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I’m Doing These 5 Things Every Week to Stay Sane While Safe at Home

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6 Habits That Make My Work From Home Situation More Manageable

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Why I Love to #SupportSmallBusiness

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#SupportSmallBusiness : Where to Purchase and Order Cloth Face Masks During COVID-19

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Beauty Wellness

I’m Doing These 5 Things Every Week to Stay Sane While Safe at Home

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Business

6 Habits That Make My Work From Home Situation More Manageable

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Business

Why I Love to #SupportSmallBusiness

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#SupportSmallBusiness : Where to Purchase and Order Cloth Face Masks During COVID-19

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The Not So Pretty Way I Started My Path To Self Employment

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The “You In Haiku” Poetry Series By Rosie Chuong | Volume VII

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Business Career Relationships

The Not So Pretty Way I Started My Path To Self Employment

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Relationships

The “You In Haiku” Poetry Series By Rosie Chuong | Volume VII

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My 2020 Word of the Year: Nostalgic

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Confidence Relationships

2019: A Trying and Transformative Year

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Beauty Curls Relationships

Curly Hair Journey Year 2

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API Curls: Documenting the Asian and Pacific Islander Experience in the Curly Hair Community

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Don’t be so surprised when I tell you I always w

Don’t be so surprised when I tell you I always want the D. Dinner. Drinks. Dessert. Dressing Up. Dancing. Direct Deposit. Drake. Disneyland. I could go on. 😏 What’s a D-word you can’t live without?

To 2020 graduates feeling uncertain about their fu

To 2020 graduates feeling uncertain about their future, whether with or without a pandemic in the way: stay creative, stay curious. I’d never wish a hard time like this on anyone, but I can’t think of a better time to explore your options and discern the ways in which you’ve been told to make a living or get a job.

And no, curiosity, creativity and challenging doesn’t always have to require heavy lifting, confrontation or hard work. Sometimes the best source of inspiration and enlightenment comes from stillness and observation. Question everything. Try things out. Affirm that your course of action and your end goals are made of what you want it to be. Take a look at your life or the lifestyle you desire and ask yourself how much of it was based on what someone else told you was livable.

Remember that success is fleeting, however reputation remains forever.

Always keep your receipts. You’ll never know when you need them.

Lastly, know how to maintain your safety and protect your integrity at all costs. Because not every battle on the field is meant for winning nor losing. Learn the difference.

I recently colored my hair & it’s the first time

I recently colored my hair & it’s the first time I’ve done that since starting my curly journey (my 3 year is coming up!). I’ve been wanting to do this since last year, but couldn’t commit. On a whim I booked the same stylist that has done my sister’s hair, and if you’ve seen her in person, you’ll know that Kwin has beautiful thick hair that looks good no matter what you do to it. 😒

I was lucky to have gone to @stotts.atelier to see @stotts.hair right before the 2nd shutdown happened! I told Sean that I wanted the coloring to look “lived in”, subtle and natural looking, that I probably won’t retouch & that I’m growing my hair out about 5 inches longer.

On camera it looks even more subtle, but in person, you can tell I had a touch of progressive coloring from my ears to my ends. This session enhanced my individual hair history whereas my hair comes out dark at the roots and gets lighter at the ends with sun exposure, and the coloring highlights and picks up on that!

The salon itself was super beautiful and local (Costa Mesa) to where I work and live. We also played around with @davinesnorthamerica products which was awesome because I’ve been wanting to try their curly line!

What do you think of the coloring? Do you color your curls?

I present to you the title of this month’s @apic

I present to you the title of this month’s @apicurls Commit To Your Curls Club creative prompt: STARTER KIT. If you saw my stories the other night you’ll know that I was very ecstatic about announcing the name because I know you’re all going to have fun brainstorming and building the STARTER KIT you’d give to a fellow friend who wants to embrace their natural hair pattern and texture. Go all out in one post OR create multiple kits. If you’re fairly new to your hair journey, show us what you’re starting out with. And if you’re a veteran, you know what to do.

Here’s my STARTER KIT Version 1, the #BlackOwnedBrands Edition:

- @floracurl cream shampoo
- @floracurl cream conditioner
- @boucleme super hold styler
- @boucleme curl cream
- @briogeo don’t despair, repair deep conditioning mask
- @nptresstreats satin scrunchie

Aside from this kit promising a BOMB AF wash day, building this one was a great pulse check on what brands I'm putting my money towards that support the Black community. Let's make sure our shelf space is a consistent reflection of what we implied when we posted black squares and said that Black Lives Matter.

I hope you can join us every week this month to show us how you commit to your curls. More inspo pics are on my stories + when you swipe through!

STARTER KIT:
- Take a photo of products you’d give to a friend who’s starting to embrace their natural hair texture/pattern
- Post to your story and feed
- Tag @apicurls #APICurls
- Entries will be shared on APIC stories + feed

Have fun, share with all your curl friends + I can’t wait to see what you build! 👀

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