Hair artist Nikiwe Dlova hails from Diepkloof in Soweto. She studied Clothing Management at University of Johannesburg. She began to experiment aspects of her identity when she fall in love with fashion, beauty, art and mostly hair artistry.
When the Soweto-born artist noticed a void in the hair artistry industry, she launched her own salon OwnUrCrown in 2018 to navigate art, fashion, and hair artistry.
The brand emphasises modern headpieces and the way it incorporates artwork and tapestries into them. It focuses specifically on demonstrating how braided hair extensions may be woven and swen by hand to tell a visual narrative using hair extensions.
Nikiwe is very interested in the ways that people choose to express themselves through their hair, including how they use their hair in the spaces they occupy. Her use of history, design, and culture to illustrate her point about how adaptable hair is without restrictions helps her tell her story.
She opened her first mobile pop-up salon during the Constitutional Hill Basha Uhuru Festival and occasionally did hair at markets.
Here is why Nikiwe Dlova is one of the hairstylists to the star:
She was a featured hair artist on Beyoncé’s ‘Black Is King’, created a headpiece for Busiswa to wear for the ‘My Power’ music video, styled and created a headpiece Zozibini Tunzi in Kenya, styled Msaki’s hair and other South African artists.
She collaborated with the Botho Project Space in 2021 to hold her debut solo show titled ‘Royal Hair Salon’. It was an impressive display of African pride and a tribute to African royalty.
Brands adore working with Nikiwe because she can create anything out of hair. She is a creative hair artist who can use hair extensions to create sandals, dolls, masks, crowns, and caps.
