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Beautiful Black Hair: Real Solutions to Real Problems--A Step by Step Instructional Guide

Shamboosie

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Total reviews: 49 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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the #1 African-American Hair Care Book in the Nation.

It is the classic guide that has the answers to all your questions about the care of your hair whether it is natural, relaxed or color-treated. Written by Shamboosie, a twenty-year veteran of the hair care industry BEAUTIFUL BLACK HAIR TEACHES you everything you need to know about: growing your hair long and healthy, stopping your hair from breaking overnight, getting rid of dryness and preventing it forever, applying chemical relaxer properly with no burning ever, choosing the best conditioners for your hair and using a daily maintenance program for maximum effectiveness. Chapters include: Hair: What is It? / It's Growing: Understanding Hair Growth / Beautiful Brown Babies: Children's Hair Care Solutions / The Care Package: Real Solutions That Really Work / Stop The Breakage: Putting an End to Dry Brittle Hair / It's A Natural Thing: Natural Hair, Extensions, Weaves and Wigs / Great Looking Hair Anywhere: How to Have Hair That Looks Great All The Time / The Color of Hair / The System #1: The Sodium Hydroxide Conditioning Lye Relaxer / The System #2 - Using Marcel Irons, Pressing, and Curling with a Gentle Touch / Getting it Together: Rethinking the Hair Care Routine

The Roots of Desire: The Myth, Meaning, and Sexual Power of Red Hair

Marion Roach

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Redheads Rock 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

Marion Roach, NPR correspondent, is a redhead, and aims to get to the bottom of redhead mythology in our culture. She discusses the oldest famous redheads, like Lilith (Adam's pre-Eve wife in the bible), Set, and Mary Magdalene. She also gets into the genetics of red hair, and explains why it's rare. She also discusses the historical attributes associated with red hair through time. It was formerly thought that Jews were redheads, and later, that redheads were not to be trusted. More currently, red hair is associated with sexual prowess and a hot temper. This book is a fun and intellectually satisfying read, especially for redheads.

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“A unique blend of personal and cultural history.”—Harper’s Bazaar

Already in its sixth HARDCOVER printing, The Roots of Desire is a witty and entertaining investigation into the power, myth and meaning of red hair. Redheads have been worshipped, idealized, fetishized, feared, and condemned, leaving their mark on us and our culture. Such is the power of what is actually a genetic mutation, and in The Roots of Desire, Marion Roach takes a fascinating look at the science behind hair color and the roles redheads have played over time. A redhead herself, Roach brings candor and brilliant insight to the complicated and revealing history of redheads, making this a stand-out narrative and an essential tool in understanding the mechanics and phenomenon of red hair. A must-have for every redhead.

Curl Talk: Everything You Need to Know to Love and Care for Your Curly, Kinky, Wavy, or Frizzy Hair

Ouidad

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At loose ends with your locks? Let the “Queen of Curl” show you how to bring out the best in your hair.

The lengths that women go to in order to tame their curls! If you’ve been blessed with curly hair, chances are that you’ve thought of it as a curse, complaining, “It’s uncontrollable!” “It’s a mess!” or “It’s so frizzy and
tangly!” Out of frustration, you may have mistakenly resorted to methods (straighteners, irons, blow-dryers) that only cause more damage to your hair. Now renowned New York City stylist Ouidad sets the record straight on curly hair and shows you how to start loving the waves, kinks, and curls you were born with. In Curl Talk, Ouidad reveals the secrets to bringing out your natural beauty, including:
* Finding the right cut
* How often to shampoo (and why you never wrap your wet hair in a towel)
* Why brushes and mousses should be outlawed
* The best conditioning and styling treatments
* Blow-drying, coloring, and straightening the safe way

Based on Ouidad’s experience catering solely to curly-haired clients at her exclusive Manhattan salon, Curl Talk is a straight-talking guide for your daily struggle with the frizzies, offering simple, step-by-step solutions for getting a gorgeous head of curls. It will revolutionize the way you treat your hair.

Grow Hair Fast: 7 Steps to a New Head of Hair in 90 Days

Riquette Hofstein

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

General Help only 2 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

This book focuses on removing residues that may be impacting your hair's growth. Much of it focuses on VERY involved processes and ingredients for creating home-made hair care products. Expect to spend many hours a week preparing the concoctions. It may help for general hair loss.

I am a 31-yr-old female experiencing androgenic alopecia and was disappointed to find no reference to treating the hormonal causes of this problem.

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For more than three decades, Riquette Hofstein has been helping men and women reverse hair loss and grow healthy new heads of hair. Based on her extensive research of what works and what doesn't, Riquette really can help create permanent restoration of hair growth. Find out: -- What you're doing wrong that's making your hair fall out -- The secrets of using herbs and vodka to grow your peach fuzz back into a fine head of hair -- What the makers of Rogaine don't want you to know -- Riquette's famous haircut that makes hair grow faster -- The only right way to shampoo -- How to stimulate healthy hair growth from the inside out

Riquette reveals her exclusive, simple, seven-step program that has helped thousands of people re-grow their hair. Grow Hair Fast also includes Riquette's recipes for the best homemade hair-care products with special herbs, oils and mixtures that she has developed, plus important information on chemical and surgical hair-loss solutions.

Bad Hair

James Innes-Smith, Henrietta Webb

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1 Picture = 1000 Words 4 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

The fact that there are no words to go with this collection of fashion cul-de-sacs improves the experience. Strictly an impulse purchase, but one to display openly with pride. Guaranteed to crack a smile and jog a memory. Spot your friends - compare to your yearbook. Enjoy!

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A hair-raising journey through the era when big was king.

In the beginning, there was the hair. And some of the hair was bad, but it was small. As men and women everywhere worked to improve and increase their lot, however, they stumbled onto some of humankind's most miraculous innovations: spray, gel, mousse, crimping irons, and of course, the perm. With these new tools, people everywhere suddenly found themselves able to coax their lank, lifeless tresses toward glorious new heights. The age of big hair had begun.

Now, the greatest of these bouffants, afros, rakes, beehives, and Flock-of-Seagulls have been plucked from their spots in hairdressers' windows and given the respect they so clearly demand. Bigger and badder than you ever dreamed possible, Big Hair goes out to all those people of yesteryear who were unafraid to think BIG.

Beautiful Braids: The Step-by-Step Guide to Braiding Styles for Every Occasion and All Ages

Patricia Coen, Joe Maxwell

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 2.0 of 5

this book 2 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

In the picture and discriptions on Amazon I feel I was missled
I thought is was a nice big book with nice pictures, or at least thats how they made it seem. When I got it it was just a tiny little black and white book with drawings of braids.

good luck

I will continue to shop at Amozon

Braiding your own hair 4 out of 5 stars.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful.

If you are braiding someone else's hair, most of what is here probably won't help you. However, if you, like I, are trying to learn to French braid your own hair, where you can't really see what you are doing, this book can help. In fact, I spent part of every evening for nearly 2 weeks with my hands in my hair making knots, and this book in my lap. All of a sudden my hands 'got it', and now I can do about any braid I want on myself.

Editorial Review:

Beautiful Braids (over 700,000 sold) owes its steady success to the simple fact that, as the most affordable and complete book on braiding on the market, it represents incomparable value. From elegant chignons and classic English braids to the sporty Duchess braid, these elaborate styles will continue to turn heads.

Milady's Standard Textbook of Professional Barber-Styling

Maura T. Scali-Sheahan

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Unchallenged Resource 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 4 people found this review helpful.

Like the closely related workbook (sold separately), this stands out due to the lack of competition.

Its comprehensiveness and accessibility exists without comparative examples.

Again, one unproven resource always will helps if no other exists.

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This revised edition is completely updated in both theory and the practice of barber-styling and brings you the latest in men's haircutting and styling, along with the most current information on barbering tools and implements. Revised using input from our current textbook users and the expertise of the National Association of Barber Boards, the textbook and corresponding supplements, also revised, are designed to better prepare your students for state licensing exams and successful careers in the professional market. A greater variety of multicultural cuts and styles are used throughout to reflect the range of clientele students may services during their professional career. ALSO AVAILABLE Student Workbook, ISBN: 1-56253-367-3 State Exam Review, ISBN: 1-56253-370-3 Text & Exam Review Package, ISBN: 1-56253-523-4 INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS CALL CUSTOMER SUPPORT TO ORDER Workbook Answer Key, ISBN: 1-56253-368-1 Lesson Plans, ISBN: 1-56253-369-X

Hair Rules!: The Ultimate Hair-Care Guide for Women with Kinky, Curly, or Wavy Hair

Anthony Dickey

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Kinky, curly, or wavy hair isn’t “problem” hair—it’s just hair with a different set of rules!

For too long, hairstylists and hair-care companies have ignored the needs of women with kinky, curly, or wavy hair, focusing on it as “problem” hair rather than celebrating its unique texture. But now hair-care and style expert A. Dickey, considered by top magazine beauty editors to be the foremost authority on caring for, cutting, and styling curly hair, has written Hair Rules! to end the frustration faced by women with curly hair every day.
Hair Rules! is chock-full of simple tips for all types of curly hair and covers everything from the best shampoos and conditioners to use, to damage-free hair-drying (dust off that hood dryer!), the use of natural oils, and the safest coloring, styling, and chemical relaxing techniques—as well as guidelines for maintaining healthy, gorgeous hair.
“My mission,” writes Dickey, “is simple: to advise and encourage all women with nonstraight hair to strive to attain their beauty, whatever their ethnicity, and whatever their tastes.”

Textured Tresses: The Ultimate Guide to Maintaining and Styling Natural Hair

Diane Da Costa, Paula T. Renfroe

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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 with (whether it's wavy, curly, very curly, or tightly coiled)

Keep your hair healthy and strong by using hair products and tools correctly and managing stress effectively

Select the right stylist and salon to suit your hair care needs

Transition from chemically relaxed hair to natural hair safely

Experiment with color, weaves, and chemicals

Achieve the styles you admire on your favorite movie stars and recording artists

Packed throughout with photos, illustrations, and special celebrity sections, Textured Tresses is a must-have whether you already twist, coil, loc, or want to learn how to begin.

Big Hair

James Innes-Smith

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Big Hair, Bigger Rip-Off 1 out of 5 stars.
13 of 26 people found this review helpful.

This is a cut-and-paste non-book that features a lot of punky 1980s hairdos that never made it into the mainstream and were purposely ironic and off-putting; so there's not a lot of snickering "what-were-they-thinking" laughs to be found in this small tome. The book should have been titled "Outrageous Hair For Homosexuals." Strangely enough, there's not a lot of "big hair" in the book! Many of the women and some of the "men" depicted have short hair, so go figure. The book is also completely devoid of text or credits or captions or any historical perspective--just a bunch of kooky pictures probably retrieved from Dumpsters behind salons in Manhattan and West Hollywood. A book on "big hair" should probably show us beehives from 1962 or Cleopatras (the kind of Priscilla Presley used to sport) or preacher pompadours (like Oral Roberts) or Elvis Presley and Jack Lord or country queens like Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn and show us big hair from history. Nothing doing. This one's definitely a hair-don't!!

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A hair-raising journey through the era when big was king.

In the beginning, there was the hair. And some of the hair was bad, but it was small. As men and women everywhere worked to improve and increase their lot, however, they stumbled onto some of humankind's most miraculous innovations: spray, gel, mousse, crimping irons, and of course, the perm. With these new tools, people everywhere suddenly found themselves able to coax their lank, lifeless tresses toward glorious new heights. The age of big hair had begun.

Now, the greatest of these bouffants, afros, rakes, beehives, and Flock-of-Seagulls have been plucked from their spots in hairdressers' windows and given the respect they so clearly demand. Bigger and badder than you ever dreamed possible, Big Hair goes out to all those people of yesteryear who were unafraid to think BIG.