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Nappturality.com is your resource for the style and beauty of Natural Black Hair. We are dedicated to all the women in the diaspora who proudly wear their highly textured hair naturally.
Nappturality Lady
Nappturality.com is the place to find photographs, Black natural hair journals, websites, forums, information and links about the care, maintenance and politics of natural hair. Natural napptural hair.
Here you will find photos of all natural styles, comb coils, two-strand twists, afro puffs, afros dredlocks (dreadlocks), locs and many other natural styles. Styled by napptural-haired women on their own hair. Join the community and meet some new friends!
There is no greater beauty than the real you
What is Nappturality?
Nappturality is all about embracing your NAPPtural, natural hair. Many, many thousands of African American women and women of African descent all over the world have stopped relaxing their hair and are wearing their natural hair proudly. All have different reasons for doing it -- damage, scalp problems, illness, hair loss, finances, curiosity or maybe simply being tired of wasting all day Saturday waiting in a salon. Others saw someone on the train wearing a fierce set of locs, coils or twists and started to rethink their choices.
We're in many of phases of nappturality. We're transitioning, or wearing braids or weaves and thinking about transitioning -- and some of us have just cut off the relaxer and are beginning to learn how to care for napptural hair in the real world. But regardless of how we got here, all of us have these 3 things in common:
1. We want to have healthy, beautiful, natural hair.
2. We want to see pictures of other women's natural hair.
3. We want the transition to natural hair to be as painless as possible.
With all this in mind and more, Nappturality.com was created.
Why is the site limited to tightly coiled, highly textured Black hair?
The reason it is limited to this hairtype is because we have found that it is the hairtype most feared and vilified in our community. It's the only hairtype we can't stay natural with for long with if we "fear the 'fro" (thanks to Taritac & LBellatrix for that term). Napptural hair is the type labeled "bad", nappy hair that needs to be "fixed."
This perception needs to change. We need to stop being afraid of our hair. We need to learn about our natural hair. We need to see natural hair worn on women who have embraced it. And the only way we can do that is to showcase our natural hair on its own merit without seeing it compared with other hairtypes.
1. Nappturality is all about acceptance of our hairtype and not carrying false expectations of what it can or can't be or do.
2. It's not about taking the easy road and conforming.
3. It's not about destroying your hair through continual straightening.
4. It's about accepting yourself and your hair as it was intended to be.
That's what NAPPTURALITY is.
If you are still relaxing your hair you are welcome here, however...We don't debate the wonders of relaxing and we don't talk about the benefits of relaxing on Nappturality because frankly, there aren't any benefits to using that chemical. But we all had to start our journeys somewhere. Glad you chose Nappturality as a place to start to learn.
That said, if you are still relaxing and thinking of transitioning out of the relaxer, you are welcome to ask questions and ask for help and advice. Make sure you tell us your hair is relaxed, don't be afraid to say so. We need to know this to help you.
Just be aware that those of us here who are napptural are committed to being napptural and spreading the word of nappturality. We don't like relaxers. And we don't sugarcoat that fact.
We hope you learn something beneficial from us.
http://www.manataka.org/page269.html
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Nappturality.com is your resource for the style and beauty of Natural Black Hair. We are dedicated to all the women in the diaspora who proudly wear their highly textured hair naturally.
Nappturality Lady
Nappturality.com is the place to find photographs, Black natural hair journals, websites, forums, information and links about the care, maintenance and politics of natural hair. Natural napptural hair.
Here you will find photos of all natural styles, comb coils, two-strand twists, afro puffs, afros dredlocks (dreadlocks), locs and many other natural styles. Styled by napptural-haired women on their own hair. Join the community and meet some new friends!
There is no greater beauty than the real you
What is Nappturality?
Nappturality is all about embracing your NAPPtural, natural hair. Many, many thousands of African American women and women of African descent all over the world have stopped relaxing their hair and are wearing their natural hair proudly. All have different reasons for doing it -- damage, scalp problems, illness, hair loss, finances, curiosity or maybe simply being tired of wasting all day Saturday waiting in a salon. Others saw someone on the train wearing a fierce set of locs, coils or twists and started to rethink their choices.
We're in many of phases of nappturality. We're transitioning, or wearing braids or weaves and thinking about transitioning -- and some of us have just cut off the relaxer and are beginning to learn how to care for napptural hair in the real world. But regardless of how we got here, all of us have these 3 things in common:
1. We want to have healthy, beautiful, natural hair.
2. We want to see pictures of other women's natural hair.
3. We want the transition to natural hair to be as painless as possible.
With all this in mind and more, Nappturality.com was created.
Why is the site limited to tightly coiled, highly textured Black hair?
The reason it is limited to this hairtype is because we have found that it is the hairtype most feared and vilified in our community. It's the only hairtype we can't stay natural with for long with if we "fear the 'fro" (thanks to Taritac & LBellatrix for that term). Napptural hair is the type labeled "bad", nappy hair that needs to be "fixed."
This perception needs to change. We need to stop being afraid of our hair. We need to learn about our natural hair. We need to see natural hair worn on women who have embraced it. And the only way we can do that is to showcase our natural hair on its own merit without seeing it compared with other hairtypes.
1. Nappturality is all about acceptance of our hairtype and not carrying false expectations of what it can or can't be or do.
2. It's not about taking the easy road and conforming.
3. It's not about destroying your hair through continual straightening.
4. It's about accepting yourself and your hair as it was intended to be.
That's what NAPPTURALITY is.
If you are still relaxing your hair you are welcome here, however...We don't debate the wonders of relaxing and we don't talk about the benefits of relaxing on Nappturality because frankly, there aren't any benefits to using that chemical. But we all had to start our journeys somewhere. Glad you chose Nappturality as a place to start to learn.
That said, if you are still relaxing and thinking of transitioning out of the relaxer, you are welcome to ask questions and ask for help and advice. Make sure you tell us your hair is relaxed, don't be afraid to say so. We need to know this to help you.
Just be aware that those of us here who are napptural are committed to being napptural and spreading the word of nappturality. We don't like relaxers. And we don't sugarcoat that fact.
We hope you learn something beneficial from us.
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Time she is changing
we know that it's true
the color scheme of life's deepest hue
Go green, red, black, and blue
These changes are needed
just as gardens are weeded
we should apply plenty of fertilizer
to increase the growth at a steady speed
it's been so long without someone to lead
but now we're accepting that change has been delayed
we'll watch and wait
for real change as it blows in the breeze
planting hope is grand
Change is good ... we all understand
we'll watch it grow but we'll need to help
danse for sunshine and rain
we'll see grains and gain
and through all of this changing we'll remember the pain.
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November**2009*** MEMBER Marcia McNair *SUMMER has PASSED INTO MEMORIES & AUTUMN IS HERE!
November 2009 MENTIONABLE MEMBER
Summit, NJ
How do you express your creativity?
author, poet, reader, publisher & editor
About me
I am a professor of English at Nassau Community College, the second largest community college in the country. In addition to teaching English, I also teach journalism and literature. I serve as Co-Chair of the African American Read In at NCC. The AA Read In is a national celebration of African American literature which takes place the first Monday or Tuesday of Black History Month. Besides being the author of E-Males: A Novel, I am a published poet. My work has appeared in Seasoned Women: An Anthology of Women's Poetry, published by Quadrasoul Press. My creative nonfiction story, Before We Were Gangstas, will appear in Memoirs in the Light of Day, published by Lamberson Corona Press, this fall. Lastly, I co-authored a play called Diary of a Mad Black Feminist which will go into production early next year.
Summit, NJ
How do you express your creativity?
author, poet, reader, publisher & editor
About me
I am a professor of English at Nassau Community College, the second largest community college in the country. In addition to teaching English, I also teach journalism and literature. I serve as Co-Chair of the African American Read In at NCC. The AA Read In is a national celebration of African American literature which takes place the first Monday or Tuesday of Black History Month. Besides being the author of E-Males: A Novel, I am a published poet. My work has appeared in Seasoned Women: An Anthology of Women's Poetry, published by Quadrasoul Press. My creative nonfiction story, Before We Were Gangstas, will appear in Memoirs in the Light of Day, published by Lamberson Corona Press, this fall. Lastly, I co-authored a play called Diary of a Mad Black Feminist which will go into production early next year.
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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them. - Buddha
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=The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego. - Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon by Wei Wu Wei
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Love is patient and kind.
is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude.
does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices in the right.
bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things.
endures all things.
Love never ends.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
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=The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego. - Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon by Wei Wu Wei
Message of Love:
Love is patient and kind.
is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude.
does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices in the right.
bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things.
endures all things.
Love never ends.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
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Shabazz Palaces- Belhaven Meridian
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Mindblowingly dope to see Butterfly
in this meta-gem of a vid.
Love the subtle message that we look at
ourselves from a different perspective.
Props to Liberator for the intel.
warning: Some colorful language in the vid,
watch at your discretion with kids in earshot.
Sadly, there doesn't seem to be a
Shabazz Palaces Myspace (or equivalent)
for further exposure to their magik.
Audiovisual Splendor- Bilal and Jay Elec
Bilal- Levels (Singing this song for nothing)
Jay Elec- Creative MC
(Missed this one. Props to
Sir Trujillo for the intel)
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