Safety Pins's Blog – January 2011 Archive (3)

Corporate Model Call to Cater to Ethnic Hair, Good or Bad?

The fact that big corporate companies are finally peaking interest in making products for ethnic hair is great, right? For a long time, many people with thick coarse hair have complained that their were no products on the shelves that catered to their hair textures. Overtime, smaller name companies like Karen's Body Beautiful, Koils by Nature, Carrol's Daughter, and Bee Mine popped up specifically catering to… Continue

Added by Safety Pins on January 19, 2011 at 6:40pm — 12 Comments

Tattoo Artist of the Week, I do the Inking

For the last several weeks, we've used this section of Afropunk.com to feature people with interesting ink work who let is on who they are and what their tattoos are all about. Sometimes we've even featured a compilation of beautiful women of color with tattoos that we find on the… Continue

Added by Safety Pins on January 12, 2011 at 4:30pm — 12 Comments

Tattoo of the week: It just adds to your cool

We know her as the ferocious (Bjork inspired) vocalist for the newly formed Brooklyn band, Galaxy of Tar. When she's out and about, people give her second and third looks. "Are you that girl from America's…