Fierce or Foolish: Rihanna Long Hair

Everyone's favorite Bajan pop princess Rihanna stepped out this weekend rocking a brand new hair look. She partied at a Hollywood nightclub with a luscious head of dip-dyed extensions and a siren red lip to boot.

She still has the sides shaved short. She's giving me Cassie vibes with this new hair. And I absolutely love the color. It's a nice subtle honey/caramel. I love Rihanna's edge but I think she looks so sweet with long hair!

Sidebar: Can we talk about how I need this patterned drop-waist dress in my life? So cute! Gonna have to do a Steal Her Chic for this look. 

Thoughts on Rihanna's new hair? Fierce or Foolish?

Source: The Sun

LBS 3 Year Giveaway: Day 11

Today's giveaway (the last & final one of the month!) comes courtesy my hair sponsor for the BET Awards (and the reason I'm whipping my hair back and forth at the moment) Dana Gibbs of the dana's loft Hair Salon! I spoke about my visit to the salon briefly during my Road to BET Awards: Day 4 post. Essentially, Dana gave me a brand new look and I love it.

I told her I wanted big fluffy curls with honey-dipped ombre ends and that's exactly what she gave me. She was so incredibly sweet and supportive the entire time. And she really guided me through the whole process.

I documented the dana's loft Hair Salon visit for you guys, because I always get tons of questions when I do something new to my hair. Didn't want to leave you guys hanging! Take a look at the process below:


Dana has partnered up with LoveBrownSugar for our 3 Year Anniversary to give one lucky winner a travel size bag of the products she featured in the video. TRUST me when I say, these products are amazing. I've been using them to mainain my sew-in and to keep my own natural hair (the part left out) properly moisturized and they really work!

Enter below for your chance to win a packet of the goodies pictured above!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Special thanks to Kisha Timothy for snapping pictures, Lisha Hartgrove for the capture of this video and Sharifa S. Daniels for the editing.

News: Angela Simmons BIKINI with Indique Hair

This summer is already gearing up to be a hot one and on June 21st, the fun and fabness of summer will be officially here. Time to whip out the Bikini! And no, no need to get your tanning oil ready. Leader in virgin hair extensions, Indique Hair, is releasing their first celebrity collaboration ever, with young entrepreneur, reality star and fashion designer Angela Simmons. Together they've collaborated on a new line of summer-inspired extensions named BIKINI.

Hair Tutorial: LoveBrownSugar & VIBE Vixen

Hey loves! So remember back in January when I got my hair done by the lovely stylists at True Indian Hair? Yes, this post and this post I was rocking that amazing sew-in of Kinky-Curly hair. So I actually filmed that whole process as a segment for VIBE Vixen TV! Check it out below as I walk you through the step-by-step sew-in process:

 

So I have to say, I was a little nervous while this video was being made. But I'm so happy with how it came out! Stay tuned for more videos about my fashion & beauty adventures on the streets of NYC. I'm just warming up!

Have you ever had hesitations about installing extensions? I wanna know, soundoff below!

Natural vs. Fake Hair Debate: Weigh In

Hey guys! I'm ecstatic and bubbling over to announce my latest story. A few months ago, the beauty editor at Refinery29 tapped me to ask 5 of my fab friends about their hair journeys, regimens and how they feel about the natural vs. relaxed, fake vs. real and everything in-between debate. This week, they posted the article and it's been stirring up tons of interesting commentary.

Here's a snippet about the story:

At the root of every bad hair day is a desire to achieve the highest level of hair amazingness possible...and the subsequent failure to meet those expectations. We always want what we can’t have, so we set ourselves up for disappointment when our strands can’t live up to our high hair hopes. We all fall prey to mane envy, and with that comes the desire to enhance — whether it be through straightening, coloring, cutting, or adding extensions.

Photo by Erin Yamagata

There’s been an interesting debate brewing recently over what "natural" hair actually is and whether hair enhancements like wigs, weaves, and extensionsplay a misleading role in how we define beauty these days. Is wearing your hair natural “better” than wearing extensions? What exactly gets everyone so riled up when a woman chooses to wear fake hair?

We found five real, stylish girls who have all dabbled with faux hair to answer those questions and more. Read on for their insightful opinions on this hot-button issue, then weigh in with your own thoughts on the “natural or not” debate.

You can check out the full story over at Refinery29.com

What are your thoughts on this debate? What side are you on and why?

LBS Beauty Tutorial: Milkmaid Twist Pin-Up

Last week I posted this outfit that I wore to NYFW Day 3. After posting it, I was inspired by one of LoveBrownSugar's Facebook friends Juliette (hey girl!) to post this tutorial about how I did my Milkmaid Twisted Messy Pin Up Thingy. Yes, I made up that name. No, it's not hard to do.

As a disclaimer, my hair was "assisted" for this look by a sew-in weave that I had in for about 4 weeks as a protective style. I used the Kinky-Curly textured hair from True Indian Hair in 14-inch and had it sew-in so that my edges were left out all around. That allowed me alot of versatility for styles like this.


What You'll Need:

Fine Tooth Comb
Your Favorite Styler (Gel or Curl Creme)
Hair Pins
Bobby Pins

Step 1:  The first step is to split hair into sections and moisturize before applying your favorite styler. Curly girls, if you have shorter length hair, consider doing a blowout for maximum stretch. I applied MorrocanOil Curl Defining Creme to two sections of my hair.

Step 2: Use a fine-toothed comb to separate the hair neatly into two sections. Starting from the temple, flat twist each section going backward towards the nape. Twist until the very ends of the hair. Use hair pins to conceal strays.

Step 3: Take both ends of the chunky twists and pin them to either side of your head at the nape. Use bobby pins to secure. I'm actually cool with my "beady b's" but if slick hair is your thing, this would be a good time to spritz your edges with water and lay them down with gel. Sitting with a satin scarf on for a few minutes after applying water & gel will help set your edges as well. I recommend Eco-Styler gel.

Voila! That's the finished look.

UPDATE (2/29/12) - Check out how Lexi of Curls, Coils & Kinks rocks this style three different ways!

Have you tried this style? What do you do differently?

Beauty & The Box Braids: Weigh In

Source: MyDamnBlog

Ever since Poetic Justice-style box braids have come back in style (circa summer 2010), I've toyed with idea of getting them installed. I think they're kinda fly. Aside from the fact that Solange makes almost everything look amazing (her damn blog is so fly), I've seen some really great versatility with these braids on all types of girls.

Read This: Top 5 Natural Hair Tips For Travel

 So here are my only hesitations about box braids: A) I'm scared of breakage around the hairline (my baby hairs, lawd my baby hairs!) and B) I'm worried about if these will work in professional settings.

So what do you think? Should I go for them in the New Year? Or is it risky? 

Soundoff below! Tell me what you think...