00:00I've been braiding hair for over 20 years.
00:03I started when I was about 10 years old because my mom had twin girls, you know, which is
00:08me and my sister, and she didn't want to do our hair anymore.
00:11So she pretty much just said, you're on your own, and me and my sister wore each other's
00:14guinea pigs.
00:19My name is Tamara Albertini.
00:21I'm from Brooklyn, New York, and I'm a holistic, I guess you can call it a master holistic
00:27hair braider.
00:29In essence, today, we created Black Girl Magic.
00:33We created braids, but the whole point of the braids was really to get culture into it.
00:38So we did a lot of African-inspired hairstyles, which was really, really fun.
00:43So with Jelly, we created an Eritrean-inspired hairstyle, which consists of really thin micro
00:51cornrows, and in the back, a poof.
00:55It's really done in Eritrean and some parts of Ethiopia.
00:58I did add a bit of a twist by putting a, kind of like a little design on top of the
01:04poof.
01:05We wanted to show that these types of braids can actually be worn out in the streets.
01:09It can be worn to an event.
01:11You know?
01:12It can be worn to work.
01:13This is part of our culture.
01:14So why not, you know, be able to have fun with it, but also keep the tradition.
01:18With Paige, we did the stitch braid.
01:21That's what it's called now.
01:22But that style really came from Ethiopia.
01:25A lot of the Habisha women wear that hairstyle for weddings.
01:28I really enjoy that because it shows a variation of what you can do with those types of hairstyles.
01:34I want a lot of hair braiders to let their clients know where it stems from, you know?
01:39And let other people know, like, when you rock that hairstyle, you know, this is really
01:42an Ethiopian-inspired style.
01:44With Marissa, the Fulani poof, that's what we called it.
01:49We have the traditional Fulani hairstyle from Ethiopia.
01:53The tribe that really wears this is called the Wadabi tribe.
01:57They usually wear it simple.
01:59They don't have the poof at the top.
02:00That was my twist on it.
02:02A lot of these tribes, what they usually do is they wear protective styles and they put it
02:07a certain way so that they can differentiate themselves from the other tribe that's, you know,
02:12maybe a few miles away.
02:13This one was fun because I got to do the puff, I got to add some accessories to it, but I also
02:18got to really practice doing traditional techniques.
02:23For Asa, we called it the Map Braids.
02:26This particular hairstyle, or the notion of it, came from Colombia.
02:30Where in Colombia, that's where we know the slaves would braid up someone else's hair.
02:34That person would escape, right?
02:36And whoever had escaped can also go back to rescue the slaves that were at the plantation.
02:44So pretty much, it was a map that they created in someone's hair.
02:48With me, I got to really just kind of create any type of swirls, you know.
02:53I wasn't thinking about anything in particular, but I just kind of let my hands flow.
02:58Jasmine, the Bantu knot girl, it was actually a combination of two different tribes in Africa.
03:04The Bantu knot is actually from the Zulu nation, the Zulu tribe in South Africa.
03:08It's really not called Bantu, it's called Zulu.
03:12If you were to tell someone from the Zulu tribe that they call it Bantu, it would get offended.
03:17I also kind of added a style in the front, added some cornrows to it.
03:21It was more like a braid bang.
03:23That inspiration I really got from the Oritian tribes.
03:26Something I put a twist to, but definitely not something that I just made up out of nowhere.
03:30I get really inspired by the African tribes.
03:44F
03:57So
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