Braids
When most people think of African arts and crafts, they first think of colorful clothing, artistically colored fabrics and wooden kitchen utensils. In my Afro Shop I uphold a completely different craft: Coiffure Afro means the art of artfully styling and styling Afro hair. In western industrialized countries, these Afro hairstyles are also known as braids or rastas. However, I prefer the technical term hair weave: the hair is woven and fixed in fine patterns. I work with both my own hair and natural hair as strands and synthetic hair strands that I weave into the natural hair
Rasta hair or braids?
I prefer the term braids or braided hairstyle. When people hear the term Rasta hair, they tend to think of the long, matted strands of Rastafari hair. Rasta hair has traditionally existed in different cultures around the world. But that doesn't have much to do with the braiding art of African hair stylists like I practice. Rasta hair rarely occurs naturally due to a lack of hair care. The fine tangles are usually incorporated in a targeted manner so that the strands are evenly thick and, above all, evenly distributed over the head.
Open braids, ponytail or bun
... I work with everything. In the gallery on my website you can see the different ways to use African braiding techniques. Braid hairstyles are simply incredibly varied. I offer you open braids, in which the ends of the braided strands are not sealed. These braids will unravel very slowly from the bottom. Placed as cornrows on the scalp, arranged in complicated patterns and then gathered into a braid, the result is incredible hairstyles.
Basically, all types of braids, including hair extensions, can be combined into a braid or ponytail. How exactly the braids are placed along the head, what patterns they form, how thick or numerous they are, determine how the ponytail looks. And what can be done as a braid can also be designed as a bun. The hair extension makes the bun very dense and voluminous.
