Wow! That IS mean! Although I think it was more to be honest than to really hurt you, you know? Almost as if yes the person knows it's a mean comment but they're saying it to be truthful instead of hurtful? Seriously though, some people need to learn some TACT!
Something like this sorta happened to me but it was in terms of the length not the health of my hair. I have a Filipino guy friend that I've known since grade 5, he always used to make jokes like:
"Aireen your hair is so short, why's it taking so long to grow?"
"Aireen it's because you're black that your hair's so short, Asians have the fast growing hair."
^ Or some variation of that, my hair was always SL and thick but I was a tomboy so I didn't care about hair and I wouldn't always retain the length I got because of that. If I did retain the length my old scissor-happy stylist took it off.
Back to my friend, his excuse for saying these things was that he was gay so that causes him to be dramatic or overly honest...
There was even MORE jokes and slight racism when he grew his hair down to MBL. He eventually cut it since he said that 'black ghetto girls' at his school would bully him about his hair since 'they didn't have any' or 'they didn't have real hair' (<- the words in the single quotes are his words, not mine.
)
Now that I'm on my HHJ and my hair is retaining the length he's saying:
"Oh Aireen, finally a black girl has long hair without a weave."
"Aireen that hair is too long it HAS to be a weave." (<- He's joking about that one though since he knows I don't have a weave.)
I actually don't get it though since my hair is only APL and APL isn't that long.
erplexed He thinks I started growing my hair because of his opinion, he couldn't be more wrong...
Oh well, don't take it personally, if you're happy with the way you are then don't change for others, that just causes a whole bunch of problems. I tried doing this for a boyfriend I had once, he was Asian and he had a problem with me being black so I tried changing and changing. It wasn't me, it was him with the problem. So just remember that, it's not you it's THEM.
Aside from all my long ranting, I'm happy that you're taking time to take care of your hair, but do it for yourself not because some rude, snippy girl didn't like your hair.