Do the Twist - (Soaps in Depth)
His sparkling eyes aren't his only amazing physical feature. How about that funky hairstyle? While Kiko Ellsworth (Jamal) says he has experimented with lots of different 'dos, including a perm, a dye job, and even a shaved head, this particular look came about by accident. "One day I had this afro, and I just started twisting [pieces of] it. I thought, 'That looks kind of silly, but let me try to do a bunch of twists all over,'" he recalls. But it took a female friend -- who was disappointed to see the spirals gone the next week -- to talk him into making the look more permanent. It helped that she was willing to assist with the twists. "Now I can have an afro and I have a friend who puts some gel in it, grabs a little patch, and starts twisting away!" Despite the initial work, the look is actually low-maintenance. "I don't have to do it every morning," he says. "I can just wake up and be on my way!"
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