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Book A Twisted Style

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maja Tabea Jerrentrup
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2021-05-14
  • ISBN : 1800730713
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book A Twisted Style written by Maja Tabea Jerrentrup and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "western" cultures, some people have chosen a dreadlock hairstyle, despite many in mainstream society looking at it in a negative light. This book deals with contradictions surrounding the hairstyle such as often representing a protest against the prevailing right-wing political systems, yet also emphasizing the white person’s power to appropriate any style. Based on interviews and close observations in social media, the book offers insights into the culture(s) surrounding dreadlocks and ultimately interprets the phenomenon as a postmodern form of individuality.

Book Twist Me Pretty Braids

Download or read book Twist Me Pretty Braids written by Abby Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEAUTIFUL BRAIDS FOR ANY OCCASION Your hair is your best accessory. Learn how to dress it up with these creative, exciting styles! • Looped Accent Braid • Pull-Through Ponytail • Corset Braid • Four-Strand Braid • Mixed Crown Braid • Uneven Center Braid • And more!

Book Twisted

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emma Dabiri
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2020-06-23
  • ISBN : 0062966731
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Twisted written by Emma Dabiri and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Best Book of the Year Stamped from the Beginning meets You Can't Touch My Hair in this timely and resonant essay collection from Guardian contributor and prominent BBC race correspondent Emma Dabiri, exploring the ways in which black hair has been appropriated and stigmatized throughout history, with ruminations on body politics, race, pop culture, and Dabiri’s own journey to loving her hair. Emma Dabiri can tell you the first time she chemically straightened her hair. She can describe the smell, the atmosphere of the salon, and her mix of emotions when she saw her normally kinky tresses fall down her shoulders. For as long as Emma can remember, her hair has been a source of insecurity, shame, and—from strangers and family alike—discrimination. And she is not alone. Despite increasingly liberal world views, black hair continues to be erased, appropriated, and stigmatized to the point of taboo. Through her personal and historical journey, Dabiri gleans insights into the way racism is coded in society’s perception of black hair—and how it is often used as an avenue for discrimination. Dabiri takes us from pre-colonial Africa, through the Harlem Renaissance, and into today's Natural Hair Movement, exploring everything from women's solidarity and friendship, to the criminalization of dreadlocks, to the dubious provenance of Kim Kardashian's braids. Through the lens of hair texture, Dabiri leads us on a historical and cultural investigation of the global history of racism—and her own personal journey of self-love and finally, acceptance. Deeply researched and powerfully resonant, Twisted proves that far from being only hair, black hairstyling culture can be understood as an allegory for black oppression and, ultimately, liberation.

Book The New Braiding Handbook

Download or read book The New Braiding Handbook written by Abby Smith and published by Ulysses Press. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hair braiding is getting hotter by the day, and the evolution of styles has grown just as rapidly. The New Braiding Handbook offers you an impressive array of easy-to-re-create, beautiful, and versatile looks that are as appropriate for elegant formal events as they are practical for casual, everyday wear. With step-by-step photos and detailed instructions for creating trendy knots, chic twists, and playful plaits, The New Braiding Handbook teaches imaginative and intricate hairstyling like you've never seen before. Fifty looks to choose from guarantee a braid for every occasion (or no occasion at all). Along with amazing styles and easy-to-follow tutorials, there are also tons of tips for eliminating split ends, bulking up limp locks, growing out a short ’do, and getting a full, healthy, shiny head of hair straight from the pages of a magazine.

Book Twisted

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Publisher : Scholastic UK
  • Release : 2014-07-03
  • ISBN : 1407145215
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book Twisted written by Laurie Halse Anderson and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gritty and hard hitting, this is thoughtful teen fiction at its finest. Seventeen-year-old Tyler is the popular boy in high school after years of being "the geek". But then Bethany - rich, blonde, beautiful - is the victim in a teenage sex scandal, and somehow Tyler is the prime suspect. Can Tyler find a way out of the mess he's in?

Book Twisted

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  • Author : Bert Ashe
  • Publisher : Agate Publishing
  • Release : 2015-06-09
  • ISBN : 1572847492
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Twisted written by Bert Ashe and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles, professor and author Bert Ashe delivers a witty, fascinating, and unprecedented account of black male identity as seen through our culture's perceptions of hair. It is a deeply personal story that weaves together the cultural and political history of dreadlocks with Ashe's own mid-life journey to lock his hair. Ashe is a fresh, new voice that addresses the importance of black hair in the 20th and 21st centuries through an accessible, humorous, and literary style sure to engage a wide variety of readers. After leading a far-too-conventional life for forty years, Ashe began a long, arduous, uncertain process of locking his own hair in an attempt to step out of American convention. Black hair, after all, matters. Few Americans are subject to snap judgements like those in the African-American community, and fewer communities face such loaded criticism about their appearances, in particular their hair. Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles makes the argument that the story of dreadlocks in America can’t be told except in front of the backdrop of black hair in America. Ask most Americans about dreadlocks and they immediately conjure a picture of Bob Marley: on stage, mid-song, dreads splayed. When most Americans see dreadlocks, a range of assumptions quickly follow: he's Jamaican, he's Rasta, he plays reggae; he stinks, he smokes, he deals; he's bohemian, he's creative, he's counter-cultural. Few styles in America have more symbolism and generate more conflicting views than dreadlocks. To "read" dreadlocks is to take the cultural pulse of America. To read Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles is to understand a larger story about the truths and biases present in how we perceive ourselves and others. Ashe's riveting and intimate work, a genuine first of its kind, will be a seminal work for years to come.

Book The Ultimate Hairstyle Handbook

Download or read book The Ultimate Hairstyle Handbook written by Abby Smith and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-one tutorials for styling medium-to-long hair with step-by-step photos. Also includes hair care tips.

Book Historical Wig Styling  Ancient Egypt to the 1830s

Download or read book Historical Wig Styling Ancient Egypt to the 1830s written by Allison Lowery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Wig Styling: Ancient Egypt to the 1830s, 2nd edition, is a guide to creating beautiful, historically accurate hairstyles for theatrical productions and events. This volume covers hairstyles from Ancient Egypt through Romantic/Biedermeier styles of the 1820s and 30s. Chapters begin with an overview of historic figures who influenced the look of each period and their styles, followed by step-by-step instructions and photographs showing the finished look from every angle. The book also explores the necessary supplies and styling products needed to create the perfect coif, tips for proper wig handling, a brief history of the makeup for each historical period, and basic styling techniques useful when working with wigs or real hair. New hairstyles featured in this edition include: - Ancient Egyptian male dreadlocks - Ancient Grecian male curls - Ancient Roman braided goddess - Braided Medieval lady - Regency hairstyle with a Classical influence With over 1,000 full-color images and detailed instructions on how to create iconic hairstyles and makeup, Historical Wig Styling: Ancient Egypt to the 1830s, 2nd edition, is an excellent resource for professional costume designers and wig makers, as well as for students of Costume Design and Wig Making and styling courses.

Book Vintage Hairstyles

Download or read book Vintage Hairstyles written by Emma Sundh and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the finger waves of the romantic 1910s to the beehive of the rebellious 1960s, retro hair has made a comeback. Vintage Hairstyles presents all the tools, techniques, and step-by-step instructions needed to achieve eye-catching looks for every occasion. Trendsetters, hairstylists, and fashionistas will love creating elegant updos for special events or playful curls for everyday excursions. Featuring a history of beauty trends by the decades, a list of must-have hair products, and projects for making chic hair accessories, Vintage Hairstyles showcases classic beauty with a fresh twist.

Book I ll Drink to That

Download or read book I ll Drink to That written by Betty Halbreich and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning true story of Bergdorf Goodman’s legendary personal shopper Eighty-six-year-old Betty Halbreich is a true original who could have stepped straight out of Stephen Sondheim’s repertoire. She has spent nearly forty years as the legendary personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman, where she works with socialites, stars, and ordinary women off the street. She has helped many find their true selves through fashion, frank advice, and her own brand of wisdom. She is trusted by the most discriminating persons—including Hollywood’s top stylists—to tell them what looks best. But Halbreich’s personal transformation from cosseted young girl to fearless truth teller is the greatest makeover of her career.

Book Cocktail Parties With a Twist

Download or read book Cocktail Parties With a Twist written by Alexandra Angle and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2002-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proprietors of Aqua Vitae, dubbed "LA's sexiest cocktail caterers" by "Los Angeles Magazine, " present the ultimate guide to throwing memorable parties. This inspirational guide suggests 14 themed gatherings paired with winning recipes for cocktails and hors d'oeuvres--all captured in stylish color photography. 90 recipes. 100 color photos.

Book Tea with a Twist

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lisa Boalt Richardson
  • Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0736925791
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Tea with a Twist written by Lisa Boalt Richardson and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents creative themes for afternoon tea parties, along with full menus, recipes, and tips on adding extra touches for the event.

Book A Twist in the Tail

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Beckman
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2024-07-18
  • ISBN : 1911723413
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book A Twist in the Tail written by Christopher Beckman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Johns Manville Service to Railroads

Download or read book Johns Manville Service to Railroads written by Johns-Manville, Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal

Download or read book Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Norah Gaughan s Twisted Stitch Sourcebook

Download or read book Norah Gaughan s Twisted Stitch Sourcebook written by Norah Gaughan and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential guide to using simple twisted stitches to add interest and beauty to handknits Master the simple and addictive art of the twisted stitch. The basics are easy to learn, and the design possibilities (and twist combinations that come to light once you begin) are almost endless. The book starts with a treasure trove of twisted stitch variations, starting with patterns made from diagonals and building from there—adding horizontal and vertical elements, combining twisted stitches with lace or polygon knitting, and pushing boundaries with patterns that twist stitches in every row for more advanced textures. The book offers 125-plus stitch patterns, along with guidance on how the twists are engineered and how knitters can create designs of their own. Norah’s always-clear instructions are presented in a conversational, easy-to-understand voice that proceeds naturally as one twisted stitch leads to the next. Readers can test their newfound skills with the 15 garment patterns included—irresistible designs for hats, wraps, sweaters, and more.

Book A Twisted Ladder

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rhodi Hawk
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2010-08-31
  • ISBN : 0765360187
  • Pages : 541 pages

Download or read book A Twisted Ladder written by Rhodi Hawk and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychologist Madeleine LeBlanc has spent her whole career trying to determine the cause of her father's schizophrenia. The more she pries, the more she uncovers her family's dark past, rife with conjured demons and river magic gone awry.