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Some hair care manufacturers offer hair products ranging from shampoo and conditioner to styling products which are designed to enhance any existing color on the hair - whether natural or chemically induced.

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Known as “pigmented” they simply contain added hair color or pigment.  Sometimes the products are advertised as “color enhancing” or “color maintaining”.

Pigmented Hair Products - Color Bases

Depending on the current hair color, color pigment products may contain violet shades for white blondes, marigold or yellow shades for golden blondes, brown and red henna for brown or red hair. (more…)

Asha Mandela has spent the last 20+ years growing her hair into the recently crowned Longest Dreadlocks by The Guinness Book Of Records.

The 46 year old women from Davenport, Florida started growing her current dreadlocked hair in 1988, four years after moving to the United States from Tinidad/Tobago while she was living in Brooklyn, New York.

(Image of Asha Mandela from UTube and Guinness Book of Records Attempt)

At one point while in New York she cut all of her naturally curly hair very short and decided to go “natural” meaning the abstinence from all hair related chemicals.

As her hair grew in she started twisting it and eventually it formed tangles and then dreads.  She loved the look as it evolved and allowed it to grow into a full set of dreads which has been growing nonstop for the past 21 years.

There are many methods for creating dreadlocks and one is to let hair become Naturally Tangled although some dread lockers refer to that method as The Neglect Method where the hair is just neglected allowing it to eventually evolve from tangles to dreads. (more…)

Hairstyles Throughout History

Listed below are some (but definitely not all) of the most popular and widely recognized hairstyles throughout history.

Each of the hairstyles usually requires that the hair be cut a certain way to enhance the actual style although it’s not always necessary to have the hair cut to adopt a specific hairstyle. Case in point is the bouffant hairstyle which can be created from more than one hair cut. The key is the length.

Most hairstyles generally require a certain hair type (thin/fine, medium, thick, very thick) and texture (straight, wavy, curly, kinky, very curly) or length (very short to very long) to work properly. All of these considerations should be discussed with your professional hairdresser before adopting a hairstyle.

For more details descriptions visit the HairBoutique.com Hairstyle Glossary.

Afro
This is also known as a “natural” hairstyle. This hairstyle occurs when the natural textured hair grows out naturally and consistently all around. This hairstyle is sometimes popular with African Americans, but can be worn by other races.

The Afro appeared in the 1970s as a specific African American hair fashion statement. Worn prominently by rights activists Angela Davis, it was also popular in the black entertainment fields. The full and natural African American hairstyle was proudly worn by Michael Jackson, Jesse Jackson and other popular entertainment folks.

The style was created with the use of a hair pick designed to mazimize the natural kinkiness of black hair. The Afro is remembered as a symbol of black power. Ironically, Samantha on Sex And The City wore an Afro wig in the last season of the popular show to cover hair loss from breast cancer.

Bantu Knots
A combination of twisted plaits and knots. Bantu knots are created by dividing hair into individual plaits,then twisting each plait into knots along the top of the head.

Beatle Mop
This is a hairstyle in the same fashion of the early Beatles. The hair is neatly cut so it can be worn long all around. Generally speaking the Beatle is a form of the popular Bowl cut. When the rock groups the Beatles first came to the United States their floppy moptop hairstyles were quite new. They were common in the UK but not in the US.

Beehive Hairstyle

A hairstyle popularized by Madge Simpson it was a hairstyle that is designed to create major height. The Beehive Hairstyle was created by Margaret Heldt in response to a challenge from a magazine. Margaret used a box as her inspiration. (more…)