White People Are Rebranding Cornrows as 'Boxer Braids'
Words are hard.
Vogue Espana Cover Features a Black Model Wearing Cornrows
In terms of reflecting the real world, international versions of Vogue continue to be way better at diversity than American Vogue. Here’s model Aya Jones wearing cornrows on the March cover of Vogue Espana.
The LA Times Covers Cornrows, the Hot New Trend for White Ladies
Friends, readers, ladyfolk, I believe we are being trolled. I believe we are being trolled by major newspapers and fashion magazines through a series of willfully ignorant and low-key racist articles where they attempt to completely erase black people from the very styles and trends that they created.
Boy Banned From School For Wearing Cornrows
A London boy was sent home from his first day of school for wearing his hair in cornrows, which apparently violated his school's strict dress code. Now a court has ruled this was discriminatory.
Kim Kardashian "Accidentally" Takes On The Music Biz
"I didn't mean to," Kim said to a crowd in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve, "but I did this song with The-Dream." Didn't mean to? Uh-huh. Yeah. Sure.
Teen Vogue: Be A "Gender Bender" With A Blazer & Cornrows
The November issue of
Teen Vogue has the words "Pretty in Punk" on the cover, but the closest thing you'll find inside is a peculiar, joyless "Gender Benders" fashion spread. The concept? Mixing pretty dresses with structured jackets, "tomboy" shoes and playful purses. Sounds fun! Unfortunately, the results are, well,…
After This Week, We Never Want To Hear The Words "Manolo" or "Cosmo" Ever Again
- Unless you're living in a closet on Mars, you know that the Sex and the City movie premiered today.
- Slut Machine live blogged it wearing flip flops and eating some skittles. Suck on that, Louboutin wearers.
- The only part of the Sex and the City franchise that we're not sick of is Pat Field and her fabulous, gay,…
Why Cast A Black Actress In Your Movie When You Can Get Mena Suvari In Cornrows?
Today's Los Angeles Times has a story about Mena Suvari, who is starring in a new film, Stuck, by Stuart Gordon. She plays Brandi, a young woman who hits a homeless man with her car late one night, sending him right through the windshield. Brandi panics and drives home (with the guy still in her windshield) and tries…
Despite What 'Glamour' Editors Say, Wear An Afro... Or Go Bald And Get AIDS
Black women have got it hard! First Glamour magazine tells them that Afros and dreads are absolutely not okay for the workplace, and now a new study shows that wearing tight braids/cornrows yields extreme hair loss in women:
Now wait a second — ?! No way in hell is magazine going to stand for that one! Though,…
