Taliah Waajid

And I think I had a client in New York that was a dancer.

You know, when I kind of put it together, I said, oh, okay.

So that was different.

Those are some of the different things.

Um...

When I was braiding, there were not many Africans braiding here, really.

There were not many.

In New York, the African salons didn't come yet.

They started trickling in.

Yeah, they started trickling in like the 90s, but not like they are now, right?

So women think about getting their hair done, we're going to the Africans, you know, to get their hair done.

That's what it is now.

Back then it wasn't, you know, like that.

But I did get to see a lot of the styles that I knew how to do.

Now I see the girls from Africa and I see their hair.

I'm like, oh, okay.

But the woman that taught me a lot of my techniques, she used to go to Africa all the time.

So she had come back and learned all these different designs and partings and things that nobody was doing back then.

So that's why we were so busy and could charge the money we were charging because nobody did it.

But now when they started coming over,