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Meta Gala 2025: What Will be The Feminine Take on Black Dandyism?

Celebrities, designers and fashion's most influential will be convening at the 2025 Met Gala on Monday, May 5th.  This year's theme is "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.  The period of the Black Dandy spanned over two hundred years, beginning in the 1700s and continuing on until the civil rights era.  During the period, men of African descent used fashion and style as a form of expression and as a way to reclaim their dignity, after having endured years of racial oppression, rejection, misrepresentation and emasculation.  Black Dandyism was also a way to make political statements while transforming struggle into poise and power.  There isn't a better moment in time to revive Black Dandyism than now. The form of expression is mostly associated with the male gender. Females that will be in attendance will have a challenge to present a feminine take on Black Dandyism.  The style requires a good measure of class, elegance, and attention to detail.  The mos...
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How to Get Reimbursed by Insurance for Your Wig

Health insurance companies such as Medicare Advantage, UnitedHealth, Humana, Elevance, Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Molina, UPMC offer coverage for hair prostheses.  Various states such as Connecticut, California, Minnesota, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New York, Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and Delaware have laws in place which require health insurers to provide coverage for wigs or hair prostheses that are medically necessary. Check your plan's coverage by accessing your member handbook or calling the number on the back of your card to ask about coverage for hair prostheses.  Once you are aware of your plan's coverage limits, follow these steps for reimbursement: 1) Be enrolled in a qualified health plan. 2) After examination and diagnosis, request your health provider write a prescription for hair prosthesis due to medical necessity.  Conditions such as Alopecia Areata, Alopecia Totalis and medical conditions which require radiation treatment...

Unpopular Wig & Weave Factz

  1.) Black and ethnic women look best with hair that resemble natural textures. While straight, silky and wavy textures may look nice; they don't look natural.  Most adult women do not have naturally have "laid edges."           Get the look with Essence Wigs " Empress " wig 2.) Never use gorilla glue to keep your wig down because there's a high chance it won't come back off!  Hehehe! People learned from Tessica Brown in 2021. No, but if you have experimented with gorilla glue here are some steps to remove it: How to Remove Gorilla Glue from Hair 3.) Wigs don't discriminate.  Wigs aren't just for women. Men love to wear them too!  Shout out to our wig wearing males.                                                           Essence Wigs  Bohemian Vibe Wi...

Halle Bailey Cohosts and Performs for Motown Christmas Special

Natural style star, Halle Bailey, performed musical hits by Diana Ross and the Supremes for NBC's Motown Christmas Special.  Halle brought the house down in a gorgeous golden fitted gown with two other female singers.  The group appeared as the Supremes for a Motown Christmas special which originally aired on December 11th on NBC.  The young ladies  belted out classic hits such as, "Stop in the Name of Love," "Baby Love" and "You Keep Me Hanging On." This was a first seeing Halle perform classic Motown hits and she has certainly got the moves and vocals to sing in the classic Motown style.  Halle wore a half up half down loc'd look with a long afro kinky half wig.  All three singers wore beautiful natural hair looks.  Isn't great to hear the exclusive sounds of Motown while in a modern era?  All three ladies looked classy and beautiful while belting out these hits by the Supremes.   The Motown era was full of vibrant, soulful and talente...

BIG HAIR AT 2024 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

The Victoria’s Secret Fashion show came back bigger and better than ever!  It was a fantastically colorful night as the Empire State Building lit up pink right before the show. The Victoria’s Secret fashion show has always been a huge symbolic representation of fashion for the brand but past leadership hit the snooze button on the annual showcase ever since the pandemic.  The fashion show is the brand’s premiere event to introduce the season’s hottest undergarments and lingerie. During the show, fans are treated to looks that manage to blend high fashion with fun, flirty and luxurious pieces that are signature to the Victoria’s Secret brand. The 2024 fashion show was an epic event that saw the return of numerous former Victoria Secret Angels both from the far and recent past.  Beauty was clearly on display on the catwalk with eye catching looks that featured lace, fine embroidery, bling and all that’s glitzy and glamourous. There was one feature of the show's beauty theme...

FDA To Ban Relaxers Next Month As Cancer Link is Revealed

Almost 90% of black women have used a chemical relaxer at some point in their lives; many of whom began using it as children.  Usage of chemical relaxers has posed significant risks to the health of minority women. Women who use chemical relaxers are often unaware of the health conditions that they can introduce.  They have been clinically linked to reproductive disorders, infertility, cancer and other diseases.   A reporter for the New York Times, Linda Villarosa, spent a significant amount of time gathering facts about the health crisis surrounding chemical relaxers.  Through a lens similar to one idealized by black female epidemiologists, Villarosa discovered the well-researched link between the frequent usage of chemical relaxers and uterine cancer in black women.  These chemically-laced relaxers contain ingredients that act as endocrine disrupters which lead to early puberty and cancer in black women. Chemical relaxers have always been aggressively ma...

Kinky Edges Wig? What Looks Most Realistic!

Lace fronts made with kinky edges are the latest rave amongst wig enthusiasts.  The wigs are not kinky in texture but the hairline is designed to provide a textured edge line to the wearer.  Most of these "kinky edges" wigs do not possess hair that is uniform in texture.  The hair may be straight, curly or wavy and the hairline or baby hair will be described as "kinky edges."  The hairline on these types of wigs are not actually kinky but more so textured.   Naturally kinky and afro textured wigs do not require kinky edges or a kinky baby hair line because the hair is all uniform and made to match the specific texture of the wig whether it be kinky or curly.  Essence Wigs " Fluffy Curls " Tousled Afro Lace Wig   Essence Wigs " Angela" Afro Wig       Essence Wigs " Idealistic " Afro Curly Wig         Essence Wigs Solo Fro 100% Human Hair Afro Lace Wig Kinky edges look best on wigs that are of a kinky straight tex...