My afro and I were graciously invited to the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, to join the bloggers focus group which took place as part of Afro Comb day.

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Hosted by Crystal Afro, the creator of the natural hair care blog United KinKdom, AfroComb day was an insightful collaboration between Crystal (@CrystalAfro) and Egyptologist Sally-Ann Ashton.

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I was late for the first round of debates (hand over face), but I managed to be part of the second round, where I got to meet several of my favourite hair bloggers and have what I felt was very meaningful, open and honest discussions on what it was to have afro hair growing up in the UK. We swopped tips and tricks from which combs to use, products to avoid and had a humorous talk on the growing community of ‘natural Nazis’ flourishing on the YouTube landscape.

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Regretfully, I had to leave earlier than the others (my fault for being late in the first place), but I had a great time, and look forward to reading what the other bloggers took away from the day. Crystal did a fantastic job at bringing together an eclectic mix of modern day natural hair bloggers to discuss what afro hair and the afro-comb means to so many. Lord knows that it’s impossible to have this level of debate is impossible on twitter with its 140 character limit!

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Here are some pictures I took on my iPhone on some of the natural hair combs, some of which are over 500 years old.

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