

In the life the most important thing (other than Breathing) is being true to yourself. If you can’t at least do that then you would living a lie. Being beautiful doesnt mean covering up what you already have, with the fake. Beauty is the layer underneith all the make up and clothes.  Natural Beauty is fuckyeahthebest =) As Black Women its important to be true to ourself and accept ourself for who and what we are. Because if we dont…our life (your life) will be synthetic forever. -C.S.

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“Greensboro, NC — What started as a trip to the beauty salon to get her hair braided, ended with two trips to the emergency room, according to Veronica Carter.

She went to the emergency room twice and paperwork she was given on the second visit states she may have MRSA, an infection that doesn’t respond to the usual antibiotics. She said she is taking four antibiotics, though.

“He told me it’s because the braids was too tight,” said Carter about her hospital visit. “He said her nails, anything up under the nail, if her nails was sharp or if she took it and tried to braid it and maybe cut me right here and I didn’t notice it.”

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Like the idea of licensure. Please know that a license does not guarantee protection from mishaps. Most women, from all walks of life, have a stylist/spa/beautician nightmare story from so called licensed staff.

Please use commonsense:

• Is the residence, work place and person clean?
• Did she/he wash their hands before approaching your head?
• Are their nails trimmed and cleaned?
• What tools and products do they use?(Are they sterilized? Provide them if you’re unsure)
• Is it too tight? Speak up!
• Was the extensions(if used) packaged and sealed?
• Wash scalp weekly!!
• Do you use clean procedures when you take care of your own hair?
• If you have any skin abrasions/pain/sensations/unusual tenderness on the scalp, please see someone immediately. In the meantime, clean with antiseptic and add antibacterial cream. Take pictures.

Reporter: Meghan Packer
Source: Digitrade.com

Protective styling is a cornerstone in most natural hair care routines, especially if overall health and length retention are goals. In this post, I share with you some of the best types of styles to use when protecting the hair, and criteria that you should consider when you are determining which ones are best for you.

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Beautiful capture!

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Oh my goodness. Cleopatra and their old school dookie braids! Love it.

Another Thorny Crown series: Gray J  - Margaret Bowland

This is not a hair inspiration but an introduction to an artist who came into my world and aesthetics today. So exquisite, it floats not just in light, form and color but in thought.The concept of beauty for the minority woman…the little girl. It’s something I’ve struggled with in my teens. Eventually with age, I realized that I am beautiful as most women are in this world (in their own way).

Beauty was not meant to be caged or owned. One day I hope to own a print. Perhaps if I’m lucky…an original piece? Will definitely attend an exhibit when it comes back to Los Angeles

Artist Website:
http://www.margaretbowland.com/

Source:
http://www.margaretbowland.com/paintings/painting17.html

Referral:
http://www.womanist-musings.com/

Artist Statement:

Art was until very recently a search for visual harmony – Picasso’s “lie that makes us realize the truth.” That lie was compositional, spatial harmony. But what was that truth? We no longer have any faith in Truth capitalized. Plato says in The Sophist that “by the art of painting we make another house, a sort of man-made dream product for those who are awake.” I believe in those houses, that in this illusory space our stories unfold. This space holds as much power now as it ever has. The human psyche still dreams, those dreams are still our stories, and within these stories our consciousness is revealed. I need art to be the story, in visual terms, of what happens to people.

We inhabit a purely relative world, in terms of belief structures, yet each of us knows and in a sense, believes in, the need to be beautiful. My work is about beauty—what it means to be beautiful and what significance the idea has in the twenty-first century in the world of art. We all know that being beautiful is as important as being rich, that being beautiful is itself a form of wealth. One must be tall, thin and white. One’s features must be diminutive and regular. We recognize deviations from this norm, but recognize that these deviations, even if appealing, are far from ideal. The need to be beautiful fuels one of the largest and most ruthless industries in our world.

Beauty makes sense to me, has weight for me, only when it falls from grace. It starts to matter when it carries damage. Sorrow allows it to cast a shadow. It becomes three-dimensional. It enters our world.

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