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Nikki Walton
Blog: Curly Nikki
Why We Love Her: Natural hair stories, product reviews and exclusives with curly-haired celebs aside, Curly Nikki offers enough advice, insight and testimonies about her personal hair care story to make any natural hair care fiend binge-read. Plus, her snaps of worldwide travel excursions and "On The Couch" features with inspiring naturalistas shed light on just how global the natural hair journey has become. You can expect everything covered in her book, "Better Than Good Hair," along with soulful life inspiration and crazy-pretty Instagram pictures of #curlygirls. Whether it's her love for her hair, her hubby or her bright-eyed little one, consider her our virtual BFF (blogger friend forever).
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GG Renee
Blog: All The Many Layers
Why We Love Her: Who doesn't love a blogger with her own stage name? Women have layers, and GG attempts to positively impact all the things related to helping them do it all -- be it land a successful career, muster up the courage to ask him out, cut off all your hair or stand out amongst a sea of "regulars." She's all about encouraging women to be beautiful in their own way, and if being brutally honest helps them get there, then so be it.
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Leila Noelliste
Blog: Black Girl Long Hair
Why We Love Her: The name of the blog itself drew us in. With long, beautiful, natural hair being such a rare sight in the African-American community, we couldn't help but scour the pages of BGLH. And what we found: Style icons that run the gamut of gorgeous natural hair textures and lengths, products that work so well, you'd buy in bulk and inspirational Instagram photos you wouldn't believe without the #nofilter.
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Tamara Floyd
Blog: Natural Hair Rules
Why We Love Her: She's a mommy, a wife and a natural hair blogger who shares DIY recipes for treating natural hair, and the cutest hairstyles worthy of their own pinboard. Her witty sense of humor shines bright with news sections like "What's Poppin," and she gives other naturalistas a voice by offering guest features, personal stories (or disasters) and sharing new mom tips like the best products to use for your baby.
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Gabby, Atima and Morgan
Blog: Beauty is Color
Why We Love Them: Aspiring young professionals, these three women cater their beauty advice to all women of color. With product reviews, hairstyle tutorials, yummy, healthy recipes and makeup specific to diverse skin tones, the content delivers a little bit of something for all minority women.
Sometimes, we beauty junkies can't help it. To get inspiration (or a time-consuming Friday distraction) we turn to bloggers for the coolest, most unique beauty ideas.
And we're not the only ones. Top beauty, lifestyle and fashion bloggers now make up a large percentage of "It" girls and industry influencers (and are even scoring front-row seats at NYFW). What makes them so compelling? Aside from exploring new niche categories and demographics -- offering advice to the curly-haired, Latin-inspired, curvy-sized and even long-hair-obsessed -- these bloggers get us talking.
They're relatable, and rather than giving us general tips on how to create ponytails, they share personal stories like their boyfriends' reactions to chopping off all their hair. It's these African-American and Latina bloggers' unique point of view that's so captivating, making it possible to lose an afternoon diving into their content. And since, well, it is about beauty, it's not procrastination -- it's research. After all, how else are we going to learn to do the fiercest orange lip or a mean cut crease eyeshadow?
We searched high and low to see who's on top in the world of online beauty blogging. What we found: Only the most informative, unique and insanely talented influencers with a love for sharing their fashion and beauty savvy. Whether it's tutorials on the latest natural hairstyles or uber-glam makeup looks for a GNO, these African-American and Latina bloggers are here to help.
They're relatable, and rather than giving us general tips on how to create ponytails, they share personal stories like their boyfriends' reactions to chopping off all their hair. It's these African-American and Latina bloggers' unique point of view that's so captivating, making it possible to lose an afternoon diving into their content. And since, well, it is about beauty, it's not procrastination -- it's research. After all, how else are we going to learn to do the fiercest orange lip or a mean cut crease eyeshadow?
We searched high and low to see who's on top in the world of online beauty blogging. What we found: Only the most informative, unique and insanely talented influencers with a love for sharing their fashion and beauty savvy. Whether it's tutorials on the latest natural hairstyles or uber-glam makeup looks for a GNO, these African-American and Latina bloggers are here to help.