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  2. Braid (hairstyle) - Wikipedia

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    Crochet braids: Extensions are crocheted into cornrowed natural hair, offering a variety of styling options. French braid: A classic braid where hair is braided in three strands, incorporating additional hair into each section. Senegalese Twists: Also known as rope twists, this style involves two-strand twists with hair extensions.

  3. Hair twists - Wikipedia

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    Short twists worn by a young boy Two-stranded twists demonstrated on a hairstylist's mannequin. Hair twists, flat twists, or mini-twists, are a hairstyle popular with Afro-textured hair around the world, and sometimes with other hair textures. The style is achieved by dividing the hairs into several sections, twisting strands of hair, then ...

  4. Natural hair movement - Wikipedia

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    Includes braids, extensions, wigs, and weaves. See Janet Jackson in Poetic Justice. Senegalese twists: Also known as rope twists where synthetic hair is used and twisted in with the natural hair. Shrinkage: Because natural hair is typically has different types of curls and textures, in its natural state it appears shorter than it would ...

  5. Artificial hair integrations - Wikipedia

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    A hair weave is a human or artificial hair utilized for integration with one's natural hair. Weaves can alter one's appearance for long or short periods of time by adding further hair to one's natural hair or by covering the natural hair together with human or synthetic hairpieces.

  6. Braid - Wikipedia

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    The braiding technique was used to make ropes [2] with both natural and synthetic fibers as well as coaxial cables for radios using copper wire. [3] In more recent times it has been used to create a covering for fuel pipes in jet aircraft and ships (first using glass fibre, then stainless steel and Kevlar). Hoses for domestic plumbing are often ...

  7. Artificial nails - Wikipedia

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    Artificial nails are an extension, not a replacement, of natural nails. There are two main approaches to creating artificial nails – tips and forms : A tip is a heavyweight nail-shaped plastic plate glued on the end of the natural nail, or, if it is a full-cover tip or "press-on", glued on top of the entire nailbed, and can have gel, dip or ...

  8. Half and half nail - Wikipedia

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    Half and half nails (also known as "Lindsay's nails") show the proximal portion of the nail white and the distal half red, pink, or brown, with a sharp line of demarcation between the two halves. [ 1 ] : 785 The darker distal discoloration does not fade on pressure, [ 2 ] which differentiates Lindsay's nails from Terry's nails .

  9. Muehrcke's nails - Wikipedia

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    Muehrcke's lines were described by American physician Robert C. Muehrcke (1921–2003) in 1956. In a study published in BMJ, he examined patients with known chronic hypoalbuminemia and healthy volunteers, finding that the appearance of multiple transverse white lines was a highly specific marker for low serum albumin (no subject with the sign had SA over 2.2 g/dL), was associated with severity ...