 I am Eve Nyaga and right about now we want to talk about matters of the hair. Dreadlocks in particularly and in studio I have three specialists. I mean it's we are talking serious matters about the dreadlocks. You know it's been a culture that's been on their eyes and we need to know about the trends that are going on, hair color and about an event that they had yesterday. So I want my guests to introduce themselves and I will start with the gentleman next to me. Hi, I'm Pasco Kusekwa, all the way from Tanzania. Welcome to Kenya. Okay, thank you. Thank you, I'm Urejo from Uganda, Kampala. Thank you so much. I'm Letisha Mugele from Kenya. Alright, thank you so much for making time to join us. So kindly tell us what you specialize in and all the things that you do. Okay, we specialize in dreadlocks and dreadlocks extensions and we do all kind of hair, all type of hair and everything about dreadlocks. We do sister locks, micro locks and other locks. Alright, thank you. Me specialize in dreadlocks, natural hair and makeup. Okay, thank you. Letisha. I also do dreadlocks, I do... I braid, I do wigs. Thank you so much. So tell us maybe some of the trends that you have seen on the rise concerning dreadlocks. Some of the rise is extension, people are doing extension on their dreadlocks and also styling. People are doing so well in styling. What are some of the major styles that you've seen? Okay, with dreadlocks, I wouldn't say that what are the major styles but you can do avant-garde, you can do just something extraordinary. Or maybe like something like what you have on your hair. Like something I have on my hair. Please tell us about extensions and what are the new extensions that you are having. What are people doing to their dreadlocks? You might find someone who has dreadlocks. Today I have my natural hair but tomorrow I have dreadlocks. How? Right now actually things have changed. You can actually don't like we extend hair from a side and then when you come, for example your client, you just come and we put those extensions. Right now extensions are we have at fishers, we do at fish extensions with synthetic and then we also do natural extensions. So all you need is your hair. Like for example today they can see with a width more, they can see with a long dreadlocks. But mine are natural. Are the rest natural? Mine is extension. Okay. I want you to talk about colour and dreadlocks. Colour? Yes colour and dreadlocks. The major colours that you are seeing, what are the new trends in terms of colouring dreadlocks. Okay colour is becoming that colour. Nowadays everybody wants colour. If you put dreadlocks in colour it should look a little amazing. So now I have seen different colours. First is now we have extensions and we make them in different colours people can fix fresh of time that they want. You can put in colour you want and you can change the colour. However you want. We have temporary colour nowadays. So you can put it wherever you want the colour and then once you are tied with it you can watch it. Is it the same trend in Uganda? You are from Uganda right? No I am from Tanzania. Yes Tanzania yes sorry. For Tanzania now things that are trending is dreadlocks and extensions. I am dealing much with dreadlocks and extensions and I make 100% human hair extensions and synthetic. Mine are 100% human hair extensions and it is looking more real like everybody can see your hair. People now are moving too fast to dreadlocks and natural hair. You can see some more people are coming in natural and dreads and they want extensions and the thing that you have improved now is that some people want dreadlocks for just a time. For instance you want dreadlocks now and you want to remove them tomorrow. So then that is very good. I always did the hair for the stars you want them temporary like diamond like other styles you want them temporary we took them off then we put another style, we changed the style. So dreadlocks now is trending in Tanzania and so many people want extensions because it is extension temporary. So this is the event that you were the judges yesterday natural dreadlocks are fair sorry and I would like you to talk to us about the event The event was motherless I liked how things are taking this to another level these guys have put in a lot because it is not all about making money but also giving out to the people to the new stylists which are coming in so it is like a support trying to support the new generation which is coming and I liked everything I am going to talk to Uganda because it is more of the support and giving out awarding someone for example you can be working here and you are not recognized but these people are trying to recognize people's talents I liked everything So letisha tell us some of the activities that were taking place yesterday We were dealing with dreadlocks there was natural hair there was color So the whole thing was amazing you see how people are getting to know what they are supposed to do they are learning so much and it is so good for the people who are organizing such things because they are making the young artists who are not known like us when I started maybe no one knew Letisha but right now most of the people know me though they call me happy many of them so it is a good thing because it makes us explore, it unites us and it is very good for us to have such things thank you so much for the organizers and the networking too and we get to know each other maybe you never knew who Farooq is I never knew who Farooq is until I went to Afro hair and I saw Farooq and I am like you are so happy to see someone like that because he is a hair guru which is amazing you get to ask him get interact to him one on one and that is a good thing Pascal tell us what stood out for you yesterday being a judge during the event what stood out for you about the stylist the stylist they was doing good and I learned so many things from the event and I even like sharing ideas from them I see some more styles that was amazing and I think I should try to apply this in Tanzania because there is no event back there I was inspired to meet some different people and they are taking far the industry now we are going to the next level and I think that is a good thing sharing ideas because I came all the way from Tanzania here in Kenya now and I think I have got something that I can go and implement okay nice so let'sisha I am having extensions of dreadlocks how would someone take care of that the extension when they are dirty you can come back to the salon they wash for you they treat it because they will be treating your hair even if you have the extension then they moisturize they rinse the moisturize and then they style you it will be as easy as that so how often should you do that maybe twice or thrice a week or maybe once a month so it depends with you as well you and your pocket what about you Iruro taking care of natural dreadlocks what does that consist here okay natural dreadlocks it's more of a cute hair the only difference is like you rolled it so it's the same way we take care of our hair the only difference is we need to repair it for example when it has grown down the growth you need to relock it like roll it but then what else we need to do oiling moisturize it so that it can look good so natural dreadlocks are easy to take care of you think that the extensions are hard to take care of all dreadlocks fall in the same category right now we are talking about dreadlocks so they fall in the same category it's just easy to maintain for example when people work for example you're busy you don't need to go do waves and then remove it for example like me I'm a busy man, I do music, I do hair so the only thing we can sustain is dreadlocks because they don't give me a time to maintain okay nice and what about you how much for example your look I can see it looks very natural if I wanted the same look give me a price range of what I would need to have so that I can have such a look if you want the same look like my extensions here because this is 100% money and it's 8 inches and uh I would explain it in tissue it's almost the 400 400,000 okay please do the math for us yes but I'm sure it's not as expensive as we would think it's not expensive something that you can manage because you can stay with the hair for a long time and you can only move and put it back you don't need to buy the hair again whether you want to change their size and length you can buy another extensions but if you want the same look you can just use the same letisha since you're from Kenya give us a price range to have something maybe like what you have on right now to have something like what I have it's around 10,000 10,000 she links yeah it's a bit deep but I can see that she looks amazing we have to say you can do a hair flip so that they can see thank you so what is it that we expect in the next few years in terms of dreadlocks where do you see this industry going because I can see that so many artists have grown in the industry and people are making waves out here as stylists lemme start with you in the next generation I think more people will embrace having natural hair dreadlocks that is because right now it's like maybe 60% yeah you'd walk and turn and see like oh my god everyone has dreadlocks yeah so being us having the organization like maybe afro hair dreadlocks affair and many others which are coming up I think in the next maybe 5-4 will have amazing things even the people outside Kenya or outside this country will start doing even to the white people yeah because most of them they also started doing dreadlocks so I think will have a lot more things me I would look at it as an African because God had the reason why he gave us this kind of hair lemme talk take it in the way of money money wise it serves money because I'm using my own hair if I do it even if I remove it it's not like when you buy for example I'm not offending someone here for example when you buy a weave and then the next day you remove it I didn't see you buy a weave and then the next day you remove it that's why me I say that's why Africans we're still crying poverty God gave us a gift to give us this hair why don't we use it so I'm saying like the next 10 years or 20 years to come Africans are going to come back to your roots and adopt their way of living thank you what about you Pascal for me I think the industry is going far I can see it in the next 4 years like now everybody likes dreadlocks did you like dreadlocks I actually I like dreadlocks so I see everybody will have dreadlocks especially now we have extensions now people want to put extensions in the load so I can say that next 5 years all people have dreadlocks everybody women are busy working they don't have time to go to town so now the only thing they can save the time is dreadlocks because you can have dreadlocks and put just oil and you go you can have dreadlocks there's different kind of dreadlocks there's free from locks you cannot even twist you just put some oils you go to saloon to maintain the dreadlocks once per month or twice per month so if it's once per month it saves money so then you save time you save money so people now are going back to natural and I think in the way how we are supposed to be as an African so kindly tell us your social media pages so people can find you in anything else that you have to add on actually I have two page on Instagram the first I use dreadlocks underscore specialist and the second is dreadlocks underscore Tanzania alright thank you so much it's about you we can go on Facebook and Instagram it's Iruro Hair and Style Studio kindly spell Iruro R-R-U-R-O Hair and Style Studio and also musician tell us where they can find your music my music is everywhere on YouTube how we music actually I'm a washpa like I do gospel washpa music I know you're surprised yeah I do washpa music they can find it on YouTube though in music I use Iru ministries it's I-J-U-R-O ministries music yes they can find it download it it's amazing thank you on my Facebook page it's happy rock the locks because so many people called me happy on my Instagram is dreadlocks the specialist and I'm so happy because I've met the light of Tanzania and I'm so happy for that and what I can add on is you don't have to be great to get started you can get started to be great yeah that's interesting so thank you so much guys for making time to join us and talk to us about dreadlocks yes and wish you all the best in your career as dreadlocks stylist yes and that is what we had for you about dreadlocks it seems like everyone is going to the dreadlocks I think I'll also ditch my wigs in my ways I'll think about it