Washoe County Library System

The hair stylist from the hit TLC show What Not to Wear offers women a complete guide to great-looking hair, sharing his personal styling secrets and offering practical advice on how to avoid outdated styles and unflattering cuts, identify hair type, choose the proper style and color to enhance one's image, and select the right hair care products.

Depicts how people have viewed, worn, and changed their hairstyles throughout history and in various cultures.

Romantic, loose, and messey - but in the nicest way! - boho braids are everywhere. You've seen them on celebrities walking the red carpet, on models strutting down catwalks, on fashion blogs, and in your favorite TV shows and movies. If you're looking to capture this free-spirited, fanciful, and georgeous look, the 40 DIY tutorials in this book deliver.

"This delightfully informative and reaffirming celebration of hair through the ages not only explores the most outrageous hairstyles from across history, but also shows how hair is an important and powerful means of cultural expression no matter what your sex, age, or race. During the Rococo period, wealthy women tucked shells, necklaces, fruit, and flowers into their hair, which was styled into towers that reached as high as three feet over their...

When five-year-old Birdie's mother promises to take her to a salon to tame her long, unruly hair, Birdie looks at magazines and consults her friends to find the style that is perfect for her.

A little girl's daddy steps in to help her arrange her curly, coiling, wild hair into styles that allow her to be her natural, beautiful self.

Macy describes all the different hairstyles in her family, from her grandmother's Afro and her big sister's cornrows to her cousin Kiki's bright purple hair.

Despite increasingly liberal world views, black hair continues to be erased, appropriated, and stigmatized to the point of taboo. Through her personal and historical journey, Dabiri gleans insights into the way racism is coded in society's perception of black hair--and how it is often used as an avenue for discrimination. Dabiri takes us from pre-colonial Africa, through the Harlem Renaissance, and into today's Natural Hair Movement, exploring everything...

"A visual and rhyming celebration of African-American girls' hair"--