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I had the opportunity to meet Felice at Duafe Lifestyle Expo this past February. I was attracted to the unique pieces adorning her table. I copped beautiful earrings from Felice, who is a veteran to natural hair and owner of www.NubianJewels.Biz. Felice shares her business was born with the need of creative expression…
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Greetings:
My name is Felice Akosuia better known by some as Felicia Anderson. I have always been very natural, loving the 60’s emphasis of the afro.
Career Hair Expression
As I came into my career of choice of styling hair and make up application, I have masqueraded many different looks of which I did become very fond of.
I suppose it was the variety of selections that were available that created a sense of drama to the on lookers who would crave something new to inspire them towards a much needed change for themselves.
My career changed in 2001 as I stepped away from the styling chair all together and became a part of the support staff for the medical records department of HCA Henrico Doctors’ Hospital in Richmond, Virginia. No longer did I have the incentive to flaunt my creativity in the office and needed to express my talents else where.
Outlet for Creativity
It was at this time that I started to design accessories which would grow to become Felice Akosuia’s Nubian Jewels. I have loved jewelry all my life even more than I have loved hair.
I found the adjective Nubian to fill a void in describing a culture which was missing from our vocabulary during the rising black consciousness of the 60’s through 80’s.
I wanted to retrace the adornments of our historical past and contemporize them to fit into our current environment. Thus the name Nubian Jewels was coined to garner a great pride in our historical past, present and future of acknowledging who we are as opposed to what others see us to be.
Hair also speaks loudly to this sense of heritage and I was looking to be more permanently styled if there is such a thing. Leaving rollers, blow dryers and curling irons for good. The hardest decision was to leave the ‘comb’. It took about 10 months of living with an increasingly stubborn bush to finally give in to never wanting to comb my hair again. I had considered sister locs for their flexibility of styling and began my locking journey which took 30 days of sectioning and tool manipulation to start my locs myself.
Now some 5 years later I have a full head of lovely locs that I can section and style.
The best of all is that walk in the rain care free hair, no worries of ‘oh no my hair got wet’.
Encouragement
For anyone who hasn’t considered going natural let me just say, as a professional stylist I hadn’t learned all the evidence till I left the profession but chemicals applied to your hair and scalp are entering your bloodstream and causing a great deal of damage internally that may not develop into serious conditions until later on in life.
Protect yourself and love yourself, natural hair in all its glory is divine and gifted from the Most High, don’t take it for granted. You will feel your most beautiful self once you embrace who naturally are.
Once you do let’s adorn your crown with precious gems of royalty with http://www.NubianJewels.Biz .
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