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Natural Hair Care and Braiding
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Natural Hair Care and Braiding

Provides a history of Black hairstyles, and discusses sanitation and preventing bacterial infections in the hair salon, different types of scalp diseases and disorders, and braiding and sculpting techniques.

Milady Standard Natural Hair Care & Braiding
  • Language: en

Milady Standard Natural Hair Care & Braiding

Milady Standard Natural Hair Care and Braiding is designed to be the training resource of choice for individuals committed to nurturing textured hair and providing excellent natural hair care services. This book introduces the technical and creative aspects of braiding, styling, and grooming hair that is naturally curly, kinky, or multi-textured. Also included, are 17 procedures with step-by-step photos and detailed instructions in techniques for styling and grooming natural hair and natural hair additions. This is a “must have” for those who are serious about developing a wide range of services and building a broad, diverse client base--crucial elements for success in the flourishing hair care industry. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Ida B. Wells
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

Ida B. Wells

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-08-27
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  • Publisher: Aladdin

Jeter Publishing presents a brand-new series that celebrates men and women who altered the course of history but may not be as well-known as their counterparts. Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. On one fateful train ride from Memphis to Nashville, in May 1884, Wells reached a personal turning point. Having bought a first-class train ticket, she was outraged when the train crew ordered her to move to the car for African Americans. She refused and was forcibly removed from the train—but not before she bit one of the men on the hand. Wells sued the railroad, winning a $500 settlement. However, the d...

Beyond Vanity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Beyond Vanity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-09-10
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

From the award-winning author of Dressing Up, a riveting and diverse history of women’s hair that reestablishes the cultural power of hairdressing in nineteenth-century America. In the nineteenth century, the complex cultural meaning of hair was not only significant, but it could also impact one’s place in society. After the Civil War, hairdressing was also a growing profession and the hair industry a mainstay of local, national, and international commerce. In Beyond Vanity, Elizabeth Block expands the nascent field of hair studies by restoring women’s hair as a cultural site of meaning in the early United States. With a special focus on the places and spaces in which the hair industry...

Textured Tresses
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Textured Tresses

Twist it! Braid it! Loc it! Enjoy the freedom and beauty of naturally textured hair. Textured hair styles like Locs, Braids, Twists, Cornrows, and Knots are all the rage, adorning the heads of celebrities, athletes, and everyday folk now more than ever before. Yet, the actual caring, styling, and maintenance of textured hair still remains a mystery to many. Now, Diane Da Costa, celebrity stylist and master designer of natural hair, unravels the tresses of textured hair, providing readers with information on the proper care of natural hair as well as a step-by-step guide on achieving various exciting styles. Textured Tresses will help you: -Identify and celebrate the texture you were born wit...

Bellman & Black
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Bellman & Black

Killing a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a wrenching tragedy compels him to enter into a macabre bargain with a stranger in black.

The Legs Are the Last to Go
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

The Legs Are the Last to Go

The barrier-breaking actress best known for her roles in "Julia" and "Grey's Anatomy" discusses her four marriages, the racial and sexual politics that shaped her roles in Hollywood and on Broadway, and the personal cost of her career.

American Bloomsbury
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

American Bloomsbury

A portrait of five Concord, Massachusetts, writers whose works were at the center of mid-nineteenth-century American thought and literature evaluates their interconnected relationships, influence on each other's works, and complex beliefs.

Beauty is in the Skin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

Beauty is in the Skin

Skincare is essential, Makeup is a choice (Make Good Choice) Beautiful Skin requires commitment, not a miracle. In Today’s world, every woman has the desire to look beautiful. In recent times, beauty and body care have become more important because they boost one’s self confidence, improve presentability and enhance chances in career development. It is said- ‘A good face is a letter of recommendation’. This book describes useful tips for women in detail to look and feel good. This book covers general topics of interest like skin and its types, Tips about Real beauty and good sleep, summer beauty regime and benefits of oils and about some problems of skin. The book also touches upon some Tips and Tricks of Makeup.

Black Family Today
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 718

Black Family Today

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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