NC: Can you tell me a little bit about your own personal background and the event’s background?
AC: I am just a natural hair enthusiast, and I started off just like everyone else wanting to learn how to care for, style and manage my natural hair. I transitioned for a long time with micro braids and kinky twists back in 2005 because I did not know what to do with my hair. Finally in 2010, I said I have got to learn how to manage my own hair. I gained a thirst for knowledge and went on a quest for information. Just like everyone else, I was spending all-nighters on YouTube watching demonstration videos and on on various blogs and Facebook pages dedicated to natural hair as well as buying products online.
As a consumer I knew what I wanted and wished that there was a place in my city that I could go to experience all of the products at once in one location, being able to touch and feel, compare and contrast them side by side as opposed to having to buy online and wait until I got them. Locally I could find some of the products but not all of them in one location. So that is what inspired me to create Naturally Divine Beauty Supply. I wanted to provide that experience and offer it to my local community.
Texture Revolution: A New Era for the Curl is Naturally Divine’s Beauty first event! The inspiration for the event is the same as the inspiration to open the store, which is to educate and inspire women to embrace their natural beauty as well as provide support along the journey! We want to give women options of natural hair styling as well as tools and resources to be successful. We want to transform the stereo types that only straight hair can be beautiful.
NC: Let’s talk a bit about the event: when, where, cost to enter, type of vendors, how often etc?
AC: Texture Revolution: A New Era for the Curl will take place on August 25, 2012 at the Addison Conference Center in Dallas, TX. Ticket are $10 and up.
We have a Fantastic Program planned for attendees including giveaways throughout the entire event from some of the best natural hair care companies out there. We have swagbags with amazing goodies for the first 100 attendees that sign up. I encourage you to register now!
Of course we will have vendor shopping for all the shopaholics out there! Vendors for apparel, jewelry, skincare, haircare, accessories, food and much more will be there, including Clutter Breaker, Fika Travel Tours, Scentsy, Ubowgrl, Autumnmore’, Living Well Dallas, LocStar Natural Hair Studio, Tiffany’s Loc Jewels, Shea Touch, LANUCH Private Label, Dope Crochet, K. Preist Collection, Deep in the Roots, Nappy Cakes, Tea & Tisane Salon and CutiCouture!
