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ESSENCE The Black Woman’s Guide to Healthy Living: The Best Advice For Body, Mind + Spirit In Your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s + Beyond (Vinyl Bound)

From the African-American community’s trusted authority, “Essence Guide to Healthy Living”, is an interactive manual designed to help black women care for their bodies, minds and spirits. Covering both major health issues such as diabetes and heart disease and tackling everyday concerns from weight loss to balancing work and life, this handy guide has a reader-friendly tone, actionable service and chapters packed with checklists, inspiring real-life examples, space for journal entries and worksheets for readers to execute their own personal wellness plans. Developed with expert advice from leading physicians, nutritionists, fitness instructors, psychologists, spiritual gurus and other healthcare experts, “Essence Guide to Healthy Living” is designed to help black women lead healthier and better lives.This guide includes: step-by-step exercise plans; guidance for achieving emotional balance; tips for enjoying a healthy sex life; listing and explanation of medical tests; (more…)

Braids and Beauty – Spring 2006: Black Hair Care Guide with Tyra Banks and More (Single Issue Magazine) (Unknown Binding)

This 106 page magazine features Tyra Banks on the cover and in a feature inside, plus celebrity styles, features on curls, cornrows, braids, sultry hair, and much more!

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Black Hair Styles and Care Guide – March 2006: Mary J. Blige, Ashanti, Christina Milian, and More (Single Issue Magazine) (Unknown Binding)

This issue features Mary J. Blige, Ashanti, Christina Milian, Trina, Heather Headley, Oprah’s stylist, Mik & Bre from America’s Next Top Model, and others, plus more hairstyles and much more!

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Black Hair Styles and Care Guide – May 2006: Halle Berry, Chilli, Amerie, and More (Single Issue Magazine) (Unknown Binding)

This issue features Halle Berry, the 10 Best Styled Women of 2006, Chilli, Reagan Gomez-Preston, Alimi Ballard, Olivia, Golden Brooks, Amerie, and others, plus more hairstyles and much more!

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Black Hair Styles and Care Guide – June 2006: Rihanna, Ciara, Niecy Nash, and More (Single Issue Magazine) (Unknown Binding)

This issue features Rihanna, Shar Jackson, Ciara, Sahara Garey, Janelle Moore, Niecy Nash, Cassandra Wilson, Remy Ma, Nicki Micheaux, Tiffany Evans, YaYa DeCosta, American Idol style, male celebrity barbers, and others, plus more hairstyles and much more!

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It’s All Good Hair: The Guide to Styling and Grooming Black Children’s Hair (Paperback)

What are you going to do with your children’s hair? Combing your daughter’s hair is giving you a headache and now your son is asking you for cornrows. Relax. Finally, there’s a lifeline for those who are desperately seeking help in styling their Black children’s hair. Learn the tricks and techniques for today’s most popular hairstyles with the easy-to-follow steps found in It’s All Good Hair. It features hair-care and styling tips from a variety of experts, and you’ll learn all the secrets to braiding, relaxing, and locking, as well as discover many other creative styling ideas. Say good-bye to those disastrous attempts at doing it alone. Here’s the support you need to help your children look good and feel their very best.

About the Author

Michele N-K Collison is a veteran journalist who has written for such national publications as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Black Enterprise.

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Textured Tresses: The Ultimate Guide to Maintaining and Styling Natural Hair (Paperback)

Twist it! Braid it! Loc it! Enjoy the freedom and beauty of naturally textured hair. Textured hair styles like Locs, Braids, Twists, Cornrows, and Knots are all the rage, adorning the heads of celebrities, athletes, and everyday folk now more than ever before. Yet, the actual caring, styling, and maintenance of textured hair still remains a mystery to many. Now, Diane Da Costa, celebrity stylist and master designer of natural hair, unravels the tresses of textured hair, providing readers with information on the proper care of natural hair as well as a step-by-step guide on achieving various exciting styles. Textured Tresses will help you: Identify and celebrate the texture you were born with (whether it’s wavy, curly, very curly, or tightly coiled) Keep your hair healthy and strong by using hair products and tools correctly and managing stress effectively Select the right stylist and salon to suit your hair care needs Transition from chemically relaxed hair to na (more…)

The Best Kind of Loving: A Black Woman’s Guide to Finding Intimacy (Paperback)

From Publishers Weekly

Grant, a psychologist, sex educator and advice columnist for Essence, here offers sensible, inspiring suggestions to help African American women better understand the cultural differences between black men and women, and better understand their own attitudes about their “brothers” so they might communicate more effectively and form long-lasting relationships with them. The author emphasizes exercising independence, forming friendships with other women of color, drawing strength from family and the community and reclaiming African traditions in order to lead fulfilling lives, even if remaining single. Practical, insightful and loaded with case histories, this guide should be of great interest to black women who feel they are “nothing” without a man. $85,000 ad/ promo; Doubleday Book Club and Literary Guild alternates; author tour. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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ESSENCE The Black Woman’s Guide to Healthy Living: The Best Advice For Body, Mind + Spirit In Your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s + Beyond (Vinyl Bound)

From the African-American community’s trusted authority, “Essence Guide to Healthy Living”, is an interactive manual designed to help black women care for their bodies, minds and spirits. Covering both major health issues such as diabetes and heart disease and tackling everyday concerns from weight loss to balancing work and life, this handy guide has a reader-friendly tone, actionable service and chapters packed with checklists, inspiring real-life examples, space for journal entries and worksheets for readers to execute their own personal wellness plans. Developed with expert advice from leading physicians, nutritionists, fitness instructors, psychologists, spiritual gurus and other healthcare experts, “Essence Guide to Healthy Living” is designed to help black women lead healthier and better lives.This guide includes: step-by-step exercise plans; guidance for achieving emotional balance; tips for enjoying a healthy sex life; listing and explanation of medical tests; (more…)

The Black Woman’s Guide to Beautiful Hair: A Positive Approach to Managing any Hair Type and Style (Paperback)

No matter what style you choose, you can take care of your hair so that it: –heals from any damage caused by heat or chemicals –grows to its maximum length and thickness –is soft and manageable –is controlled by you, not the other way around! Lisa Akbari, leading researcher into black women?s hair, teaches you how to: –tell what hair type and texture you have so you?re using the right products –shampoo and condition for the best hair possible –use heat and chemicals safely and still keep your hair healthy and strong –take care of your scalp to get rid of itching, flaking and dryness –choose a salon and stylist and get the best results from them –manage new growth and comb your hair without pain or pulling –manage your style so it looks beautiful every day Most importantly, you?ll find out how to have a great attitude about your own hair, so you?ll never have “bad hair” again.

About the Author
Lisa Akbari is a hair care pio (more…)