Afro Pick acessories.
41m1ghtyra
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I've boticed an uptick in Afro textured hairstyles lateky, which I greatly appreciate, and I think something that can elevate them are Afro picks as accesories. Here are example pictures:
With long Afro textured hair, 4C curl patterns for example, a pick is used to comb it out and can stay in the hair as a point of style. They come in lots of shapes and designs so a good artist can have a lot of fun with it.
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How cool! I've never seen these, though I'm sure it's just that I'm not in the right place to do so. Is there a specific region where they're common? (Or maybe they're a more recent thing? I don't get out much these days.)
Relatively common in North America and Africa, Wikipedia says they date from 5000 years ago to now. I never had one but uncles in my family had them in the early 60's.
I remember them from the late 1960s in advertising and on people, often stuck into afros in the San Francisco Bay Area and later on in the military to keep all depth of afros looking neat due to compression by our different hats/helmets. I would welcome a set of different styles of these combs for 3D. I thought I had at least one but spent hours searching the other day with no luck. I can't imagine a hairdresser or barber without at least one, much less a set for different uses.
They're found pretty much anywhere ppl have Afros, it's the best utenstil for our hair type to comb through.
My wife found one very useful whan she had a tight curl perm. Erm, decades ago.
Regards,
Richard
I get that as far as tool use goes, I had just not seen them worn as a leave-in accessory (either in person or my admittedly limited non-kid-centric media consumption) was what I was referring to. But I might just be a white girl in the wrong part of town to notice such things. Like I mentoned, I don't get out much.
I was stationed at Bolling AFB in SE DC in 1970/71 and I had many opportunities to see this product in Afros. I was also from the San Francisco Bay Area, so again another region with large mixed populations in the late 1960s. But while in uniform, they would not be in the hair, but in pockets or purses.
As hairstyles have become shorter/bald, the prevelance of the combs seem to have faded away, but I can still find them in stores. Hair seems to becoming longer again.
I used to use combs like this on my 80s permed hair
Ahh, I see. Well since our curl patterns holds them in place, we sometimes use them like accessories and fashion statements. The most famous one is the Black power fist, but there are others.
I was just in the department store, Target, and the had an Afro Pick patterned tee shirt in their Black History Month!