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Refinery 29: Melina Matsoukas

Refinery 29: Melina Matsoukas

Click Read More + Comment for additional photos. Meet 32 year old, Grammy award winning video and commercial Director, Melina Matsoukas. Directing in a male dominated industry, Matsoukas not only opens doors and knocks down barriers but stereotypes as well, proving quality is not always in a quantified budget, stating, “expensive equipment is not necessary(…)

Downtown Records Hosts Listening Party For 2013 Music Award Winner TK Wonder

Downtown Records Hosts Listening Party For 2013 Music Award Winner TK Wonder

Feature photo by Ben O’ Brian Smith. I am simply over the moon and extremely proud of my twin sister, Singer/Lyricist/Songwriter/, TK Wonder who is the winner in the music category for the 2013 See.me launch contest. With a global community of over 600,000 See.me provides a platform for artists to share their work and in(…)

A Conversation With Rihanna’s Hair Stylist, Ursula Stephen

A Conversation With Rihanna’s Hair Stylist, Ursula Stephen

Rihanna’s celebrity Hair Stylist, Ursula Stephens shares and reveals everything, from the industry’s standard of beauty, discrimination as a black hairstylist, natural hair and the movement of natural hair bloggers (including Urban Bush Babes), as well as her trip to South Africa where she worked with women of color whose hair was marred by chemicals,(…)

Our Wedding: Part One

Our Wedding: Part One

I’ve been waiting for this moment for a while, so bare with me I have a lot of photos to share.  Carl and I chose to have our intimate wedding on the beach in Big Sur, California, the most magical place we’ve ever seen in all our travels. God did something that we could have(…)

Advice You Wish You Had In The Beginning of Your Hair Journey

Advice You Wish You Had In The Beginning of Your Hair Journey

For those of you who are seasoned “Natural Hair Vets”; well versed and armed with the knowledge and techniques to care for your hair successfully…yes, you now can proudly dub yourself the Michael Jordan of your hair domain! As you brush your shoulders off now that we have established your reign over natural hair, can(…)

SKYFALL: A Night with James Bond 007

SKYFALL: A Night with James Bond 007

Click Read More + Comment for additional photos. Smart, sleek, sexy and fast yet endurance to last for days…well you wouldn’t expect anything less while in the company of the one and only Secret Service Agent, Bond…James Bond…well…let me clarify. My night with the man who takes his martinis “shaken, not stirred” was actually in(…)

Style Like U: “Our Mission”

Style Like U: “Our Mission”

‘Style Like U’ ask one simple question… Are you being you? Find out the real mission behind one of our favorite style sites, ‘Style Like U’ as Founders, Editor-in-Chiefs and Mother & Daughter team, Elisa Goodkind and Lily Mandelbaum reveal all in this intimate look behind their innovative site, celebrating the diversity of the authentic(…)

Tasty Unexpected Super Bowl Vegetarian/Vegan Snacks, Dips & Drinks

Tasty Unexpected Super Bowl Vegetarian/Vegan Snacks, Dips & Drinks

Click Read More + Comment for additional recipes. Super Bowl season is upon us and we all know snacking the game away could almost be dubbed a holiday tradition (ok, well at least in my family). So to get you in the holiday, I mean Super Bowl spirit here are 17 unexpected Super Bowl snacks,(…)