Kink Phobia: Journey Through a Black Woman's Hair
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (574 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1929925867 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 104 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Ella Joyce is married to actor/photographer, Dan Martin, and lives in southern California.
Ella Joyce is an accomplished actress of stage, TV and film, most remembered for her role as "Eleanor" on Fox TV's sitcom "Roc." After what seemed a lifetime of her hair concerns, she joined the ranks of hair outlaws, and decided to live relaxer chemical-free. After many distressing hair adventures and "emergencies", and successfully allowing her natural hair to grow longer than she ever imagined, and receiving many compliments and inquiries about her hair maintenance, she decided to share her thoughts, memoirs and kinky hair secrets, with other frustrated Black women everywhere.
Kink Phobia Saved My Hair MsBrown Dear Ella Joyce,I had to write and give you props because your book, Kink Phobia, saved my hair! It's said that "timing is everything" and I'm so grateful I read your book before I lost all my hair. After years of perms and touchups, I noticed that my dark brown hair was thinning and turning red!! When I mentioned this to my hairdresser at the time, her only comfort was to say that red hair would look good on me!! (I should have jumped up and ran out right then and there!) Well, blessings to you Ella Joyce for helping a Sista reclaim her hair. I have been perm free for 2 years and your California Tw. A Customer said Inspirational. If you are considering purchasing of this book, I urge you to go ahead and buy it.I am in my third year of wearing my hair in natural styles. It has at times been a difficult three years. I have often wanted to throw a relaxer in my hair to conform to the average standard of beauty and to be able to care for my hair with ease.I have read and own several of the natural hair care books out there. I really like Lonnice Bonner's books but was unable to duplicate the natural curly styles that she wears until I read Kink Phobia. Ella Joyce's Kink Phobia provided me with inspiration, detailed styling instr. "Not worth your time or your money." according to Amazon Customer. This has to be one of the most poorly structured and poorly written books I've ever had the experience to read. While I do think Ella is a beautiful woman and a fairly decent actress (or, to be politically correct, "actor"), she fails miserably as a writer. I tried my best to ignore the fact that every grammatical rule was casually tossed out the window, but that eventually proved to be too difficult.I bought the book because I recently decided to "go natural" with my hair. I had all my relaxed hair cut off last month, which left me with short natural hair. I was hoping that Ms. Joyce's book would b
Ella Joyce is married to actor/photographer, Dan Martin, and lives in southern California.