Hair Care Tips - How to Keep Curls Fresh!

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black hair care at 7:15AM on Oct 30th 2008

2. I love bounce in my curls like in my walk:)

Tolu at 7:24AM on Nov 2nd 2008

3. In the pictures that was displayed of "natural hair looks" I wondered why pictures of Alicia Keys when she first emerged on the scene with all types of braided styles wasn't included. Aren't braids considered a "natural hair look"?

Ria at 7:44AM on Nov 2nd 2008

4. What many Blackfemales don't realize is that white fashion designers encourage them to wear curls, because it makes white males feel more comfortable approaching them. It's been noted in the "strong" Black journals and papers for decades.

Checkout the hairstyles most actresses, models, and A-A females in commercials are shown wearing, and most of them are the Euro-segmented curls. Anything white males can promote towards B/females, to make them seem more white male appealing, the corporate media promotes.

Yet, why don't you see the media promotong white females with Dreadlocks, bushes, cornrows? Even in wig or semi-form, it's still the equivalent of how everyday they push B/girls, looking and acting white.

Sister Theresa at 11:34AM on Nov 2nd 2008

5. For so long, our people were told our hair is ugly, and some of us believed it, and still do believe it. I have always believed that white
hair looks like spaghetti, uncooked. Who wants to look like that but a fool.

francine wilson at 2:46PM on Nov 2nd 2008

6. I find that the comments re: Sister Theresa has made is the exact reason why we are still having racial issues today. I am married to a black male for 13 yrs. I have friends from all races. I have natural currly hair that looks at times like a nappy head. Its how you wear it, take care of it. If we continue staying in that backward thinking, then we are always going to have divison between eachother. Girls enjoy your CURLS and wear them WELL!
Junie Bug

junie at 2:48PM on Nov 2nd 2008

7. I feel ya Sista Theresa. Sick of compromising, butt dancing Black anglophiles too. The Black woman didn't come over here a nappy headed ho or bitch, someone needs to find out who drove this old funky bus into the ditch. Keep it real sistas. The Black woman still walking around with that old funky perm or weave, it must be the white man or sell-out negroes they are trying to please. Blacks have been falling for the hair trick for too long. Like Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing teaches, "if you don't understand the system of white supremancy/racism, everything you think you know will only confuse you." It is embarassing watching it become a rite of passage for Black girls to finally get their hair straighten. How pathetic is that?

blckmoses@sbcglobal.net at 5:22PM on Nov 2nd 2008

8. I witnessed something that I have NEVER witnessed before and didn't even think it would or could ever happen: I was at my stylist getting my hair done, when a white girl came in asking about relaxer services. No she was not mixed, she was 100% caucasian. I know the look I had on my face said everything, and I even thought the girl actually came in and was pulling a joke. My stylist, without the least bit of shock or questioning in her voice, asked her what had she used before. The girl informed her she had used a do-it-yourself relaxer- Soft and Beautiful. I almost fell out my chair. She said that it made her hair really straight and lasted six months. I had to tell the girl that I had never witnessed a white girl needing a relaxer- she understood my shock. My stylist went on to make the appointment for her to get a relaxer treatment. When the girl left, I told my stylist I had never witnessed that before- to my even greater disbelief, my stylist told me she wasn't the first white woman that she has given a relaxer to. That girl would make her THIRD white woman client to get a relaxer. The phrase "I have now seen it all" never applied more to me that day.

Lisa at 8:03PM on Nov 2nd 2008

9. I witnessed something that I have NEVER witnessed before and didn't even think it would or could ever happen: I was at my stylist getting my hair done, when a white girl came in asking about relaxer services. No she was not mixed, she was 100% caucasian. I know the look I had on my face said everything, and I even thought the girl actually came in and was pulling a joke. My stylist, without the least bit of shock or questioning in her voice, asked her what had she used before. The girl informed her she had used a do-it-yourself relaxer- Soft and Beautiful. I almost fell out my chair. She said that it made her hair really straight and lasted six months. I had to tell the girl that I had never witnessed a white girl needing a relaxer- she understood my shock. My stylist went on to make the appointment for her to get a relaxer treatment. When the girl left, I told my stylist I had never witnessed that before- to my even greater disbelief, my stylist told me she wasn't the first white woman that she has given a relaxer to. That girl would make her THIRD white woman client to get a relaxer. The phrase "I have now seen it all" never applied more to me that day.

Lisa at 8:05PM on Nov 2nd 2008

10. I have done it all wigs, braids, weaves (glued & sewn) and now I want to go back to my own, but I refuse to perm ever again for 2 reasons. 1) I wear permanent color (Beyonce-blondish) and 2) I have eczema so the combination of these makes my hair break off when I do perm. So, my thought is to go back to old fashioned press/curl? :( Does anybody still do that? Do you have any suggestions for maintaining it? Please, HAELP a natural Sistah in Texas out!

Trinna at 9:20PM on Nov 2nd 2008

11. One minute a perm is trying to be like the white women and the next wearing curls is also looking like the white women. How about instead of adding race to a hair style we as WOMAN do what makes us feel happy and sexy and if it's a perm then so be it and if it's curls so be it.
I worn my hair natural for 21 years then I permed it when I was 22 for something different, now 2 years later I miss my natural curls so I'm going back. Does that mean that i'm trying to appeal to the white man now or maybe it could just mean I like changing my hair up.

Stop making a big deal out of small topics folks!

Deziya18 at 11:53PM on Nov 3rd 2008

12. God made your hair the way it is for a reason. it wasn't a mistake. There is absolutely nothing wrong with kinky or nappy hair. I love to see women with natural hair. We have been convinced that there is something wrong with natural and there isn't. I live in NYC and honestly if you look at white hair you begin to realize that they are more afraid of you seeing their hair in its natural state than you are of them seeing yours because as LISA stated they do get perms-and weaves and dye jobs, it isn't as silky silky as they pretend. Black women?men ditch the perm go for natural styles and there are many, you might wind up loving yourself that much more.

hardruffplay@aol.com at 12:08AM on Nov 4th 2008

13. To those black women who have never heard of a white woman having her hair relaxed, you need to get out more!

Many white folks do not have straight hair, and want to wear straight styles so they put a relaxer to take out the "curl". I have know many whites who get their hair relaxed. Whites also straighten their hair with hot combs and have their hair curled with hot curling irons.

Get over it!

AntBee at 2:17AM on Nov 4th 2008

14. I am all natural, and I cannot tell you how much easier it is for me to maintain. I keep a nice short afro, that only costs about $20 to keep it cut and trimmed. I also can workout, get rained on, and go swimming without fear of messing up a hairstyle that I paid top dollar for. I will never go back to perms. Even though most people tell me I look better with permed hair, to hell with them I say. I am doing me.

ML at 1:40PM on Nov 4th 2008

15. I say to each his/her own. I started getting a relaxer at the age of 9 years old and had one up until the age of 40 when I made the choice to cut out all of the perm and wear a short afro for about 1 1/2 year. I swore then that I would never get another relaxer. Then I started listening to my husband and my mom (they did not like my hair in the natural way)and then I came to the decision of returning to the relaxer. Now 3 years later I am back to being natural. This time I have made a decision to stay this way. Not only is this easier for me but it is also healthy for me to maintain my natural style. I can wear my hair straight or I can wear it curly. There is nothing wrong with our hair. We African American women are very verstile and we have many options for our hair unlike some other races who really don't have the options we have. I say stay true to yourself and not to worry about how others may see you only the way God sees you. Black, Beautiful and Proud.
Be blessed. Mrs.P

Mrs. P at 7:49AM on Nov 6th 2008