We wanted to share one woman's opinion on the endlessly intriguing subject of hair from the pages of a blog we came across: You might agree, or not... but ultimately is someone else's style really up to us to judge?
What is the Big Deal About Black Women, Hair Weaves and Perms (Creamy Crack)? Does Having a Weave or Perm Mean a Black Women is Denying Her Heritage?
There are so many articles online about how un-black it is to get a hair weave or perm when you're a black woman. It seems like if you don’t cut off all your hair ("the big chop" as it’s called), cease and desist from all use of chemicals and enhancements and go natural, then you are a disgrace to your race. I let my hair "go natural" a few months ago and it was an impossible situation. While natural hair is truly beautiful on a lot of black women, it's surely not for everybody, so to each her own.
Some people act like the ancestors will rise from their graves and smite a black woman that is weaved or permed. Everybody is going on and on about freedom from "European Hair" and how having a weave or perm makes you less real and more fake. They talk about how it is a form of self-loathing and denial.
Most celebrities have hair weaves, add-ons, clip-ons, extensions or whatever and race has nothing to do with it. Black, white and most all celebrities have fake hair these days and it's not a big deal. Paris Hilton, Rachel Welch and Jessica Simpson all have a line of hair weaves, wigs and extensions.
Is it really that serious? What's the big deal about what somebody chooses to do with or to their own hair? People should do what they feel comfortable and confident with and whatever is most easy for them to manage.
These days women of all races get weaves. Damn near everybody in Hollywood, black, white or otherwise, has fake hair, so who cares!?
Chris Rock even made an entire movie about it called "Good Hair".
Scarlet Henderson
Some people act like the ancestors will rise from their graves and smite a black woman that is weaved or permed. Everybody is going on and on about freedom from "European Hair" and how having a weave or perm makes you less real and more fake. They talk about how it is a form of self-loathing and denial.
Most celebrities have hair weaves, add-ons, clip-ons, extensions or whatever and race has nothing to do with it. Black, white and most all celebrities have fake hair these days and it's not a big deal. Paris Hilton, Rachel Welch and Jessica Simpson all have a line of hair weaves, wigs and extensions.
Is it really that serious? What's the big deal about what somebody chooses to do with or to their own hair? People should do what they feel comfortable and confident with and whatever is most easy for them to manage.
These days women of all races get weaves. Damn near everybody in Hollywood, black, white or otherwise, has fake hair, so who cares!?
Chris Rock even made an entire movie about it called "Good Hair".
Scarlet Henderson
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So true....to each is own people need to stop judging others for their individual choices. I wear weave and I an sure I do no loath myself or my race in any way shape or form if anything I have been accused of being ethnocentric which I am not but feel and speak proudly of my blackness, with my favorite singer being Bob Marley even in these contemporary time.
ReplyDeleteBlack hair is beautiful and all but growing up I couldn't manage caring for it myself, it was difficult to handle. If I could do it all over again I would never have gone down the road of endless Perms and countless hair extention but since it has already taken form I just keep doing it. However should anyone choose to go back to their Afrocentric original hair condition it is entirely their choose and I respect them for doing so, but if one choose not to it does not devalue their identity, cultural morals nor is it an indication the are in any state of mental slavery. I am 100% sure I fit the characteristics of a very proud, highly intelligent, confident of self and culture-BLACK WOMAN (weave and all) God bless.
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