Braiding hair is art, science for Ill. women

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

PEORIA, Ill. -- Clea White stands back and surveys her customer's features. She eyeballs the contours of the woman's scalp and the thickness of the woman's hair, then she takes the sharp edge of a plastic comb and slices a line through the center of the woman's head.

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