She cornrowed imaginative designs as Al Green crooned he was tired of being alone. She intertwined zigzags through hair as Aretha shouted for people to rock steady. She laced rows with beads as Marvin Gaye wailed of injustice that made him want to holler.
Now, every six weeks, LaShonda Hollins reserves the salon chair at Davette’s Braids and Locs on San Antonio’s Northeast side. For more than four hours, Mabrie retwists Hollins’ micro locs hairstyle.
“This is passed down from our ancestors,” Mabrie, 59, said. “It soothes my soul and takes my anxiety and stress away.”
Behind the red front door of the salon dotted with green ivy and ferns, wooden Afro picks from Africa line the walls of the home studio.
