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Caribbean Natural Hair Scene (fotki, flickr, community, website, hi5 etc.) is currently offline until further notice...

***If you are here that means that you have thought hmm.. this sounds interesting..:) Below you read what we are all about. If you like the idea join the Caribbean Natural Hair Scene Fotki Group (by adding us as a friend) ! *** Our main community page is CaribbeanNaturalHairScene.ning.com. with your help we can make this something great.
We wanna see how YOU REPRESENT the natural hair scene in your area!

About Caribbean Natural Hair Scene (CNHS)

• What is CNHS?

Caribbean Natural Hair Scene (CNHS) is the first network targeted at Caribbean women who wear their hair in its natural state. The network provides the following features:

o Forums: An essential tool for asking questions, posting reviews discussing issues related to natural hair care or anything that is on your mind.

o Pictures albums: One of the most important tool for ladies to share their hair journeys

o Blogs: A blog is an online diary where people can post messages and others may view and respond to the posts. This feature gives you the possibility to be heard! Keep a hair journal, post your hair routine for others to see or even tutorials it’s all up to you and your creativity. If you already have your hair related or Caribbean targeted blog, you can either use the RSS feed to integrate your blog with your page or duplicate its content and let members comment directly from the network.

o Comments: We all love comments. CNHS supports the positive vibes that the ladies bring to the network. As a member can post comments for other members’ pictures, blogs, pages, videos, groups, and calendar events.

o Videos: CNHS offers the possibility to post your own videos. Use videos to post tutorials, video blog updates, reviews or any fun video you might like to share with the ladies.

o Chat rooms: Join the CNHS Chat and enter the room that interests you.

o Event Calendar: With the Event Calendar you can post your special events that you would like to share with the rest of the community like your planned Big Chop date, Nappiversary, birthday, Natural Hair shows, etc.

o Favorites: Sometimes you find a video or picture that you like but there is no easy way to save them other than bookmarking or saving to your computer. Now you can simply add any video or picture on the network to your favorites and conveniently view them whenever you want.

o Friends: If you happen to come across an inspirational napptural sista, add her as a friend! Once you add someone as a friend you can send messages to them. ( this may differ for each members privacy setting)

o Groups: Create or join a group. Ideas for groups can range from geographic location, hair type, occupation or a group like FOTKI-HOLICS which is a group for all the ladies who are also members of the photo sharing site Fotki.

o Messages: Don’t be afraid to ask a question or update your friends by sending a message.

o Customizable “My Page”: Besides your profile you have a special area which supports HTML. You can add pictures, slideshows, gadgets, videos, or anything else you can think of. Customize your page using your own cascading style sheet (CSS), add RSS feeds and receive comments on your personal comment wall. Your page items can also be moved around to your liking.

o Rating: Sometimes you find a picture or video and you may think this picture is just great! Besides posting a comment rate the item to let others know what you thought of it.

o RSS: There are several pages on the network that has RSS feeds. Add the feeds to your personal website or page by using your favorite widget.

o Invitations: So you think CNHS is such a cool place that you want to invite your friends? Click on the option to invite friends from your email provider and introduce them to the network.\

o Sharing: Sharing pictures is easy with CNHS. Member or not you can share pictures. ( members have more sharing options)

o Advertising and Sponsoring: As of now, CNHS does not have this service but hopefully in the future this will be possible.

• Who created CNHS?

o CNHS was created and is maintained by Mikaela Bowers, a university student currently studying Bachelors in General Management at the University of the Netherlands Antilles in Curaçao.

In March 2006, she officially decided to go natural and began her journey. After approximately 6 months, she Big Chopped (cut off all relaxed hair) and became 100% natural. She is a member of Fotki where the beautiful women are more than inspiring. She loved the friends that she made and each hair story made her more confident in her decision to go and stay natural. In her first year of being natural, she researched about natural hair care and other related information but could not find any information about Caribbean women with natural hair. There is very little advertising for salons and other hair related Caribbean based businesses and products on the web also. So, after research and development she officially launched this website on August 13th 2008.

To read a more in depth hair story, visit her Fotki (photo hair blog) or CNHS page
• www.fotki.com/msmikamika
• www.ning.com/caribbeannaturalhairscene/profiles/mikaela

• Who is CNHS for?

o CNHS is targeted at Caribbean Women whether born, raised, currently living on the islands or just Caribbean at heart. It is for all women that that take pride in their natural hair and want to share their journey with others. Hairdressers, bloggers, webmasters, entrepreneurs, mothers, students, models are also invited to join and share their opinions and knowledge. If you are not sure about whether going natural is for you, join and be inspired by women who were just like you once upon a time. You don’t have to be from the Caribbean to join, it’s a napptural thing, nappturality is universal!

• Is membership for free?

o Yes membership is 100% free!

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Profile:: Group
Since:: Thursday, June 19, 2008
Tags:: caribbean, natural hair, nappy, locs, braids, dreds, dreadlocs, locks, msmikamika, napptural, nappturality
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