Blaq Natural Hair: Actress Lupita Nyong'o Wins Awards for Role in '12 Years a Slave'

Blaq Natural Hair: Actress Lupita Nyong'o Wins Awards for Role in '12 Years a Slave'

We can't help but notice, along with the world, that beautiful actress Lupita Nyong'o and her natural hairstyle. Some may think its too short and not feminine but she is very elegant and posed.

Nyong'o reveals why she shaved her head after relaxing it for years:

"It happened when I was 19. I had relaxed hair and it was up to my shoulders and I'd go to the salon every week to have it curled or retouched. And I dyed my hair green and blue and maroon and you name it. Two things happened; I got fed up of going to the salon. I just wanted less time grooming so I could get more stuff done. And then also I realized if I continued messing up with my hair I would be completely bald by the age of 40. So I just shaved it all off and I was completely a skinhead. And it was so liberating. And I discovered the shape of my head wasn't so bad. And so I grew my hair a little and ever since then I just don't have the patience to grow it again. But I do enjoy wearing a wig from time to time in the privacy of my house," Nyong'o says. Source

She also stated in that interview that she grew up with very bad skin until her mother took a trip to Madagascar and found alternative and medicinal herbs is when she found out how beautiful her skin really revealed.

News reports about her latest award:

Nyong’o won for supporting actress at the 20th annual SAG Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday for her performance as the singular slave Patsy in Steve McQueen’s historical drama “12 Years a Slave.” She thanked McQueen “for taking a flashlight and shining it underneath the floorboards of this nation and reminding us what it is we stand on.”

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Blaq Natural Hair: MSNBC Correspondent Tamron Hall Shows Off Her Natural Hair

We like that more and more black women in the field of media are taking on their own identity and wearing natural hairstyles. It shows how much we can be ourselves and not be conformed to society's image of us.

Natural Hair blogger reported:

MSNBC correspondent Tamron  Hall has been a natural girl, but it looks like she’s ready to share her natural hair story with the world.

After 20-year in the industry, she recently shared her story with natural hair blogger Curly Nikki during a trip to South Africa.

“Like many Black women on television, straight hair has been her professional life and look… that was until our trip together to South Africa,” Nikki writes. “After hearing about my hair story and experiencing for herself, the positive and supportive natural hair community, she felt inspired to finally share her curly story with the world.”

“In a moment of pure honesty, she also shared that she sometimes felt a bit of resentment at her White colleagues who could wake up in the morning and come right in to work, entirely ‘appropriate’ or ‘professional’, but that she’d have to spend hours- that she could’ve spent resting or preparing- manipulating her hair to meet the straight hair standard of beauty,” she continued. “Sound familiar any one?”

“Tamron has been natural for a while but most folks wouldn’t know. Until this post, only close family and friends have witnessed the awesomeness that is her curly hair.  She shared that most vacations end with her having to wear her natural hair and that when she returns from vacation, she has to take an extra vacation day to get her hair straightened for work.  As we all know, straight hair is also beautiful and the limited use of heat-treated styles does not necessarily prevent us from having healthy natural hair.

However, I suggested to her that the NEED to straighten one’s hair for personal or professional reasons can sometimes become a ‘quality of life’ issue.  Tam’s response…‘I totally agree, and hope that being honest about my story helps other textured women struggling with this issue to try going natural either full or part time.‘”

Well, we hope she goes totally natural and move a trend in her workplace but we realize that may affect her 'quality of life". Hopefully she can do what really makes her happy one day soon.

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