As you can see, my recent rendezvous with growth has even trickled down to the new Blank.Bare.Clean header. Since I am rocking a new look, I felt it would only be right to give Blank.Bare.Clean a bit of a revamp also.

While many are straddling the fence on whether to embrace Amber Rose or Solange’s current haircut of choice, I admired such boldness as a Midwestern, pre-teen back in the 90′s; when my mom dared to cut her hair off and rock a fierce fade. I remember the comments my middle school classmates would make when she would come up to my school … “Look at her mom’s hair!” “Ay, I heard somebody call your mom ‘baldheaded’.” “When you get older, are you going to where your hair like that too?”

I am my mother’s daughter. So, I figured if she was bold & beautiful enough to do it… hopefully the apple wouldn’t fall too far from the tree. It looks as if I have joined the quiet riot of women of African descent who are rebuking the ball and chain psyche of adhering to another culture’s ideal of beauty. I’ve spent the past 5 years donning natural hair and singing along with India.Arie’s “I am not my hair”, yet still feeling inadequate if both a hot comb and flat iron were not a part of my hair regimen.