Earl J. Lowe, Jr. is an entrepreneur whose cosmetology career began in 1972. Mr. Lowe became interested in hair designing and hair weaving because of his awareness of a growing necessity for more natural and carefree hairstyles.

Mr. Lowe is a member of the National Hair Loss Council, Beauticians & Barbers Association of New Orleans, Hair Weavers Association, International Men’s Hair Stylist of the AFL-CIO, Braiders Guild, LA State Association of Barbers Cosmetologists and Allied Industries, and a trainer for the American Cancer Society Look Good Feel Better Program. Mr. Earl J. Lowe, is very talented and gifted in many ways. He is President of the Board of Directors for the Louisiana Community Health Connections, (504) 949-7557.

Mr. Lowe is also an accomplished and achieved master hair-weaver, barber, cosmetologist, and instructor. Also as an instructor, Mr. Lowe teaches interested individuals about the art of beauty, hair weaving, braiding and barbering. He received training from numerous institutions, which have contributed to his wealth of knowledge.

The following listings are some of the professional academies where he was trained and learned expertise:

- The House of Willard Brown
- Simmons Hairweavers, Inc.
- Dr. E. M. Pease (Austin, TX)
- Dudley's Cosmetologist University

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Industry History

The African American “Beauty Industry” has a rich heritage and legacy that dates back hundreds of years ago. Our rich heritage stretches into Europe with a young stablemaster whose name is Marcel. Marcel went to Africa prior to the Middle Ages. While there, he observed the manes and tails of horses being curled with irons. They are the same irons that we heat up in our stores and salons today.

My mentor and my hero is a woman by the name of Sarah Breed Love. Many of us today know her as “Madame C.J. Walker”. She is the mother of Black Americans beauty. Madame C. J. Walker was a pioneer, survivor, entrepreneur and one of the first if not the first black female millionaire. Among her many contributions to the industry, she inspired me to become the entrepreneur, cosmetologist and businessman I am today.

A contemporary of Sarah Breed Love was a young woman who sat at her grandmother’s knees - that’s where she was taught. Her grandmother was a slave. The lady I refer to is Mary T. Malone. She started a system of “doo voos.” Her grandmother told her that three hundred years before a white man set foot in Africa, black men and women curled their hair with the same irons Marcel took to Europe.