The Hair Bead Slyder lessens the time you bead hair!!

I am truly impressed with the types, styles, colors, of many different beads. Beads really accentuate a look on braids. To be able to braid small braids is a dexterous(skillful) task. I would love to learn to braid hair like our black people in Africa, America, and everywhere else around the globe.
So if you enjoy braids and want beads, I have an easy solution for you all. I sometimes ask myself, what is it that can be done to make a hairstyle
take less time?

I never heard about this tool until day, so its fresh knowledge. It speeds
the beading process.The name of this product is the Hair Bead slyder.
Therefore you can apply beads to every single braid and twist.
It simplifies the hair beading process.

Well, we know how some people so skilled, they can
breeze right through braiding. Well, this bead slyder can breeze
you through the beading without extra effort. We know using
the hand to bead up hair can take hours. Well, slash the time, or
cut the time down.

At the end of the usually vigorous process, you just need
to take the SLyders and slide the beads onto the hair,
secure it with a rubber band and you are all done.

And now……..

The process………….

1. Slide the beads onto the Slyder in your desired pattern and
color, and make sure to leave an opening at the top.

2. After the braid is finished, the end of the braid needs to go
through the opening and folded around the thread toward the rest
of the braid.

3. Using your other hand, push the beads off the top portion
of the Slyder onto the braid. Keep these same steps in motion
until you are finished beading.

4. To really speed up the process, you can have the person
getting their hair done beading several Slyders as you
are braiding. Now to make sure the beads do splatter all
over the place, use small rubberbands.

Personally, it looks like a fun product to use. IT is amazing that
the best ideas can start off as small and turn into a big invention.
Be sure to click on styles after you read the process to see
what creativity people’s mind have formed.

http://www.thehairbeadslyder.com/how_to.html

A set of new pictures right here, braid ringlets hairstyle from different angles!

Bantu Knots are here! (Pictures for you to see!)

Bantu Knot hairstyles rolling right through here!

The best thing about hair is that it is

our friend. What it does to our Look is dramatically great.

Another great thing about hairstyles is switching up.

It’s like a constant thinking? What hairstyle

will I get next?

Bantu knots is hairstyle to cherish.

IT’s a very picturesque type of hairstyle. See how these women

wear them. Bantu knots are the perfect way to make a statement

just like many of the hairstyles. There are bantus with the cornrows,

bantus with ringlets, bantus with a touch of this and a touch of that.

Those bantus with ringlets remind me of curly fries. They look really

good though.

Explore and enjoy!

Want more Bantu knots? They are on askjeeves

http://www.ask.com/pictures?l=dir&o=10181&q=bantu%20knots&qsrc=2072&qid=D8D6C58BB760F2843D30B7EFFF4B13C8&pstart=0&page=1

African Art Mosaic-Video tour of the art from UGanda

 

THe people of Africa and the

 

can be described as what your mind’s

 

Eye’ sees and projected.

The African art is a broad variety of

things. Whether you’ve been to this place

or not someone records the beautiful

art. They are walking through the

museum for you. They are giving you

the guided tour.

There are mosaics of giraffe.
These images is created from

dried bananas fibers and cut into

tiny pieces and glued onto woods.

You will see mosaics of

a man playing basketball, huts,

woman twirling stick,etc. It’s basically

art of the everyday Black African life.

The picture of the elephants with their

trunks wrapped around each other

makes them look like they are kissing

elephants. Even the texture of the

mosaics look like needle like stitches.

The music they have doing this

tour spices up the tour as well.

 

 

Notice how art is mostly light and then

 

some shadow areas. It’s more of that

 

then just light all over.

 

The Black African man is drawn

in as warrior. There’s even real bananas

in the scene. That’s like a surprise twist.

I never seen real bananas in a museum.

So the bananas is considered the 3D. It’s

the exhibit everyone should experience,

with this African art. On the last note, this video

looks like a teaspoon of what you would

experience if you ACTUALLY go there.

source:

 http://www.myhero.com/myhero/movies/artshow.html

beauty of Africa itself is art. Art

The Banjo-African Instrument

           

The Banjo comes to be celebrated June 13. The Banjo was

brought to America in the 17th century by Africans. It is the

only Western stringed instrument that has a vellum belly.

The common African stringed instruments are the musical

bow, lute, harp, lyre, and Zither.

                Professional musicians among the people of Gambia

play the kora, which is a 21 string harp-lute. The xalam is

a plucked lute which is similar to the African-American

 banjo. It is commonly used in Senegal bY Wolof praise

singers whose songs laud(praise) significant people.

            The banjo has a few other names it goes by:

banjar, bangie, banjer, banza. The banjo was played by Africans

in the 17th century era in America. The Africans made these

instruments with gourds, wood, tanned skins, and

used either hemp or gut for the strings.

( It’s amazing what can be used to make instruments.)

               The Banjo resembled those instruments by the Moors,

who lived north of the Sahara.

          You can find this information here:

http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/231/The_Banjoan_African_instrument_

 

Mabel Fairbanks-Black figure Skater of the 1930s

               

ON the date November 14, 1916, Mabel Fairbanks born. She was an

African American ice skater from New York City. In the 1930s era,

Fairbanks discovered her lifetime passion when she was watching

a Sonia Henje movie. Once she saw a pair of black skates in a pawnshop

window and talked the guy down to a lower price of $1.50.

          The skates ended up being twice as big. So she made use of

them and stuffed them with cotton, got her balance on blades

by going up and down the stairs in her building. Then she took

to the nearby frozen lake.

             It did not Take Mabel Fairbanks long before she could

sail across the ice. Somebody who was passing by gave her the

suggestion to try out her skating in Central Park. Her skating

began to get a solid 6.0 judging.

             She continued to practice and

perfect her skill. Fairbanks knack and sparkle for skating overpowered the racial

barriers at the pivotal rink. So because of that professional skaters gave her

free skating lessons.

             In the 1940s Mabel performed at Nightblubs like Cyros. Fairbanks

got invited to skat on the road with the Rhapsody On Ice Show. She impressed

international audiences. Mabel’s talent landed her a role on KTLA

television’s Frosty Follies show, yet they did not want her to

join professional skating clubs.

             But she was not going to let that stop her. NO NO NO NO NO!

She got herself as well as other Black people in by sending for individual

memberships from the USPSA also known as United States

Professional Skating Association without revealing they were black.

    Its powerful to be persistent. She was determined and she came

through. She ignored the stupidity and did her thing and that is

Wonderful!

           There is more to the story. You want to know? Check this same

information and additional info at this website:

http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/2123/An_artist_on_ice_Mabel_Fairbanks

Powerful Black Ice Skater in the Spotlight

         Surya Bonaly is 20 years old and is the powerful ice skater I”m talking about.

Bonaly became a U.S. citizen in 1994 who is the ONLY and I mean ONLY

skater who can land a back flip on one foot on the ice. Yet, she

was disqualified for that Impressive move. She is a 3 time World

Silver Medalist. See, IT says so on this site:

http://www.championsonice.com/skaters/bio.php?useid=3

                  She has the most mind boggling moves and she takes skating to a higher

level. Her talent is something to embrace. What a beautiful scenery

with her skating! I’m so happy for Ms. Bonaly, she’s got that IN

YOUR FACE talent. The way she jumps over the air like she’s

light on her feet is truly superb.  Surya beautifies my screen

with her presence. Her skating is what I describe as spiffy and

deluxe.

      See her skate here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaCaOQwAZuY&feature=related

NExt is a site where they have pictures of her moves doing the SPlit-Jump

Triple Toe loop-double Toe loop out of a Walley entrance. Also,

you will see Surya nail a Triple Flip Jump, straightline footwork

sequence, triple-salchow-double toe combination and

a 1-footed backflip.  View them at this spot:

http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Lodge/7500/video.html

                 Oh how nice it is to learn these new terms for

skating. They are quite interesting.

                    Plus, here’s a clip of Ms. Bonaly doing multiple back flips on the

mat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lo183D8SGU&feature=related

                  I can see now she started gymnastics early.

View a collection of her fabulous skating moves in this montage here ( I ignore

the music someone on youtube added to the video montage) but the skating moves are wonderful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz1tTFpPIq0&feature=related

The National Museum of African Art

            

                A very important day in history- September 28 is the day

which the National Museum of African Art is celebrated.

 Its located in Washington DC, was founded in 1964.

So yeah that goes to show that its important to look up

things by date at times.  Something great could have happened

on your birthday but you see those sites where you

can look up what event happened on your birthday.

            The National Museum gathers and showcases art

from Africa such as traditional masks and figures, textiles, costumes

jewelry, furniture and household objects, architectural elements,

modern sculpture, paintings, prints, and ceramics. Wow, a variety-

lovely. Oh, and then they have stools, headrests, baskets,vessels

and other utilitarian objects.

              So go there and you will see  a range of things.

They have pottery from central Africa and textiles

from sub-Saharan Africa.

Black history information found here:

http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/376/The_National_Museum_of_African_Art

The Harlem Renaissance-A black movement

                      

  The Harlem Renaissance- a beautiful name, catchy title so suiting

for the beauty and creativity of black people. In the 1920s, African American

literature, art, music, dance and social commentary began to grow in the

Harlem area of New York.  So that’s what I call the beautiful and classic

sophisticated era.

              Blacks began to settle in Harlem New York, which developed into a political and

cultural center of black America. Marcus Garvey’s movement “Back to Africa”

inspired racial pride in blacks. In the performing arts area, black musical

theater showcases songwriter Bob Cole and composer J Rosamond JOhnson,

brother of writer James Weldon JOhnson. Jazz as well as blues music moved

with black populations from the SOuth and the MIdwest to the bars and

cabarets of Harlem. Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poetry and  Charles W. Chestnutt’s

fiction were the earliest works of blacks to receive national recognition. Information found here: http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761566483

For Jazz poetry and black art the site is:

http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/jzpoem.html

Powerful Black Ice SKater in the spotlight

              

          Surya Bonaly is 20 years old and is the powerful ice skater I”m talking about.

Bonaly became a U.S. citizen in 1994 who is the ONLY and I mean ONLY

skater who can land a back flip on one foot on the ice. 

  IT says so on this site:

http://www.championsonice.com/skaters/bio.php?useid=3

             She has the most mind boggling moves and she takes skating to a higher

level. Her talent is something to embrace. What a beautiful scenery

with her skating! I’m so happy for Ms. Bonaly, she’s got that IN

YOUR FACE talent. The way she jumps over the air like she’s

light on her feet is truly superb.  Surya beautifies my screen

with her presence. Her skating is what I describe as spiffy and

deluxe. 

           See her skate here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaCaOQwAZuY&feature=related

NExt is a site where they have pictures of her moves doing the SPlit-Jump

Triple Toe loop-double Toe loop out of a Walley entrance. Also,

you will see Surya nail a Triple Flip Jump, straightline footwork

sequence, triple-salchow-double toe combination and

a 1-footed backflip.  View them at this spot:

http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Lodge/7500/video.html

                 Oh how nice it is to learn these new terms for

skating. They are quite interesting.

                    Plus, here’s a clip of Ms. Bonaly doing multiple back flips on the

mat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lo183D8SGU&feature=related

                  I can see now she started gymnastics early.

View a collection of her fabulous skating moves in this montage here ( I ignore

the music someone on youtube added to the video montage) but the skating moves are wonderful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz1tTFpPIq0&feature=related