Comments on: Why I Love My African American Hair

By: Hannah Dodd

Hannah Dodd — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:41:26 +0000

How did you figure out that you were allergic to the relaxer?

By: dommie05

dommie05 — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:56:39 +0000

Black hair is such an complex discussion when it shouldn’t be. No matter whether u wear weaves, relaxers, or natural hair whatever you wear do it because you personally like it for yourself. I see alot of black females have insecurities on this because they feel their natural hair isn’t good enough or that guys won’t like it. So they continuously hide it under a wig. That’s not good theirs women out there dying for our hair texture. Some Japanese women perminate wave their hair to get it kinky like ours. They love our texture, and our skin tone. The same way we sometimes go out our way to emulate European hairstyles, they do with us. Vidal Sasson is a famous hairstylist from London he has always gave black women credit for wearing such fabulous cuts and creative looks. We are beautiful and any man that can’t see that is blind, any person who doesn’t think so is shallow. All women is beautiful so what ever your style rock it with pride in the words of Marcus Garvey “Take the kinks out your mind….not your hair”.

By: nickayla

nickayla — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:25:04 +0000

i do have african american hair, well more like type 3b and i know exactly what you mean i would love to do so much more to my hair but i dont like taking time and this has really really helped, but this dosnt change my desicion about getting my hair relaxed, its something new and i might learn something from it

By: Afrogal

Afrogal — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 01:29:59 +0000

wher i live their is a lot of ethiopian people and most of them weat they hair natural talk about african pride

By: Nuni

Nuni — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:26:45 +0000

I agree, you’d be surprised how much effort black women put into their hair.

By: Nuni

Nuni — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:22:21 +0000

Amazing post! i may shun any church besides “Natural” but really feel like you’ve explained the issue very well:)

By: Samm

Samm — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:09:09 +0000

My hair has been relaxed forever, and I love the straightness. Everyone says: Why do you wear it straight?

I’m 16, and now with all of these people going Natural, I feel guilty for relaxing. I feel like an outcast for my hair, but I don’t want to change it.

My hair only breaks off when I wait too long to get it relaxed, or if I been stressing excessively. I keep it moisturized, I don’t know how to wrap it quite yet but I moisturize, brush through, then put a satin sleep cap on to sleep in.

I just feel now that the black hair stigma is changing from Relaxed is gorgeous, to Natural is the most beautiful thing on Earth. I just want be perceived just like the Naturals, beautiful too. Relaxed hair may take work, but it can be healthy like natural hair too.

By: atiya

atiya — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 04:48:25 +0000

everytime my hair gets an ok length it breaks off wtf ! So for my 9th grade year my mom decided to keep me with sew ins smh -___- . i used to to love wearing my hairs with curls on the top , straight on the sides pulled back into a bun almost like a mohawk or my press and curls but we’ll see how this turns out. i told her once im done with sew ins i think i wanna keep it natural

By: Lostgirlfindingherself

Lostgirlfindingherself — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 06:01:02 +0000

Thank you, now I don’t feel so left out about going natural

By: Quinnie

Quinnie — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:55:34 +0000

I have Asian hair. It usually messy but i love it anyway. Waiting for my hair grows longer so that i can have braids and buns