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05-24-2010, 03:20 PM
Journalist Corey Dade reports in the Wall Street Journal on how Dominican beauty salons have displaced African-American hairdressers. The Dominican stylists have been successful in styling and straightening hair, and do this for better prices, less time and longer-lasting styling techniques.
"Armed with a blow dryer and brush, deft wrist action and shrewd promotional tactics, immigrants from the Dominican Republic are snipping away market share from African-American stylists whose mastery of black women's hair ensured for generations that their customers wouldn't, or couldn't, leave them. Promises of seemingly healthier hair, swifter service and far lower prices are wooing away a growing number of black women," reports the WSJ.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703322204575226553332638676.html
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"Armed with a blow dryer and brush, deft wrist action and shrewd promotional tactics, immigrants from the Dominican Republic are snipping away market share from African-American stylists whose mastery of black women's hair ensured for generations that their customers wouldn't, or couldn't, leave them. Promises of seemingly healthier hair, swifter service and far lower prices are wooing away a growing number of black women," reports the WSJ.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703322204575226553332638676.html
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#13)