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...

Sasheer Zamata (photo courtesy of the Sasheer Zamata Official website) Stand-up Comedian and natural haired beauty, Sasheer Zamata has joined the cast of Saturday Night Live . Zamata is the first African-American woman to be on the cast since Maya Rudolf left in 2007. The 27-year old graduated from Virginia University and has appeared in many sketches and commercials. She is also a performer of the Upright Citizens Brigade. The young comedian's current footsteps of rocking her natural hair are reminiscent of actress and comedian, Whoopi Goldberg's and many others. I was excited when I first accessed Sasheer Zamata's website and saw a big and beautiful picture of the comedian rocking her afro (see pic above). She also has many other pictures of her natural hairstyles. The comedian's favicon is that of a little Black girl wearing a fro decorated with a pink bow. I thought it was very cute! It will be interesting to see if Zamata will wear natural hairsty...