All things hair- Blog Entry 2 (Assignment 2)

Braids -All things hair

Portia Namane

There’s always some sort of hair trend going on, this season the American singer,  Alicia Keys inspired the new old trend African hair style. We see almost everything that existed years back coming back with a new twinkle and twist on it. This time it all things hair, hair is very important to most individuals. Portia Namame from The University of the Free State stated this is because “It gives a boost to your  facial features and outfit.” Says gorgeous  Miss Namane rocking the new hairstyle trend.

Alica keys

Even though the artist inspired and made the braids look cool, this hair style now has its own name, the exquisite planted braids are called fulani. It been a new hot trend since 2017 for most black women and by surprise other races too. Fulani came in and immediately swept out fox lock which were made fashionable  by our every own South African actress Nomzamo Mbatha .

Nomzamo Mbatha

Even though fulani had since been popular late 2017, at the University of the Free State student only started trying the hairstyle after the first quarter/term immediately after @Mihlalii_n an Instagram popular blogger/make-up artist mostly followed by South African youth, posted the picture of her new bagging hairstyle on the 9^th of March 2018 thereafter it was obvious who were followers of this Instagram superstar and I must say, we quite a lot!

Mihlalii_n

While others think Alicia Keys braids are different from Fulani, I believe there are the same. The reason I put Alicia Keys braids which were in fashion 16 years ago in the same category with Fulani it because they both have beads and planted with fiber or natural hair depending on the length and texture of one’s hair.  They both have the similar design; Fulani just has a modern design that is clearly rooted from Alicia Keys braids. Now days there’s beautiful beads that are see through, before beads with warm colours were used.

I asked a drama student who inspired their hairstyle and she surprised me by mentioning a new name she said “My hair is inspired by Kendrick Lamar” I was in shock because first of all this was a girl and Kendrick Lamar, or should I say the modern poet is just a phenomenal rapper and no hair trendsetter well that’s at least what I thoughts. Asked her if she followed Mihlali, baby girl had no clue who I was referring too.

Well I’m just glad that even though Bloemfontein is in the heart of South Africa, right at centre, we still catch the boat of trends exported at the banks of the sea.