I just totally realised...I didn't want long straight hair when I was a kid...

[DarkDesire]

I wanted long curly hair!

I really don't want this to be any sort of a race thread...

But I noticed, that when women tend to reminisce about their childhoods, with the ol' pink towel wrapped around their heads, and tossing it over their shoulders, it's usually because they wanted to emulate the long hair that caucasian women with long straight hair. This is also what a lot of black men tend to tell us too, even when it's curly weaves or extensions that we're wearing at the time - and say that we feel racially inferior erplexed.

But I just realised - that although I would agree with these childhood memories of the fake hair flipping, I wasn't thinking necessarily about a head full of luscious blonde hair. I wanted to have Scary spice's hair, Tia and Tamera's hair, and Rudy and Denise Huxtables hair. Much like the hair of women already on this forum. I guess that's just shifting a few hair types from 4c to 3b. I think I just let other's opinions get in the way of my memory. I used to want big curly hair that would fly behind me on rollerskates, and hair that I could tie up and leave in a huge messy teenage bun...
So what does that then mean? Does anyone else realise that they felt this way?

 

[JustKiya]

I wanted huge buns. I would never do the towel sling down my back - it would be twisted and tied up until I had a bun almost the size of my head sitting back there.

I think it simply means that we want long hair, and for once, it has nothing to do with white folks.

 

[Mis007]

I wanted long curly hair!

I really don't want this to be any sort of a race thread...

But I noticed, that when women tend to reminisce about their childhoods, with the ol' pink towel wrapped around their heads, and tossing it over their shoulders, it's usually because they wanted to emulate the long hair that caucasian women with long straight hair. This is also what a lot of black men tend to tell us too, even when it's curly weaves or extensions that we're wearing at the time - and say that we feel racially inferior erplexed.

But I just realised - that although I would agree with these childhood memories of the fake hair flipping, I wasn't thinking necessarily about a head full of luscious blonde hair. I wanted to have Scary spice's hair, Tia and Tamera's hair, and Rudy and Denise Huxtables hair. Much like the hair of women already on this forum. I guess that's just shifting a few hair types from 4c to 3b. I think I just let other's opinions get in the way of my memory. I used to want big curly hair that would fly behind me on rollerskates, and hair that I could tie up and leave in a huge messy teenage bun...
So what does that then mean? Does anyone else realise that they felt this way?

Although i had this type of hair...to me it was never bushy enough...that's what i wanted the big bush...contary to belief not all bm like the straight caucasian hair.... (bolded).
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[ajoyfuljoy]

I wanted my hair - just more of it.

 

[ChocalateDiva]

I wanted my hair - just more of it.

Me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[prospurr4]

I wanted my hair - just more of it.

Yeah, me three! As a kid, my hair was always pressed stick-straight, and it never got past stingy neck length. I've always wanted big, bushy long hair that I could wear flowing down my back, or put curls in, or wear in an updo. Even now, I rarely wear my hair totally straight...mostly for length check pics.

 

[danigurl18]

I always wanted the long bushy curly hair too

 

[angaliquew]

Me too...I never wanted hair like white women. I always dreamed of having hair like Rudy Huxtable.

 

[crazydaze911]

I didnt care if it was curly or straight - just wanted it long and LESS TANGLES! i think its the tangles that made some of us think straight was better.

 

[kblc06]

I remember loving my own hair, particularly when my mother would blow it out and I could wear it a big massive ponytail (my grandpa nicknamed me Rudy for that very reason). I don't ever recall doing the towel thing because I had very long hair, but my shrinkage was incredible (my TBL stretched ponytails came just past my shoulders when dry). I rarely got to wear it down, but when I did it was on....I nearly broke my neck on more than one occasion

 

[Isis77]

It's funny because I would always look at my mixed friends when I was little and wish for their defined curls (b/c me and all of my black friends had perms already, even at age 5, 6 and 7 so their hair was straight like mine) And I loved Tia and Tamara's hair and I didn't realize that my natural texture is very similar to all the girls I used to envy when I was little. So long story short, I always wanted my (natural) hair, but more of it too!

 

[MonPetite]

I always had a head full of long thick hair (til I BCed 8 months ago) and it wash kept oiled and brushed straight or twisted in puffs and it was STILL ridiculed by little (usually blonde) white girls AND I was "hated on" by black girls (I was natural with long hair, they were ALREADY relaxed with damaged hair).

So I NEVER was given the idea that my hair long or short was beautiful or something to be proud of.

Despite that...I ALWAYS enjoyed having thick hair and a lot of it because it was me. It was how I always was and thus, how I felt I should be.

Relaxed or natural long hair is always how I'll "be". Which is why I'm glad to have LHCF and I'm glad I learned about things like MT to get me back to my former glory (WL) by Dec '09. Never again will I cut my hair off.