black woman and hair Archives | Shay Stewart-Bouley

Bandanas and Blackness at the Gym….A Very Bad Mix

May 23, 2017February 5, 2013 by Shay

When you write a blog called Black Girl in Maine, I guess it’s no surprise that at a certain point, people remember you when shady racial incidents go down in the state of Maine. A local reader of both my columns and this space contacted me today to ask if I had heard about what …

Its gone

May 23, 2017May 30, 2009 by shay subscriber

I swear I won’t have too many more posts about my hair…drum-roll please…. I cut it off last night! Yep, I had planned to wait until I got paid and had some extra cash so I could go to get it colored right away but last night I just couldn’t take it anymore. So I …

Leaning towards….

May 23, 2017May 28, 2009 by shay subscriber

Recently I wrote about my hair woes, and actually got a lot of feedback. To recap, I have dreadlocks aka locs. I have been growing my much beloved locs for 5 years now, but we have reached the point where my babies are looking a tad unkempt. In good financial times, I would head to …