Lace Front Wigs and the Braiding Business

I have been operating a braiding salon for over eight years, but recently I have really trying to find out what is the cause (s) for the significant drop off in the braiding business. I have concluded that a significant cause for the downturn in the braiding business is because of the economic downturn. With the current economic downturn, women and men are look for an alternative cost of braiding their hair, and in some cases at the detriment of their hair health.

Yes there are discussions out there about the effects of hair braiding and natural hair weaving on the health of ones natural hair, but braids and natural weaves have proven to be good for ones hair provided that they are not done too tight or kept in for too long. I digress, but I have found in my consultation with beauty suppliers and others in the business of braiding is that more people are using Lace Front Wigs and gluing weaves into their own hair as an alternative to the cost of getting braids done. Some time later, they do return to hair braiding, after there is significant damage to their hair line and broken hair follicles that are caused by Lace Front Wigs and self glued weaves. Hair line damage is usually permanent since the hair around the edges of ones hair line is the hardest place to regrow.

Beyonce, Naomi Campbell, Tyra Banks and several other African American super stars have help to popularize the lace front wig, and although they can all afford the best stylist, they cannot prevent the damages, much less YOU.

Lace Wigs VS Braiding

Braiding salons, have you found that because of the economic climate that more women are using Lace Wigs instead of braiding or weaving their hair and have you found that a few months later, those using lace wigs are loosing the hair edges?

Can Anyone Help in Korean Translation

Dear Readers,

Please notice the amount of response comments on this blog that are in Korean. I do not know what these comments mean but I know that it cannot be complimentry, since I am speaking the truth about how Black People are being used and manipulated by the Koreans as it is related to the Beauty Industry.

It is so unfortunate that our people are mear consumers in the multi-billion dollars beauty and hair supply business. The questions need to be asked, why can't we support our businesses, why are we being locked out of the importation and distribution of hair and beauty supplies. Why can't our people form a union and keep more of our monies in our communities. When was the last time that you have seen a Korean business person making a contribution to anything that is associated with Black Folks, have they made any contribution to the NAACP or any relevant organizations.

Hair Braiding and the Koreans

Hair braiding is an art that is right out of Africa, yet more recently, people of other nationalities are attepting to buy us out just like the Africans that sold their brothers and sisters into slavery. I now see that several braiders are taking up shop in Korean owned beauty supply stores, this selling out.

Many of the Korean merchants refuse to wholesale hair to braiding salons at the lobbying of the beauty supply shops. The braiders that work out of these beauty supply shops must realize that they are being used, this is just like the Koreans now run many of the "Sould Food" restaurants in the DC metro area. Let us preserve what is ours.

The Business of Human Hair

The business of Human Hair is a multi-billion dollar one, and the primary beneficaries of those dollars are the Koreans here in America. When has the Koreans made a single contributit on to the African American community, never, yet everyday we are making them rich by purchasing "human hair" that actually comes from an animal called the YAK.

I run a braiding salon, and at times have found it very difficult to purchase hair from Korean merchants because they want to keep the profits from "hair" with the Korean community. I am thinking that now that we know that these Korean merchants that sell us this Yak hair as human hair that we start a national boycott until the truth is revealed and the "human hair" pricing is normalize. I find that several of the synthetic hair fibers works just as well as the "human hair", food for thought.

Take a look at my blog on the Yak hair as human hair and you will see that most of the response are in Korean or Chinese, meny of them might be cussing at me because of this revelation.

Is Yak Hair Human Hair?

Imagine the hair of this animal in your hair, well it might just be so. The Yaki Human hair the we pay so much money for might have taken it name from the Yak. The Yak is is found in the higher regions of China (Tibet) and India. There are about 14 million Yak in the area that produces most of the Human Hair that we us for braiding and weaving (95 percent black folks). Should our perception of the folks selling us this hair as Human Hair change, what action can be taken about these lies>