The book
Victor
Victor Hugo Green put his name on the cover of the Green Book. Our index carries his name because it does the same job: a structured, dated record you can check.
- Structured
- Dated
- Checked against evidence
About Victor and Alma
Not a booking app. A record you can trust.
Victor is an index of textured-hair practitioners, city by city, with the date it was last checked on every listing. Alma reads it for you. We point you to the person, and you book with them directly.
What we hold to
Traveler first
Built for the person landing in a city where nobody knows their hair, and who needs a name today.
An index, not a marketplace
We don't process bookings or invent listings. We point you to the practitioner and step aside.
Freshness is the product
Every listing carries the date it was last checked. If nobody confirms it, its confidence falls on its own.
Two names, one thing
Victor keeps the record. Alma reads it for you.
The names come from the Green Book, the guide that told Black travelers where they would be welcome. The product mirrors how that book was made.
The editor
Alma
Alma Duke Green co-created the Green Book from its first edition, without credit on the cover. After 1960 she became its publisher and carried it forward. Our Alma is the voice you talk to, the one who vouches for people.
- Vouches
- Says what she knows, and when
- Hands you to the person
Alma also means “soul” in Spanish and Portuguese.
1936
The first edition of the Green Book.
1960
Victor Hugo Green dies. Alma Duke Green becomes publisher.
“I know the struggle.”
Who is building this
Victor comes from a founder who grew up an army brat and then spent twenty years running a global development agency. A life of landing in new places is what this is built from.
Finding someone who can do your hair shouldn’t depend on who you happen to know in the city you’ve just landed in.
How the index is built
We didn't crawl a map. We put people in place.
A person in every city
Each market starts with someone whose chair we've sat in, not a search bar.
Referral, outward
She tells us who else is good. They tell us who else. That's how a city fills in.
What a scraper can't get
Whether she takes travelers, what language the shop runs in, whether she's honest about fine hair.
Proof case
16 listed
Bangkok
Finding someone who knows coily hair is close to impossible on a map or an app. The index there was built by referral, one chair at a time.
Illustration of how a city fills in
See BangkokWe know the drill
You've done this before. It shouldn't take this long.
Right now
With Victor and Alma
“Anyone know a braider in Bangkok??” Posted to the group chat.
Ask Alma. She answers from the record: who, where, and when it was last checked.
Scrolling Instagram for one head of hair that looks like yours.
Every listing carries a date and the evidence behind it, not a star rating.
“Yes, of course we do that.” Then you sit down and they don't.
If a city is thin, Alma says so instead of padding the list.
Landing soon? Tell Alma where.
Pick a city and she'll show you who is listed, and when we last checked.