Some people just do not like to see females – young or old- walking out in public with a scarf on. “It just doesn’t look right” most people will say when you ask them about it… And, I have always been one of those who hated to see that kind of stuff. Yet, one of my favorite Vlloggers Naptural85 has come up with a video to prove that silk scarves can be stylish and may I say classy, when pulled off just the right way.
BTW: Some people need to be told to make sure they are using a nice, clean scarf when trying to pull off some of these different styles. I know most of us understand that but it must be said… I’ve really seen some filthy rags atop peoples hair before! (side-eye)
(Note: This post was previously written in ’11 on the akatadiary.com…. reposted here on my new site after several requests! Thanks guys for your support xx)
I decided to write this post in response to a conversation I had earlier with a African nurse who kept me company for a good while today. The long talk got started after I asked the lady where she was from (she had a thick accent from my standpoint) and me being the open person that I am decided to be honest but very blunt about the fact that she is the nicest Nigerian I had ran into in a very long time. She laughed but gave me a very straight faced look and then I instantly knew she was offended which I didn’t mean for as a response. Then, off the chatting went!
Most of our conversation dealt with the question of why is there such a distance between African american and African relations? It is very much noticeable that too often the only thing we have in common is the color of our skin. But, me being in my second relationship with a native African and always being interested in Black Culture and learning my past- have always pushed the envelope when it comes to befriending such people. So maybe I am just different.
Being a amateur genealogist has it’s ups and downs. For the last three years I have been researching my maternal grandparents ancestry. Being of African decent, you already know that this has been a huge challenge and you can imagine how stressful that is. With names, family ties, and religion striped away, it’s like a needle in a haystack to find any information beyond a age and sex, about one particular American Slave from the early 1800′s. Wanting to take another route in my desperate attempt to find out where my ancestors came from, I recently took that giant step of taking a DNA test to find out more about my lineage.
With results coming from AfricanAncestry.Com, I was able to find out my maternal lineage. They are amazing, and the only company in the US that I know of, with over 25,000 indigenous African genetic sequences available, that are able to trace your direct country of orgin if your ancestors came from the continent of Africa and with stunning accuracy.
So imagine how excited I was when I took this test!!! Easily done, I took three cotton swabs and took samples from my mouth over and over. Then after sending them back, I had to wait a short six weeks (but which felt like an eternity) to get my test results back.
Just look at my face…. What do you think I am?? Give me one GOOD guess……
Read on by clicking below, to find out where I came from!!!
Well most of my friends and family already know that Ive been a natural going on, lets say 4 years now. Issue is that I keep cutting my hair to keep it as a TWA just because I’ve loved the freedom of just being able to wash and go! lol.. All that’s soon to change, as I have made up my mind on allowing my hair to finally grow out, so that I can see it’s potential. Plus, now I want a change
Yet, now that its growing, I find myself scouring the Internet and especially YouTube videos looking for new and inspiring styles to try. This one, I will put the test to THIS FRIDAY and post my results about this weekend. It looks cute and easy enough that we could all try. Check out the video by MsVCharlesshowing how we could potentially be #winning with coils in “Under An Hour” after the jump and let me know what you all think?
Soooo!!!!! I know it’s been a long time coming, but I am back blogging today. It’s been such a lonnnggg time. I have been doing alot these last few months though. Back around November, I had a very bad experience with someone hacking into TheAkataDiary.com. All of my files were corrupted, and me not being Mrs. Knowitall, decided to just delete all those articles, all the files and pictures, and close it up for good. But, after the new year, I started getting that itch again when it came to personal blogging. Around that same time, I took a break from my entertainment blog as well- which most of my friends already know about…that’s NoirGossip.Com. Anyways, I am back online after a ton of personal things that were going on too around the same time and I’m ready to hit the keyboard!
So I hope you guys stop by soon, become a facebook fan if you haven’t already, and check out new thoughts of mine that ill be posting soon
Again, I am sorry that all of the past articles are all gone… but new things for a new year!
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