The History Behind 3 Heatless Black Hairstyles

  • Posted on 17 February, 2023
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Pop culture is full of gorgeous Black hairstyles that can be traced back to African roots. Keisha Kerr shows us how to achieve 3 of these beautiful looks, and explains their rich historic origins. "Respect the texture and have some fun with it."

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All right we're here now and I want to jump right in you - look fabulous by the way Keisha loving the hair. Thank you jump right in with our model. Uh Drea talk to us about the look we're at yes, so Drea's hairstyle is actually inspired by the betsyma Soraka of Madagascar. Now one reference of this we see in pop culture is Rihanna's. British Vogue magazine cover May 2020 very iconic cover the betsima Soraka people are make up about 15 of the population in Madagascar, okay and they're, the second biggest ethnic group in Madagascar. One thing that really drew me to this hairstyle as well is because it's meant to showcase the natural texture of uh, textured, hair, curly hair, more importantly, two four type hair, because it's important to remember that a lot of these styles were done on four type. Hair. Absolutely okay, so I love that and I love that we are focusing on the texture rather than hiding the texture. Absolutely so show us a little bit about how we go. I'M going to demo just a small section, so I can kind of get a bit of insight on how you would recreate this at home. Yes, so you want to start by sectioning your hair and really deciphering how many sections you're going to be doing from there. We'Re going to use a bit of a Pomade just on her roots, to help with smoothing down any flyaways from there. I'M just going to go into a braid, so we're going to start with a very simple braid. We'Re gon na go down about two thirds down good the length of her hair, so most of us know how to braid. I learned on my Barbies yeah um, so this is a good skill to know it is, and I would imagine you can do this like two strand twist. If braiding isn't you know your Forte, that's totally. Fine too YouTube is a great. You know. Yes, absolutely serious. Once I get to the bottom, I'm just gon na take a rubber band, we're actually just going to tie this off and then we're going to Loop. The ends through see I like this because you're actually leaving the the end out a little bit. So we can respect the texture and try some fun with it. It doesn't have to be the structure slicked back situation all the time and for every texture it's going to look different as well too right. So now we kind of form this cute. We went in and added some like hair accessories, some of the hair jewelry, yes, which I think is a really great little accessory to give that little extra pop, so good Drea. Thank you! So much lovely modeling. We love that smelly in here, because we're going to talk about bantu knots. Now, yes, we are. We see these a lot in Hollywood. I grew up having them after wash day so empty the wash the wash the conditioner the Bantu Knots and then let it dry um. But now I love the fact that this is a hairstyle folks are wearing to work too absolutely out in the world. Absolutely so even you know Circa the early 2000s late, 90s they're, very popular style. We see it with. You know: people like Halle, Berry, Lauren, uh, Lauren Hill and more recently, Leticia right um, who is in Black Panther yeah, um and again yeah. It'S a very common style that we see it's very low maintenance and not again, all these styles are heatless as well, which is great, too yeah easy to accomplish. So why don't you show us on Lily? How we would do this so Lily did her big chalk about a year ago, so we're still in the growing out phase, which is great so on her natural hair. We can still achieve the same. Look we're just not going to have as much volume. It really just starts with twisting the hair into One Direction once that we do that that the hair will kind of Bend back on itself and from there you're just wrapping it around to create this more volumized. Look, we did go in with some extensions, so this is a bit of textured braiding hair nice. I'M just going to tie that around the base of her Little Pony here. So we're going to do the exact same thing, but now, with the braiding hair attached, we're just going to twist it into One Direction. Nice until it kind of becomes a little more refined, starts to twist back on itself and we're just going to form it into a little spiral. So I'm not a very good braider sure, but I can sure do a bantu knot and I really do applaud myself for that. Yes, yes, I really don't need a ton of skill. It'S just a little bit of patience now to secure that, sometimes just on its own is okay or we can use another little rubber band, and did we talk a little bit about where this look originates from right? So the word Bantu itself means people and over 400 different African languages um. More specifically, this style originates from the Zulu people and they come from South Africa, nice um. So then, they're part of the Bantu diaspora as well man that is beautiful and also with some hair jewelry. That'S right! Yes, one thing I want to mention before I let Lily go is just The Parting is really crucial when you're doing a bantu knot, everyone's seeing your parts, do you have any tips for getting the parts the way you want it? Yes, so I often recommend using some type of Pomade, so for all these Styles, we use a product called Jam, it's in between like a Pomade and a gel, so it has that kind of stiff structure that you would need that really helps in making the lines Really crisp as well um oftentimes yep. These are referred to as Zulu a Bantu, not sorry or Zulu knots or Nubian knots as well, but yeah you only really need one product which is nice as well excellent. Thank you Lily! That'S fantastic! All right, my Master's! I love this one. This is Melissa, she is doing a curly mohawk, which I will never be over the Mohawks. I think it's so Chic, so I'm going to start by showing them this side, because it really is about the yeah the profile view of this one. Yes, what's the background on this because people might be thinking heavy metal sure not so much yeah, I think Africa people so we see um the first beginnings of this type of hairstyle or different variations of it all across the African diaspora. Some that stood out to me was the French Congo around the 18th century. We see it in the yet sing tribe of Southern Cameroon, as well as the himba tribe in Angola. Nice. Yes, so talk to us a little bit about achieving this. Look because we look at this and we think okay, this looks difficult. Absolutely. Yes, it's a little bit more challenging if you are Keen to braiding, obviously that I wanted to give two options. So, yes, we do see this style with sometimes braids, going up to the Mohawk type of style into that volume yeah. Another way we can do. It is just pinning up the sides. If braiding is not your again you're strong she's, looking at me yeah, you can do it this way. So this is, you know a more of a tracy-friendly version. Yes, thank you. So with this, underneath these little hair Jewels are actually little rubber bands. So all I really did was create a section. We smoothed it out yeah I secured it with a rubber band and then to create this height up here. I really didn't do much. I actually rolled the hair into itself to create that volume. I'M just going to turn this away, so we can see absolutely so all of these Styles front to back maybe 45 minutes an hour. It really didn't take that long at all. That'S good! Yeah! That'S impressive! Yes! So we see references of this style more recently in woman King. Yes in sports, we see it a lot, because it's a style that with men, is really versatile too. Absolutely so you're just going to take the tail and sort of tuck it in yes, so we're just going to kind of roll this under bobby pins and pin it and that's what really creates that full shape. That is gorgeous, and I just think it's nice sometimes to know about the historical Origins, a lot of this hair. I know we talk about cultural appropriation. Yes, it's why we like, when people look back, let's look back at where things came from rather than just sort of willy-nilly taking on culture. I think once we've started to understand, Origins and where things come from, then we have a better understanding of each other as well. Absolutely okay, beautiful give it up for Keisha

Lizabet X: Ciyline. Please explain why all of the hair models used have the features and hair textures of biracial or mixed race people. Compare the people in the photos posted and the present day hair models.The ladies are of African descent and should be included. But you have completely excluded models with dark skin tones and very coily or 4C type hair. This is sending the wrong message. Sad.

Tribe213: Cool segment however I was disappointed not to see at least 1 model with 4C hair.

Sir Chadius Maximus III: Don’t appropriate white flowing hair lol .

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