tapioca_pudding
Well-Known Member
(DISCLAIMER: Normally I don't start/participate in threads dealing with race and hair. I am an equal opportunity hair grower. 
I'm not trying to start drama, issues or anything of the sort. This ish stunned the booboo outta me, and I just needed to throw it out there.)
Lemme tell you what happened about 20 minutes ago.
I walked over to an adjacent building to grab a latte. A girl came in line behind me and she had GORGEOUS thick lush hair, somewhere between APL and BSL. It looked like her ends may have just been trimmed because they were super blunt. Shiny healthy, etcetc. So my overly friendly behind goes,
'Hi! Your hair is so pretty!'
<~ this is me, smilin like a nutbag
She flips it. 'Thanks.'
(Now I ain't mad at the flip at ALL. Cuz as I've said before, when I hit my goal, they gonna call me BobbleHead from all the swangin Imma be doin.)
I said (and maybe this is where I made my mistake?), 'Do you use anything special on it?'
She said, 'Oh, I'm mixed.' And proceeded to look at the menu.
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I'm so dumbfounded. I don't even really know what to think. I guess if I asked specifically about her texture, then I could maybe possibly understand her giving an explanation as to her heritage. But I asked if she used anything special on it. :scratchch
Maybe she thought I meant something about her texture (even tho I didn't say the word texture.. ) which is why she responded that way? She had her hair blown out straight, but from her features you could tell that she was bi/multi racial. That was something I knew off rip, so that wasn't what caught my attention. My attention was piqued by the *bling* of her hair, how healthy it looked. I was just tryin to get the name of a product, yo.....
I dunno. I guess it just caught me off guard. It brings me back to that 'good hair v. bad hair' debate, which I hate because hair is hair is hair, it's gonna do what it does. Healthy hair is beautiful regardless, imho anyway.
Whew. Lemme sip dis here latte and keep it movin.....
I'm not trying to start drama, issues or anything of the sort. This ish stunned the booboo outta me, and I just needed to throw it out there.)Lemme tell you what happened about 20 minutes ago.
I walked over to an adjacent building to grab a latte. A girl came in line behind me and she had GORGEOUS thick lush hair, somewhere between APL and BSL. It looked like her ends may have just been trimmed because they were super blunt. Shiny healthy, etcetc. So my overly friendly behind goes,
'Hi! Your hair is so pretty!'
<~ this is me, smilin like a nutbagShe flips it. 'Thanks.'
(Now I ain't mad at the flip at ALL. Cuz as I've said before, when I hit my goal, they gonna call me BobbleHead from all the swangin Imma be doin.
)I said (and maybe this is where I made my mistake?), 'Do you use anything special on it?'
She said, 'Oh, I'm mixed.' And proceeded to look at the menu.
.
.
.
.
I'm so dumbfounded. I don't even really know what to think. I guess if I asked specifically about her texture, then I could maybe possibly understand her giving an explanation as to her heritage. But I asked if she used anything special on it. :scratchch
Maybe she thought I meant something about her texture (even tho I didn't say the word texture..
) which is why she responded that way? She had her hair blown out straight, but from her features you could tell that she was bi/multi racial. That was something I knew off rip, so that wasn't what caught my attention. My attention was piqued by the *bling* of her hair, how healthy it looked. I was just tryin to get the name of a product, yo..... I dunno. I guess it just caught me off guard. It brings me back to that 'good hair v. bad hair' debate, which I hate because hair is hair is hair, it's gonna do what it does. Healthy hair is beautiful regardless, imho anyway.
Whew. Lemme sip dis here latte and keep it movin.....
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what a douche...
@ the title of this thread!
erplexed
