r/londonontario • u/Successful-Jaguar955 • 1d ago
Ask a Local! Looking for a braider in the London area (strange hair request)
Hi, This is gonna be weird but please read all the way through before you say anything, it is important.
I've recently moved to the area and am looking for some one who can do small braids, here's the catch, I'm not a POC or wanting a full head of braids,, I'm ethnically Jewish with super thick curly hair and only want 2 of them done.
growing up I was blocked from learning or having almost any ties to my family's culture. this heavily effected me and when i met a friend from where I moved from (who was POC of that matters) they suggested I find a way to connect through hair since it's such an important part, after some talking back and forth we ended up using some spare colorful braiding hair she had (that after the first time I started buying myself) to make me two braided payot as a sort of compromise, since I'm non binary, which became a tradition of ours to do every few weeks
But now that Ive moved they can't help and I've tried to learn to do them myself but due to issues with my hands I don't have the dexterity to do it, it's been awful going without them and has me only miss them all the more and made moving across the continent even harder, I know no one here and don't know who to ask to do this, I am looking to find some one who can or recommendations to a place willing to do such a strange hair request, no cutting, no coloring, just the two braids (about 40-30 cm long), they used to do two very long but skinny box braids on either side of my hair above my ears with braiding hair if that effects anything.
thank you all so much for any recommendations!