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WITJ Natural Hair & Beauty Show

I attended the Women In The Jungle Natural Hair & Beauty Show on Saturday 24th August at the Grange Hotel in London – hosted by Wunmi ย http://womaninthejungle.com/ . A celebration of naturally textured hair and beauty. The event started at 11:30am but I arrived about 1pm so I missed the opening act by singer Kadija Kamara.

ย ย ย ย  ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย  witj leafletย ย  wunmi

Most of the vendors were situated in the very nice wide spaced hallway.ย  It was nice to catch up with Akua of Shea Butter Cottange, Trini of Mane Divas, Got to Be Natural team, Sharron of Sheaย Decandance. Due to chatting and catching up with everyone in the hallwayย it took me a least 45mins before I entered the main room.

panel

The room was packed with natural sisters with very articulated styles. On stage in the main room were hair & skin care presentations, panel discussion, hair and beauty demos, caring and styling.

Hair 101 by Noirย Essence
Eat your way to healthy hair, skin & nails – Danielle Pond of Pure Juice Cleanse

Afro Comb Exhibitionย – Crystal of United Kinkdom Blog
Secrets of the Afro Comb – Kandace Kimbiri

Problem with Natural Hair –ย Valley Fontane


There were several Style stations within theย hallwayย arranged at different times throughout the day applying Makeup, natural hair & locs styling
The-WITJ-Show-Huntress-Locs

Helen of Huntress Locs.

curly by nature

I was grateful to be asked to be part of the event by demonstrating head wrapping at the style station. I borrowed my Nigerian friends fabric which is called Aso Oke ย (pronounced ah-SHAW-okay)ย and Damask. These materials are wovenย or made of silk or cotton material and are worn by Nigerians. ย Some of the material I was given were very hard as they were new and starchy.

red gele 1

ย At the head wrapย style station I managed to sculptureย a model withย a typical Gele style usingย  a red Aso Okeย ย and the other model Iย created something opposite and tallย using the gold Aso Oke.

goldent gele 1

Its not easy if youโ€™re a beginner because of the stiffness and Iย mainlyย use batik cotton material which is easy to tie.ย As people watched all I could hear was WOW you can tie Gele. But I saidย I’m from Ghana and donโ€™t tie Gele – but luck was on my side and I was happy with the results which hit the finale fashion show.
fashion show

It rained all day, but we left with smiles on our faces.

WITJ show

Bless – Sister E

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