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Summary: Finally!!!!!
Review: "Plaited Glory" should have been written a long time ago. I am a young woman from Jamaica who, despite peer pressure and social pressure, has always kept my hair natural. I was so happy to find this book as I was growing my hair once again. I found Ms. Bonner's advice on hair care products and general care of black NATURAL hair very practical and useful. I am now locking my hair and read the hairlocking chapter of Ms. Bonner's book everyday. It is my "hair bible." I go to it whenever I have doubts about how I should treat my hair and what I should be doing to improve its health. I have recommended this book to many black women with natural hairstyles. Thank you for filling this obvious gap. It should not be so hard to find out how to care for NATURAl black hair, but your book is the best resource I've found to date. Most other books or articles give only an account of the history behind natural hairstyles. (Ms. Bonner, too, includes colourful and humorous stories in her book that illustrate society's view of natural hairstyles.) They don't provide information on how to groom and manage those styles. There should be many more books like this available to black women.
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Summary: What a relief!
Review: I had become more and more interested in growing out my relaxer and wearing my hair natural. After finding enough information on the internet, and finally decided to do the big chop. I bough Lonnice Bonner's book so get some more tips on how to style and care for my hair. It's a really great, and very funny book which talks about Lonnice's personal hair experience. It gives great advice on how to care for natural hair, and shows some pictures and styles. The only reason I give it 4 stars and not 5, is because I was lookiing more for some intructions on how to actually do styles. But I would definitely recommend this book. It's an easy read.
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Summary: Right on time for me,
Review: I thought the book was insightful and told the truth about chemical treatments to black hair. It is good to get another perspective on beauty that is friendly to your particular hair type. There is no bad hair. Any hair is good hair.
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Summary: I'm ready to go natural!
Review: I've been pondering whether or not to go natural for the past month or so and I've been researching the locs and the twists for a while and decided that I'd try out the kinky twists. But since I've been wearing a perm for the past 10+ years, I'll be sporting braids until the perm wears off. It was this book that provided me with everything I needed to know in order to care for my hair as it makes the transition. Lonnice gives us information from the history of "black hair" to choosing and differentiating between shampoos to the art of locing. This book has given me the final inspiration to go ahead and nix my permed tresses and let the naps shine through!
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Summary: Great! Was worth the wait.
Review: Like "Good Hair" before it, this book hit the nail on the head (excuse the pun). I've been waiting for sometime for a book on Afro-natural hair to hit the stands and here it is. My only disappointment (if I may use such a strong word) is that specific products were not suggested, as procuring products that care for and maintain the kinkiness of Afro-natural are hard to come by. It seems to me that because the demand is not as great, the commercial entities, even the ones that proclaim themselves to be 'Black' don't spend much research time or money on developing said products. So it is left to those of us in the 'struggle' to help each other by passing on the information as we go through our experience.Thanks a lot Ms. Bonner, I'm a happier nappy-headed-double-twisted-girl since I received my "Braided Glory.." in the mail and thanks Amazon for coming through.PS. I live in the Caribbean.
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Summary: Funny, informative and a nice little reference tool
Review: Lonnice has charm, wit and intelligence which comes bursting through the pages of this little book. While I am definitely in favor of chemical free hair (that means no chemical texturizing either) you can still use a lot of the info in this book. I have found that texturizing can be done naturally by cornrowing or twisting your hair. See Pamela Ferrell's book about this subject matter. I think you should include this book in your library as a reference guide because it does have some goods tips, especially about conditioning your hair. Some of the products can't be found anymore but hey there are others that can be substituted and as long as you understand the concept Lonnice is trying to convey who cares what the product is called, just do it.
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Summary: another average book.
Review: Read average books if you want to acquire average knowledge and grammar.
Worth a read anyway.As you may or may not know African coily hair is quite unique in vision, texture, behaviour and probably in chemical make up too. Coily haired women around the world, go to the most extremes in terms of spending.
(Spending time, spending pain and the spending price to have African coily hair styled)
A hairstyle that we believe looks good or will help us to become socially and economically advanced.
Or maybe for our own self-esteem and maybe to attract the charms of a love interest.
Either way, psychologically and philosophically I believe that your hair is a reflection of the state of your consciousness, your internal beliefs and your relationship with the world.
What about exploring physics through african hair?
For example how much pressure, gravity and tension and tearing do we put our hair through by combing it?
let alone excessive harsh combing.
Mathematically speaking how many of you readers can tell me how many curls/coils per inch your hair has, and does it vary in coil and moisture?
Next question:When does the nature of the hair change and why?
(i know it does!)
It seems to me all these books on afro hair are good and I welcome it, but we still need to be more informed and they all seem to need better editing, just like Black American beauty magazines.I must campaign for better grammar and less air brushed photos!!!
It is as if we like to see ourselves falsely rather than the reality of what we are...
Black women need to demand more scientific reasoning from our books and be less competitive over black men which only fuels their egos and as a result probably creates more baby-mothers!!!
Sorry but I had to vent out my opinions. I give this book four stars for the effort and time invested as a writer I know it takes time...
I maintain that it is still worth reading,more than any carcinogenic chemical so called hair treatment that you pay for. Anyway what do I know I am a black african british woman!!!!
Most of you Americans think we in Britain have no trains or any kind of progressive development!!!
Anyway if I wrote my book answering my questions that I put to you how many of you would buy it?
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Summary: Hair Obsession
Review: This book helped me get started on my road to natural hair care. In April I decided to go natural I have had my hair in braids since then, its now October. I am ready to move on to locks with no starting point. A friend recommended this book, Ohmigash am I glad she did. I learnt how to wash my hair, clean my roommates scalp, without disturbing her loc/coils/twist. The home remedies in this book really work I tried one the day after I read the book..... If your looking to learn our hair this book is a must have.
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Summary: A Lovely well informed book
Review: This book was very helpful in getting me to understand how to maintain healthy hair. I wish there was more information for ladies who are thinking about the practical transition from permed back to natural hair with locks.
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Summary: Not a real review but a question
Review: To buy this book I need to know whether it contains at least 75% of photos. Nobody writes about this, and i need catalogue with African styles, braids, twists etc for my African sister who lives in Kiev. I will be glad if somebody could give me links, preferably not US where I can buy such catalogues like Extra Braids or Braid World. Greateful.
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