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An iconic excerpt from the 1979 film Hair introduces the content of this programme. Different Hair Stories will be told, a subject on many people’s mind at home in quarantine.
Seven young women talk about how identity is expressed through their hairstyles followed by the sacred traditional hair culture of Yao women, an ethnic Chinese minority in Huangluo.
The singer songwriter Mona Haydar raps about wrapping the hijab before a short on coloured hair flashes being glued to women’s heads in 1955. Jewish orthodox Zelda Volkov is pushing the boundaries of the Sheitl tradition in her wig store in New York and Lexy Lebsack, a senior beauty editor, follows the hair trail all the way to Vietnam.
Should the lockdown in Britain be loosened even more you might encounter a present day travelling beautician to do your hair in front of your house perhaps with a functioning salon hair dryer?
An iconic excerpt from the 1979 film Hair introduces the content of this programme.
Hair (1/10) Movie CLIP – Aquarius (1979) HD, 3:59
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Seven young women talk about how identity is expressed through their hairstyles.
Cultural Appreciation: 7 Women on Embracing Their Heritage Through Their Style, 2:56
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Showing the sacred traditional hair culture of Yao women, an ethnic Chinese minority in Huangluo.
China’s Village of Real-Life Rapunzels, 2: 46
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The singer songwriter Mona Haydar raps about wrapping the hijab.
Good Body, 4:39
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A short on coloured hair flashes being glued to women’s heads in 1955.
Hair Flashes. 1:47
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Jewish orthodox Zelda Volkov is pushing the boundaries of the Sheitl tradition in her wig store in New York.
Making Waves in Hasidic Wig Tradition, 5:31
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Lexy Lebsack, a senior beauty editor, follows the hair trail all the way to Vietnam.
The Truth About Where Hair Extensions Come From, 11:55
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Should the lockdown in Britain be loosened even more you might encounter a present day travelling beautician to do your hair in front of your house perhaps with a functioning salon hair dryer?
Dartmoor Travelling Beautician Aka Travelling Hair (1957), 2:29
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