Archive for the 'Beauty and Style' Category
April 23, 2008

Hey Sugar Babies!
As you can see The Brown Sugar Pages has a new look. Hopefully this will be easier to read and see. I am currently struggling with learning CSS so that I can truly customize the blog, but until I get it, I hope this will do.
If you’re good with CSS or you’re interested in designing a new custom header for the current theme, holla at ya girl!
Posted in Beauty and Style, Entertainment, General Brown Sugar Stuff, Life, Religion and Inspiration, Love and Relationships, News and Society, Race Matters, politics | Tagged blog, blogger, bloggers, blogspot, brown sugar, Brown Sugar Pages, Changes, CSS, design, header, post, read, readers, theme, typepad, wordpress | 2 Comments »
April 18, 2008

Jilly from Philly is taking it all off!! Tastefully of course. Actress Gabrielle Union and Singer, Actress, songwriter and Poetess Jill Scott will be featured along with about five other celebs in Allure’s Annual Naked issue, which celebrates the female body.
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Posted in Beauty and Style, Entertainment | Tagged acting, actor, actress, Allure Magazine, Beauty, black, black femlale, fat, female, female body, feminsm, Gabrielle Union, hips, Jill Scott, Magazine, movie, Music, naked, nude, overweight, Philadelphia, Philly, Sex, sexual, style | 1 Comment »
April 11, 2008
First off let me begin this post by saying that I am an avid weave wearer (love myself and I love the ability to change my hair frequently) but I am also an advocate for natural hair. Basically I’m a fan of whatever hairstyle that a black woman wants to wear (exceptions would be Crayola colored weave, and those half permed/ half nappy chicks, girl cut that mess off and start again).
I say that to say this. I previously had NO I idea of the Monopoly that is taking place in the black hair supply industry. Currently Black women make up 10% of the population, 80% of hair product customers and about 5% of the Beauty supply industry owners. That means that we’re being shut out of an industry that essentially caters to out vanity by people of other cultures. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Beauty and Style, Race Matters | Tagged aron ramen, asians, beautiful, Beauty and Style, big hair, black business, black hair, black hair documentary, black is beautiful, black people, black women, Bobsa, color, cosmetics, extentions, hairstyle, koreans, long hair, milky way, monopoly, nappy, natural, perm, relaxer, service, stylists, weave, women, yaky | 3 Comments »
March 28, 2008

“Shake them Dreds” while you can
I don’t follow Football that much, but I have to talk about the NFL’s proposed ban on long hair. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Beauty and Style, Entertainment | Tagged al harris, ban, Entertainment, football, groomed, hair, hair cut, hair tuck, long hair, mike mackinze, NFL, Sports, troy polamalu | 3 Comments »
March 15, 2008

Check out the Fierce-ness of Ms. Badu on the cover of Essence Magazine’s April issue! Get it girl!
Posted in Beauty and Style, Entertainment | Tagged African Americans, Amerykah's most wanted, black, black women, Erykah Badu, Essence Magazine, jazz, Magazine, Music, neo-soul, songs, Soul | 2 Comments »
March 13, 2008

The newest cover of vogue has hit the streets and it’s certainly a big deal. Lebron James, is sharing the cover with super model Giselle Bundchen, and he is the one of only three men who have had the honor of doing so. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Beauty and Style, Entertainment, Race Matters | Tagged animal, Anna Wintour, ape, Athlete, basketball, black, Black man, black people, Cover, fashion, gorrilla, king kong, Lebron James, Magazine, Sports, Super model, Vogue | No Comments »
March 8, 2008
I’m so ready for this movie, I just want to check out the fashions. truly I do! here’s a style fix for all my folks with “Carrie fever” as Jay-z calls it. Here are some shots from the Vogue Photo shoot.

Check the footwork!

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Posted in Beauty and Style, Entertainment | Tagged Big, Charlotte, fashions, Film, HBO, Jay-z, Jennifer Hudson, Miranda, movie, Mr. Big, Samantha, Sarah Jessica Parker, sex and the city, Sex and the city movie, style, Vogue | No Comments »