Sweet Street Artistry & Skill Academy

06/27/2025

Celebrating my 10th year on Facebook.
Thank you for your continuous support.
I could never have made it without you.

10 years representing this brand healed my soul.

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06/22/2024

My Start Student, Miranda…she moved on to try other enrichment second semester but she popped in, whenever she could, to help my other students.

I made her a cute little bag with all the essentials for braiding hair. All the items matched. She kept me updated on the hair work she was doing at home.

She and I had A LOT in common. When she talked about her life, I made sure to not only listen, but to HEAR her. I’m glad she felt seen and HEARD by me.
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06/22/2024

If you’ve followed our program over the years, there’s always one student who sticks it out the whole time.

This year, it was Keyiona… Not only did she stick it out and stay, she came in with no skill plus fear.

She gained confidence in herself.
She replaced, “I can’t” with “I can try”.
She became a leader by stepping up.
And she broke through her fear of “speaking”.

She gave me a keychain to thank me for helping her. It’s on the wall in my shop. She made me smile a lot.
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06/19/2024

September 2023- May 2024

Omega Community Development Corporation-CDC blessed me with the opportunity to share my time, talent, and treasures with the Scholars of Hope AfterSchool Program…Natural Hair Braiding…💜

As a Natural Hair Culturist, to be able to share my gift with a multicultural and multi gendered group of children was amazing. Set my whole soul on fire.❤️‍🔥

I’ll be sharing moments from our year, as I prepare to share the community work I’ve been doing this Summer. I’ve missed ya’ll. Content coming soon.
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11/10/2023

Practice doesn’t make perfect, it brings increase. Your skills have to be practiced in order to grow.

11/10/2023

I’m looking forward to showing my students their progress. Overhanded braiding is very different from underhanded. It’s the difference between making a French or “inverted” braid and making a cornrow.

11/10/2023

Understanding the split of the hands and fingers.
My current students are trying to grasp this concept.

11/03/2023

The “Fishtail” is also an invisible, inverted braid.

The Fishtail Braid….

There are more than a dozen different techniques we can use to wrap the hair into the form of a braid. This was a favorite from a different era, the fishtail. It takes dexterity to be able to execute any braid.

I plan to start my teachings with the braiding basics. It takes time and commitment for me to continuously build on your skill and your newfound dexterity that comes through practice or rather participation. “Don’t say Can’t!” You could one day do anything you want to hair.

I believe in you. I already know you can.

Just don’t say can’t…you can. You got it.

Just give me time and patience.

Join us In The Garden of Keedo…

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11/03/2023

Overhanded, inverted, invisible, or “French” braids.
(However, the last picture is actually a Fishtail braid.)

11/03/2023

My after school enrichment students have been going through this change…learning underhanded braiding when you’re an overhander. The techniques create two completely opposite braids. Underhanded makes Cornrow braids, overhanded makes “French” braids. I’m so proud of the progress thus far.

10/29/2023

My Sweeties are coming along beautifully. An overhanded braider creates French Braids, to create the Cornrow, you need to have underhanded braid capabilities or you will tear your wrists, arms, and shoulders up long term. They couldn’t do this two or three classes ago. We talk about practice and progress. Practice doesn’t make perfect, it bring progress…increase in skill. Their practice boards go home with them and come back to class every week.

The next step is to isolate their finger work to bring the braid down, closer to the scalp. The practice boards were helpful for practicing the switch to using their underhanded skill, however, next week, we’ll be back on our manikin heads to make this adjustment.

I love the moment when I see them “get it”…

…when I see them apply it, my heart skips a beat.
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10/26/2023

Since accessing my students, I’ve been helping them convert to underhanded braiding. The girls have been taking home their braiding practice boards. We touched on moving fingers and holding fingers in our last class and it was exciting as they caught on. We’ll finish out the month applying what we’ve learned.

In November, we move on to Sectioning 101 as the girls continue to practice their Cornrowing skill.
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