How to Tie Traditional African Head Wraps

Let’s say maybe your Pro 10 hair extensions made with Ultima Natural Protein Hair need a little touch-up you haven’t gotten around to; or maybe you just want to wear a beautiful, traditional Nigerian gele or try a gorgeous goddess wrap a la Erykah Badu.

Here’s a joyful music video by Skentele Lagbaja celebrating traditional Nigerian gele headwraps. For the how-to, here’s a popular video that shows you how to tie your own. The fabric she’s using is aso-oke, a traditional hand-woven African fabric. Here’s another instructional video showing how to create a head wrap using silk.

Hat tip to DailyKos

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Bellasugar Celebrity Quiz: Does She or Doesn’t She Wear Hair Extensions?

Bellasugar’s fun celebrity hair extensions quiz is back. Take the quiz to see if you can tell which stars have naturally gorgeous hair and who gets a little extra help from the salon? Bellasugar says “I think when they’re applied by a talented professional, extensions can look natural and gorgeous.”

I know she’s right, because I work with some of the best professional hair extension stylists, and the extensions they do (like these) look completely natural. But I only guessed three out of six answers to the quiz right! Since I write No More Bad Hair Days blog, and see hair extensions all the time, I was sure I’d be able to guess them all. See if you can tell which stars have extensions, and let us know, in the comments, how you did.

It also would be fun to try to guess whose extensions are human hair and whose are Pro 10 hair extensions. When they’re Pro 10 Hair Extensions made with Ultima Natural Protein Hair, they look so natural even professional stylists can’t tell them from human hair.

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Hair Extensions - the Movie

Move over Shampoo! If there ever was a reason to have your hair extensions done by a licensed professional stylist, the Japanese sci-fi horror movie, Exte: Hair Extensions, is it. The film, which runs through June 26 only at the New York Asian Film Festival is about black market hair extensions that continue to grow, and even attack their wearers. Starring Chiaki Kuriyama, who played GO GO in Kill Bill, the movie is kitschy, violent and shocking.

Trust me on this one: if you want non-violent hair extensions, stick with Pro 10 Hair Extensions made with Ultima Natural Protein Hair. :>)

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Video of Brandy’s New Photo Shoot for Ultima Natural Protein Hair

R&B singing star Brandy is the spokesmodel for Pro 10 Hair Extensions made with Ultima Natural Protein Hair. Here she is at the recent photo shoot for new advertising and packaging photos and videos. Lots more Brandy photos and videos are on the Ultimahair website.

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Brandy’s Yaki Straight Pro 10 Hair Extensions Made with Ultima

Not everyone wants a huge head of Hollywood hair extensions. Brandy, R&B singing star and spokesmodel for Pro 10 Hair Extensions made with Ultima Natural Protein Hair, prefers her extensions chic, hip, and urban. Yaki’s thin lightweight wefts lay flat, and are easy to work with and manage. And Pro 10 hair extensions are resistant to tangles too.

See more photos and videos of Brandy on the Ultima website, in our Flickr group (which you can join) and our YouTube group.

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Crazy Hair Extension Styles: Nago Noda’s Fabulous Hair Hats

Talk about crazy hair extension styles! You certainly would be in no danger of seeing yourself coming and going in one of multi-talented, multi-media Japanese artist Nagi Noda’s remarkable hair hats.

via Get Some Hairapy!

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Kate Moss Has a Really Terrible Hair Day

Supermodel Kate Moss, in Berlin to launch her new fragrance, had a really really bad hair day when a weft of her hair extensions fell onto the red carpet and was quickly found by a photographer.

Moss needs to fire her hairdresser immediately because hair extensions - correctly applied by a professional extension stylist - don’t just fall out. Read FAQs about hair extensions here.

For example, when Pro 10 Ambassador Stylist Miho applied hair extensions made with Ultima Natural Protein Hair in Cathleen Rittereiser’s hair, they were well-integrated into her natural hair and easy for her to manage the month she wore them. The practically undetectable technique Miho used was Brazilian braids, in which a few strands of natural hair are micro-braided into the hair extension fiber and secured with very thin, fabric covered ties. Cathleen kept a photo diary of her hair extensions experience.

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A History of Hair Ornaments

Here’s a fascinating history of hair ornaments and hair styles in Japan. Historically, the longer the hair, the greater the nobility and beauty; and hair ornaments were talismans to protect them from evil. At various times through Japanese history, and today, hair extensions helped to create popular styles.

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NaturallyCurly Daily Frizz Forecast

A lot of us No More Bad Hair Days blog readers know a thing or two about naturally curly hair, don’t we? More than half the population has curly hair, and one of the best resources for curlies of all ethnicities is Naturally Curly.com.

NaturallyCurly.com has huge volumes of information on taming curly hair, and a 25,000-member forum. And it’s got this daily Frizz Forecast for your zipcode on the home page.

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Hair Extensions are the Rage for Prom 2008

When it comes to prom night, long, full hair - often achieved with hair extensions - is the crowning touch this year.

Teens are embracing the fast-growing trend of hair extensions, says Beth Fitzgerald in the LA Times

Prom-going young women want extensions so they can have the lush, long, full hair they see in magazines and on celebrities. Extensions also allow them to have highlights without chemicals; to add excitement to their prom look; and to try a dramatic style for the prom.

Pro 10 extensions made with Ultima Natural Protein Hair made with natural collagen, look, feel like and have the best qualities of human hair. And Pro 10 extensions can be curled, blow-dryed, washed brushed, combed, styled and restored without tangling.

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