How are Cornrows Created?
Cornrows are another extension of traditional hair grooming styles  of African origin hair braiding. This is an intricate technique of tightly braiding or weaving the hair in-and-out via a three-strand pattern very close along the scalp area, using an underhand, upward motion to produce a continuous, raised row, thus creating the “cornrow”. Quite similar to French-Braiding your hair, cornrows flow within a reverse-style weaving pattern, and is pulled secure at all stages of the cornrowing process to ensure a neat lasting track. 

The simplest and longest lasting cornrows are created thinly and tightly, following a track commencing from your face and ending down past your neck, where they are securely fastened by elastic bands or permanently heat-sealed way past your natural hair ends, if you are receiving cornrow extensions to any desired length.

Cornrow Designs
Cornrows can be formed, as the name implies, in simple, straight lines or, in complicated geometric or curvilinear designs. Cornrow width & style is entirely up to you, greatly depending upon your desired cornrow design, individual hair texture and especially your length.  Other than the traditional straight back fast track, cornrows can follow most design ideas into formations including: diagonal angles, zig-zag geometric patterns, curved to spiral linear tracks, leaf or other organic depictions, and many more creative conceptual designs that you may have the patience for.

Cornrows Maintenance
Often favoured for their easy maintenance, cornrows can be left in for weeks at a time simply by carefully washing the hair using a stocking cap or hair net and then regularly oiling the scalp and hair.

Cornrows Extensions
Just like braids extensions, cornrows extensions are a great way to create instant hair length and presents a far superior tight and neatly lasting cornrows style.  Cornrow extension hair is added at the beginning of the track from your face and is woven evenly entwining your own hair; braided way past your natural length and permanently heat-sealed until you decide when you want them out.  

Cornrow extensions are a great way to either, add natural colour thickness and length, mix subtle highlighted tones, or express vibrant chromatic colours to grab that extra bit of attention.  A further way to make noise with your expressive cornrows, are to decorate them by simply having beads added, either at the ends or interwoven along your designed track.

Please contact me directly for any further information or session bookings.  I look forward to being of service to you soon. 
                                            
                                            Melissa Gurney 
                                            Director
                                            Hair Braids Extensions Australia
                                            Melbourne
                                            0419310826
                                            attache@mac.com







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The History of Cornrows


                           The Cornrows Style
A common way of styling hair in populations from sub-Saharan Africa and Ancient East Africa, cornrows survived for centuries in the United States and other parts of the New World as a style of hair preparation among African slaves and their progeny. In 1963, when most African American women were loath to be seen in public with unstraightened hair, actress Cicely Tyson drew immediate notice when she sported cornrows on the popular network television series East Side/West Side. The style gained wide popularity in the United States in the late 1960s and 1970s as part of the Black is beautiful movement, when the trend was to reject straightening one's hair in favor of "natural" hairstyles. Afros, strands of hair twisted into tight coils or wound with twine, and the wearing of geles (in Yoruba, colorful, often elaborately wrapped head cloths) are among the commonplace African styles adopted by African American women.

In the wake of the Black Pride Movement, hundreds of beauty shops and salons sprang up across the United States delivering services exclusively, or as part of a range of options, to blacks who prefer natural (unstraightened) hairstyles. Many salons specialize in hair wrapping and braiding techniques, executing styles which can be exceedingly time-consuming and expensive. A single, braided style can take 13 hours or more to complete, sometimes necessitating two or more salon visits. The trade off in the cost in time and money expended is that a well-executed, braided style can last a month or more without restyling, if properly groomed and cared for—and if executed on the naturally coarse, tightly coiled hair typically possessed by people of sub-Saharan African descent.

Cornrows also enjoyed some popularity among Caucasians after blonde actress Bo Derek wore beaded cornrows in the popular Blake Edwards movie 10, and became widely popular once again with the spread of hip-hop culture in the 1990s. Cornrow hairstyles are now often offered to tourists in resort areas of the Caribbean.  People of African ancestry in many different regions of the world wear cornrows. However, some controversy over them has emerged in Nigeria, where hair braiding among men is alleged to be a sign of homosexuality. Some feel that times are changing and men wearing braids is part of the change. It is a hairstyle that stands out. [1]

Over the years, cornrows (along with dreadlocks) have been the subject of several disputes in the American workplace (see The Allen Iverson Movement). Some employers have deemed them unsuitable for the office and have banned them - especially at-will firings and/or termination. African American employees and civil rights groups have countered that such attitudes evidence racial and cultural bias. Some such disputes have resulted in litigation.[2]  

Cornrowed hairstyles are often adorned with beads or cowry shells, in the African tradition. Depending on the region of the world, cornrows can be worn by either men or women.  Braided and cornrowed hair is in high demand, especially in the African-ethnic community.

(Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornrows, 1. BBC NEWS | Africa | Football hairdo alarm in Nigeria; 
2. BBC NEWS | Health | Braiding 'can lead to hair loss')




The World According to Cornrows....
Artistic braiding.   Some cornrowed hairstyles can take hours to execute.



Please contact me directly for any further information or session bookings.  I look forward to being of service to you soon. 
                                            
                                            Melissa Gurney 
                                            Director
                                            Hair Braids Extensions Australia
                                            0419310826
                                    







Hair Braids Extensions Melbourne Australia ~ Styles that Rock.
Look & Feel Great for Months. Dreadlocks, Cornrows, African Braiding, Micro Plaits, Kinky Twists, Human Hair Extensions Weaves & more.... 
Totally stand out and love being noticed.  All ages now experience leading edge global styles from Melbourne’s Hair Braids Extensions.  
Adult men and woman, teens and even young school children are sporting extreme styles creatively unique and easy to manage and self maintain.
0419 310 826 Director Melissa Gurney 
            Current Promotional Offers ~ Call Now & $ave!
Melbourne based, servicing clients’ hair Australia-wide: Adelaide, Perth, Darwin, Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Hobart and more. Dreads Cornrows Dreadlocks African Plaits Micro Braids Kinky Twists Human Hair Extensions Rastadreads Rastalocks 
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No maintenance, cornrows are a great low cost style, neatly lasting 4-6 weeks.  

Cornrows give you opportunity for a creative, affordable and highly individualised, multi-changeable look, following each progressive session. 

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