Clutch Magazine: My Quest For A Stylist Who Doesn't Hate Doing My Hair

It's not much of a secret that I have a love-hate relationship with my hair. Great when it's done, but almost never have any interest in washing, styling or braiding it because there's no such thing as a "quick" way to do my hair other than to just chop it all off. And since I'm not interested in rocking a baldy I've spent most of my life searching for the perfect stylist, which I wrote about for Clutch this Thursday.

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Clutch Magazine: They Don't Hate You Because You're "Beautiful"

In the lastest post by The Snob penned for Clutch Magazine Online I tackle the issue of people who think other people hate them because they're just so darn attractive. Really, girl? Really? Here's a taste: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And the beholder has grown up watching the Victoria’s Secret Fashion show that’s not really a fashion show and digesting Sport Illustrated swimsuit covers. We, as a people, have a general idea of what’s attractive, even if what’s “attractive” is often the result of a trainer, hair extensions, good camera lighting, self-tanner, a great diet, lots of exercise, Photoshop and good ol’ genetics. But aside from the world of the “Professional Pretty” class of folks who get paid for giving good face (actors, models, entertainers, singers, etc.), there are the many, many more of us in the much more difficult to categorize land of “regulars,” where all beauty is relative."

Read the full post at Clutch Magazine.

Clutch Magazine: Hair Raising Anxiety

For Clutch Magazine Online, The Snob penned a piece on how the move to natural hair has opened up a whole new bag of anxieties for many women who were already anxiety prone when it comes to black hair and what it symbolizes. How can you separate your politics from your hair when human nature is all about about putting meaning on what others see as meaningless? How do you embrace a movement based on "acceptance" on the one thing you can easily change?

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Snob Reveals Not-So-Secret Prejudice Against Idea of Beauty Pageants on NPR

The Snob was on Tell Me More with Michel Martin Wednesday where we discussed Republican Gov. Nikki Haley being not white, the newly released Jackie O. tapes and discussed what it meant for Angola's Leila Lopes to win Miss Universe. From the get-go, Michel seized on whatever face of "OMG, SO DON'T CARE" I was making over Miss Universe, a tournament run by Donald Trump-de-Dump-Dump-Dump that is super popular internationally, but not many people pay attention to in the U.S.

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Facebook Group Leads Fight Against Community Destroying "Lace Front" Wigs

The famous "Lace Front Baby" is the poster child of this Facebook based "movement."

Finer Negrosity: Because when you clutch your pearls you could always clutch them harder.

In the fight for hair equality, a brave group of Facebook users have banded together to rally against the greatest scourge of our time -- fake hair. Namely, the "Lace Front" a style of fancy wigs that were once only found in the finest of Las Vegas revues and Broadway dressing rooms that have, thanks to the likes of Beyonce, become a hair fashion staple for women who tried wigs after the weave stole their edges.

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"Dark Girls" Documentary Takes Painful Look at Colorism

Directed by Bill Duke, a 9-minute teaser for his new documentary "Dark Girls" takes a look at how colorism both within and without the African American community affects dark skinned black women. The womens' stories in this release are all quite painful in the rejection they felt or still feel from people, even loved ones, due to their skin color. 

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Thieves Flippin' "Hot" Stolen Hair Like Bootlegs

Back in the day they would rob the salon's cash register. Now thieves go straight for the hair, according to the New York Times' latest crime trend story. Because with some Indian Remy costing as much as $200 per package, stealing it means you can undercut hair salons and wig shops by selling the hot hair for cheap on eBay and out of car trunks for profit. But of course, some folks have gotten violent in their pursuit of hair, from a teenage girl pepper spraying a stylist to make off with the weave to a salon owner being murdered in a hair heist. 

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Black Women: So Hideous No One Will Leave Us Alone

Actress Jill Marie JonesSo Psychology Today finds me unattractive. Not that anyone asked their opinion. I'm not linking to the obvious link bait, trolling article that they've since apparently pulled down, but you've probably already had the link emailed, tweeted or Facebooked to you several times today. I realize the article is passing itself off as "science," but why-oh-why is everyone so interested in smacking around black women lately? For a group of women so universally unloved people sure can't seem to stop screwing with us -- both physically and metaphorically.

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Fashion Discovers Gapped Teeth, Will Likely Get Over It In A Few Weeks

Essence Magazine founder Susan L. TaylorOoo! Look! My mouth is in style!

From The Wall Street Journal:

At model casting calls for New York's fashion week, which begins today, one of the most coveted attributes is an affront to modern orthodontics: gapped teeth.

The look is a bold departure from recent standards of idealized beauty that have rewarded curvaceous and perfect-smile models, such as Doutzen Kroes and Miranda Kerr, with high-profile ad campaigns.

Instead of perfection, designers now want what casting directors call "characters."

Now, before my fellow gapped-tooth brothers and sisters get too excited. Or start chirping about how in certain parts of Africa gapped-teeth are like the it-sexy thang to have, let's pay attention to who is being prized for their not-so-atypical mouths.

Psst. It's not you, Condoleeza Rice and Essence founder Susan L. Taylor!

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