Cocoa Butter Coils

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Hey Curlfriends!

Competition Time!!!

What’s The Quarantee? and are in collaboration to promote awareness around the intricate struggles and politics of hair. To do that we are giving away a this dope “Goema Hare” pin in pink or blue! Follow the rules below to win:

* Tell us a story about your hair - What makes it unique, what challenges you’ve had to face, how you’ve learnt to embrace it or do you have any negative feelings about it.
* Tag two friends - ensure they follow our page too.
* Share this post in your stories
* Follow
* Join the Facebook group

Winner will be announced on 15 July.
Unfollowing after the competition will amount disqualification in any future giveaways.
This giveaway is completely independent of Instagram.

@ City of Cape Town

✊🏾Happy International Women's Day 🌻

She overcame everything that was meant to destroy her ✊🏾

Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner – The Forgotten Inventor Who Revolutionized Menstrual Pads

https://goodblacknews.org/2020/02/05/bhm-mary-beatrice-davidson-kenner-the-forgotten-inventor-who-revolutionized-menstrual-pads/

“I want to protect my daughter”
Lehkia Lee

"When my daughter was young, she had a habit of complimenting women’s hair but I noticed she only complimented women with straight hair, not afro-textured.

I didn’t want her to fall into the trap of comparing herself to society’s idea of “perfection”.

I didn’t want her to have to learn how to love herself and her hair.

I love fashion and used to collect magazines but I had to throw them away because I didn’t want my daughter Siirah to have a narrow perspective of what was considered beautiful. I bought her books featuring children that looked like her.

But even with everything I was doing, she would still only compliment black women with straight hair. I would sit down and think, “Why is this happening?” Then I realised it was because everything else around her, when she steps outside our house, is telling her something completely different about beauty.

I thought that if the billboards and advertising industry were more diverse and inclusive, it would be a positive thing for everyone. Not just for black girls, but girls of all races.

And that’s when I thought I'd make my own billboard to celebrate natural black hair.

By early 2017, we got our billboard up. It was a proud moment and my daughter was very proud as well."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/my_hair_is_a_symbol_of_pride?fbclid=IwAR06TwlBK0ucP9d4w30FpRAnCqHC8gFqt2pbUs1cF4fzE4S2jSlQdOM49uo

Image Source: Eye for Ebony (The model in image is not Lekhia Lee)

“Salons are safe spaces for black women”
Esme Allman

"My dad is Jamaican and when I was very young I would sit with my head between his legs while he combed out my hair with an afro pick. I was whimpering because it was so painful, but he was having the time of his life, giving me this big hair.

But my mum never learned how to do my hair, and after giving me a disastrous haircut, she started taking me to the salon.

I’d always be super embarrassed because every other woman in the hair shop - whether she was getting braids or a weave - was black. I was there with my white mum, thinking, “This is kind of weird!”

I knew I was allowed to be there, but I got the sense that she shouldn’t be.

My mum is pretty in tune with the racial and gender dynamics at play. As a white woman coming into an unapologetically black female space, she gets that the salon is a special place for black women, who have to deal with racism on a day-to-day basis.

Hair shops are super important in that respect. They are rare spaces, somewhere to escape to.

I don’t have to explain myself in that room - they’ve got me and they’ll take care of me. It’s like a little community."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/my_hair_is_a_symbol_of_pride

“Black women are not your pets”
Rianna Walcott

"I’ve been natural all my life and always had my hair braided. When I turned 15 I started to wear my hair out in an afro. I went to a predominantly white school and kids would stick pencils in it and bully me. It made me so angry, I still get angry now. It wasn’t a case of friends touching each other’s hair, it was them satisfying their curiosity without my consent. My hair is a symbol of pride.

I used to work at a fancy bakery, popular with older white customers. My other colleagues were French, petite, blonde, so I felt like I had to tone down my blackness. I wore my hair in bantu knots and realised that when I put flowers in them, I was seen as cute and approachable and I’d get more tips.

Our hair is wrapped up in how we’re going to be treated. I have to do so much to the rest of my appearance to look less threatening. That’s why it’s frustrating when white girls have black hairstyles.

On a white girl it’s “cool”, while I have to bend over backwards to look competent and be taken seriously."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/my_hair_is_a_symbol_of_pride

Image Source: Alex Sorto (The women photographed is not Rianna Walcott)

Hello February! 🌻

With a new year/month comes new things! 😍

We're here to welcome our new brand. Our new look and name!

We have changed our name to Cocoa Butter Coils 😊

Our vision for the new brand:

- To be even more inclusive
- Activism
- Charity
- Education

We believe that the brand will evolve into a brand that will be about Charitable work and uplifting our Northern and Township Areas in Port Elizabeth and not just about hosting pretty cool events.

Our events will be paired with fundraising and making sure we do BEAUTY WITH A PURPOSE. We will make sure that all genders are represented in our work and that all hair types feel included, because representation matters! ☺️

Our first event for 2020 will be an introduction to the new brand and we hope that we can work hand in hand with Black/Brown owned business in the bay to reach to our young people and inspire a positive change in them.

If any organisation or initiative is interested in teaming up for 2020 please feel free to inbox us, we're ready to get the ball rolling!

IT'S A NEW YEAR AND WE HAVE SOME NEW THINGS TO SHARE (IN DUE TIME)

WE WON'T BE SO QUIET ANYMORE! PROMISE.