{"id":454,"date":"2022-06-09T01:41:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T01:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wigcost.com\/?p=454"},"modified":"2022-06-09T01:41:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T01:41:38","slug":"dazhane-leahs-latest-photo-project-changes-how-we-look-at-afros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wigcost.com\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"Dazhane Leah&#8217;s latest photo project changes how we look at afros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wigcost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/kYdwGB2T.jpg\"><strong>Spring is most definitely in the air, so enjoy this beautiful combo of afros and flowers by @dazhaneleah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last week Dazhane Leah&#8217;s photo project Afro Bloomin&#8217; went viral. The photo project was exploring what the phrase &#8216;black power&#8217; really means to people.Dazhane said she chose to decorate the model&#8217;s afro with flowers, because she believes the two complement each other. &#8216;I light pink wig see beauty in natural hair and I see beauty in flowers\u2014together I think they go hand in hand and I wanted to express my own passions and opinions as well as [the views of] others through my photos.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Dazhane adds that she was inspired to work on this project after watching a video made by the Huffington Post about how afros have become trendy but may have lost their radical roots: Afros Are Back, But Are They Still Radical? https:\/\/t.co\/miOBL2V4f0<\/p>\n<p>Afro Bloomin&#8217; ( The Black Power Project part 1) &#8211; Taken and edited by me (@dazhaneleahphotos) &#x1f495;?&#x1f495;?&#x1f495;?&#x1f495;? &#8216;Black power is an awareness of self, a knowledge of your roots and your place in the world. without that knowledge there is no black power ?&#x1f3fe;&#8217; &#8211; quoted by @crystalmarcelle<\/p>\n<p>A photo posted by @dazhaneleah on Mar 14, 2016 at 11:30am PDT<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>TwitterInstagram<\/p>\n<p>(8 bob wig) (goddess wig) (red bob wigs) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Springismostdefinitelyintheair,soenjoythisbeautifulcomboofafrosandflowersby@dazhaneleah&nbsp;LastweekDazh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wig-type","tag-light-pink-wig","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wigcost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wigcost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wigcost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wigcost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wigcost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wigcost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/www.wigcost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wigcost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wigcost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wigcost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}