These natural styles gave us life on the red carpets and beyond.
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Meagan Good
Meagan Good wore faux locs to the 24th Annual Women In Entertainment breakfast. Get this look by wrapping Marley hair around a set of box braids.
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Yaya DaCosta
Yaya served cornrows and mohawk fabulousness without even glancing toward the camera.
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Yaya DaCosta
Cornrows and a pompadour is the perfect day or night look. Wearing cornrows is also a great protective style for your edges and sides.
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Janelle Monae
Janelle Monae arrived at the Chanel show in a bouffant neatly held together with a Chanel hairpin. Accessories are great for putting a fashionable twist on a classic style.
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Janelle Monae
Big, bouncy curls on long hair can be a challenge, but Janelle Monae mastered it! To get big curls, try doing a twist out on damp or dry hair.
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Teyonah Parris
Teyonah Parris knows first hand that large flat twists styled into an updo takes class to new levels.
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Lisa Bonet
Loc veteran, Lisa Bonet shows the natural hairstyle can be fun and creative as she sported a half-up-half-down style at the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
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Danai Gurira
We love a short cut with a slit on the side. Danai Gurira kills this look!
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Lauryn Hill
Short and sweet. Need we say more? Lauryn is cutest with a baby ‘fro.
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Jill Scott
The bigger the better! Jill loves a vintage-looking fro.
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Erykah Badu
#Hairgoals! Long, beautiful natural curls past your shoulder screams “natural beauty.”
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Jordan Sparks
Jordan’s two-toned ringlets a look that’s very classic-meets-cool.
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Solange Knowles
We’re always so busy trying to minimize fizz, but Solange proves that frizz can be a good thing. A simple, yet stylish, frizzy afro is a natural girl’s best friend.
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Zoe Kravitz
Zoe knows that putting braids in a ponytail is just as edgy as it is chic.
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Viola Davis
Short curls slightly tapered on the sides with extra fullness up top gives an extra bit of style.
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Zendaya
We love that Zendays knows that cornrows NEVER go out of style!
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Zendaya
Zendaya’s faux locs at the 2015 Oscars gained much attention when former E! Correspondent Giuliana Rancic made derogatory comments about her hair saying it looked like it “smells like patchouli oil” or “weed.” Later this year, Zendaya received her own Barbie…locs at all!
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Jada Pinkett Smith
Even with short hair a pompadour is hot! Jada Pinkett Smith attended the Guy Laroche show with a cut that’s longer in the front and shorter on the sides.
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Esperanza Spalding
Esperanza Spalding spoke at the White House in Washington, DC. in a natural top knot.
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Sonequa Martin-Green
Sonequa’s big curls with a side part are girly and sexy at the same time.
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Ledisi
No one does two-toned locs like Ledisi. Her ‘do consistently complements her beautiful smile.
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Thandie Newton
All eyes were on Thandie’s curly mass of brown coils.
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Lupita Nyong’o
Lupita’s braided headband is the quintessential crowing glory.
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Lupita Nyong’o at the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards with cornrows pulled up into an exquisite bun.
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Lupita Nyong’o
We love that Lupita experiments with twists and coils, and this defined twist out on a tapered TWA is perfect for any brown girl.
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Tracee Ellis Ross
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Maria Borges
We love that Maria Borges hit the runway of 2015 Victoria’s Secret fashion show with her natural curls. Clearly reinventing the European standard of beauty.
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V. Bozeman
V. Bozeman proves bald is beautiful!
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Goapele
Rocking a low cut is the best way to show your beautiful face. And, adding a blonde color adds an extra bit of sass.