Oyin Handmade http://oyinhandmade.com Hair and Body Stuff Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:55:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 blog feature: afro glitz mag http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/08/17/blog-feature-afro-glitz-mag/ http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/08/17/blog-feature-afro-glitz-mag/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:58:02 +0000 admin http://oyinhandmade.com/?p=626
look at this adorable feature on jamyla the mixtress at afro glitz natural hair mag. we love the fancy image treatments, and the way they took my answers to the questions and turned it into an awesomely cohesive personal essay. thanks miss gee! :o)

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]]> http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/08/06/hello-hydration/feed/ 0 Body Butter Bars! http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/08/06/body-butter-bars/ http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/08/06/body-butter-bars/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:54:23 +0000 admin http://oyinhandmade.com/?p=614 Three formulas for your moisturizing needs! Learn more and purchase at the product page in the oyin shop: http://oyinhandmade.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=9

]]> http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/08/06/body-butter-bars/feed/ 0 oyin podcast: 7 of 8 http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/08/06/podcast0/ http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/08/06/podcast0/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:46:10 +0000 admin http://oyinhandmade.com/?p=607 THIS IS THE BABY episode!!!!
…but if you’re not a baby don’t feel left out. we have tips and tricks on using oyin for all sorts of skin care, as well as putting your mind at ease if you want to use OYIN for your straightened/relaxed or color treated hair. This episode’s Featured Products are the amazing BODY BUTTER BAR, COCO MANGO BAR & CANDY BAR! Have a fun time as we bring you the info wrapped in silly. . . and as always, with a special coupon code at the end of the episode. REMEMBER the next episode is the LAST one of this season! Spread the word, subscribe if you haven’t — and continue to shine.

]]> http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/08/06/podcast0/feed/ 3 Your Hair Is Awesome Party: August 7th, 2010! http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/07/29/your-hair-is-awesome-party-august-7th-2010/ http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/07/29/your-hair-is-awesome-party-august-7th-2010/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:33:18 +0000 admin http://oyinhandmade.com/?p=594 Your Hair Is Awesome! We’d like to celebrate that fact at a Summer bash on August 7, 2010. Come on out to our Baltimore store, Exit The Apple. From 2-5pm, we’ll have a live DJ, friendly faces, and will be celebrating your beautiful hair! We’ll be taking tons of photos for our archive and our very last podcast of the season! (You’ve been warned! ;o) Although the party is from 2-5 pm, our store will be open during the regular hours, 12pm to 7pm. To make it even more worth your while (as if you needed a reason), we’ll be giving you a gift with purchase. Our shop is located just north of Penn Station in central Baltimore, MD… address below! We can’t wait to meet you! :o)

Exit The Apple
2103 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21225

Speaking of the last podcast, We want you to be a part of it! We still have a few spots for Oyin Honeys who would like to be a part of our final episode, which is taping after the store closing on August 7th. If you would like to join the cast, please send an email to store@exittheapple.com. It’s an RSVP-only event, and we’d be happy to send you more details! Space is extremely limited (we’re almost at capacity!)

Thestore

]]> http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/07/29/your-hair-is-awesome-party-august-7th-2010/feed/ 4 Loc Milk and Elbow Butter http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/07/15/loc-milk-and-elbow-butter/ http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/07/15/loc-milk-and-elbow-butter/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:05:22 +0000 admin http://oyinhandmade.com/?p=575 Ever wonder why we don’t have a different product for every possible use? We like to think our customers are (1.) smart, creative people and (2.) people with something better to spend their hard earned money on than endless iterations of slightly different versions of the same product, marketed for different purposes.

That’s the motivation behind our ‘head to toe’ philosophy – our products are named for their properties, not assigned a specific purpose. We describe them exhaustively and let you know how other honeys have used it, but we encourage experimentation! You know your hair and skin best. we design our products to be delicious and nutritious – good for you from head to toe. Enjoy them however you like!!

Smile,
Jamyla the mixtress :-)

PS – if you come up with a new exciting way you use the goodies, please let us know in the comments or via twitter @oyinhandmade! We love to learn! :-)

PS #2 – please do not put our goodies on your biscuits!! ;o)

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we were featured on the list b/c of our ‘late nite oyin podcast show,’ which DMCJ describes as a way to entertain as well as sell to our customers. we’re glad we can keep her laughing! :o) click here to read why!

]]> http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/06/06/oyin-featured-on-indie-business/feed/ 0 HOW TO USE a shampoo bar – the mixtress’ personal tips http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/05/01/poo-bar-howto/ http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/05/01/poo-bar-howto/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 15:34:22 +0000 admin http://oyinhandmade.com/?p=562
1. – thoroughly saturate hair… to sopping, soaking wet. i find the wetter the hair, the easier for lather to distribute.
2. – section hair sloppily and rub the poo bar on your scalp. alternate lathering method: rub the bar into a lather in your hands and then apply the lather directly.
3. -put poo bar down and use hands to work into a lather. be gentle, keeping the hair lather concentrated on your scalp at this time.
4. – DO NOT do that ’shampoo commercial’ thing and make one big pile of sudsy hair on top of your head. if your hair is highly textured, coily, or curly, this can be a recipe for intense tangling!
5. – instead, maintain your sloppy sections and slowly work the lather around the scalp and out/down to the ends of your hair. use your fingers – not your nails – to massage your scalp firmly.
rinse well. again using the pads of your fingers on your scalp.
6. – all done washing! this point is a great time to add conditioner and detangle.

*bonus* – storage tip: i usually cut my poo bars into sections. not tiny crumblish sections, but halves, thirds, or even quarters. you know how in the shower, a bar of soap will just disintegrate if it’s wet all the time? by cutting into sections and storing the unused portions somewhere other than your humid shower (like a drawer or your medicine cabinet) the rest of the bar stays dry and the whole bar lasts much longer.

]]> http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/05/01/poo-bar-howto/feed/ 2 freckles and fro http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/04/02/freckles-and-fro/ http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/04/02/freckles-and-fro/#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:19:07 +0000 admin http://oyinhandmade.com/?p=552 i admit my total bias here as a fellow black chick with freckles, but i find model nakia phoenix adorable. i happened to have caught her very first job in the catalog of t-shirt company alternative apparel (we heart these shirts, and use them for the black nerds unite tees we sell in our baltimore boutique; if you are a nerd but not nearby you can pick one up for now at our cafepress shop, but we hope to include ours in our online shop soon.) anyhoooooo, she’d caught our eye even then with her distinctive look, but of course we are totally enamoured of the newly natural look she’s been rocking lately!

so the point of this post was to share these intricately styled, modern-victorian, moody photos of her by collabing photographers JUCO. i find them to be quirky, delightful, intense, and generally amazing. click http://jucophoto.com/ and click ‘freckles’ to view the whole story.

photo credit: JUCO

]]> http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/04/02/freckles-and-fro/feed/ 8 queue back to normal! http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/03/10/queue-back-to-normal/ http://oyinhandmade.com/2010/03/10/queue-back-to-normal/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:19:42 +0000 admin http://oyinhandmade.com/?p=559 hi, beautifuls! we are happy to announce we have worked through the last vestige of our snow-related queue delays, and are now shipping orders at or BELOW our 10-business-day turnaround. thanks for your patience!!

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