A Waco, Texas pastor recently told his church's leadership staff not to wear weaves because they're a distraction from getting in touch with your inner self. Is Dove's "Real Beauty" ad campaign looking for a new spokesman?
There's a new front in the drug war: the female scalp. Yes, intrepid ladies are now sneaking yayo into the country under their weaves ... and they woulda gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for that stinkin' customs patdown.
Last night's episode featured the long-awaited showdown between Danielle and Teresa, which escalated into an all out rubber-necking, hair-pulling, heel-breaking, coke-whore-calling, cops-arriving flurry of chinchilla and hair weave. As one bystander aptly remarked, it was "such fucking bullshit."
In the five years of her talk show—which ends its run at the end of this week—Tyra has single-handedly familiarized a nation with weaves, wigs, tracks, and extensions. Here, we look back at her contribution to society.
Sadly, this week is the last for Tyra. After five seasons, she leaves behind a legacy of hair weaves, fathers who bikini wax daughters, interviews with presidential candidates, and general buffoonery. Here, we compile our 10 favorite moments.
Brandi Irwin is five foot eleven and a former model-turned-foot model. She has the word "Posh" tattooed on her knuckles. And she spends $47,000 a year on her hair. How? Why?!
Today on Oprah, Chris Rock discussed his documentary Good Hair, which investigates how black women treat—and feel about—their hair. He tried to explain weaves to white viewers, but they already learned all about that from Tyra and ANTM.
For the premiere of the fifth season of her talk show today, Tyra wore her real hair. Then she sat down to interview Perez Hilton and pretended like she doesn't read his site or hate his guts.
In today's New York Times, Catherine Saint Louis attempts to get to the root of the politics surrounding black hair. She touches on "good hair," the "creamy crack," Malia Obama's twists and Chris Rock's new documentary. She writes:
"No matter which angle you dissect this little thirty second spot from, only one conclusion is possible; the purposeful exposure of the so-called desperate ignorance of Black women." Also, does the ad pit blacks against Eastern Europeans? [Womanist Musings, Racialicious]
Taking a cue from Chris Rock's documentary Good Hair, today's Tyra examined how black women — including little girls — feel about their hair, and the (at times painful) lengths they go to alter it.
• New evidence released in the Caylee Anthony case: Five days after Caylee's disappearance, Casey Anthony allegedly wrote in her diary: "I have no regrets...I just hope that the end justifies the means." •
Tyra has a lot to celebrate: Today marks the 500th episode of her talk show, which, we learned this morning, has been nominated for a Daytime Emmy (this year in a different category, "talk show/informative" instead of "talk show/entertainment"). TyTy was a guest on The View today, and she let us know that New York…
On last night's episode of Rock of Love 2, the parents of the three remaining girls came to visit, and Amber's dad nearly fucked up the whole competition for her when he told Bret her real age. (She's 37, not 32.) She insisted that she was so used to telling people her stage age, she didn't realize that she'd lied to…
It was pretty obvious from the get go that any interpersonal dramz on I Know My Kid's a Star would take place between the stage parents. On last night's episode, flashy mom Rocky decided to give herself a haircut so that she "wouldn't outshine [her] daughter" in the competition. Alai's mother Gigi — another strong…
Last week, Joy Behar said that they don't want men as panelists on The View, because people don't care what men have to say when they tune in to watch that show. And that's so true. But what's great about women's daytime talk shows is that when men actually do go on, they behave so much differently than they do on…
[Image from The View, January 23.]
Is it even necessary to point out that the residents of The Bad Girls Club house are monumentally fucked up in the head? On last night's episode, Lyric, the aptly-named aspiring rapper, fessed up to the fact that her first father abandoned her, and her stepfather raped her, leaving her unable or unwilling to trust…
