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Show SUNDAY/April 26, 1998 48 COMMENT PUZZLES & GAMES Page J-2 IPEDDc SSUADGEOLTRENREUREDT?! Page j-3 BY JUDY MAGID THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Seanetta Enoch was 10 whenshefirst restyled her mother's wig. “She was out. When she came home,shesaid, ‘Who's been messing with my wig?’” When “‘Netia” owned up, Ruth Enoch said,‘I can’t be- lieve you did this. It looks good.” That was 20 years ago, when many African-American women wore wigs if they could not get their hair done by a professional. “Black hair can be delicate. It is easily damaged if you do not know howto doit. You have to relax the natural curl in the hair before you can style it. Years ago, women wore wigs rather than taking a chance with a hairdresser they were not sure knew how to do black hair. “But now there are morestylists who know how to relax hair, deposit color and style hair.” Although Enoch practiced on her brother's hair, her mother was her first “customer.” Sam Enoch encouraged his daughter to becomea hairstylist. “Dad put the icing on the cake. He said,‘If you become a hairstylist, you can be your own boss. You are not good at people telling you what to do.’” Ownerof Mariphonsalon, named after sons Stephon and JaMari, Enoch is on Sait Lake City’s cutting edge of blackhairstyle. “T have a young clientele. They challenge me to keep up with the latest styles. They ask for things that are big on the West Coast.” Oneof the hottest styles is interlocking corn-rowed hair with strands of synthetic hair, then making dozens of braids. Hair has to be about 4 inches long for close-to-the- scalp corn rows.It takes about 1% hours, costs $150 and lasts for three months. “Tt doesn’t take any longer to do interlocking than it does to do a permanent,” Enoch said. She added that the hair can be washed without taking out the braids. Another popular lookis the finger wave. “It is not a new technique, but there are new hair products that make it up to date.” The hair is covered with a gel, then setin tiny individual curls, using a finger or a rattailed comb. Enoch acknowledges that a well-shaped head is a plus for this style of tight curls close to the scalp. Enoch also weaves human hair into a client’s hair for longer hairstyles. While about 80 percent of Mariphenclients are African American, Enoch is adamantin herbelief that a hairstylist should be able to do any type of hair. “If a black woman walks into a salon and wants a hair relaxer, most stylist do not know howto doit. There are many types of black hair, some baby fine, somestronger. Photoo ty Donay La/The Sc Lake Trine Seanetia Enoch gives Monique Covingtonaninterlock, top, and works onLetta Duff's pencil weave at Mariphon salon. There are relaxers for each hair type.” Basics remain the same. “Cutting caucasian hair is the same as cutting black hair and Asian hair. Scalp is skin. You don’t want any greasy salve clogging it. And all hair requires moisturizing.” Washing and drying hair more than ence a week is hard on any hair. While she credits Doug Smith at Heritage Beauty School “At one time, I was working from 7 am.to 10 or 11 p.m, six Gays a week, and doing 50 to 70 hairstyies a week,” Morrell said. She also spent two or three days in Rock Springs, Wyo., every other month. “There was no one in Wyoming doing black hair.” Morrell, who likes to wear different hairstyles, said most people wanted her to relax the hair and then “People were hesitant about haircuts. They wanted me twork on their hair without cutting it. People in New York and on the West Coast are more style-conscious for many years.” Morrell, now in the beauty-supply business, still enjoys about combing and brushing hair while using a hand-held irstylist Carolyn Morrell with admiration close to awe. “Mrs. Morrell was one of the few people doing black hair doing hair. than people in Utah.” A believer in sit-under hair dryers, Morrell cautions dryer. “Tt is hard on any kind of hair.” the social scene Kids get a boost with Final Four A funnything happened to Brad Baldwin on the way to the benefit gala for Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake on March 27. Zeke Totland and Michelle Baldwin at the Boys & Girls Clubs benefit. walked by the Marriott ballroom,” Baldwin said. auction, helping to raise more than $90,000 for club programs. Boys & Girls Clubs of America is the largest youth organization in the coun- try. Ni tional and nonprofit, the individual clubs stress responsibility, character development and growth through ugh diverse and community involvement. Clubs provide after-echoo! activities as well as summer day Fox-TV McDonald House executive director Frances Gillmore with house namesake, a li curlin it so it did not come out tight and kinky. for insisting that students learn to work with all kinds af hair — “It is my job as an educator to make sure my students can do everything,” Smith said — Enoch speaks about 13's Bob Evans threw a bo- JUDY MAGID |