Episode 14: Estelle with Charlotte Mensah on Hair, Healing and Human Connection
Episode 14:
Estelle with Charlotte Mensah on Hair, Healing and Human ConnectionI talk with legendary Hair Artist and Stylist - The Queen of Black Hairdressing - Charlotte Mensah. Together we discuss Charlotte’s personal story with hair, her journey from London to Ghana and back again and the death of her mother when she was just twelve. Charlotte shares stories of a childhood steeped in prayer, her belief in ancestral angels and her love for the clients who come to her Portobello Road Salon from author Zadie Smith to film star Jada Pinkett Smith.
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Guest InfoCharlotte Mensah
Award-winning hairstylist, owner of the Hairlounge salon and founder of the Charlotte Mensah Manketti Oil product range - Charlotte Mensah has covered amazing ground. An inspiration to stylists, business owners and women worldwide. She’s achieved all this and more through hard work unwavering self-belief and it also helps that she’s such a genuine, down-to-earth person.
Charlotte has been at the forefront of the natural haircare movement since the early 2000 and has been a columnist on the subject since 2005. She is recognised as the Go To authority regarding maintaining Natural Afro, Mixed & Curly textures by magazines such as Elle, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar and Tatler to name a few.
Charlotte’s latest achievement, has been through the publishing of her best-selling book, Good Hair in partnership with Penguin. Available here and all major retailers.
Charlotte believes that your hair, needs to be properly maintained and cared for, so it looks and feels its best. Her multi award winning Charlotte Mensah Manketti Oil premium hair care range is designed for afro/mixed and all curly hair types, it is made using organic, ethical and sustainable sourced oils, these products not only deliver amazing results but also smell divine. The luxurious formulas are as kind to the earth as they are to your hair.