Natural Hair Icon: Laura Izibor

"Curly hair is beautiful and I wouldn't trade it for anything."

Natural Hair Icon: Jill Scott (on Essence Magazine)

Jill Scott graces the October 2012 cover of Essence magazine rocking her TWA (teeny-weeny-afro)!

Jill tweeted: "Yes it was important 4 me 2 b natural...I needed my son to see mommy like he does at home. I wanted to show him that Mommy likes herself. Bravo Essence!"

and

"I love to see us rocking ourselves!!! I enjoy all the hair hats I wear still, I LOVE feeling my hair. Happily my man does too."

She is so inspirational and looking radiant!

Rock on naturals :)

~J

Natural Hair Icon: Tracee Ellis Ross

“I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work!” - Tracee Ellis Ross (on coming out of her shell)



I LOVE her. I love her style. I love her hair. I love her elegance. She's beautiful!

Photo's from: http://www.facebook.com/#!/TraceeEllisRossOfficial

Natural Hair Icon: Esperanza Spalding

"I watch while I'm brushing my hair. I'm never doing nothing. If it's been a couple nights since I've brushed my hair out, I put on nbc.com, and I take those 20 minutes and brush out my hair. It's not time that's totally lost. I do something productive, and I get my guilty pleasure at the same time" - Esperanza Spalding [On making time for TV]

[J: I love her fro...the bigger the better :) She's beautiful and one of my favourite naturalists!]

Check Out Dem Curls: Oprah!

Oprah is appearing with her natural hair on the September issue of O! While she has had some choice hair styles throughout the years, I love her natural hair! You go girl! :)

[From Oprah.com]

"For the first time ever, Oprah's appearing on the cover of O without blow-drying or straightening her hair. She says that wearing her hair naturally—as she often does on weekends and on vacation—makes her feel unencumbered. But there was a time when she wanted to just cut it all off. "I wanted to wear it close-cropped a la Camille Cosby but her husband Bill convinced me otherwise. 'Don’t do it,' he said. 'You’ve got the wrong head shape and you’ll disappoint yourself.' I took his advice," she says. Although, never one to shy away from a style update, Winfrey is a firm believer that changing your hairstyle can change what we see and feel is possible. "I even notice a change in my dogs when they get their summer cuts: they’re friskier and livelier, feeling more themselves once the weight of the hair is released."

After all the makeovers she’s done in O magazine and on TV, Oprah stands firm that the only makeovers that are maintained and sustained are "those in which something inside the receiver clicks, aligning with that which is being received. The only way to real transformation is through the mind."

Don't miss O's September 2012 makeover issue, on newsstands August 7th."

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/style/Oprahs-Natural-Hair-on-O-Magazine-September-2012--Oprahs-Real-Hair#ixzz22M5cDDeS