| Loving our hair with celebrity stylist Felicia Leatherwood |
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| Healthy Hair | |||
| Wednesday, 27 April 2011 00:00 | |||
Felicia Leatherwood is the creator of Loving Your Hair with Natural Care workshop.
Hair passion ignites natural hair movementBy Sherrell Dorsey, My Salon Scoop writer"I can almost tell what's going on with someone, or what's going on in their lives when I touch their hair," says Felicia Leatherwood, celebrity natural hairstylist. "If they aren't eating healthy, if they are depressed or stressed out, the hair tells everything. I can see people's hurt in their hair."
Part stylist, part therapist, Leatherwood is often the listening ear women need to expel their problems and get some help nurturing their hair.
"I'm a service person," she says. "I like making people feel good about themselves even if it means listening to their problems and how much relief they feel knowing that someone is supporting them on this new journey."
Actress Kim Coles calls her the hair whisperer. And Coles isn't the only celebrity who feels this way. Leatherwood's celebrity client list includes Jill Scott, Will Smith, Anthony Anderson and Sanaa Lathan. For several decades, Leatherwood, a Los Angles native, has used her talents as a stylist to empower, uplift and nurture both men and women.
Now, she uses a microphone to host natural-hair workshops in major U.S. cities to help spread her special brand of "hair health" to the masses. Her main thrust? Reintroduce women of color to their natural hair while helping them embrace their own unique beauty.
Hair passion
"Five years ago, I knew I wanted to empower women through their hair," she says. "I wanted to give back and not just here, but in the motherland as well... Africa."
This led her to create her "hair revolution" workshops.
Birth of the Natural Hair Movement
Leatherwood's client with carefree twists.
Typically held in salons and beauty boutiques, the workshops cover topics like: natural hair-care maintenance, how to love and not curse your hair, nutrition for healthy hair, selecting the right products for your curl pattern, styling demonstrations and more.
Her workshops have touched hundreds of people. Ladrica Norfleet, who attended a recent workshop in Seattle, says Leatherwood's workshop was informative, but it was her easy demeanor that won people over.
"Felicia's presence seemed to light up the room and she smiled the whole time which made her approachable," Norfleet says. "And she mixed and mingled making everyone feel welcomed and cared about..."
Whether it's a workshop or one of her Webinars, Leatherwood continually looks for new ways to improve her business while giving her followers more information, better advice and access to the best products and newest trends.
Hair therapy
Model Tomiko Fraser Hines, a Leatherwood client, recently did the "big chop."
Known for her "growing hands," people come to Leatherwood when their hair has had enough traumas. Part hair doctor, psychiatrist and nutritionist, Leatherwood nurses her clients' hair back to health or helps them make the healthy transition from chemicals to au natural.
"I know that Felicia cares about me and my hair," says model Tomiko Fraser Hines. "Even if she doesn't agree with my decision about what I want to do-from weaves, to an Afro and my latest style ‘the big chop'-she supports me and makes sure that my hair continues to be healthy."
Hines and her husband have been Leatherwood's clients for almost 10 years. In that time, both have seen Leatherwood's work and been the recipient of her care. It's this, they say, that separates her from other stylists.
"Many stylists will take your money and give you what you want but they don't really care," Hines says. "Felicia has a genuine interest and passion for my hair. That's why I continue and will always be a client of hers."
Copyright 2011 © My Salon Scoop, LLC
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