00:00Hey y'all! My name is Akili King, the senior beauty editor at Essence magazine
00:04and I'm here at Essence Festival, which is known for the best braided looks and
00:09I'm gonna chat with some of them about their inspiration today for braided
00:13beauties. Let's get into it. I just feel like it's black women's like a legacy
00:17and our tradition and our birthright to be able to be creative with our hair so
00:20I'm just always looking for new and fun things to do and when people see the pink
00:24it really makes them happy and make them smile so I'm always just trying to do
00:26something fun with my hair now. So I am a gym rat so I needed something that was
00:31gonna be pretty and free but also let me be sexy at the same time so I wanted
00:36something that was gonna be comfortable for the summer something that was I can
00:39do that was gonna spice up my style so the braided bob was the look I went with
00:44and I used human hair at this time so I can also get that real feminine touch
00:47inspiration really is all like browns and new because you know brown is beautiful
00:52let's get into these brown braids that touch the floor
00:57I really like loved all like the braids like I saw in the streets and one day I
01:02saw this girl and she was wearing like these like beautiful blue like long braids
01:06and I was like hey maybe I could do that and add like some pink in there too
01:11so my inspiration was I don't know it was giving mermaid you know Chloe with the
01:15little mermaid she's very in so it was giving mermaid you know like hippie
01:20essence best you know a little versatile like so in with the braids almost very
01:26versatile I love the color I just also up to a half up and down little little
01:32edges little together and yeah for me it's just like I love wearing braids
01:36because when you just see the face you know you don't hide everything's like
01:40pulled back very empowered very girly very beautiful and I think I'm gonna keep
01:45her for some time I have brothers that are younger than me but they're going
01:48bald so that was kind of my inspiration I do it for them I was gonna lock it but
01:52then I was like nah I just kind of want to keep the braids because I could do so
01:54much with it I'm blossoming I'm in a bit of a transformation and I wanted to come
01:59and make a statement I wanted to represent black beauty I wanted to
02:03represent transformation and my name also means beautiful flower so here you go
02:10and there you go
02:13and I love this now
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