Summer Hiatus, New Site Design and Updates

September 12, 2011

Me next to one of the art pieces at the African American Museum Dallas Hey everyone! This “update” post is long overdue, but it’s always difficult to figure out what exactly to write about when you’ve been away for so long! After procrastinating by walking to the store, cleaning the house, prepping dinner, and watching [...]

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Video: How to Do Mini-Twists on Your Natural Hair (Without Driving Yourself Crazy!)

June 29, 2011

Below is a little video I put together explaining my methodology when installing mini-twists on my natural hair. I first learned about mini-twists from Naptural85 and I must say, I really love them. I’ve been busy traveling all over the country this summer (thus encountering many different climates) so wearing my hair in this way [...]

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It’s Really Just that Simple (Part 1): Easy, Effective Natural Hair Care

May 23, 2011

As a life long lover of all things “self-improvement”, sometimes I sit back and marvel at the various challenges I have put myself up to over the years. Whether it was “learning to be a doctor” at 7 years old by reading the unintelligible passages under the “How Your Heart Works” section of my hardbound [...]

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It’s Really Just that Simple: A Series

March 29, 2011

Photo Credit: The Raggedy-man on Flickr   “Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.” — Leo Babauta Not too long ago, when riding in the car with a friend, we came to a stoplight and I noticed a young woman crossing the street. Dressed nicely and seemingly on her way [...]

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Video: March Hair Length Check

March 9, 2011

To say I have been on hiatus is a bit of an understatement. Ah, all of the Think & Grow Chick adventures and revelations that I must soon share! While I work on pulling this blog out of its comatose with fresh posts and videos on my business, finance, and personal adventures, I figured the [...]

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Working Hard at Taking it Easy: My Mantra for 2011

January 21, 2011

I smiled as I received the text because it was the culmination of one heck of a Christmas vacation. “I love you too, sweetie. This your first time being 22. It gets a lot easier as you get older, I promise.” –Mom We had gotten off of the phone not too long prior to her [...]

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It’s Not About Being Naughty or Nice—It’s About Hard Work

January 1, 2011

Photo Credit: Clay Larsen The winter holiday season is by far my favorite. With the fall school semester ending just in time for a much needed break from all my academic rigor, I love coming home to my mom’s cooking, my brother’s jokes, and two weeks of wide open, unstructured time. While rhapsodizing over how [...]

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Why Money Can’t Buy Me Happiness

December 3, 2010

Photo Credit: Tantek I remember the first time I realized that money would never buy me happiness. I was sitting in my room; going over my bank accounts, perplexed by how there always seemed to be barely enough cash to cover my basic expenses. Irritated that I hadn’t been shopping in weeks or bought even [...]

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The Accidental (Hair) Minimalist

November 12, 2010

If you were following me yesterday on twitter, then you might have seen my tweet declaring my love for “the pineapple method” and the subsequent twitpic showing the best “second-day” hair I could have every hoped for. For those of you who are unfamiliar, basically, the “pineapple” is simply a way to maintain your natural [...]

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Interview: Maneandchic.com Founder Kai Speaks on Hair, the Blog, and Professional Life

November 10, 2010

Maneandchic.com was one of the first blogs that introduced me to this online, natural hair community. From her humble beginnings in 2007 as a natural hair novice with nothing but a blog and a dream, I have watched Mane & Chic founder, Kai, attain 3 years of amazing growth with both her hair and the [...]

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