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“Afro Pick Comb designed for the confident & traditional trendsetter: featuring a high shine plate with prestige flowing through every bristle,” the site states.
A Black hair care pioneer and entrepreneur known for popularizing the Afro pick comb has passed away at 82. Willie Lee Morrow is now being remembered and celebrated following his death in late ...
Morrow decided to fine-tune his own version of his gift and eventually made seven different models of the Afro pick. At one point, he sold more than 12,000 a week.
The blowout, later known as the Afro, became the dominant style. But it presented a new challenge to barbers like Morrow. “The Afro caught everybody off guard,” he told Ebony magazine in 1970.
Youmna Mouhamad’s new comb, the Nyfasi Deluxe Detangler, provides an easier, gentler way of combing Afro hair. The BBC reported that she first got the bright idea for the comb while studying to ...
Morrow decided to fine-tune his own version of his gift and eventually made seven different models of the Afro pick. At one point, he sold more than 12,000 a week.
The inventor of the Afro pick, Willie Lee Morrow, died on June 22, 2022. He was 82. Morrow established himself in San Diego, California, in 1959, where he felt there was an opportunity for him to ...
Dr. Willie Lee Morrow—entrepreneur, barber, author, inventor of the Afro pick, and pioneer of the Jheri Curl hairstyle—has passed away. He was 82. Morrow was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on ...