Layla and I enjoying lunch in Seattle. She literally threw most of everything off of the table. Don’t worry, I didn’t feed her any of the marshmallows. While my biological clock continues...
There’s a whole lot of whooplah going on around sunscreen safety and regulation and while we’re waiting on the FDA to get their act together, the EWG has hooked us all up with great resea...
Me and Leika Suzumura of Seattle Tilth. She hosts monthly community dinners in “food deserts” bringing farm fresh food and cooking with kids in the neighborhood. Do any of you know exactl...
My life is often spent behind the guise of a computer screen. Whether I decide to take up space at a local coffee shop, fiddle on my iPhone with never-ending work emails or keep content wrapped up in...
OBVs I am super excited to announce the recent launch of my new eBook, Eco-Glamorous: A Fail-Proof Guide to Ditching Toxic Beauty Products, Protecting Your Health & Greening Your Beauty Ro...
If my life were to be solely defined by statistics I wouldn’t be where I am today. As one of many children born into this world under the nucleus of a single-parent home, society can often make...
Image Source Are you a fan of crushed beetles in your strawberry shake or ammonia in your beef? By choice you may not have an option. After the Starbucks fiasco and countless warnings by popular medi...
When you’re part of the who’s who crowd everyone listens. Even me and my beauty banter on this blog can’t bring the level of influence to a mission that famous faces typically can. ...
They give them away at every Earth Day event and most grocery stores now sell them as quintessential staples you can pick up for .99 cents. Those reusable grocery bags are a prime example of good gon...
Let me be 100 percent honest with you OBVs. I’m trying really hard to balance my spiritual life with my natural desire to collect pretty things. Gilt.com is one of my favorite shopping sites (t...
11pm we meet again. It’s that sugar and chocolate craving that leads me to the kitchen, tearing through the cupboards looking for a piece of anything. A s’mores poptart, the last of the c...
The plan was to take my nephew and little brother into the barbershop last Saturday for a simple hair cut. Simple enough right? But of course, I was in my random mood of fun and given that neither my...
This past weekend in preparation for my trip to my aunt’s wedding I decided to go ahead and try out the loc knots I learned from Franchesca Ramsey aka chescaleigh’s tutorial. I was a bit skeptical as...
Image Source Attention all moms! The Mount Sinai Children’s Environmental Health Center (CEHC) released the top ten toxic chemicals that are suspected to cause autism and learning disabilities in chi...
Hey OBVs! I’m fresh off the plane after a great weekend in Detroit spent at my aunt’s wedding and a few nights with the family enjoying the laughter, jokes and playful arguments. Since no...
There’s only one quote I’ve ever come across that actually captures the essence of brands that green wash and mislabel their products as natural and organic. “They’re l...
My day usually consists of a lot of run around, meet ups, phone calls and a to-do list a mile high. While I work on better time management and find a clone, in the meantime, I get a fill on these ama...
Maybe it’s the discussion I went to last night with Dr. Cornel West and Tavis Smiley addressing poverty in America that had me feeling some type of way when I woke up this morning to write this...
Image Source I’m feeling a little more emotional about the environment these days. After observing the amount of crap I desperately feel like I need to maintain my daily existence — you k...
Every now and again Essence.com surprises me when they pull out their top eco-beauty and eco-fashion favorites. Yesterday they made mention of 3 top eco-fashion designers that we should know and in h...
Image Source Yes ladies, toxins in our cosmetics are still a prevalent issue and there are still many companies and brands that have potentially toxic ingredients in their products. In addition to re...
Me sitting on the top of the mountain after a 1 hour hike At 7:15 am on a Saturday morning I’m not the best person to be around. I admit it. So when my best friend called me to tell me she was ...
Image Source I owe Red Bull, Rock Star, Monster and 5 hour energy a big thank you for helping me get my degree. Those late night study sessions, 2 am papers, and long nights in classes that didn̵...
Me and my bestie Ari on a random Saturday in Belltown Natural Hair Frenzy Search YouTube or Twitter and you’ll find an array of black women toting their journey to natural hair through their r...
My daily salad: Organic herb salad, snap peas, roma tomatoes, tuna, almonds, sea salt, vinegar Outside of the brownies I made Monday night I’ve been pretty strict with my new diet. I eat...
Me featured in the May 2012 issue of Essence Magazine (What we’re wearing in…. section) I may not know all of the books in the bible and my slight dyslexia makes it difficult for me to re...
When going green trust me when I say that for every product on the market that’s been deemed toxic there is a natural, organic, cruelty-free, biodegradable (you see where I’m going...
Image Source The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is constantly working on our behalf to change legislation in the cosmetics industry. They’re also pushing the envelope in making sure that black wom...
Image Source In the world of cosmetics and food companies notorious for green washing products to deceive unsuspecting consumers, the online trade journal, Cosmetics Design, announced that Universit...
(via Ingle & Rhode Ethical Diamonds). Hey OBVs! Last week a fellow eco-beauty blogger from The Emerald Closet reached out to me to help her spread awareness about the fact that “bloo...
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