Like clothes, shoes and other fashion accessories, Nigerian hairstyles have evolved through the years. Remember the good old days in secondary school when we were either sporting a low cut or whatever simple hairstyle they called out during assembly.
Nigerian women wore their hairstyles in Afro, Mats, puff puff, and the likes done with thick black ‘made in China’ threads and these styles were accompanied with lots of pains especially when freshly done.
These Nigerian hairstyles seem to be fading away with the advent of modernization and westernization in form of weave extensions. Some others have been re-branded and renamed, to conform to the new generation way of life. Some of these hairstyles are:
1. Rubber Styles: This suddenly extinct mode of fashion was one of the most popular hairstyles in the 90’s. Women endured hours of head-pain in the saloon to bring out this epic masterpiece. Some rubber styles of those days depicted gravity defying structures.
2. All-Back: This is the most popular hairstyle in the history of this great nation. It successfully survived years and years of fashion transformations. Though it has been re-branded severally, to produce a good number of new patterns, it still retains it distinct name in some places in Nigeria today.
3. Patewo (clapping hands): This hairstyle reigned supreme as one of the most popular hairstyles in the 90’s. It was the natural selection for school girls when the teacher was to announce the hairstyle of the week. It was not too flamboyant and not too simple.
4. Shuku: Some hairstyles in the 90’s established their names in the minds of men and women, and this centered hairstyle stand tall as one of them. Shuku was all shades of classic. Though it has been re-branded nowadays to produce a good number of styles, only children of the 90’s will fully recollect how the original shuku really looked.
Which of these hairstyles was your favourite?
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