Braid

In Americanah, a bestselling novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the young Nigerian female protagonist Ifemelu, who had moved to America in hopes of creating a better life for herself, looks back on the stages and loves of her life as she prepares to return to Nigeria for the first time in many years. Adichie uses hair as a symbol to journey through the stages of Ifemelu’s life and relationships. A woman’s relationship with her hair can represent one’s struggle to find identity…

Don’t you want to live in a world where ideas are shared freely and openly? What happens when a group of people is negatively affected by these ideas being shared? Most don’t realize, but the concept of culture appropriation is clear. Every day the media misrepresents people. We live in a world where some cultures are stolen and then exploited in the media without any other forms of representation. Popular culture has been notorious for stealing ideas from other cultures without thinking of the…

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It shows us in the paragraph how she tries her best to make him crack, but all the effort she uses and tries on him were all for nothing. In the end she sends a letter to his parents telling them to cut his braids off or make him stay home from class, his parent come to school with their braids instead. As they walked through she said without capitalization “Indians, Indians, Indians.” This is one example of showing prejudice and negative stereotyping because like what happened to the African…

True Grit (2010), written by Ethan and Joel Cohen, is a movie about a girl who is very upset because her father was murdered, so she sets out on a journey with a U.S. Marshal and Texas Ranger to find her father’s killer so that she could have her revenge by killing him. She ends up getting into some tough situations that the U.S. Marshal and Texas Ranger have to help her with. Through all of this the actor who plays the young girl has very good dialogue, costume, and cinematography. Maddie…

Hair, it is a complex and high maintenance prospect of life in our society. Some people choose to shave their heads to not have to deal with it. For some hair is a struggle. I am a part of that some because I do not even know how to braid. I am also one of the lucky ones because my mother does my hair and she does a great time each time she does it. This essay, however, is about my game of tug of war with my hair and the simple but also complicated process of transitioning to chemically relaxed…

Hair styles that cause traction alopecia Traction alopecia is a type of hair loss that results when hair is subjected to stress and tension for prolonged periods. This prolonged stress and tension from pulling hair too tightly, causes the hair to be uprooted from the hair follicle and the scalp becomes scarred. Damage to the scalp and follicle may or may not be permanent which means your hair may or may not grow back. The overwhelming majority of those who suffer from traction alopecia are…

Braids that are too tight can pull the hair out from the scalp and eventually prevent it from growing anymore, a condition called traction alopecia. Additionally, braids that are too tight can cause inflammation, and dirt and bacteria can become trapped under the hair, which can cause infection. Hair loss from too tight braid foundations can begin early or appear as a woman ages. The Link Between Weaves and Hair…

My mother used to lace my hair in these beautiful cornrows that would take hours to construct, and I remember being so proud to wear them, because I hated the twists that she wound in my hair prior to this new, bold hairstyle. At the end of each braid, she would create an alluring pattern of beads, which conveniently matched the outfits that she’d picked for me to wear…

Black beauty salons are different from other salons because they specialize in cutting, styling and treating kinky hair. Most Black people have kinky hair. These salons can straighten kinky hair with chemicals or with heat. They can also curl kinky hair with chemicals that are not suitable for those with straighter hair. Beauty salons that service mostly black customers may be further separated into salons that specialize in relaxing or curling kinky hair and those that work with kinky hair…