Black Women Hair styles

Black women have a unique look that renders them capable of wearing any colour and doing all types of things to their hair. It would look so un-natural to see a white woman wearing a black afro puff but a black women can wear a blond hair and carry it off effortlessly. However many are not comfortable with this and would like to choose style that are said to be more in sync with the afro culture. What ever you chose make sure it Complement that detracts .Here are a few of the hair syles seen as more suitable to black women


Braid

Braids are pretty self explanatory; they involve dividing a section of hair into at least three strands of hair and weaving them into rope-like formations. Braids can be created to hang freely from the scalp, or molded close to the scalp following the contour and shape of the head.

Bantu/Zulu Knots

This style is created by sectioning the hair and twisting it into tight, firm coils. The size of the sections of the hair depends on the length of the hair. The shape of the sections can be whatever you desire such as square, rounded, triangular, polygonal, amorphous.

Afro Puffs

This is a variation of the afro style using natural hair that is secured into an elastic holder in a variety of configurations and styled to “puff out” beyond the confines of the holder many black women chose to wear it as it is cheaper to maintain.

Afro

The afro is a style created in natural African hair (and among others who have tightly curled or kinky hair) The hair is styled so that it stands out from the scalp. In many cases the overall shape of the silhouette created is round.

Cornrows

This is a braided style that gained popularity among more than just the Black community in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. The style is named for the appearance it creates on head, which reminds you of rows of corn on the cob.

Dreadlocks

Dreadlock is a style created in the hair by encouraging sections of the hair to twist, coil and knit together into ropy lengths. There are literally countless methods of creating dreadlocks – building off of twists, combed coils, and even braids

Extensions

Extensions are lengths of natural or artificial hair that are attached to the hair on the head through various means such as the use of thread sewing, glues, clips or elastics bands.


Wigs

These are in style from way back. They made from natural or synthetic hair. they come in various styles .They can be had in any of the styles mentioned above. They are versatile as they can be easily removed since many come like caps.

Finger waves.

A finger wave is created using a styling gel or lotion to hold the hair, and a comb along with the use of the fingers to shape the hair into the desired pattern of curves and ridges. Some women and men with shorter hair styles want to create looks with sleek, controlled wave and texture. In such cases, finger wave styles are just the ticket

Fade

A fade refers to a clipper-cut hairstyle that tapers to the skin. The fade most closely resembles a flat top haircut in which the sides are so closely cropped as to be nearly shaved. In the mid-80’s the “Hi-Top Fade” was popularized by such artists as Kid’n’Play, Will Smith and Bobby Brown.

Jheri Curl

This is a perming process that became known as the Jheri curl, named after its creator, stylist and hair product mogul, Jheri Redding

Those black men and women who want a curly hairstyle, but not the tight, kinky coils commonly found among those of African descent, sometimes opt for a soft-curl perm.

Natural

Natural hair among black women refer to any hairstyle or styling technique that uses the hair as it grows from the scalp, without any chemical processing to change the hairs texture or wave pattern.



Relaxed

This process involves the use of chemicals that break the chemical side bonds of the hair (the disulfide bonds) allowing the hair to hang straighter and lay smoother

In an effort to make the hair smoother and easier to style in different ways, some black women and men choose to “relax” their hair making it more manageable.

Twists

Is a styling technique that is sometimes used to begin dreadlocks. The finished look for a “twist” style depends on the length of the hair and the amount of hair used in each twist. The finished look also depends on whether the hair is sectioned with a comb, or simply separated using the fingers

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