Africans imaginative world famous for its wide variety of hairstyles, even more amazing.

Some hairstyles can help shade
The first is the strange shape, such as Mali Bambara tribe man, tall hair comb will make claw-shaped; Cognac family of a man's hair is like the rooster of Guinea Veiled; Uganda Didi tribe, hair like a big mushrooms; Zulu warriors in southern Africa will be oiled hair, compiled a serpent Nobuko (tongue) General braids trailed behind. These designs tend to have a special meaning, such as Bambara totem sheep, so the hair such as croissants, and like comb hair Cognac put the rooster who regarded the incarnation of strength and beauty. Also some modeling for purely practical, such as Tan Chuqu mushroom hairstyle can help shade, while the Zulu warriors oiled pigtails reason, it is to avoid being caught in the fighting hair fall into a passive adversary.
Express an identity with hair hint many black African ethnic practices. Black women in most countries in West Africa, with a shaved head will indicate "widowed"; while high Nickleby family woman bun Guinea excess of the forehead, to show their loved ones from the disease rehabilitation; women having children after Kenya Malindi area will be a Circle hair shaved, leaving only the head tuft of hair coronary center; Niger Hausa children will stay out of a head lock, two-or three-lock lock of hair, that he were lost father, mother or both parents; Benin aromatic series braids girl after married you can only stay short hair or comb the hair, while the opposite tribe Pender Congo: Only girls can have short hair.
The same is braids, attention is also different. Some stay a single braid, but some keep sweating pigtail; some peoples only women braid, West Africa, South-West Africa some tribes it is whether men and women can braiding. And Chinese Uighur girl showed a different age, African braids for other purposes, such as northern Nigeria, known for doing business with the nomadic Fulani nation, which married women sweating pigtail, is to facilitate a lot of ornaments worn by the number of braids, to show off her husband's wealthy; Dogon tribe of Mali Timbuktu women near 80 pigtail is a symbol of this ancient nation consisting of eight clans, which are called "Harding open" or "Family Harmony "means.
Popular Chinese-made wigs
African hair ornaments also varied. Casa along the Ghana man wearing a hair often engraved ancestors avatar, name metal hairpin to show "forget this"; northwestern Kenya and Cape diagram will wear an old wooden wig, which is to protect the hair is not messed up, because they themselves have been unable to pick up, and children and grandchildren are not always have time; printing known to directly open Malian people just dye in the head, with colorful hair decorated with colorful fuel.
In fact, African black hair thin and volume, and close to the scalp, combing and styling is not very convenient, formerly a hair comb tend to spend six or seven hours. In order to maintain the beloved hair is not messed up, black people invented the middle concave, convex two wooden pillow, so sleep though not very comfortable, but it is easier to keep the hair; They are also often used for oil and other hair styling and minimize shampoo times, so of course, eventually some inconvenience.
In recent years, a large number of imports from Asia, China, Korea and other countries and other regions wigs popular in Zimbabwe. Long, straight wig, easy to shape many times, it is easy to comb, maintenance, comb a hair shortened to twelve hours, with foreign imports of hair gel, hairspray and other more afraid to let the hair washed, long-term preservation. As a result, Africans do not love the original shampoo habits are slowly changing, and some girls even love the clean wash every day. With women's words, is now, and if you do not keep the closet a wig, you are very corny.
The "Rocket" on his head
Old problem solved, new problems have emerged: the original hairstyle they fear keep her, but now they fear that their hair has been "hold", unshakeable, always want fresh bursts on another. Barber shop owner who certainly could wish for: a women's complicated hair style barber shop in Togo often have to close four or five thousand West African francs (about 65 yuan), while the monthly salary of a local white-collar workers, but 50,000 West African francs (about $ 700 yuan). Barber who was very anxious to: How can so many new hairstyle?
Imagination is needed to mining in West African countries, the barber who set their sights on the things around, so there imitate sheep, waterfowl, crown even a question mark, exclamation mark hair, appeared waterfall, wave and other exotic hairstyle. Reporters saw a "bridges" hairstyle, that is, between the head and the neck root level consistent with two rows of Shu Qi, white and orderly "porous bridge" looks very chic. When these can not satisfy the appetite of customers, hairstylist began learning foreign, ancient Greek style, until the imitation of the Eiffel Tower, rocket hairstyles are grand debut, and so forth. Now in the Malian capital, a skilled master barber at least more than 30 hairstyles, hairstyles popular throughout the market more than 100 kinds, and growing. Even so, they are far from being the largest Nigerian city of Haku Te popular hairstyles have been up to more than 300 species.
Africans in the ever-changing hairstyles has caused great concern in the West many caring people, the world's leading cosmetics company L'Oreal, in the United States established the "African hairstyle Research Center", specializing in new hairstyle Africa to collect "stone hills, can learn, "the miraculous yet.