Madame Noire got the chance to sit in for "Black is Bella: A Conversation with the Afro Latinas Redefining Beauty." Panelists Lulu Cordero of Bomba Curls, Mabel and Shaira Frías of Luna Magic Beauty, and Ada Rojas of the blog All Things Ada all shared insights on how beauty ideals shaped their Afro-Latina identities.
Some of us have had nightmares about this.
I must bid you adieu...
(WSJ.com) — Delshawn Rollins once trusted only fellow African-Americans with the delicate task of styling and straightening her tightly curled brown hair. But that meant enduring hours of salon gossip, ordered-in lunch (and sometimes dinner, too) and occasional mishaps, like the time the ends of her hair snapped off after she had it dyed. Fed […]