Cultural appropriation occurs when a person from one cultural adopts the fashion, iconography, trends or styles from another culture.
In our community and maybe in others as well there is a lot of confusion and chatter surrounding what is natural? Who is natural? Are you still natural if you use color? Are you still natural if you use heat? Some of the questions sometimes come with a flare of arrogance mixed with a...
You need to choose styles that do not require daily styling but that are easy on the roots and easy on the hair strands. In my opinion styles like loose twists or regular two strand twists using your own hair are ideal instead of styles that use added hair like box braids orkinky* twis...
Low manipulation helps with retention because you are not constantly using brushes, combs and other tools to maintain your hair daily. Additionally in some cases your hair is removed totally from your shoulders and back to protect it from constantly rubbing on the fabric ...
modernists considered themselves to be seeing past the veils of traditional culture into an uncovered, objective truth. Then there waspostmodernism, which, some time after World-War II, was a revolt against the excesses of technology and what increasingly began to be seen as a childish faith in...
His wife looked like a fairy tale out of Grimms, her golden braids piled into a shining crown on her head….. I know.. I drank most of the cherry wine… but, they kept refilling my glass. And then I remember we left the priest and his wife and children and started walking home ...
You can also create a base for locs to form with the braiding method. To create these kinds of locs, you will need to form braids out of the desired sections of hair. Over time, if left in, dreadlocks will form over the braids. It’s important to note that the braided pattern can ...
It was like a very somber kind of culture. And I’m not that person, so I was like, maybe I should do something else. So I had an idea. So I proposed a year of service where one such scholar, hoping to use their year to make a meaningful impact and fight the world’s f...
American culture has a more-ness built into it, rooted in the fantasy of an endlessly expanding western frontier. Our consumer culture links happiness to more, to acquiring the thing we do not have — the new car or shoes or home — that once possessed will complete the puzzle and make ...
Rasta dreadlocks are one of the more traditional loc styles. They are rope-like strands of hair formed by locking or braiding hair. The style is visually similar to braids, but whereas braids can be installed and “finished” immediately, mostdreadlocks hairstylesproperly require a period of matu...