Last month, Full & Fabulous Organization hosted "A Rose Is Still A Rose" debutante ball, presenting 13 metro Detroit girls as poised young women with a renewed sense of self-esteem.
when I raise my eyebrow at a New York salon offering waxing for girls 15 and under, you can be assured I am raising a pretty big, bushy and opinionated eyebrow. Â Â
Every time a female character is described as having the "perfect nose," I know exactly what it will look like: the opposite of mine. It will be delicate and small and fine. It will never be bulky and arched and bold. It will never dominate her face. Of course not. That would be ridiculous.
The truth is not necessarily what some authority says it is, but rather what can be proven. But, if so, where did that leave the truths taught in my Sunday School?
We have been making and marking for 35,000 years. As a designer, using my hands to make, cut, rearrange, overlay, glue, paint, chip, draw, and sketch is a personally fulfilling process.
Does caring about beauty make me vain? A hypocrite? A middle-aged woman with too much time on her hands? A privileged narcissist?
Despite massive upheavals and not a lot of good news -- financial terror, vast corruption, and global and environmental disaster -- the world is still an infinitely magnificent place.
When someone throws you a compliment, don't feign modesty or write it off as a gesture of politeness -- smile and soak it in.
Why is being perceived as pretty so important to me? Is it because at some point we girls, who believed our intelligence was the key factor to success, were led astray?
While it might sound like a throwback to the 60's Black Power era, the tenor of the current natural hair movement is decidedly different. The constant refrain of the current natural hair movement is self-acceptance, freedom, health, and spiritual growth.
If a girl is going to reach her dreams or even change the world, she needs a woman in her corner to help her see her full potential.
I swam out of my gene pool with some crazy-curly, violently unruly, ratty-ass hair that requires great skill, serious funds, Japanese embalming fluid, hot irons in at least three different sizes and a mastery of these materials to create a look that's what I call... normal.
Now that summer has officially arrived, it is time to get serious about sunscreen. Regardless of what type of outdoor activity you have in mind, the sunscreen makers of the world have developed a host of products, some of them new and many of them with bonus properties.