The Pompadour

Welcome back to Napsod!k, the photoblog bringing you closer to the people and stories beneath and behind that neck breaking natural hairstyle you're just living to find out more about. We bump into Love Naturals all of the time and what we want to know is just how they do it, right? So come and join us as we get to know more about the care routines, stylists, D-I-Yers, and locticians who all come together to make Loving our natural hair a bit easier.

This week's Love Natural is a born-beautiful sister whom I met at the Magic Johnson Theatre in Harlem during the season two screening of The Misadventures of the Awkward Black Girl. This sister shall remain nameless but her fashion and style speaks volumes. Introducing, Love Natural #1!

Lovely in lace, this sister's crown is adorned in seven year long love locs which have been highlighted with bronze accents that carefully complement the melanin that holds so true to her beautiful brown hue.

When asked how she styles her hair, the sister shared that she styled her hair herself with a french roll up-like do finished with a Janelle Monae inspired pompadour, fanned out so that it falls arranged just over the forehead like a bang would.

Many of us covet this classic, funky, timeless style in locs or loose hair and may want to know how they too can get this awesome look. Well, I Heart My Coils would like to (re)introduce you to the awe-inspring Chescaleigh of YouTube's hit sensation, "Sh!t White Girls Say... to Black Girls". Follow Chescaleigh's channel, Chescalocs and subscribe for her personal Hair FAQs and a host of video how-to's on loc styles. I did! Check out this alternative take on the style above:

 

And until next week, as always,

Keep it Natural, Know Yourself,
Kymani M. Jade

I <3 My Coils

Welcome to I Heart My Coil's NAPSODIK Photoblog!!!

Top Left: Kymani Jade, Top Right: POZ

Welcome to Napsodik, the best natural hair photoblog you’ll EVER visit... well, since the last one I suppose...and maybe even the next one. But that’s neither here or there. My name is Kymani M. Jade (you may remember me as Fotki's or Nappturality.com's morelyrical)and along with POZ (YouTube’s naturallymeunique) we present to you, I Heart My Coils. You may be familiar with us through Facebook. Well this is us here...(just let your pretty little eyes dance on over to the right).

Whether you’re following “naturallymeunique”, Napsodik, I Heart My Coils or another love naturals site, just remember, there’s no competition. You can be sure that we are ALL going to take you with us through a coily, kinky, springy, natty journey of nappturality -- that is the love of natural hair, it's care, styling, and the empowering attitude it manifests.

This photoblog is for the woman, teen, or man who is excited, eager, ready, NAPSODIK about their organic, natural, hair and how it can be nurtured, maintained and all the versatile ways it can be fashioned and protected. As I sound off in my spoken word piece, perfectly titled "Napsodik", this photoblog is for the “long and bushy, short and wooly... with our nappy afros, parted cornrows, natty lovelocs and kinky twists”.

Napsodik, like rhapsody, is an enthusiastically ecstatic expression of full joy for our natural crowns, and in this photoblog, I capture natural sisters and brothers on the road, in the street, on the subway and the like, and sit with them for a moment to chat about their style, routines and journeys. Then I come back to this comfy (or creepy, I'm still trying to decide) living room like space to share that info with You.

And I hope you enjoy because this, like I said, is bound to be an ab-soul-ute, phenomenal, napsodik adventure. I'll be journaling every week, so stayed tuned for the inside scoop, nook and cranny with this Napsodik Love Natural, right here...
 

Until then, thanks for joining us!

 
Keep it K.I.N.K.Y,

Kymani M. Jade
I <3 My Coils