HAIR ME OUT® — Meet Nedjetti Harvey

Native New Yorker Nedjetti Harvey is an Entrepreneur, L'Oréal Educator, Mentor, published Astrologer, and Natural Hair & Locs Spiritual Gardener Cosmetologist — professionally making music with her creative fingers for 30+ years. But behind every crown she tends is a little girl who learned love at her mother's hands.

As a 3rd generation Hair Artist, taught to braid and cornrow by her endearing and wise mother, Shirley Pettigrew Harvey, Nedjetti has been passionately styling hair since age seven. That was never just hair to her — it was her first language of care, passed down through her grandmother Nanny's chair, and it still lives in every touch today.

Founder of Hair by Nedjetti LLC, Nedjetti is the Hair Artist, Producer, Artistic and Creative Director behind her successful 2006 Nedjetti's Natural Hair DVD Vol 1, the visionary of her Hair Me Out® online apparel and accessories store, and the owner of Hair by Nedjetti Natural Hair & Locs Salon in Bloomfield, New Jersey — celebrating over 30 years in business. Her salon is not just a salon. It is a Hairapy Oasis — a place to be privately pampered, seen, and restored.

She has served as a 2021 NAHA hair competition judge — 'the most prestigious professional beauty competition in North America' — a 'Pave It Forward' mentor to aspiring Cosmetologists, and a volunteer at university Natural Hair cultural community events, including Columbia University, Saint Elizabeth University, and Bloomfield College of Montclair State University. She mentors because someone once believed in her — and she never forgot how that felt.

As a national L'Oréal Platform Educator of over 10 years, Nedjetti is their lead Celebrity Natural Hair expert for six of Dark and Lovely's 2013 Au Naturale DIY 'how-to' videos, wrote an approved Natural Hair curriculum for her CEA (Cosmetology Educators of America) Orlando, Florida platform presentation, and L'Oréal USA made revisions to their Au Naturale product line based on Nedjetti's product testing feedback.

Her celebrity and on-set clientele include Dr. Ilyasah Shabazz, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Uzo Aduba, Cedella Marley, Saiyan Marley and Skip Marley, Melba Moore, Clarke Peters, Marsha Ambrosius, Jade Eshete, Jonathan Batiste, Genevieve Gorder, Eva Marcille, Bree Williamson, Gelila Bekele, Beth Ann Bonner, Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def, Adepero Oduye, Michael Kenneth Williams, Antoinette Robertson, Kecia Lewis, Darlene Love, and Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., among others. Famous or not, every head in her chair is treated like royalty — because to Nedjetti, every crown matters.

Her hair art and hair care advice have been featured in over 50 hair, bridal, and fashion magazines, including ESSENCE, TIME, O MAGAZINE, ALLURE, SOPHISTICATES BLACK HAIR, PAPER, THE UNTITLED MAGAZINE, UPSCALE, DEMETRIOS, COLURES, PRESTIGE INTERNATIONAL, HYPE HAIR, BLACK BEAUTY, and HAIR UK — including twice in THE NEW YORK TIMES.

She has worked with Jamaica's musical royalty, Bob Marley's family, for over ten years, grooming his grandson Skip Marley's Locs since he was fifteen. Always a peace and love vibe, Nedjetti groomed Skip Marley's Locs for his 2019 'Slow Down' featuring H.E.R. music video, filmed in the heart of Harlem, New York City.

Alongside her talented peers, styling hair on memorable film and television shows has been rewarding, including The Affair, The Good Wife, VH1 The Breaks, Law & Order: SVU, and Finding Your Roots, to name a few.

Nedjetti worked as Dept. Head Hair on the 2011 film Red Hook Summer with the incomparable director, producer, professor, and Oscar Award winner Spike Lee, and Key Hair on the 2014 film Sharknado 2, directed by Anthony C. Ferrante.

In 2011, for a breathtaking performance at Jazz at Lincoln Center for Don Giovanni, with conductor Ivan Fischer, Nedjetti was Key Hair to opera vocalists Laura Aikin, Myrto Papatanasiu, and Sunhae Im. The cast was featured on the front page of The New York Times in The Arts Weekend section.

In 2004, at age 37, Nedjetti attended the European Academy of Cosmetology in Union, New Jersey, graduating with honors, 3.8 average. She took The Cosmetology State Board and became a New Jersey Cosmetologist in 2005. Nedjetti is also a New York State Cosmetologist. It was never too late for her dream — and she wants you to know it is never too late for yours.

Yes, Nedjetti relishes styling all hair types within the fashion, beauty, film, television, and entertainment industry, and with gratitude is noted as one of the Beauty Industry's leading and respected Natural Hair Care Gurus and influencers. With twenty-five blessed years and counting, Nedjetti's passionate purpose is to educate, inspire, and encourage women and children of the African Diaspora on the importance of embracing and celebrating our BeYOUtiful, God-given Coily and Curly Natural Hair!

Her maternal grandmother, Ruth P. Harris, was also a Cosmetologist, and her paternal grandfather, King Harvey Sr., a Barber (Steve Harvey's father, Jesse Harvey, and King Harvey Sr. were brothers and coal miners; Nedjetti and Steve are 2nd cousins). Three generations, one gift — love, passed hand to hand.

Nedjetti has made HERstory, planting her family Hair Artistry legacy forever rooted with love, dedication, and soul at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, DC.

In 'Where Beauty Touches Me' by Pamela Ferrell, at age 26 Nedjetti is photographed as a hair model adorned with African Goddess Braids. Her renown diamond-shape Bantu Knots, created in 1999, grace the ESSENCE 2011 Hot Hair magazine cover as an insert photo — both magazines displayed in the same exhibit glass case for the world to witness.

Under Nedjetti's publishing company, Hair Me Out Publishing LLC, look out for Nedjetti's Hair Me Out book series, covering a ray of spiritually based, thought-provoking topics that will enlighten, uplift, and nurture your soul. She wrote HAIR ME OUT to change lives — because her own life, with its detours, its near-death in her early 20s, and her staying FAITH full through it all, taught her that a dream held long enough does come true.

Reading HAIR ME OUT will change your life, too — the way living it changed hers. It will show you how to hold a dream until its time comes, just as she held hers from age 19 to publication 38 years later. It will remind you to embrace your unique, God-given self, even through life's hardest challenges, and to listen within and stay FAITH full, as she did through near-death and temporary paralysis in her early 20s. And it will guide you toward inner joy, passion, and purposeful empowerment — so you can walk your own spiritual journey, BeYOU, and let your story inspire someone else's.

One of Nedjetti's personal mantra quotes is: "BeYOU, embracing and living God’s designed destiny He created specifically just for you.”

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