#natural black girls
@ philomenakwao (black women come in different shape and size - video vixens are not the STANDARD of what a black woman’s body represents)
Just some evening black body positivity
Three months 03/19/17
All we do is talk to each other and laugh at everything possible. You’re my best friend Kyleigh. Mommy loves exploring life with you, for every day truly is another adventure. You may not ever understand how much I love you but I will spend each day making sure you know.
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Love for potential
“It’s my love for potential that causes me pain.
The desire to push people to become better with time always has a way of making me
Waste my own” - Morgan Richard Olivier
Concept and hair styling by @mimissaaa
Photography by @mballa.madame
Models @sonia.kds @_frvncoise @lenamng_
MUA @mariacheikh_mua
Center Your Chi
Centering your life force
Becoming one with your thoughts
Centering your energy
Catering to yourself first
Releasing all forms of negativity
Especially things that cause you stress, anxiety and pain
Removing people who bring a whole heap of drama
In order to live your life with equanimity.
Breathing in peace
Resting in the calmness of He
Dancing with glee
Smiling with emesnse joy in your heart
Father Lord I thank Thee
Looking forward to your future
Even though you can’t see
What comes next in those chapters
It will definitely be
Filed with wonderful moments
New lessons to learn
Love and kindness in the midst of all the pain
You’ll succeed and become empowered
Through it all
Center Your Chi
And be.
Author - @iameriwa
Model - @adutakech
Visual arts - @langstonamadi
Representation Matters
Unfortunately, our hair has a long history of being politicised and stigmatised in society. However, now more than ever, Black women should feel empowered to wear our natural kinky curly hair in corporate/professional settings with pride.
The more we do, slowly but surely, our tight curls will no longer be considered as “unprofessional”. Furthermore, employers cannot discriminate against an employee wearing an afro, because that’s discrimination against our natural state!
Something we cannot control, no matter how much we attempt to “tame” it with harmful chemicals, it will continue to grow kinky curly.
Black queens, please remember that young Black girls are looking at us to set the example, so lets all do our best to rock our gorgeous gravity defying hair with pride ❤️✊
Author - @iameriwa
Photographed by @b.gray.pixels
Make up by @naphsie_mua
Styled by @alwoman_
Black Girls are Beautiful
When you raise your Black daughter(s) with a sense of pride in their richly melanated skin, tight kinky curly afro hair, and their natural beauty, they grow up with an unshakable amount of confidence and selflove.
They embrace their Black features and celebrate Afrocentric phenotypes on others.
They become aware of their divine feminine power and attract opportunities that propels them into greatness.
They become examples to younger Black girls, who rarely see themselves represented.
They grow up and become empowered Black women who empower others.
Black girls are Beautiful.
Thank you to @shanillia26-blog for raising such awesome daughters.
My Galentine’s Day Adventures.
On Feb. 15 I went out with my boyfriend and I decided to go out with my best friends from highschool on Feb. 14 instead (we are all grown now). I feel that as I get older the less I need to prove to other people, so I decided to just treat myself and chill with my friends on Valentine’s Day. We got to dress up, went to the movies and then went to a well-known dessert place in Toronto. And because it’s all us girls, we had a photoshoot every turn we went with no complaints .
I had a lot of fun and the sweets really hit the spot! Did you ever celebrate Galentine’s Day with your girls or go out with friends on a v-day? Let me know what you did!
-Arienne
