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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Macy’s Celebrates #BlackHistoryMonth through Fashion: The SOUL Era!
Macy’s is celebrating Black History Month this year through fashion! At locations through out the country they will focus on fashions, styles and moods from The SOUL Era (60’s ad 70’s) I can’t wait! As a child of the 80’s I watched my parents rock fro’s, bell bottoms, platforms and even capes during that time period. I think the passion that I have for natural Black beauty, hair and style is a direct result of watching my beautiful mother and father. They loved to … Continue reading
Posted in ATL, atlanta, events, Featured, lifestyle
Tagged Black History, Celebration, fashion, Macy's, The 60's, The 70's, The Soul Era, Trending
The SistahChick’s 2015 #BuyBlack #ShopSmall Valentine’s Day Gift Guide
Can you believe that Valentine’s Day is already upon us?! This crazy commercial holiday has very little to do with love and romance these days but I digress. I delight in whimsy. I love the sweets. the hearts, the flowers, the smell goods, the sexy… That being said, I’ve put together a wonderful list of Black Owned & Operated businesses that would love to have you as a customer and who can also provide everything you need to turn Valentine’s Day back into the sweet, … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, lifestyle
Tagged Atlanta, Business, Buy Black, Commerce, Entrepreneur, Gift Guide, Shop Small, Valentines Day
Being Mary Jane is Back for Season 2 on BET! #BeingMaryJane
I attended a watch party here in Atlanta for BET’s hot new series “Being Mary Jane”. After an explosive first season, BET is bringing this exciting drama back for a second season and I’m ready!. The screening was held at the Suite Lounge and as always the venue was perfect. There was a full house of fans eager to catch an advanced preview of Season 2. Our host for the evening was none other than V103’s, Wanda Smith. She kept us all busy laughing and … Continue reading
Posted in ATL, atlanta, events, Featured
Tagged Atlanta, Being Mary Jane, BET, BET Networks, Gabrielle Union, Stacy Barthe, STEPS Events, Suite Lounge, watch party
Sistah Spotlight!!: Natural Hair Freedom
Back in 2010 I used to do this bi monthly blog feature called “Sistah Spotlight”. It was a way to showcase women that I thought were accomplishing wonderful things and also a way to promote what they were doing through my blog. I decided to bring this back to my blog for 2015. Each month I will feature an African American woman that I think is doing great things both in social media and also face to face. I believe that it is time to … Continue reading
Posted in ATL, atlanta, events, Featured, Natural Hair
Tagged Atlanta, Brunch, Community, Empowerment, Events, Natural Hair, Networking, Sistah Spotlight, Women
UniverSOUL Circus Hits Atlanta!
Every year like clockwork the world’s livest, hippest, coolest circus on earth hits Atlanta. This year they are taking over Turner Field parking lot to bring you a circus like you’ve never seen. The UniverSOUL Circus is not your regular, everyday, boring old circus! It’s been a long time since I have gone to one so I can’t wait to attend with my family. Everything jumps off on February 4th and continues through March 1st. This circus has been in existence for 21 years and … Continue reading
New Dove Ad Encourages Girls to #LoveYourCurls
Have you seen Dove’s latest ad campaign? In a video that just hit You Tube, Dove launches their new Ad that encourages girls of all curly textures to love their hair. When mothers love themselves then they set a good example for their daughters to have self love, according to this commercial. I loved seeing the little girls speaking openly about their curly tresses and how having textured hair affects their lives. I also like that there were various textures and races shown. Only 4 … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Kids, Natural Hair, Our Natural Kids
Tagged Ad, campaign, Curly Hair, Dove, girls, Natural Hair, Self Acceptance, Women
Host Your Very Own #WithThisRing Watch Party!!
I am so happy to be supporting my colleague, New York Times best-selling author Denene Millner, editor of MyBrownBaby.com and her friends Angela Burt-Murray, former editor of ESSENCE magazine and founder of CocoaFab.com, and Mitzi Miller, EBONY magazine editor-in-chief. Together these ladies wrote a novel, “The Vow” that has been turned into an original Lifetime movie! “With This Ring” will air on January 24th!! The movie will star Jill Scott, Regina Hall and Eve! Here is the basic premise of the film: After attending the … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, lifestyle
Tagged African American, Eve, film, Jill Scott, Lifetime, Original Movie, Regina Hall, watch party, With This Ring
100 Years of #NaturalHair Beauty in 1-Minute!
An awesome video featuring natural hair model Marshay, has been released by Cut.com. The video presents a decade by decade time lapse video of this model getting make up and hair to match the times. “100 Years of Beauty: Marshay.” It’s such an awesome representation of Black hair and just how wonderful and versatile it is. If you have just 1-minute you can check out the video here: This is actually the second video of this type from Cut.com. The first one was, “100 Years … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Natural Hair
Tagged beauty, Beauty Standards, Cut.com, Models, Natural Hair, Time Lapse, Video
Fusion Teen Talk Show & TweenStyle Power to Host Vision Board Party
I want to make sure that I start my New Year off right. I plan to do that by giving back and also by supporting organizations and ideas that I believe in. I became acquainted with this wonderful group over a year ago through their producer Shakethia “Queen” Robertson. I covered Fusion Teen Talk Show Episode 2: No Bullying Allowed and since then I have been watching them grow! They get together and discuss real issues in an effort to open the lines of communication between … Continue reading
Light Girls Documentary to Air on OWN
Film maker, Bill Duke has done it again. Last year he brought us the award winning documentary, Dark Girls which was an expose of painful and real issues as they were experienced by dark skinned women. This time he shows us the other side of the coin with, Light Girls. In the same fashion as Dark Girls, Light Girls will go deep into African American society and the reality that was faced by some of our lighter skinned sisters. Colorism is real and I am … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Duke, Colorism, Dark Girls, Light Girls, Light Girls Documentary to Air on OWN, Oprah, OWN