Botched Braids & Silent Tears: Zweli Unpacks Our Hair Appointment Horrors

Afternoons with Zweli on 947 · 9 June 2026 · 10m

Speaker 1: Afternoons. What swelly on nine four seven. Speaker 2: Dropping all your favorite afternoon beat from twelve to three. No, there's a very specific Speaker 2: fear that a lot of people have. We may not talk about it a lot, Speaker 2: you and I, but it is a fear that cripples many It cripples you to Speaker 2: the point where you can't express how you really feel. Speaker 1: And that very specific fear. Speaker 2: Is someone doing your hair and then you realize midway that they're cooking absolute nonsense. Speaker 2: Now I'm not just talking about the barbers. Speaker 1: Ladies. Speaker 2: You go to salon's nails, hair lashes, earthing did and you know that feeling too. Speaker 2: Now I come here humbly with a question, and it is that do you speak Speaker 2: up immediate when you can see that someone is doing something wrong with. Speaker 1: Your hair or your nails? Speaker 2: Or do you stay quiet and hope somehow it all comes together at the end. Speaker 2: Because I thought I was grown up enough to be. Speaker 1: Like, WHOA, what are we doing? Which direction are we hitting? But I sit there. Speaker 2: I sat there and I watched things go on because I think, surely this guy's Speaker 2: going to get into a conclusion and then it's going to be like, Wow, that Speaker 2: looks so much better. Than I thought. And the thing is that this has happened Speaker 2: to me a couple of times, but it's never ever turned out good. I've never

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