NEWS FLASH! AHOMH YouTube Launch

A Head Of MY Hair is so happy to announce the official launch of its YouTube channel this Thursday, October 2, 2014!

Transformation Tuesday!

There's a weekly social media hashtag that I wanted to use for this week's post: #TransformationTuesday. It basically calls for a pictorial demonstration of what you used to look like compared to where you are now. My hair (and pretty much everything about me) has grown so very much that I thought it was worth it to share the experience. 

FEATURED: Kyma Monai

Last month I met a lot of awesome people at the 2nd Annual Nappywood Weekend Los Angeles Natural Hair Expo. Among them was Ms. Kyma Monai!

I Am NOT My hair!

One of my favorite songs is "I Am Not My Hair" by the soulful India Arie. It just expresses exactly how I feel about the whole hair issue: my hair does not define me. It is only an extension of me and my beauty is determined not by what I do with it but rather how I view what I have done with it. PERCEPTION is key here. If your self worth is dictated by a physical change to your image then your set of evaluation tools definitely need to be reexamined. 

Trying Something New #AHOMHairFAIL

Whether you wear it natural, relaxed, straight, curly, wrapped, locked etc., we women (and I'm sure the men too) know that sometimes when you try new things with your hair….it just DOESN'T work! We've all had those "bad hair days" when our hair just doesn't seem to want to obey the physical instructions we give.

Well, I know I show a lot of what DOES work for me, so this week I wanted to show a little peak of something I tried out that just failed miserably. Haha. So here goes…

Style Alert: Pompadour

Even before Janelle Monae made it cool (which she does SO well), I loved to rock the pompadour. It looks très cool and gives some major volume and dimension to your hair!

(here's a sort of side swept pomp)

I thought the word pompadour was a little funny sounding so I wanted to see where it came from…apparently King Louis XV had a mistress named

PRODUCT REVIEW: Makeba's Magnificents

This week, as promised, I wanted to talk about a product I got from the Nappywood Weekend LA Natural Hair Expo a couple weeks ago called Makeba's Magnificents.

I saw the creator, Dwana, and asked if I could take a picture because I loved her hair. She has locks and was rocking an awesome style (I wish you could see more of it in the picture…). She in turn asked if she could take one as well because she loved mine (which, of course, at the time was a natural wig). 

We started talking about my hair blog and she told me about one of her products that I agreed to review. She's actually a fellow southerner too (She's from Louisiana)! 

So the product is called