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Fashionable Hairstyles for Christmas

Hey Fashionistas! Do you begin to prepare for the Christmas Eve? Do you decide what dress you will wear? What make up you will put and what hairstyle you will make? If you haven’t decided yet, you are in the right place. Today I will show you some fashionable hairstyles which will help you prepare for Christmas!

Nowadays hair extensions are becoming more and more popular all over the world. Using hair extensions to enhance the length, color and volume, which can really change your looking in a just few minutes and create a perfect style while attending all your personal events during the Christmas period.

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Braided hairstyles make space for creativity. There are many interesting braiding techniques to make every head unique. Besides, you can try with highlights, natural or curly texture, clips, patterns, shapes, etc.

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Clip in hair extensions for Christmas parties are extremely popular and instantly add the glamour look, making you feel extra special in the spirit when you go out.

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Ombre hair extensions are one of the most popular styles this year. If you want to change your style into Two-tone or Three-tone colors like the above pictures, using a hair weft is a good idea.

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Volume hairstyles will let you become the most glamorous one on Christmas Eve, wave or curl can help you make that more visual.

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A ponytail can also be a fashion statement; sometimes meaning sporty, other times a low pony tail sends signals of a chic personality.

The History of African American Women’s hair I

Most blacks in America come from West Africa, where people’s hairs are all kinky, loosely curled or flowing. In the 1400s and 1500s, there were all kinds of beautiful hairstyles. Women had the right kind of oils and combs to do them. Some took hours, while some even took days. Only the maid and the mourning did not do their hair.

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Then 1500s witnessed slave ships from Europe. As soon as the colonist caught the natives, they would cut off their hairs. It was merely the beginning of a long process of wiping out the culture and identity. In this way, colonist intent to better control the blacks by breaking their spirits.. Slaves began to arrive in America in the 1600s.

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During the time from 1600s to 1700s, American slaves often overworked or stressed out to death owing to cruel exploitation. There was little time left for things like beautiful African hairstyles. So most women covered their hair in a rag. Not only to hide their undone hair but sometimes to even hide things like ringworms, which left places on your head where no hair would grow. Luckily, women who worked indoors were able to do their hair. For them braiding was just common things.

In the 1800s the slave ships stopped coming from Africa. That meant slaves in America could no longer work so hard: their lives were now worth more ($1500 and up). So they started getting Sundays off and have some time to do their hair. So they would still cover their hair in a rag during the week days but uncover it on Sundays for church.

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There are two reasons about the changes:
The lack of hair care products: No palm oil or the right kind of combs were sold in America. So women had to handle their hair with butter and bacon grease and the carding combs of sheep.
The idea of “good hair” and “bad hair”: Living in a country of white racists made black women see kinky hair as “bad hair” and straight, flowing hair as “good hair”. So they tried to straighten their hair even if it meant using dangerous chemicals like lye (which they mixed with potatoes).

After the civil war when the slaves were freed the idea of good hair, if anything, grew stronger: the blacks who had been freed before the war wanted to hang on to their position at the top of black society, so they used as their excuse their light skin – and “good hair”.

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