My Date With An Ethiopian Hair Butcher

My hair style option: Ricky Martin or Ludacris?I left my heart in San Francisco, but I left my hair in Ethiopia.The danger sign was there, quite literally. The two hairstyle options apparently available to me at my Ethiopian barber shop of choice: Ricky Martin and Ludacris. I was in northern Ethiopia with a mess I’d deliberately grown out for almost two months — saving myself, the African haircut virgin — and I was determined to navigate yet another haircut-as-cultural-exper…

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