Since there is tourism in Kenya, especially in the coastal town, it is alive among Westerners (the so-called Mzungu) fashion to become the African braids.
It 'a habit that mostly fascinates the girls, but also some man tries, perhaps focusing more on the look "rasta".
Instead women braids true, those women Giriama patiently compose using "extension" of false hair or other fibers, never go out of fashion and for many tourists is the way to go home with a souvenir on his head.
There are very wide traditional ones and thick ones that end with the colored beads, generally the exotic look is not always much to see on a white woman's face, but the smile of well-being that shines from those who wanted to try this experience , it makes it beautiful.
Often to get braids must spend three or four hours under the skilled hands of local hairdresser, who are often mame village moving on beaches to earn the day. But there are also specialists in local neighborhoods or Majengo Barani that in their shop offer catalogs of particular ethnic hairstyles.
The fashion of this temporary transformation, a sign of a carefree passage in Kenya and a dip in a different civilization with its even aesthetic traditions, shows no sign of passing.