I met Natori Green at the New Orleans Natural Hair Expo during the Essence Festival weekend. Natori's paintings were truly beautiful and really made me take in the beauty of not only natural hair, but brown skin. Let's have meet Natori and find out more about her and her talent.

I wanted to finally share with you all my skincare journey with the hopes of inspiring someone else to not be afraid to embrace their flaws. I have been suffering with hormonal acne ever since I was a pre-teenager. My skin in this photo was taken on January 29th, 2016. On January 29th, the day before my birthday I made a vow to myself to take better care of my skin. During the span of these 7 months my skin has been on an uphill battle of staying clear. Here are 5 ways that I have learned to combat my hormonal acne before it flares up during that time of the month. (Ladies, you know how mother-nature can be so disrespectful to our skin.)

There is so much more to natural hair than the eye can see. Having natural hair is truly unique and very special. There is no one person that can say that having and growing your natural hair is wrong. I have been natural for over 5 years and here are some of the misconceptions about natural hair that I have came across. Brace yourselves for this read...

The month of July isn't even over as of today. So much has happened in these past two weeks that it has been mind blowing. The day that I started my job my husband lost his. Yes, God moves in mysterious ways. (I will touch on this more.) I am now in my second week of being at my new job. It took me three days into my new job to truly realize that I won't be constantly making any hot coffee or mopping sales floors during the late afternoon hours. The need to clean and hop on the register has ceased. I last week I had to accept the change and the blessing that God has given me.