Tressfecta wants to make hair braiding a less arduous task for hairstylists

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Aisata Diallo, 24, calls herself a lifelong braider. “I’ve always braided my hair growing up and, at some point in my college career, started braiding other people’s hair,” she said. Braiding is a manual task, and a single style can take eight hours to complete. Its first project is a tool called Plait Pilot that helps braiders with the initial process of separating hair from packs before braiding begins.

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