20 Curly Bob Quick Weave
20 Curly Bob Quick Weave
“I’ve apparent a huge cultural about-face appear accustomed Afro hair. In 2005, I started a cavalcade with a beard annual alleged Accustomed Fix – at that time, bodies would say to me it’s aloof a trend, that is all it will be, but that cavalcade lasted over a decade. It’s admirable to see that added and added women are all-embracing the amazing textures of their beard and adulatory its versatility with assured ‘fros, admirable braids, beard threading, appetizing twists and adequate locs.
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Ayesha McMahon
My beard is a allotment of me. Not alone in the physical, accurate sense, but as an addendum of myself. It’s article I accept to booty affliction of, attending after, and love. I could allocution all day about my beard as if it’s addition person, the love-hate relationship, back one of us doesn’t abet and back at times we aloof appetite to allotment ways. I adulation back it can allegorize my affection and be as big or as adventurous as I want.
PHOTOGRAPHED BY LILY BERTRAND-WEBB.
PHOTOGRAPHED BY LILY BERTRAND-WEBB.
PHOTOGRAPHED BY LILY BERTRAND-WEBB.
Natural beard is admirable and it makes me blessed that so abounding bodies adjudge to go on a new adventure or embrace a new ancillary of themselves. Quite simply, my beard is mine. Your beard is yours. And it’s important that we bless and acknowledge those who embrace the appropriate to do what they ambition to their hair. If you ambition to chemically amusement your hair, align it, abrasion wigs and careful styles, it’s aloof as admirable as addition abroad abrogation themselves natural. I’ve noticed that there is a bisect and we should be adorning others rather than disturbing them bottomward for not affair your accepted of ‘natural’. The adorableness accepted you set yourself (if any) should consistently be advantageous and fueled by the adulation of your OWN self.
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Emilyne Mondo
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The accustomed beard movement has been ascent able and steadily for the accomplished bristles or six years and serves as an allotment abutment arrangement and force for women of color. By allotment accustomed styles and adage no to actinic products, we say yes to ourselves, our beauty, and our history. The affection of this movement is about airs and I’m actuality for it. This [threaded] hairstyle, added than any other, generally feels affecting for me… It manages to be advertisement but protective. In this style, my beard is actuality artlessly straightened but at the aforementioned time, I’m acutely acquainted there is annihilation to adumbrate behind! I actually had my beard threaded by Charlotte about four years ago and I larboard the salon crying! It actually afraid me how abysmal the scars were. My abstraction of adorableness was so far abroad from my own adaptation of it. It sounds extreme, but above-mentioned to that, the weaves and wigs I wore had covered my face and were mostly befitting to a European idea/standard of beauty, like a apart coil or beeline weave. Threading is a adventurous appearance frequently begin in west Africa but acclimated all over the continent. It has served my ancestors for centuries, and to be honest, it feels like it – it’s unapologetic and strong. Would I abrasion this as an accustomed style? Now, in 2018 – YES! I feel aristocratic and regal. But it is important and absorbing to agenda that aloof two or three years ago, actually not. It’s been years of self-love, educating, acquirements and unlearning that has got me here, and I’m still going!
Portia Ferrari
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It was amazing accepting my beard threaded! I had never had it threaded afore and I feel like it’s article added absorbing than braids; it feels futuristic. I would abrasion it as an accustomed style, I like the adaptability of it and its authority that allows you to actualize new shapes.
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I don’t anticipate there’s annihilation amiss with allotment to abrasion your beard in all altered styles and allotment to accept a complect or extensions, but I do anticipate it’s important to accede your affidavit for accomplishing so and to be honest with yourself. Back I was younger, I capital my beard to be the adverse of how it is now – beeline and sleek, because that was what was apparent as admirable in the 97% white breadth I was in. Nowadays, I apperceive better; I accept who I am, apperceive added about my ability and what my accustomed adorableness is and what it agency to do me. Acquirements to adulation your accustomed cocky is a adventure and I’m still on it, but back it comes to my hair, I apperceive that absolution it be and all-embracing it in its accustomed anatomy is back it’s happiest, and so it’s back I’m the happiest.
PHOTOGRAPHED BY LILY BERTRAND-WEBB. DESIGNED BY ANNA JAY.
There’s annihilation amiss with actuality artistic with looks, cutting wigs, and putting in added hair, but you shouldn’t get absorbed to it and feel like you charge it to be or be apparent as admirable because you do not. There is annihilation added admirable than article in its accustomed form. Anybody has their own alternative with cogent themselves through their hair, but attractive afterwards it is my cardinal one priority. I feel like the added girls abutment and animate anniversary added through their beard journey, the added we will all feel added wholesome and acceptable abundant as we are.
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Chanel Taylor
My beard is article I use to accurate myself. I generally change my beard and try out altered colors and styles. Back I grew up, I was amidst by abounding of my aunties who knew how to complect hair. So naturally, I abstruse how to do added cultural hairstyles. I anticipate it’s nice to be able to appearance the versatility in my beard by cutting it beeline or coiled and additionally assuming my culture, too.
I actually enjoyed accepting my beard threaded! My ancestry is Ghanaian and my grandmother, who is from the Ashanti tribe, generally threaded my beard back I was in primary school. It was additionally a actual acceptable careful appearance that grew my hair.
PHOTOGRAPHED BY LILY BERTRAND-WEBB. DESIGNED BY ANNA JAY.
