Naturally Fierce Feature: Zaneta

 My name is Zaneta and I am from Greensboro, NC. I run a blog called Eat Work Thrive which focuses on health and natural health care. I love my natural hair. I started my natural hair journey in 2010. I was inspired by a lot of the natural women on Youtube who had healthy, beautiful hair.How long have you been natural?I have now been natural for 2 years. I have enjoyed every stage of my hair growth and learning new things about natural hair while on my hair journey. What motivated you to … [Read more...]


Naturally Fierce Feature: Karese

My name is Karese. I am 29 years old. I was born in Belize, and recently relocated from New York to Pennsylvania. But NYC will always be where I draw my inspiration from LOL. How long have you been natural?I have been natural for about three years. I transitioned in 2009, the minute I found out I was pregnant with my first child I decided this was the best time to stop relaxing my hair. I would guess that I was fully natural by late 2010. I always admired big curly hair on people from afar, and … [Read more...]


Naturally Fierce Feature: Courtney

My name is Courtney I’m from Staten Island. I’m currently in graduate school for biology hopefully to be in medical school in 2 years. My mother relaxed my hair when I was in the 4th grade and I made the decision in Dec 2011 to stop relaxing my hair. How long have you been natural?I cut all of my relaxed ends in Jan 2013, so technically almost 7 month (a baby natural) but between all the learning and researching over my transition period I like to say almost a year and 7 months. What motivated … [Read more...]


Naturally Fierce Feature: Tatiana

 My name is Tatiana Harvey and I will be 25 November 29. Yea! I’m from Los Angeles, Ca. Both sides of my family are Jamaican. I lived there my entire life until I moved to Bakersfield, Ca where I attended college. In my second year I welcomed my lovely little girl to this world. Three years later I earned my Degree. I later began to explore my creative side again and started drawing and painting. Later started my company Tyeink. (pronounced tie-ink) www.tyeink.com. This is just my creative … [Read more...]


Naturally Fierce Feature: Sandra

 I'm Sandra (Sandeey) from Nigeria and I love natural hair! I currently work and live in Abuja, Nigeria. How long have you been natural? Well, I count my first day of my natural hair journey from the day I got my last relaxer (June 4th 2010). I think of it as if I had gone to the barber's for a skin cut. About a week after I relaxed my hair, my journey began. My relaxed hair was dead to me and I didn't regard it as my hair anymore.What motivated you to transition? Were you a transitioner or a … [Read more...]


Naturally Fierce Feature: Sharee

 My name is Sharee and I am from the DMV!!! DMV Stand UP :) I am 27 and have a fiancé, and two beautiful kids that are 2 and 4 years old JHow long have you been natural? Started my journey in September 2010What motivated you to transition?I have a hair journey of someone who wanted to go natural, but felt like my head was too big for a big chop! *so serious* But I started thinking of going natural after repeatedly damaging my hair with dyes and perms. I received my first Just For Me at 5, and … [Read more...]


Naturally Fierce Feature: Maya

My name is Maya, and I’m from the DMV! My natural story began over 9 years ago when I found out I was preggers with my first child!! Terrified of harming the baby in any way, I grabbed my shoulder length relaxed hair and cut a huge chunk out, and left about 3 inches of hair so I couldn't chicken out. I hacked off all of it, using copy paper scissors (you know the good kind with the orange handle! lol) and started rocking weaves to transition from my TWA. My husband had shoulder length locs at … [Read more...]