.::Black History Month; Paying Homage::.

[D.Lisha]

Ladies of LHCF
As you all know it is officially Black History Month
I thought It would be only appropriate that we take the time out to pay homage to some of our most influential hair-care ancestors
If you'd like to
All you have to do is post a picture of the person you'd like to pay homage too, along with an interesting fact/or except from their Bio.
It's our month ladies!! Let's get it!!

-D.Lisha​

 

[D.Lisha]

Re: .::Black History Month (LHCF STYLE); Paying Homage::.

I will start off with one of the most influential women in the hair-care industry: Madam C.J. Walker

Interesting fact/excerpt: During the 1890s, Sarah began to suffer from a scalp ailment that caused her to lose most of her hair. She experimented with many homemade remedies and store-bought products, including those made by Annie Malone, another black woman entrepreneur. In 1905 Sarah moved to Denver as a sales agent for Malone, then married her third husband, Charles Joseph Walker, a St. Louis newspaperman. After changing her name to "Madam" C. J. Walker, she founded her own business and began selling Madam Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower, a scalp conditioning and healing formula, which she claimed had been revealed to her in a dream. Madam Walker, by the way, did NOT invent the straightening comb or chemical perms, though many people incorrectly believe that to be true.

(credit goes to: Madam CJ Walker)

 

[Detroit2Dallas]

Um, I'll say Harriet Tubman cause most pic I've ever seen of her has been with a scarf on her head aka protective stylin while underground railroad profilin

J/K

 

[JinaRicci]

Today it might be controversial but it was definitely influential:

The first chemical hair straightener by Garrett Morgan (traffic light inventor)

1909, Morgan opened a tailoring shop and was developing a liquid to polish the sewing machine needle. When his wife called him to dinner, he wiped the liquid from his hands onto a a piece of pony-fur cloth which made the fibers stand straight up. He tried it on his neighbor's dog and the hair got so straight that the neighbor chased the dog away because he didn't recognize his own pet. Morgan tried it on himself too and eventually marketed the product under the name the G. A. Morgan Hair Refining Cream.

Interesting fact: Morgan also invented the gas mask (1912) , which worked so well that orders came in from all across the country from fire & police depts. But many orders were canceled when they found out that he was Black. Apparently they would rather face danger & death. But with the outbreak of World War I and the use of poisonous gases therein, Morgan's Gas Mask was used by the United States Army and saved the lives of thousands of soldiers.

Source: Garrett Morgan - Black Inventor Online Museum

 

[LovelyNaps26]

Ida B. Wells Barnett, one of the first African American women journalists and an unwavering antilynching crusader and activist in the black women's club movement, was born in Holly Springs, Mis*sissippi, in 1862. Her father was the son of his master and a carpen*ter; her mother, a cook. A yellow fever epidemic killed her parents in 1878, leaving the sixteen-year-old Wells to raise six siblings.

anytime i wear a flower in my hair i try to get it like Lady Day's fierce!

Throughout her career, Holiday mostly wore her signature fresh gardenias in her hair, but was also known for high sleek ponytails, perfect buns, and intricate ribbon braiding styles too. She must have been an early pioneer of protective hairstyles, lol. She was an icon with a subtle and effortless beauty. The best way to duplicate her look is to go with flower hair accessories that aren’t too huge, but also not too small where the pieces may be overshadowed. Below are a few of my favorite inspiration pictures.
from : Throwback Hair: Billie Holiday

She worked that fro to death!

Angela Davis has been an activist and writer promoting women's rights and racial justice while pursuing her career as a philosopher and teacher at the University of Santa Cruz and San Francisco University -- she achieved tenure at the University of California at Santa Cruz though former governer Ronald Reagan swore she would never teach again in the University of California system. She studied with political philosopher Herbert Marcuse. She has published on race, class, and gender.

 

[Hairlosophy]

(An Image of her hair brush). (Image Credit)

Lyda D. Newman - she invented an improved version of a hairbrush in 1898. The hairbrush she invented was durable, easy to make and was ventilated to trap shedding hair and scalp impurities. (Check out more info here)