Erykah Badu shows off her new braids in a filter versus no-filter selfie video.Photo:Erykah Badu/Instagram
Erykah Badu/Instagram
Erykah Baduis feeling her new hairstyle.
The “On & On” singer, 52, posteda selfie videoon Instagram on Tuesday, showing her 6.2 million followers her freshly braided hair. In the clip, she could be seen admiring and running her fingers over the ultra-thin braids as she panned the camera around to capture different angles of herself.
Midway through the video, she gave a small smile and said, “Let’s see what it look like with no filter.” Her freckles disappeared and her shimmery eye makeup was less visible. “This is nothing at all,” she said.
She captioned the post, “Clean. Renew. Refresh. Smile. Trust yourself. Dance in the moonlight.”
Badu’s fans had a lot to say about the hair video. “The sounds of your braids gave me brain tingles ✨,” one person jokingly commented.
“No filter is required mama!! But they are fun,” another wrote. Quite a few followers let emojis do the talking for them, commenting with lots of fire symbols and heart-eye faces.
Badu told the outlet that she’d wanted to have her hair in braids ever since she was a young girl, when she saw a drawing in a Dallas shop of two women with very long braids. “I think that’s me, I feel that energy,” she recalled.
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Erykah Badu attends an event in March 2023.Andrew J Cunningham/Getty
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Badu likely squeezed her recent hair refresh session into a very busy schedule. The “Didn’t Cha Know” singer is not only amom to three children— son Seven, 25, and daughters Puma, 19, and Mars, 14, but she alsomoonlights as a practicing doulaalongside her music career. She’s even helped deliver famous friends' babies, includingTeyana Taylor’s second child.
“I naturally knew what to do, and it was then that I figured out that this was something I can do that makes me so fulfilled,” she continued.
source: people.com
