Lupita Nyong'o Braids Hair in Vogue Video

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Released by Vogue on YouTube today, Lupita Nyong'o, the award-winning actress best known for her role as Patsey in 12 Years a Slave shows the public a little-known side of her: she is an accomplished hairstylist.

In the video shown below, Nyong'o explains to the camera that she started braiding hair in college, when she traveled from the Yale campus in New Haven, CT, to New York to get her hair professionally braided.

Disappointed with the results, she asked an aunt who owned a hair salon to teach her to braid when she returned home to Kenya for the summer.

She would practice on her friends in class, saying "It was a good way to stay awake." Don't we know the feeling.

Watch the video below and tell us what you think! How would you get your hair braided by Lupita?

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