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"Sku/me tries" -
'Genetic memory
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DETROIT- "The high-top
fade, the crown 100 and the trio.
level loo orn by young people
are all take offs of my earlier
creations of 1985," said natural
hair sculptor and orginator of
S ulmetrics, Allen Biggers.
In the hair design business
for better than 20 years, Biggers
aid while in a hotel in Africa,
guide informed him that' the
roadmap hairstyle he wore, his
multi-pierced ear and other
je elry to accentuate it w s
quite tr ditional in certain parts
of Africa.
Biggers said the guide told
him that each hairstyle repre­
sented man' roots, and that
the men who wore them were
healers.
For Biggers, the experience
as "Genetic Memory" in
operation; he h d never een
the styl before he cut them
into a h d of hair.
Biggers id he cuts more
than a hairstyle, he cuts accord-
. ing to personality. "Many arc
the tim hen I have had a cer-
l cr in min Cor par-
ticular customer wbich turned
out to be something totally dif­
ferent UPOD completion," h
id,
Bigger sad hi hairstyles
e not jus designs, they arc
or oflo, rks th t his en­
tire life is tied i 0: He id he
sIee , d . his crea-
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style.
tions. His every waking moment
is thinking of designs and tech­
niques.
Biggers id ere is also a
great deal of pressure involved
in hair designing. He said hen
he approaches a client seated in
his chair he steps into their aura
and comes in contact with their
psyche, and the desire to please
that client's personality creates
pr ur�.·_ .
Biggers said at his salon, lo­
cated at 13310 Woodward, his
, iiiJCbi . lDto
the lips, butt and hi
Biggers said a hair analysis is
the first tep to proper hair
maintenance, which in a
trand strength test nd more.
He said he uses the p oducts
best ited for African h . r
which req . larger aJD(MIDl
�._ & ... ' tive Salon is all abou
t h been said that a true
m ter i recognized by the
tools of his trade, which he
makes hiself in order to create
_ hi m erpieces. This is true of
AUen Biggers.
For inform lion, Bigger can
be re ched at (313) 867-5938.
cnrtlV.·1I _. time fo
Bigger s id many Black
women refuse to wash their hair
for months at a ti in order to
maintain chemically control­
led hairstyle, as oposed to main­
t . ni the health of the hair. He
said this is what his Natural Hair
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