Do you embrace the word "nappy?"

[SleekandBouncy]

My hair is naturally nappy (4a/b). Some people use the term as a pejorative, but that's their problem. I'm not going to validate them by accepting their interpretation of the word.

My hair is nappy, springy, sprongy, and kinky.

 

[spicypeppermint]

When people say nappy its NEVER in a positive form. Growing up that was a dreaded word as long as you were black & had kinky (nappy) hair. You KNEW you were nappy, you just didn't want anyone reminding you. As for now, if people want to pay to get my hair un-nappy fine! Until then I'll just be nappy with some cash in my pocket!

 

[vainღ♥♡jane]

i don't feel any kind of way about the word. i don't use it to describe my hair though.​

 

[genesis132]

Nope, not at all. I love my nappy head self. Its only negative if you let it be.

 

[Cali*Rocks]

I embrace it. My scree name on another site is CA*NAPPY

 

[Sapphire_chic]

Never heard of it before these boards so maybe my opinion isn't all that useful.
Trying to think of equivalent words leads me to thinking i wouldn't embrace it. i prefer the other descriptions (coily, afro-textured)...ones that weren't made to hurt.

 

[Caychica]

i don't feel any kind of way about the word. i don't use it to describe my hair though.​

Same here..

 

[nappystorm]

When that's the look I'm going for...It no longer bothers me. I look like "and?" when people tell me my hair is nappy.

 

[msa]

I don't use it in real life to refer to my or anyone else's hair because it is considered a negative term. If anyone says it to me, I just turn it into a positive.

But I don't see a problem with the term...I use it online all the time. It's descriptive.

 

[firecracker]

I refuse to allow that word to affect me negatively even though I know its rooted in negativity. I call my hair nappy, a bush and zulu warrior princess hair. I love my nappy bush and most likely won't have senior balding because of its nappy thickness.

 

[silvergirl]

i dont think its a bad term, nappy to me is knotty, or highly kinky hair. but i would not describe my own hair as nappy because i dont think it fits the texture definition.

 

[BlkOnyx488]

I am coming back around to embracing the word NAPPY. When I was growing up the worst thing in the world to be was a "nappy-headed-blackgirl" This belief lead to my mother putting chemicals in my hair when I was four years old. Which started me on a nightmare hair Journey of breakage and hair falling out that lasted for almost 30 years.

Perhaps if the community I was raised in and my mother had been more accepting of "Nappy headed blackgirls" I would have grown up knowing what it was like to have a full head of healthy natural hair. Instead of the bone straight breakage and near baldness I was raised with.

VIVA LA NAPPY HEADS!!!!

 

[countrychickd]

I don't embrace it! Everytime I hear it, it's meant in a negative way. People use that word to describe hair that they view as undesirable here in the south, so I've always felt offended by the word. As a result, I just can't use that word to describe my hair or anyone else's. There are plenty of other words that I can use to describe these gorgeous locks of hair, so why try to flip a word that I view as negative?