With the hottest natural hairstylists, fashion designers and food innovators from the French Caribbean, Boules d’Ebene is scheduled to be the event you don’t want to miss this summer. From May 30th to June 1st 8,000 visitors are expected to enjoy live performances, food, hair and fashion shows in the center of Paris. BE is known to be the largest […]
The natural hair world was shaken when we heard the news that Titi Branch, one of the early exemplary entrepreneurs who made kinky hair look fabulous, had passed away at such a young age. The 45 year old woman behind Miss Jessie seemed to have everything going for her. Friends who adored her, a flourishing […]
BOUCLES D’EBENE, Europe’s largest Black trade show, has a contest as they are looking for a correspondent to report their three day event Live from Paris. The winner gets an all inclusive trip to Paris with hotel for three days: May 30th, 31st and the 1st of June.
Welcome and thank you for visiting the new Market Place to be! You’ve read it right; the tiny going-natural web shop now becomes an international Marketplace expanded and built upon the common special interest that we share: Natural Hair.
Natural hair is happening! So much so that there are events everywhere. From local meet-ups to international hair shows and these gatherings are a great way to meet fellow natural heads, share experiences, be inspired and most of all check out the latest hairstyles and products.
My first professional natural hairstyle was created by Hairstylist Netu who specializes in flat twists. It was at a little hair expo in Brooklyn. As I was looking for styles for my book I was super exited to be a model for Netu and since she needed photos of her styles she sent me to […]
While I was thinkful for you filling out the survey for the new Going Natural Mall and working on the new America’s Next Natural Model site, I found out that Going Natural How to Fall in Love with Nappy Hair ranks Nr. 1 on Amazon! So wonderful things I like to share with you and […]
This has been a public secret for decades but like so many things when it comes our Black community, the information was either not widely shared and sometimes even ignored or dismissed. Hopefully now that Dr. Rachael Ross from The Doctors explained it, this can now become public knowledge that won’t be ignored.
Brooklyn, NY March 31st – The book Going Natural, How to Fall in Love with Nappy Hair by author Drs. Mireille Liong-A-Kong ranks nr. 1 on amazon.com in the category “Hair Care and Styling”.
Did you know that New York City was exchanged for Suriname? Yes, it was in 1667 when the British cede their part of Suriname to the Netherlands in exchange for New Amsterdam (later called New York City).
When you enjoy nearly every second of a trip it is impossible to capture ALL your favorite moments. As far as I am concerned, being in Suriname was just one big happy moment. You got an idea if you’ve seen the photos of the opening of the BAD Hair Uprooted exhibition in Suriname now watch a few more […]
Back from Suriname, totally inspired to re-open the going-natural.com store, I realized that there is a lot more that the online shop can offer.
You may not have heard of her yet but it doesn’t matter. I am sure you soon will get to know more than just this woman’s name. You will learn what she does and what she stands for by watching her future documentary A Super Naptural Revolution.
It’s never fun to share bad news but I am glad that at least I also have great news to go along with it. So in the hope that you will be overjoyed for me and won’t hold the bad announcement against me, I will start sharing the latter first.
Yes, going-natural.com is nominated for the Master Pioneer Award! Of course I am humbled and proud but more than anything I am elated and I want you, all of you members, followers and fans, who supported me and going-natural.com over the years, to join me at the ceremony if you can. You are pioneer followers […]
