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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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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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Each style marks a distinctive time in American history, politics, and African American culture. The film explores the mindset that created the never-ending debate of ?good hair verses bad hair? and the role media and politics have played as an instigator.

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The full-length film traces the cultural and social struggle that created the rise of the first great Black entrepreneurs and the billion dollar ethnic hair care industry-that exists today. Vivica A. Fox, Patti LaBelle, Ella Joyce and Malcolm-Jamal Warner to name a few, along with historians, authors, journalists, comedians, stylists and barbers, industry business icons like Bernard Bronner of the Bronner Brothers International hair show and others provide historical, professional, and personal accounts on their Black hair journey. Lots more information in the Nappy Roots MySpace page.

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Egyptian women, and men, used human hair or sheep?s wool to make hair extensions and wigs at least as early as 3400 B.C., according to Egyptologist Ilene Springer.

Ornate hair extensions were then, as now, a form of artistic self expression.

Even their wigs had extensions because there seems to have been no such thing as too much hair in ancient Egyptian fashion.

Wigs and extensions were made with a variety of clever weaves and knots that were secured into or onto the real hair (or the scalp) with beeswax and resin. Men often wore more elaborate extension styles and fuller wigs than women.

Braids were a favorite form of hair extension, often woven into intricate designs to provide more length and style. Many well-to-do women, and royalty, were buried with a duplicate set of braids. Hey, you never know….