Gloria —> Headscarf
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Getting my hair done was a sad, sad experience! My hair is 4C and tight so getting a comb through it is hard work, but mummy is the only person I would go to braid my hair. Mummy would start on a Thursday before her night shift, plait half my head on a Friday, so that by Sunday it was usually finished. I used to cry when I only had half a head done. Sometimes we would bring our friends over to get their hair done too, so she was basically doing it on rotation. I started learning how to make wigs last year from YouTube because I love having different styles, but I like my natural hair just as much as I like my wigs – that versality is the beauty of black hair.
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Rose —> WIG
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I trained as a nurse in Ghana, worked at Whipps Cross for 10 years first in the stroke unit and then I got promoted to a senior nurse in A&E. Now, I’m a district nurse working with elderly people in the community. Back home, everybody has a hairdresser in the family. My sister is one and she used to do my hair for me. I’m so bad at maintaining my hair myself so when I moved here, I braided it all the time, or wore weaves and wigs. I lost my mum at 12, so no one really taught me how to do my hair, and I have no baby girl of my own to practise on. .
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