1Blessed Natural Mag

1BlessedNatural: The Dove Hair "Love Your Curls" Campaign Will Break and Mend Your Heart  Only 4 out of 10 curly haired girls think their hair is beautiful. Yesterday, Dove Hair launched the "Love Your Curls" campaign that featured a commercial that will make your heart melt! The commercial begins with heartbreaking interviews with 5 little girls who have kinky and curly hair. The little girls, ages 5-11 state that they do not like their hair because they think straight hair is better. You could even see a couple of them pulling on their curls to illustrate the type of hair they desire. Dove teaches us that the best way to instill self-love of their curls is to be an example of it. The parents take their children outside, dance, and celebrate their hair. Dove asked the parents, family members, and friends to get together and surprise the girls with a song and dance party to celebrate their natural hair. The expressions on the little girls' fac...

Ella Joyce (Photo courtesy of www.Kinkphobia.com)   Ac t ress Ella Joyce has played man y rol es on the big and small screen . Joyce's resume includes t elevision shows like "Roc" and "My Wife and Kids." She has also played in movies such as Set It Off and the upcoming movie Temptation by Tyler Perry. Joy ce's recent role has been on the television show , "Belle's" o n TvOne where I noticed her beautiful natural hair. Recently, I was blessed with the opp ortunity to speak with Ella about her book Kink Phobia : Journey Through A Black Woman's Hair and he r natural hair. .. 1BN: When did you decide to go natural?   EJ: You know, it’s so funny because earlier this morning they had on an old episode of “My Wife And Kids” where I played ‘Jasmine’. I did about 6 or 7 episodes of that. I saw the very first one earlier this morning. I just mentioned to my husband ... while we were sitting up looking at it when I sai...