Mary and Flo: The Real Dreamgirls

Anika, Beyonce, Jennifer   

Jennifer Hudson’s mother and brother were shot and killed in Chicago on Friday.  Her 7 year old nephew, Julian King, is missing.

All sympathy to Jennifer and her family.

                                      

Diana, Florence and Mary

While watching a  rerun of the movie Dreamgirls recently, my brain suddenly woke up and I looked for a credit to Mary Wilson, an original Supreme and the author of  “Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme”.   There was none.

  THE COMPLETE STORY

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Naomi Campbell: Lacefronts and Softball

Supermodel Naomi Campbell, appearing on ABC’s “Ugly Betty” this week, hit a softball so hard it split in half. Angry much?

Naomi Campbell on “Ugly Betty”

Campbell, 37, who was recently banned from British Airways for “losing it ” over lost luggage, has a long history of bad publicity and charges concerning her lack of self control.

For Haireality, none of this is the real issue. The issue is….what happened to her hair?

Haireality believes Campbell’s hairline is showing the effects of wearing a lacefront. Lacefronts, made popular by Tyra Banks, Beyonce and other celebrities, are glued to the forehead with lace between the weave hair and the scalp. If done well, the effect is very natural looking. But what happens at removal time?

And where did Naomi bury the hairstylists’ body?

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Beyonce, Tyra and John.. ….Oh My!

What Do Beyonce, Tyra and John have in common?
Lace Front WigsLace fronts are wigs that have a small piece of lace mesh attached to the front. This is attached to your head by double-sided tape or glue, giving the illusion of a seamless hairline. If it is custom made, human hair is individually pulled through the lace, for a more realistic look.

“Unlike a weave, you can get more versatility out of a lace front wig,” says Ellin Lavar, star of her own show on WE, ‘Hair Trauma.’ “Also, you can change your style easily and make it look natural on a video because you can’t see where the lace starts or ends.”"Usually when you wear wigs you have to wear bangs or pull the hair out in the front, but with a lace front wig, you glue this or tape it down so it looks like your own hairline,”says Lavar. “But you just can’t wear it like that. That’s why it’s always been a professional thing — stage, theatrics and movies — because you have to apply makeup to cover it.”

A custom made lace front with the most expensive hair (Remy Indian) can cost upward of $16,000. The now-bald Britney Spears uses one. Most good custom made lace fronts go for about $2,000-$3,000.

Tyra showing the lace

Yet for all of their realness, lace fronts are not perfect. Outside of their expense, they can be visible to the naked eye and can come undone if one moves her facial muscles too violently or sweats.”If you raise your forehead to make an expression, the demarcation of where the lace ends and the natural muscles of your forehead begin, you see a distinct line,” explains LaVar.

On TV, it’s not as noticable, on photos it can be touched up, on stage you’re far away, all of that works. Face to face, it can be seen.

Also, there have been some very embarrassing photos floating around the internet where the lace front has shown or the line has “torn” — the most famous of Beyonce on stage with what looks like a burn on her face.This is probably how lace fronts became a curiosity in the first place.

Because of the celebrity element, the prediction that knock-off lace fronts (with cheaper hair) are now all the rage. The only reservation is that people are going to damage their hair because they don’t know how to properly apply them. Even though there are already videos on lace wig application and how to apply them, Haireality predicts many bald hairlines and tears in the future.

What Do you think of lace fronts?

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