Going-Natural.com’s the 10th anniversary exhibition featuring Natural Hairstyle portraits of locs, twists, afro, cornrows, dreadlocks.
Watch the video below! Thirty- two years after the first ever dreadlocks grooming salon opened its doors and natural hair has become an inevitable lifestyle, the booming movement established its own hair and fashion show.Going-Natural.com, instrumental in propelling the online natural hair movement for over a decade and the International African Arts Festival, a cultural […]
It’s with great pleasure that we invite you to Black Follicles Matter, a photo montage to start off Black History Month to celebrate and elevate Black Roots.
Going-Natural.com presents Black Follicles Matter, a unique collection of beautiful Natural Hairstyles that challenge the stereotypical ideas of Black Hair. The exhibition opens the first day of Black History Month on February 1st at 7 PM at the Temple of Illumination located at 138 St. James Place in Brooklyn, NY.
Next year I have another opportunity to do an exhibition and I am elated! This time, I am aiming to go even more in-depth picturing the long time elephant in the room: Hair Loss!
Your beautiful textures, creative styles and vibrating energy made my exhibition absolutely outstanding and magnificent. So with a joyful heart I like to thank you for coming to BAD Hair Uprooted and helping me change perceptions by capturing and sharing your favorite natural hairstyles with your friends on social media.
“Good Hair Was All She Wanted” is without question the most shocking hair story in the 10 year existence of going-natural.com’s but also in the history of youtube. The almost 4 minute video is in fact a slideshow that tells the hair story of a woman whose scalp was mutilated by a chemical relaxer that was […]
Like so many daughters from the Diaspora, I started relaxing my hair when I was a teenager. I didn’t know any better than that it was a rite of passage and I was happy to have my Afro straightened.
Follow my blog with Bloglovin If you think the petition to comb Blue Ivy”s Hair, is too painful to read which it should be for anyone who understands where it comes from, imagine the pain the poster of the text must feel. Not being able to see the gorgeousness of an adorable little Black girl […]
More than excited, I am elated about Bad Hair Uprooted, the 10th anniversary exhibition featuring a myriad of your head turning Natural Hairstyles. I like this to be a going-natural.com community celebration in every sense. Not only will your outstanding hairstyles be on display, you also get to choose which portraits will be on display.
Lady Rapunzel is almost a perfect example of how royal naturally locked African hair can look. Her incredibly long and beautiful dreadlocks turned heads at the BAM African Dance Festival in Brooklyn, New-York in 09 where this picture was taken.
Until I went natural, I never really had the courage to dig deeper into the history of slavery than what was being taught in schools. Growing up in Suriname in a loving family of five, I had everything a kid could wish for. I can humbly say that we grew up privileged with more than […]
Crown of Locs is choosen once more for two New York Exibitions. This time out of 1,900 submissions!
Since I started taking pictures of natural hairstyles more than 10 years ago, I dreamed about an exhibition to share the beauty of our unique tresses with the rest of the world. From the simplest to the most intricate style I couldn’t wrap my mind around, I was convinced that the colorful portraits of these […]
This is one of the natural hair photos that was on display in the UK in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology this Summer and Autumn. The picture was taken at the African Festival in 2010. This little beauty was lying in a stand that offered massages. She didn’t mind me […]
If you’ve been to a natural hair show in the past years, it’s very likely that you have seen this model who goes by the name of Mr. Golden Child. As model and an artist he uses his chest long locs to set himself apart from the rest. As an images says 1.000 words it’s […]
The first time I shot this colorful diva was in 2005 at the BAM Dance Africa Festival. When I saw her again in 2009 I told her that she was part of my exhibition. She laughed and said: “I am a diva.”