Short Term Protective Hairstyle For African Women || Living With Ess

Everybody we're at mystique Beauty, lounge and I have got Irene from Olivia Lucy who works here at mystique and our client esta, who is having her hair done. We'Ve been talking about protective hairstyles and in this particular you know, period we're talking about short term, which is like the braids we're gon na go into sister locks and all that which is to me still just a mystical world. I so keen to get to lend more about, but for now I wanted to know from you. Yes, I know Olivia great auntie anti-itch, it's amazing, but are there dangers to braiding quite regularly or things that we should look out, for you talked a little bit about a break me down, could share. You know so that we, because ultimately, we all want like healthy hair. So what are those to us so like? Personally, I take a break one cause of my hairline. So do you see that I opted to do countries? Our corner is better. For here my hand, you know for everything: okay, it doesn't affect it. Events, there's no pulling right, no right. No, so then it's also also good to switch from braiding and then at least do a week or a weave or weeds. Because, then, you know, you've got your new Condor cornrows and then you can and weaves have become so and have people become so good at also yeah China labor edges. Maybe it looks so natural interesting. So the weave option is a good one. Yes, take a pass on wigs, so go big is good, wig is really good. Um and also, you said, take a break for a lot of the week and also switch between cornrows and moments and normal grades all right. So what exciting things are you looking to bring into the market now? Well that a lot of color, okay, um and then there's this style called Baedeker? Okay, so a lot of women are using it and we want to step into that space, yeah totally and literally audience yeah. So for now there are no fancy ways of doing it. Okay, so we want to introduce fancy way actually doing practical. Okay, then, we also an introduced clip in which you can actually wake up clip in your hair center and go and keep it moving. Oh, it's still look cute. Yes, so I mean I remember when I when I was younger. I I think the options were just braid or twist yes, and then maybe it was like brown or black and then, of course I think the more you know. Women and especially the black community, started to be like hey. We want to be expressive and just have a little bit more fun. Yeah the more options came into the market. How do you think that that's been? Do you think I mean? What'S your what's your interpretation of that, and and and do you think, the market is ready as well for like more interesting and exciting. Kennon market is quite interesting, yeah in terms of health, most of the products that we actually launched are being detected exerted by the kind of market. Okay, it's not what we think. Yeah cuz you find even on the digital space, has changes industry completely. Oh, oh yeah! How so cuz you find people on our own Pinterest people camp in interest, people actually looking at international celebrities and their hairstyle great to find someone sends you a message on facebook and says: do you have the stuff? Let me tell you, I have a board full of all the styles that I want to end before. It'S like. I don't really understand finish. I don't care and before I used to have the last Harrah now have not you know. I'Ve never been more invested in like different kinds of hair, stylist yeah pinning more here and there so Lucille. I want to ask you, as we wrap up how long have you been in this industry, maybe five years so in verse? Five years, have you felt like it's changed and you've had to learn new techniques or or breeding patterns and stuff? Okay, you have to be so doing. Can someone show you do you ever have to say? If you ever find yourself saying? Oh this, when I do, I don't know where to start it's so simple: you can recreate it so its first you to be really good, really quickly, nice. Alright, it looks. It actually looks like you've got two brains left. I hope you enjoy your new. Do oh yeah, how often do you braid your hair, please you used to keep the base to three to four me, but how often do you then put breathe in like every every month every other month, so you go you to change between the names and breathe Yeah all right, okay! Well, ladies and gents, we're gon na say goodbye to the three. Ladies. Thank you so much for allowing us to come into your session. We'Ve now got to jump into a conversation that, for me, is still so new, but I'm so curious about it and I'm sure you are too so we're gon na jump into sister locks now with Harriet, but first take a look at Esther's final. Look all right and now we're here at the gorgeous Jemima saloon, one which is in Westlands and I have got a sister LOC, stylist and consultant she's been doing this job for three years now. Her name is Rahab Pelion, toi, pelion Tori. I got that right. Right yeah, so, first of all, thank you. Thank you for having us over. I can tell you've got sister locks on right. How long have you had yours on now two years, five months, two years, five months yeah. So when do you? When would you say that sister log started to become a more popular option when it comes to hair styles? Okay, now in Kenya is like five years old or cusine. Since I looked started yeah and now I started sister log, so maybe after the first lots started, I was maybe they had a lot to do. Sister logs in Kenya, all right, yeah, so explain the difference between what we know as locks and sister locks. Okay, sister loads, we have traditional locks and sister loves, sister locks are tiny and she we use locking patterns. There'S things called locking pattern and they are different, looking pattern while doing and we do partitioning they a lot of things we consider while doing sista law than traditional locks and traditional locks. They are bit bigger and sister loves as smaller and traditional Lots you use product, but sister locks, you don't use any product, you use any product yeah, so even to maintain, there's no like gel or some kind of math is just water, just water yeah sure I Mean just are you saying that I imagine that it must be healthier or better on your hair? If you don't have products? Am I correct in saying that yeah, but it also looks like it takes longer? Yes, yeah. I must take a lot a lot of time. Yeah get it yes, Talia. Okay, we call it installed. Okay, yeah, all right. It'S going on, so I see you've got chisa with you. There yeah, who so graciously, has allowed her hair to be to be used as a demo, because I'm so curious to see exactly what it takes to do at least one sister lock. So I'm going, let you get on with it and then explain to us as you do the process, but maybe you could first start by sharing. How have you prepped Jesus hair? Did you need to do anything just natural, no product, just shampooing full stop, no conditioning or additional no or no product? Yes, yeah. Wait aside, this sounds like the jail free card, like a stress free, yes, freedom on the way, yeah, okay? Okay! So why don't you? Why don't you get started, I'm so curious to see how you okay? First, we start by partitioning okay cause. We need to patching it help with styling and even if she moved from Kenya to another country, the stylist will be able to start it. At least she'll know it will be easier for him or her. So that's why we do patching partitioning and sexually yeah. It goes to starting from 8 to 12, depending on the size of the head and the world, the volume okay, okay, so we start from this year to here partitioning separating the front and the back okay, so we'll partition. Okay, okay, Mayans will calm when you sit when they're sitting in yeah. I know what lens be a lot of money, so she need to see the world of that Marisa yeah, so it helped from this year to year, which is straight: okay via an tiles touch. Okay, the hair must be natural through front product, so I can tell that she's part natural, but also parts relaxed. It'S not relaxed the bull day, the blow dryer yeah, it's pure nature, look like heat damage of sorts, easy yeah, okay, Wow, but your natural hair seems very like manageable inside things. You also consider like cull pattern of the hair. We have different color patterns and each color patterns take time to lock. We have three calcutta and have short medium and long, maybe even all of us here we have different color pattern. So that's why we give a client consultation according to her yeah Pattin, okay yeah, like Teresa she's, medium, okay, she's. How can I touch your hair, I'm so curious. I mean it just looks so soft mm-hmm all right. So you just it's just washed and it's a little damp from what I felt yeah. It must not wait. Oh it must be okay, yeah, but I imagine once you do them. You can't undo them yeah. It'S like dreadlock yeah, just yeah. So so I'm wondering for you penny and Troy. Was it painful when you were when you're installing these two locks is actually not meant to be painful, a trocar yeah, okay, and how often do you have to really touch are -- for after they install win seats for weeks strictly for weeks for weeks after I Just started settling yeah. I can't push to five weeks five weeks to six weeks. Okay, yeah. It must be straight yeah, a perfect straight line, yeah all right now this is separating back from the front. Then we come here so once you do that straight line. You then have to do a smaller section, mm-hmm, and everything has to be perfectly straight yeah. It'S like you're doing like little mazes and it needs to yeah make sense. Okay. Now this is so fun. First partitioning now how many partitions are you looking? I start from 8 to 12, okay, depending on the size of the hair right yeah. So would you be able to look, I think one yeah to just walk one. Like I mean you can get a small one, I'm just so giddy, so this will be our first and that's after locking I mean are telling every area it takes. Even one hour to partition was you need to get a perfect grid yeah? Also, it can even check one hour depending even the volume and the density of the hair Carrie yeah cause. You need to get that perfect thing that perfect yeah. This is a game of patience, yeah, it's a full day's affair, so we do back comp, okay and what is the back home in? Do this now to get where we will start our look. Okay start with our fingers. This is how we start wait. You'Re like making a knot: okay, I'm trying to understand, base you're, doing you're you're, taking each piece and like sort of been creating, and yes, we have different looking patterns. We have four, we normally mainly kind come on use their true yeah. Now I'm using, which is called reverse for it's tighter to make it for every install. It is that with pattern will approve us for okay yeah, and this is what I'm doing that, because it just and first of all doesn't have to say that is a tiny piece of hair, yeah and you're telling me that's like the whole head. That'S gon na! Do that yeah? Can someone decide decide that there's they want? Their sister looks to be bigger? Oh, it is by definition sniffles. Does it have to be a lot smaller? You remember general dread. Most of the clans do their research before being sister love, so they know what they want: okay, yeah. Okay, you