How One Heavy Hitter Stylist Takes Natural Hair Care Back Into The Kitchen

Natural Hair Care Heavy Hitter

Today we're here to set it off with Technique Tuesday, @ The CHOP Shop... 

Where Curly Hair... IS ...Our Passion

Thank you for stopping by today to twist, curl, and loc up with Tuesday's Technique. As with any form of expertise, having the proper techniques is a heavy hitter. If you know anything about natural hair... you know that it is a ever rising culture among many cultures... especially within the Black African American community and abroad. Natural hair gained it's sassy cultural appeal way back prior to any of the cultural indifferences that many are faced with here today. Yet the heavy hitter is that we are not as prideful as we we're in the past. What use to be of great cultural significance, has now become a boggled group of self proclaimed professionals, spreading the wrong message and information about Natural Hair.

Many of the heavy hitters within the movement of Natural Hair are doing so to establish a concrete sense of pride and wonder, about the community of what was, and has now become again. With all of the beautiful textures and curl patterns among us, there is no silver bullet that has been designed to annihilate the history of natural hair power.

Just imagine all those men and women who wore royal headdresses to signify their deity or spiritual consciousness. Hair is and has always been elevated for social and aesthetic reasons, but its spiritual connection also served to heighten its significance. Many Africans believed the hair a way to communicate with the Divine Being. According to Mohamed Mbodj, an associate professor of history at Columbia University and a native of Dakar, Senegal, “the hair is the most elevated point of your body, which means it is the closest to the divine.”

The Signifying Heavy Hitter

Consequently, many thought communication passed through the hair. Many believed a single strand of hair could be used to cast spells or inflict harm. This explains why hairdressers held and still hold prominent positions within the community today. For those who do not know, styling and grooming black hair is often complicated and time consuming. That is why with the proper techniques and training salon hours can be reduced and so can overhead. The time spent at the hairdresser often results in close bonds between the stylist and the client. It is important to note that unkempt hair was largely unseen, as were scarves and "head-wraps,” within history.  Therefore, one can conclude that the hair was not meant to be covered, but adored and highly praised.

Makes me wonder how did we get away from such a social significance? Was it that practicing healthy hair care etiquette became too expensive? Or... Was it the evolution of time that moved us along to where we are now... Leaning back to the basics or even redefining the basics. That is why after 14 years in the field, I am taking my expertise back to where it all began... In the kitchen...

  

So whether you subscribe to natural hair or not... the first step to understanding the beauty of it all is in the history... And that is the basis of any technique. First we must ask where did the idea originate? Then we can examine how to preserve the beauty of our culture and freedoms today.

Now as we celebrate how far we have journeyed, we can arise finding ourselves heading back home, to where it all began... With your community heavy hitter, The Kitchentician.

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