After all that marveling about the hi-tech miracles of modern living lately here is a genuine low-tech miracle that I bet you my dear family and friends back there in europe have never even heard about. Buckle up white girls here comes the do Brooklyn stylie. What is commonly known as a hair weave over here is the answer to the question why so many black women have this strangely shiny and very streight hair. It's not a wig and it's not a reverse perm. It's a weave. I discovered a post card sized flyer at the post office that advertises a hair dresser over on Fulton by the name of Hair Players 2000. On that very post card the miracle, and I consciously use the word for the third time now, the context I feel warrants it, is explained in a series of color photographs.
Yes, this beautiful woman had her natural hair braided in what I believe is called corn rows across her head and then strands of artificial hair were attached or woven into to those corn rows. Presto: weave! Cool huh?
Updated June 21,'08
When I moved my blog from Blogger to my own backend here the comments got lost in the process. In most cases this is not a terrible tragedy as they were mainly shout-outs from my peeps. In this case however I want to preserve the comment so I decided to make it part of the post. Here we go:
Yes, this beautiful woman had her natural hair braided in what I believe is called corn rows across her head and then strands of artificial hair were attached or woven into to those corn rows. Presto: weave! Cool huh?
Updated June 21,'08
When I moved my blog from Blogger to my own backend here the comments got lost in the process. In most cases this is not a terrible tragedy as they were mainly shout-outs from my peeps. In this case however I want to preserve the comment so I decided to make it part of the post. Here we go:
Anonymous said 1:47 pm, April 17,'06
I think you would be surprised to know that not only african-americans have weaves, but white women in america as well as europe wear weaves, extensions, pieces, or whatever people are calling them these days. Especially celebrities who don many different hairstyles from day to day. It saves their hair from harsh heat styling on a daily basis. I was recently in a salon getting my hair cut, and saw 3 different white women getting custom weaves in their hair. Also, not every african-american woman with long straight hair has a weave. african-american hair can be straightened with a relaxer (a reverse perm as you call it) or heat straightened with a blowdryer or hot comb.Me again on June 21,'08
Wow yea, I remember I was indeed very surprised to learn this. I have sported the so called chives style hair myself all my live and have usually had it cut by family or friends in more or less violent 15 min sessions. So my anonymous friend, you see that my familiarity with the hairdressers at that point stemmed mainly from tv shows. I live to learn.
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