Hello, I’m Angela, and welcome to Random Beauty on Black Central™! This monthly column will be a friendly, off the cuff chat between you and me about random beauty – the latest trends/hot topics and my thoughts about them (good and bad), black-owned businesses I would love to see you support and I’ll be passing along info on products I’ve used and love or heard great things about. I’ll be offering beauty tips and revealing beauty secrets. Have a beauty question? Ask and I’ll give you my opinion and thoughts; however, please remember – if you ask, you will get my honest opinion, so be ready for the answer. So if you submit a pic and ask “do I look fat in these jeans?” and I reply “now you know good and well you do, quit playin’” – don’t get mad at me, let’s just find a better look for you. 🙂 See? Totally random topics each month; hence the name column name, Random Beauty.
Well who am I, you ask? I’m just an opinionated, random (get it?) beauty enthusiast who thinks she knows a little something about beauty, who also happens to be a licensed esthetician and makeup artist. I also have a borderline sick passion about makeup and jewelry, and a slick eye for fashion. Not saying I’M the most fashionable, I just have a serious eye for it. Does that answer your question? Now let’s get to it!
This first month, in the interest of summer, I would like to discuss the latest hair hot topic: summer vs. natural hair.
For those of you who don’t know, “going natural” basically means no relaxer, color, or generally having no chemicals in your hair. The latest issue with natural hair seems to be women worrying about summer heat and humidity and/or working out making our natural hair puff up out of control. While this is definitely a valid issue, I may have an answer – Karen Gary and Synergi Salon (click here for more on Synergi).
Karen is the owner of Synergi Salon, a Black-owned, natural hair salon. Karen is the MASTER of natural hair and if you have never heard of her, you need to educate yourself and get on the natural train – she, along with her products, will change your life!
Yes I said HER products – products she designed just for natural hair. These products are the BOMB and she can’t keep them on the shelves. You’d better pre-order or you might be sitting somewhere mad and nappy! I can attest to her products not only because I have been natural for three years this month and I use them (when I’m not rocking my extensions), but I work at Synergi part time and I see women come and go. I have never seen healthier, shiner, LONG, natural hair! It is not as hard as you think – you too can go natural, and it is so much easier with Synergi’s products. Trust me, if I can do it with THIS HAIR?!? (in my Katt Williams voice) then so can you! I would’ve said “with this NAPPY HAIR,” but Karen doesn’t like that word and will kill me)!
My favorite Synergi Salon product would have to be Karen’s Be Free Thermal Mousse. My biggest concern with being natural is having “nappy” edges (don’t tell Karen I said that). Can you believe her mousse lays down my edges like I just had a relaxer? WHAT?! MY hair? Yes, child, I am not playing. It lays down buckshots, BB’s AND your kitchen (every Black woman reading this knows exactly what that means). This stuff is like magic! Check out her YouTube video which backs up what I said.
Karen holds free classes on the steps it takes to go natural, how to wear your hair curly and lots more. The salon also has a $25 wash/style special Mon-Wed. To book appointments, sign up for classes or order products, go to: www.synergisalon.com. You can thank me later. 😉
Behave yourselves – let’s chat next month . . .