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🇸🇳 Hairstyles of Senegal

5 hairstyles from Senegal, best known first.

Style capital Barber street or district Sacred site School or museum Culture region

Hair places in Senegal

🇸🇩 Sudan and 4 moreDreadlocks A hairstyle of rope-like hair strands formed by matting or twisting.Natural · Coily and kinky hair · 1970

🇳🇬 Nigeria and 4 moreFulani braids West African braided style with beads and side strandsBraid · Coily and kinky hair

🇺🇸 United States and 2 moreHair twists Two-strand rope style for coily hair texturesLocs · Coily and kinky hair 🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreSenegalese twists Smooth two-strand protective style using synthetic hair.Locs · Any hair · 1984

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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Dreadlocks: Richard Mortel, CC BY 2.0, source
Fulani braids: François-Edmond Fortier (1862-1928), Public domain, source
Hair twists: Vox Efx, CC BY 2.0, source

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