1Blessed Natural Mag

1BlessedNatural: Viola Davis and Lupita Nyong'o Represent Natural Hair and Beauty BIG Time at the SAG Awards! (photos courtesy of  Viola Davis and Lupita Nyong'o Facebook pages) Last night, actresses Viola Davis and Lupita Nyong'o represented natural hair and beauty BIG time at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Nyong'o's hair was braided with extension hair in small cornrows into a puff. Two big braids were wrapped around the puff and crossed at her crown area. I thought it was a gorgeous style! Nyong'o wore a long sleeve, black and white striped belted gown that was decorated with a red and green floral print. She wore black and silver earrings and rings. Nyong'o, alongside Jared Leto presented the award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television movie. 1BlessedNatural: Lupita Nyong'o's cornrow and braid puff at this year's SAG awards.  Viola Davis won the Outstanding Performance by a Femal...

Melanesia: Solomon Island girls (photo courtesy of the -cropped-Flickr- Australian Civil-Military Centre http://www.acmc.gov.au/ ) Naturally blonde hair is often associated with white or Caucasian people. However, there are groups of dark skin people who have naturally blonde hair also. Some of these groups include the Aboriginal Australians (Aborigines) and the Melanesians. I love this fact because it goes against the idea that one group or culture must look a certain way or stay in a certain category.  The Aborigines have dark skin. Some of them also have blonde hair which tends to be straight, but can be curly. Scientists first believed they were descendants of Eurasians. In 2011, scientists found evidence against the theory from a sample of natural hair. The sample of hair, which was said to be more than 100 years old, helped scientists determine that Aborigines were descendants of Africans. The New York Times confirmed this finding: "The Abo...