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The Healthy Hair & Beauty Affair II was my second ToBNatural event and I'm so excited to share this footage with you! Mane Moves TV was there to capture some highlights and interviews with attendees and special guests.
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The Healthy Hair & Beauty Affair II: Tickets are On Sale!
Hopefully, you’ve already marked your calendars for my second Healthy Hair & Beauty Affair on June 15th. Now it’s time for you to be among the first to secure your spot for what’s going to be an amazing event with healthy hair care as its focus! We’re excited to have hair care entrepreneur Karen Tappin of Karen’s Body Beautiful in the house this time around who will be sharing her hair story! Take in some hair care education with a workshop by “The Curl Whisperer” Tameeka McNeil-Johnson and witness as someone undergoes their Big Chop! Val Joseph aka Mrs. Makeup will also be joining us once more to answer your makeup questions and she’ll be dolling up some natural beauties for our Sofistafunk Skirt Co. fashion presentation with designer Arlinda M. Scarlett Rocourt, creator of Wonder Curl, gives us a demo of her amazing product line and to mix things up…
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Event Recap | Healthy Hair & Beauty Affair
If you weren’t there or you don’t mess with social media, you’ve probably been wondering how my first ToBNatural event, the Healthy Hair & Beauty Affair, went on Saturday. Well, so as not to toot my own horn, I thought I’d just let some of the attendees tell ya… “If you didn’t make it you missed a great event y’all! So much fun, inspiration and positive energy! Sooo many gorgeous heads of hair and styles!” – Mel B. “I had an awesome time. The best hair event yet!” – D. Michael “@tobnatural did awesome today! Wonderful #naturalhair event!”– @curly_diva {Instagram} “This was my first time at an event like this, I absolutely loved it. I feel a bit more educated on my hair.”– D. Bennett “I ENJOYED IT!! This was my first time as well… And it was nice to see all the different hair styles… It was very informative and everyone…
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NYC Event Alert: Wear Your Hair in Style
Come hang out Monday August 5th at the chic Bauble Bar in SoHo NYC and find the perfect jewelry to complement your kinks, coils and curls! Join Krystal of The Feisty House for her very first NYC event on Monday from 6:30-8:30 PM at the BaubleBar Pop-Up at 131 Greene Street where you’ll enjoy music, lite bites and amazing jewelry. ALL are welcome whether natural or not. If you’re a jewelry lover, come on down! With my tight budget, you’ll probably catch me doing nothing more than browsing… but it’ll all be worth it to finally meet my FAAAVORITE fashionista + naturalista, Cynthia of Simply Cyn. Woop-Wooooop! RSVP here! I hope to see you there! xoxo Toia B. #31WriteNow
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Purple Velvet Blazer + Coral Jeans | Curly Nikki Event
Being that this was an event hosted by miss Curly Nikki, I knew there would be tons of media and lots of pic-taking! Therefore, even more so than usual, putting together a comfortable yet super cute outfit was a must. Soooo… this outfit idea literally came to me in the shower (LOL) only a few hours before it was time to get ready. If you’ve been following me on Instagram, you mighta seen these pics in your feed: My inspiration was this cool, semi-funky, comfy-looking outfit on Esperanza Spalding… a go-with-anything chambray denim button-down, jeans and a blazer ← Anyone who really knows me understands how much I live for blazers! Cute, huh?! I thought, “what haven’t I worn in a while”? The coral H&M jeans and purple Zara blazer came to mind. Surely those two would go together! Once I had it all figured out, it reminded me of this…
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