"Is that all your hair?"
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This question never seems to get old. The thinking of a closed mind comes from people of all back rounds, cultures, genders, ages, and social circles......that can't be all of her own hair. I had to #google this topic to get started. I am still looking via #Google, #Yahoo or other local info. Plus with my personal experiences I have, along and other women of color into this nonsense.
Now why do we do this to Women of color? Look at the beautiful Asha Zulu Mandala who is know to have the Guinness Book of World Records of having the longest dreadlocs at 19 feet and 6 inches long as of 2009 and her hair is still growing. This is proven that women of color can grow naturally long hair WITHOUT the use of pack of hair. And her hair is not straight, it is what some call "kinky" or better called tight curled.
Asha Zulu Mandela
Let us also add . Xie Qiuping as well who is in the Guinness Book of World records as well with her hair hanging over the railing of a balcony. But you see her hair is straight, and not considered as odd but beautiful. Asha 's hair was considered "odd" and not beautiful because of the racial concepts of many. And that is wrong.
Native American Women long hair, again it is straight and considered beautiful. Not "odd" And there is no thought that when seeing straight hair that it is added on hair. It is assumed it is naturally home grown. Yes , straight hair is beautiful as well as curly from 1b to 4b in texture. Fair is fair.
So when we decide to blow out the curls, then ultra curly hair is then said to beautiful. Because then it is in the image of what white hair is like. This way of thinking is not allowing people of color , or anyone else with curly hair to be considered beautiful by white standards. I don't see why there should be a need to change your hair to suit anyone else's bias opinions. Nor to follow what is white people idea of what is beautiful. It is not needed, we know we are beautiful to begin with and do not want to be white by any consideration, that would be wrong.
Depending on the texture of her hair, if she were able to do a blowout......guess how long her hair would be? Just for length, to see it longer. But she does not have to do that, her is already long with knowing how to take care of it. When we people of color ALL learn to not rely on others for hair, but to rely on GOD and what hair he gave us to care for we can have hair beautiful hair like hers and Asha's.
Now this is fake hair style of the pretty woman above, and you can tell it is not her natural hair because of the knot at the scalp were the hair is added, along with the hair is shiny like doll hair and the braids are all even and uniform from scalp to end. Real natural braids even when straight will taper to the end of the braid and curl somewhat at the tip of the braid. Those fake hair braids will need to have the braids sealed with heat some how to keep it from raveling/unbraiding it self as the day goes on.
Looking at her scalp in the picture above and below, you do not see bump at all and the hair is flat to her scalp because this is her natural home grown hair. Period. Most likely the hair in the bun hair style all is hers as well, it is not fake looking, shiny like plastic shiny looking...it has more of a wooly look and texture.
So this pretty woman, this is her natural hair as well. Freshly re-twisted. Black hair tends to be lighter at the tips from the sun. Photo from http://thestylenewsnetwork.com/2012/10/31/dreadlocks-and-sisterlocks-hairstyles-for-black-women/
That question ..."Is that all your hair?" that seems to be aimed more so towards every single woman of color who has long hair to the shoulders and beyond. Why? Because of the racial profiling that seems to stick in the minds of the ignorant closed minded people. And these people come in all colors , including the other black females who have less of a tighter curl than the pure 4b type of hair. Silly. Just silly thinking.
White people's hair come in all types of textures as well, from dead straight to super curly too. So this is something that is in the minds of those who are narrow-minded and can not see what they are thinking is one sided.
I have gone on a Google search to see how many things would pop up for hair extensions for white women alone. They have the same type of extension procedures as anyone else. Not too much of a difference really, just adding on human or fake hair
See, I have learned also from the time frame of Marie Antionette...and before that white women have been wearing wigs. This is her pictured below.
These wigs that Marie Antionette were made white with cake flour and had to have special gages for the women to protect the hair from rats nesting in their hair at night when they slept. These hair styles were meant to last awhile so they did not wash their hair often then.
I have also looked into what is popular in Asian Hair extensions for Asian women. I also Googled that to fin a cute site called "Real Asian Beauty: Clip in Hair.." http://www.realasianbeauty.com/2012/10/clip-in-hair-extensions-tutorial-review.html. On that page their is even a video on how to clip it on! Pretty page.
Go to her site for more info.
And you can check on YouTube for other videos like:
https://youtu.be/LfGL4ia3tRs. By Stylesuzi
https://youtu.be/4iYDbgjb0nE. By Luxy Hair. She has more than one video on hair extension and she shows how to add them and style them too.
Another Eblogger has another view on this....http://beautifulcoloredgirls.blogspot.com/2013/05/long-hair-is-womans-crown-and-glorymyth.html
The ignorant factor comes into play with all people, including people of color. I know people of color who will not admit to having any African American blood who is as dark if not darker than I am who are brainwashed into thinking that only straight hair can grow very long. This is incorrect. I have met people from the Caribbean Island of Jamaica who are confused this way. I mean come, when you look in the mirror....you don't see your melanin showing in your skin and the hair of lambs wool?
There are many videos and blogs about this subject of our natural hair and how those who are just jealous of the Naturals will be disrespectful and say mean things. This really needs to stop, because the harsh comments will not bring people together to gain a peaceful understand at all.
Rude Awakening's video shows white women getting weaves. I do NOT approve of the title of this video.....because I have found many black people how think the same way as some white women do about our hair. Sad too.
I am just making this blog to inform people who are not into the real thing of natural hair, its beauty and how to care for it. Once we all learn to stop being rough and hard on our hair and truly love it, it will grow as long and thick as we want it to.
Eating right, and drinking plenty of water helps!
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Here are some more sites for food for healthy hair.
And this video by SimplYounique on The Youtube Channel with the same name.
She shows on her YouTube Channel what she did to maintain her natural growth from short cut to below shoulder length. Very informative. She did mention wigs and weaves knowing that there are many who wont give that up until they know how to care for their natural hair.
Also there is the glamtwinz334 on the YouTube Channel. They talked about the change from relaxers to natural and showed the result.
The information and truth about hair is out there if you choose to seek the knowledge...go for it and gain wisdom. Or you can stay closed minded and unaware and ignorant about hair care , hair growth and that all types of hair can grow long. Or have issues with not growing hair too. No ones hair is better than the other....just different.
"Grow" in Peace. :)
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