Friday 26 July 2013

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Black Hair Magazine Biography

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A new Black hair salon has opened in our town this summer, and I decided to give it a try with my 8 year old biracial daughter. What a great experience we had!
Chantelle gave me so much confidence to do something different with Hannah's hair other than pull it back into a puff. This morning she went to school with three neatly sectioned braids swinging jauntily with each step. (I sectioned the top and braided it straight down the back, then sectioned each side and put a braid in each.) We used every bangled ponytail holder we had, and she looked so fine!
For Hannah's dry, but soft and fine tightly curled hair, Chantelle recommended Soft Sheen's Optimum shampoo and conditioner, plus Baby Love's Hair Lotion and Paul Sebastian's clear styling gel for styling.
We wound up using some different products than were recommended. Hannah hates the feel of gel and hair lotion, so we settled on a nice, light oil: African Pride Hair, Scalp & Skin Oil. It is rich in botanical oils and extracts, has a nice, light fragrance, and it doesn't weigh down her fine hair the way that baby oil or the heavier lotions do. The Optimum shampoo and conditioner are good products for her hair, but I found the fragrance overwhelming (I, the klutz with a comb, am also allergic to perfumes.) Matrix/Biolage has a shampoo, conditioner and detangler for dry hair that are working nicely, but they are pricey salon products. I've also found that Infusium conditioner (found in any drug store or supermarket) and their Leave-In Treatment for dry hair seems to work well, and I can tolerate the lighter scents in those products.
Since the beginning of African civilizations, hairstyles have been used to convey messages to greater society. As early as the 15th century, different styles could "indicate a person's marital status, age, religion, ethnic identity, wealth and rank within the community."Unkempt hair in nearly every West African culture was considered unattractive to the opposite sex and a sign that one was dirty, had bad morals or was even insane.
Hair maintenance in traditional Africa was aimed at creating a sense of beauty. "A woman with long thick hair demonstrated the life force, the multiplying power of profusion, prosperity...a green thumb for raising bountiful farms and many healthy children", wrote Sylvia Ardyn Boone, an anthropologist specializing in the Mende culture of Sierra Leone.
In Yoruba culture in West Africa, people braided their hair to send messages to the gods. The hair is the most elevated part of the body and was therefore considered a portal for spirits to pass through to the soul. Because of the cultural and spiritual importance of hair for Africans, the practice of having their heads involuntarily shaved before being sold as slaves was in itself a dehumanizing act. "The shaved head was the first step the Europeans took to erase the slaves’ culture and alter the relationship between the African and his or her hair.


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