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While at Home, Black Hairstylists Return to Their Roots
Hair artist and Amika’s Global Artistic Director Naeema Lafond with her daughter, Milah. Brooklyn. Photography by Heather Hazzan for Allure Magazine, August 2020 issue
These interviews with Black hairstylists that I worked on with Allure’s Feature Director Jessica Cruel is one of the coolest projects I've been part of thus far. As Jessica says in the intro, "As COVID-19 brought the world to a pause, many professional Black hairstylists returned to this tradition of creating at home. Instead of high-profile red carpets or clients at the salon, they are braiding up family members, styling mannequins, even experimenting on themselves."
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