tarheelgurl
Well-Known Member
LOL @ tomfoolery!!



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Okay, I can admit to that. But it's not like everyday is a good hair day for folks even with *that* hair. They can have can and bad hair days, too. I still think it's a weird response to "what do you use?"
yeaaahhhhhh, um, thats pretty much code for my mixed hur is better than urs so regardless of what i use in mine it won't do the same for urs anyways, but thanx for noticinwhat a douche...
This is so true. This is how people get their heads so far up their a$$.Now I have words:
It's like you can tell how this girl was raised just from her response. I've known the type now that I think of it.
I can just picture some "mixed" kid getting all the praise from the adults at every gathering and people always telling her she has good hair and complimenting how pretty she is (always adding in that she's got Spanish in her or that her daddy's white or whatever). Probably accepts it as fact that she's pretty because she's mixed or her hair is pretty because she's mixed. If people compliment her she knows it has something to do with her not being all black.![]()
(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!'![]()
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<~ 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.....![]()
ITA Panama, thats one of my personal favorites. Tomfoolery, shenanigans, what in tarnation... all good ones!
She probably was thinking that too. What a shame.
I agree with the other ladies in saying that my reply to her would have been, "Oh, really, me too." Of course, I would add, "but by looking at you I couldn't tell." (Even if its not true). Being mixed obviously makes her feel superior, so by letting her think that its not readily apparent, it checks her ego.
Bless her lil heart. She is mixed with crazy and stupid.
This IS true!!!!! She prolly sensed that I'm not the type to nut up which is why she felt so comfy replying that way. If I had been all rough and tough and in her grill, she prolly woulda' been like, 'Oh I shampoo with aloe vera mist, deep condition with lily bark and moisturize with pixie dust. Matter of fact, I have some extra pixie dust in my knapsack, would you like some?? Imma go buy you the whole line, meet me back here at three.....'
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ITA Panama, thats one of my personal favorites. Tomfoolery, shenanigans, what in tarnation... all good ones!
(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.
.
.
.
.
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.....![]()