Headwraps, Spirituality, and African Ancestry| Why Headwraps are So Important to Us 

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I will usually wrap my head when I am in the public or around people I don't know to protect my energy. But, when I am at home I keep my hair unwrapped because I feel more connected to GOD and Christ. I know it sounds strange but when I wear my 4C afro it's like I can feel GOD talking to me more. I wear a head wrap in prayer or meditation. Another reason for my decision to wear head wraps is because they are an expression of my heritage and femininity as a African-American woman. Wrapping my hair up in the different silk colors scarfs makes me feel more womanly and beautiful.

I looove a good head wrap. I’ve been very deliberate about “covering my head” for about the last 2-3 yrs consistently. I’m always wearing hats or head wraps, as I feel this innate feeling to protect my head. Not sure what from (besides bad energy of course) but I don’t question it, I simply comply. I’ve always worn my hair in lots of different styles and I’m currently growing my hair out long for the first time in maybe 3-4 years. I used to love a good fade. But now as my hair is growing out, I’m having a dilemma about braids. I looove braids! Cornrows, box braids, twists, you name it. But since our hair are antennas, I don’t feel comfortable blocking and entangling my coils with synthetic fibers. And human hair is already a bad sign since it was cut off of someone’s head (if it was cut as a “spiritual sacrifice or offering” what right would I have to put it on MY hair? Why would I?? For aesthetics?? Nah.) So I don’t know. Oh and I used to love coloring my hair too! But now I feel that I want to honor and respect my coils by not braiding with added hair and not bleaching away it’s melanin. I don’t believe I’m over thinking it but I’m also willing to challenge myself to just style my natural hair as it grows out. It’s like being vegan, but for your hair lol. Well, thanks for reading my friend. You are worthy and deserving of the absolute best! 💛🌻✨

Thank you for this video. I’ve started to wrap my hair, because as a black woman in America, I’ve realized how fixated I’ve become of my hair. And I want to free myself of that mindset. I’ve started leaving my locs alone, and protecting them under my headscarf

the way i’ve been looking like a video for this for months now... i felt led a few weeks ago to start wearing head wraps by my spirit guides to protect my hair from all the negativity around me. i can’t explain it but when my hair is wrapped i feel like my energy is protected and i feel so grounded. thank you sm for making this!!

Headwrapping for Blacks in the US was also a statement for keeping parts of our stripped culture.....protection too. West African women still wear wraps til this day. Our ancestors were mainly taken from up & down the west coastline We're (US) still policed today for wearing them (from others & ourselves)

I’ve been led to cover my hair and I know it’s the Holy Spirit … but i wanted to find other women who felt led as well

Great video! Head wrapping also comes from Mother Africa!

Great video!! I bought some headwraps today to protect my locs, I'll be wearing them to work...

Good evening young lady, our hair(4C here too) is exactly like a DNA strand. Check for yourself. I've been loc'd for 26 yrs and this is it for me! Good luck and God bless. New Sub here. Keep teaching! We need you!!!

An excellent resource is the book by Georgia Scott entitled Headwrsps. Thank you for an informative video and resource references. GOD bless you.

Great video. As usual, very informative. ❤️❤️❤️ I started wearing head wraps a lot last year. I feel a growing need to protect my crown and head wraps allow me to do so and still feel regal.👸🏽❤️❤️❤️

Very profound and true. I liked the great amount of historical data you included in the video it was very informative!!

Good video, I’m Puerto Rico mix with Taino, African my skin is not drank my mother skin was like a tan color her father yes drank skin is in my DNA

Thank you so very much for this video! This taught me so much!

Another fantastic video ! I learned so much !

Lovely video! I will say that the levels between your voice and the music are off. I put this on to listen to as I drove to work and the music blasting scared me so bad 😅

As the chosen people in the book of Giant a missing part of our history the fallen angels saw the first women who would be dark woolly hair and found them beautiful. The women had to cover their hair to avoid the fallen angel sexual attention because the bought forth the Nephilim who were evil violent giants. myth or legend?

I have a question! First of all , I find it beautiful. The history of it is inspiring and I respect it. I was wondering if it's offensive to wear headwrap buns as I feel so beautiful in it. Im thinking of wearing it on a festival as its really convenient as well because of the heat and my authentic style. Would that be okay?

As an African, i see at as really ignorant when I see people in the west say "African spirituality ". Africa is massive, we have millions of tribes (that speak different languages too) in just one country like mine Zambia we have 73 tribes that all have different spiritual beliefs. Even South Africa has many tribes that also have different beliefs. We have a few similarities sure, but we have many more differences. So to bundle up everything as just African spirituality is misinformation and the reason why black people in the west don't have much knowledge about their roots. You are not asking us who remained here in Africa. The slave trade didn't take captive the entire africa you know. We are still here and our grandparents have passed down information to us too. All you have to do to know about Africa is ask us the natives.

Hello, doesn't sound like you're very spiritual but from the beginning God commanded women who prayed or prophesied to cover their heads. 1 Corinthians 11 kjv. as to honor their husband (men) and God. Not saying that the reasons you give for head covering aren't legitimate. Without God there is no ROUTES. He's the Master of the Universe!! anyway have a GOOD DAY.

I’m not entirely sure what you were implying with the transatlantic slave trade reasoning because you didn’t spend much time on the subject, but the reason some black people were put into slavery was because of disobedience to the father in heaven. He made a covenant with them, they broke it, and then they and their children were cursed. You can find some proof of this by reading Deuteronomy 28. Not all black people had a covenant with Yahuah (God) but the ones that did, disobeyed him and were enslaved. It was a punishment. Many have been made to forget because of partly what you said, slave masters wanted us to forget our identities to have power over us and also because Yahuah (God) allowed us to forget (see Jeremiah 17:1-4 KJV and Psalm 83:1-4 KJV). With the context that the people in the Bible were mostly black, we can look at their customs as well. Many women in the Bible veiled/covered their heads. (Some men covered parts of their head or the whole thing). Some examples of women veiling are Rebekah (Genesis 24 KJV), Susana wore a veil (Susana 1:32 KJVA), Numbers 5, seems to imply that women’s heads were covered, and 1 Corinthians 11 mentions that women/a wife should pray and prophecy with their heads covered. There are different interpretations on these scriptures but to me, they show that ancient black women were veiling/covering their heads for various reasons. Some of the reasons are the same as you mentioned. Such as for beauty (Susanna- she was wealthy, she wasn’t wearing rags in this moment), for modesty/custom (Rebekah- she was unmarried, about to meet a stranger who is a man, so precaution was desired for her own virtue), also for submission and reverence to Yahuah (God)…(1 Cor 11 can be interpreted in many ways, but I understand it as covering in the presence of the creator. To show reverence to his greatness, you are diminishing your own “glory.”). There’s definitely more to biblical head covering. You can also cover to mourn, harlots also wore veils, and more. I think covering also protected our hair from elements. As someone who also has locs, we have to consider how different weather, diets, and materials can affect our hair. Also, while I don’t feel that it’s necessarily spelled out, I think covering could be a means of set apartnetness in this world. It may be a way to keep wicked angels from lusting because they see Yahuah’s people are under submission to him (there are always angels surrounding us, some are recording our every thought and action to report back to Yahuah, or protecting us. But their are also angels of iniquity who could be influencing us as well. It is up to Yahuah’s will, and our own actions as well - see the second book of Hermas, called his commands, command IV). See also Genesis 6:2 in reference to angels taking human wives. I’m sure headwraps run deeper than we know. I hope this has been enlightening.