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A beautiful locked Naima Adedapo appeared to be headed out the door on American Idol, Season 10, until literally the last few minutes of the show.

Although Jennifer Lopez called the delighted Wisconsin contestant “an exotic flower in a rose garden” after she sang Porgy and Bess “Summertime”, Randy was less complimentary and told her fell short. Randy, who has become the judge who tells it like it really is (bless you Randy) told the tall and model like contestant she failed to compare to Fantasia’s version.

After the Top Ten were revealed the judges were able to ask six of the rejected contestants to sing one last time.  Ultimately the judges selected three wild cards, Naima Adedapo, Stefano Langone and Ashton Jones.  Naima Adedapo seemed shocked, but also relieved, to be going on to another competition.  The big question is whether she will be able to last or not?

In past seasons wild cards have gone far but today’s American Idol is a new show with kinder, gentler judges.

Naima definitely has an advantage of sorts.  While her voice disappointed Randy Jackson, her fashion choices are very exotic and her long well-formed locked coils, which appear to have been formed on natural curls, are well coiffed.  She may really speak to the audience who ultimately make or break the finalists with their voting.  Besides her amazing hair, fashion and accessory choices. Naima has time on her side to pick better songs and fine tune her act. (more…)

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.

(Image of Brilliant Brunette Shine Release Moisturizing Shampoo – Chestnut to Espresso – Available at HairBoutique.com – All Rights Reserved).

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…)