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Wanakee Chopped Off Hair -- Into a Bob!

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nissi

nissi

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FYI, from her Facebook page...

Before When She Launched Hair Company:
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Recently:
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After:
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She is so beautiful! (Sorry so big!)
 
So beautiful!

Everytime I see her I get mad at myself for ignoring her hair booklet I received in the mail back in the 90s. :nono:
 
i hate the bob cut on her! it would have looked better if it was in a short tapered cut or something
 
She had that long hair for a long time now. I guess she wanted something different. She certainly knows how to grow it back. Change is good, I love how bouncy and full that bob looks :yep:
 
She still looks so young and pretty.
She needs to take a break from that hair stuff and hook people up with her beauty reggie.

And I don't blame her for cutting. I'm sure it's nice to have something a little lower maintenance after having all that hair for all these years.
 
And Jesus wept. I just felt my blood pressure drop momentarily. I don't like the bob. Change yes. Bob no.

Still pretty though
 
ChocolatePie777 said:
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..........

*goes to look at pics* lmao
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@ChocolatePie777 :rofl:

I sho have come a long way. Gone are the days I'd shed a tear and pour out a li'l liquor in mourning coz a long mane was hacked off. Now I don't feel sad about it at all. I actually find it refreshing and for those who plan on growing their hair again, I envy the "fresh" beginning and chance to do all things right and have a better mane.

I love how she looks with the bob! She's so beautiful that I think she could even rock a Don Trump/Don King hairdo and make it werk! :lol:

MzSwift said:
She is gorgeous! I've heard of her but have never seen her or her hair before.
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@MzSwift, Wanakee was a model/actress(?), is a Christian Minister and an artist now. She was also a "guru" in haircare. Her booklet on haircare was the first written word I ever came across offering guidance for growing black people's hair long.
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The info that was in her practical guide to haircare pamphlet is echoed in this blog and this one.

Until then, I just assume 'Mericans had magic hair or special elixirs y'all use to get the hair I used to see in Ebony magazines. Even after I discovered weaves, I still believed most of y'all just naturally had long flowing hair from mixed genetics and again advancement in haircare knowledge y'all have in da West. But on finding Wanakee's booklet, I saw there was a system to the madness. Wanakee used to even sell hair products for her regimen and I got them and even though I don't use them, I have been holding onto them as mementos even years later, afraid to open them lest I find they've come to life :barf: (Well, Constant Care for Ends still looked like Vaseline last I checked. I prefer not to know what the products in the opaque bottles looke like. But yeah, while I don't use them, they are like treasures to me coz I thought/think Wanakee is the shizzle. The products are now sold under the name Verifen Complex which I believe is owned by Beverly Johnson (?) )
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so I guess I could replace my probably rotten samples with fresh ones...but they won't have Wanakee on the bottles :sekret: so it won't be the same. :nuts: )

OK, :scratchch I don't remember but I may have decided to toss most of them away and kept the CCFE...but I can't be sure. :look:

You can read a little about her and see her modeling pics on this page: http://supermodelicons.com/wanakee-pugh/2009/09/12/

Oh...and of coure Wiki has a complete summary on her: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tippytim304/sandbox


topnotch1010 said:
I'm thinking about cutting my hair into a bob too.


What's the name of her page?
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@TopNotch, she is not in the hair business anymore. She is a self-taught artist :notworthy When I watched her paint and do such an awesome job in something she taught herself, I have to say I felt like such a loser because there's no reason why I can't do what she does. Yes, I am a HUGE fan of this lady: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ySFwnkLECY

Anyway, this is her website: http://wanakeepugh.com

And if you're asking for the website with her hair info, I guess all there is are blogs of people who saved her info (some links I just posted) and then the website www.hairoil.com sort of has the same info she gave and products she used sold under Verifen Complex label.

Avaya said:
I didn't know she was still alive.
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@Avaya :giggle: Yes she is, just not as involved in hair as she used to be. Funny how "bye hair world" lately has come to be interpreted as "RIP" to the person who's left the hair world. :lol:

@Misseyl Wanakee Pugh is in her 50's, I believe.
 
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MzSwift said:
Thanks @Nonie!! :)

And, wow, I didn't know that people thought of Black Americans that way.
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@MzSwift, you have to understand, if the only "exposure" you have of AA's is in magazines like Ebony and movies like Boomerang and shows like Cosby Show, you'd have that opinion too. Don't forget, many of us didn't even know y'all relax babies' hair so we see straight hair on babies and adults that it begins to look like that's how it is out here. Blacks have different hair over here.

I can even recall a member (in the last couple of years) who was so disheartened about her hair. She is from Africa like me and didn't think her hair can ever do what hair around these parts can do. She also got this opinion from her family who would challenge her when she showed images on the forum of long hair, that those were of ladies who are "mixed" or have a history of having been "mixed".

Heck, even among Africans, there's a belief that people from East Africa have hair like Arabs or some mix from that, just coz many Ethiopians and Somali folks (also in the eastern part of Africa) have that hair. But it's not true. My hair is the kinkiest kind there is and my ancestors have all had hair like mine. The only difference from this chick's hair might be that I have fine strands that are easy to smooth into shape while she has coarse strands (which have their pros as they don't get damaged as easily as fine strands so can grow long easily), so hers may not be as obedient as fine strands--well, not if you try to copy what I do. @ms-gg has coarse strands and her hair is hair I'd kill for. She is an artist and professional at handling her mane and her hair thrives w/o her even having to dust often. :drool: So maybe when this girl goes to a meet-up and gets to meet 'Mericans with hair like hers, she'll realize we're not that different after all!

It's just like how folks in the West only see dirty, hungry children in Africa on TV. If they have never been exposed to anything else, they conclude that's what Africa is like. I remember when I first came to the US; it was on an exchange program to work at a summer camp and when the kids found out I was from Kenya, they asked if the only reason I had clothes was because I first went to the UK. They believed we wore grass skirts and rode wild animals and lived in the bush because images they see of Africa seem to tell that story. They were so fascinated when I asked my folks to send me postcards of Nairobi where I grew up and they saw we had tall buildings and developed roads and cars! Also when I went to the UK in the late 80's, a Kenyan friend who had never been there before and was seeing it for the first time asked an odd question about London "Why do they call it London when it looks just like Nairobi?" Her point being that she thought there'd be a huge contrast in a city out in the developed country from any other city she'd seen the developing world... Heck, there's a lady from Tanzania who came to college in the UK when I was there and she called me "mixed" because I spoke proper English (my only advantage being that English is the medium used in schools in Kenya and I went to a school that forbade us from using Swahili unless in a Swahili class so I had more practice speaking English. While in Tanzania they speak a lot of Swahili and oh so beautifully that she was a bit rusty in English).

So yes, w/o really being around people of a different culture, you build your knowledge on what you see...and natural, short hair has not been the norm in the media that brings Black America to the rest of the world. Heck even the poor in America look "healthy" (read: fat and well-fed) so to many in the developing world, America is a land of bliss where even being poor means having it good.
 
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