There’s Oprah as a child (cute!):

And a teenager:

Then we see Oprah in her early days as a TV reporter, sporting everything from an afro:

To a jheri curl:

When we finally get to the Oprah Winfrey Show years, the hairstyles don't stop. She sports straight hair:

Curly hair:

Wigs:

And braids:

She’s had so many looks! During a taping with Chris Rock, Oprah said she credits her long-time hairdresser, Andre Walker, with helping her keep her real hair for nearly twenty-five years. “In the summer, I braid my hair. I wear weaves. I’ve worn weaves on the show. I’ve worn weaves on the magazine covers,” she says. “I have done pretty much all of it because in order to keep your hair, you can’t put heat in your hair every day.”

You can read a cool interview with Walker, including his tips for keeping African-American hair healthy, here.

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When Chris Rock’s daughter, Lola, came up to him crying and asked, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” the comic says he committed himself to search the ends of the earth and the depths of black culture to find out who had put that question into his little girl’s head! The result, the documentary, “Good Hair” opens in theaters on Oct. 9th.

Director Jeff Stilson’s camera followed Rock, and the result is an entertaining, yet remarkably serious, documentary about African American hair culture that received a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Festival this year.

In Good Hair, Rock visits hair salons and styling battles, scientific laboratories, and Indian temples to explore the way black hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of black people.

Celebrities including Ice-T, Kerry Washington, Nia Long, Paul Mooney, Raven Symoné, Maya Angelou, and Reverend Al Sharpton all candidly offer their stories and observations to Rock while he struggles with the task of figuring out how to respond to his daughter’s question.

So wigs and hair extensions became extremely popular in ancient Egypt. Sometimes wigs were placed over one’s own natural hair: statuary and paintings alike often show a glimpse of the real hair sticking out from underneath the false. Extensions sometimes were a blend of vegetable fibers and human hair. But the goal was always the same: a full head of beautiful, long hair.

Wig-making was already a profession in ancient Egypt. And wigs were considered necessary not only for this life, but also for the afterlife. They were buried in tombs, some of which contained specialized wig chests. Quite a few wigs have actually survived all these years, in particular from the New Kingdom.

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Despite the carefree appearance of the styles, however, creating them was quite complex, according to Elle Magazine and stylists interviewed by Allure backstage at Versace, Prada, Michael Kors and other designers.

The looks are simple to achieve with Ultima Organic Protein Hair extensions. You can change the texture with water or medium heat, a twist set, or mixing textures when Ultima hair extensions are applied.

See the step-by-step photos and instructions on the No Bad Hair Days Blog Flickr Group.

Have you ever wondered:
o Who inspects incoming supplies of human hair sent for use in human hair extensions before when they are shipped from their country of origin to be sure it really is 100% human hair?
o Rumors that some human hair extensions come from dead people aside, how can you be certain that the 100% human hair you are paying for does not actually include varying amounts of the hair of yaks, camels, goats, or horses?
o Human hair extensions are sold in Grades of Remy, A, B, C and D. Who determines which human hair is graded as Remy, Grade A, Grade B, Grade C and D? Who checks?

Don’t just take my word for it. Do your own research before you decide what kind of hair extensions you want to wear. I saved a Google search on where human hair extensions come from. Read through the articles. You can read frequently asked questions about Ultima Organic Protein hair extensions here.

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