Hair New Era

NEW SITE ALERT!! Click here to check out BIGGER THAN HAIR. My new site dedicated to all things natural, especially hair.

What you can expect: web interviews, photos, videos, reviews, and more.

If you like what you see, please follow the blog in the right margin and tell 3 people to check it out.

Thanks much!!!

www.thestyledit.com / Back to Natural Journey

The weave escapades all began in college for me. Syracuse, the contemporary tundra forced me to seek weave options if I wanted to look what I called back then as "half decent"

www.thestyledit.com Although I am embarking on something new, I will miss the "classic collection" by Kim Green

One of the last photos taken with the $350+ hair. Definitely will NOT miss that, AT ALL!

3c, 4a, 4b ON ME, www.thestyledit.com ,  Back to Natural Hair Journey - Day 1

www.thestyledit.com / 5 minutes into the back to natural journey Looking forward to documenting and sharing my journey with you. Paz

• Date: Wednesday December 21st, 2011; 8am -8pm
• Location: HoneyFig 4967 Yonge St., Toronto, ON and www.honeyfig.com
• Contact Info: 416-226-2100 and email@honeyfig.com
• Meet and Greet: Jessica McGuinty 5pm-8pm

Imagine finding a natural hair video on Youtube, that you feel, just by looking at the title that your pressing question may finally be answered. So you click on the video, and once it starts, the Vlogger is speaking so fast you can't possibly rely on lip reading, and there is not a tap of captioning included, highlighting the main points. You're a little disheartened but not to worry, there is always the more info/description box, so you head there and its blank or gives you not a hint as to the break down of that video.

I swear every time I find a video like that it feels like some D/deaf natural is somewhere relaxing her hair in frustration.

Why is this important to me? Because I am a deaf natural & so are some of my friends. I can not tell you how many times I've been faced with the above mentioned scenario. Clear pronunciation, facing the camera when speaking, captions within the video or a detailed description box are treasures to me. Blogger/Vlogger Mae of Natural Chica is a wonderful exemplar of this!

{Check out Caption Tube, and this helpful article on Mashable for video captioning help}


Another option could be that if you have a blog in addition to your Youtube channel, you can briefly summarize your video in a blog post. Nothing major, simply include the title of the video, ingredients & step order if it's a tutorial. If it's a review, tell us whether or not you'd use the product again, and if you'd like, a one or two sentence reasoning. Heck if you don't have a stand alone blog...send the info to me and I'll post it on Curly Hue (giving you full credit of course). Just do something... just don't leave us out.

First step to going natural is getting your mind right. As a black woman who chats with lots of other black women, the #1 reason many don't go natural and are afraid to starts usually in the mind. The excuses reasons start to flow, "my hair has no curl," "it's not long enough," "I''ll look too ratchtastic" and quite frankly none of those are true.

My decision to go BACK natural (as of yesterday) came when I FINALLY made up in my mind that I was tired of taking care of someone elses head (while sitting on my head). I know the power of the right product, discipline and proper instruction to get your hair looking beautiful and it is the decision that makes the world of difference, a mere choice like everything else.

As I'm growing in age and wisdom, I'm finding more about what's wrong with the beauty industry and the images portrayed AND accepted. I know that if more Black women were educated on the numerous possibilities and truths about that strands that grow out of their own scalp, the America's would be a much more natural place. While I plan to start on my BLACK TO NATURAL journey at the turn of 2012, I will document it here, going much against my blogging policy of putting photos of myself on a blog but hey, my hope is to help encourage other black women to get bold and gain TRUE confidence in themselves and in EVERYTHING they have to offer because at this end of the day, that's all you really got!