misscrystal
Nappy and Happy
Ok, so I tend get ALOT of questions about my hair. Which puzzles me because my hair isn't long at all. I don't mind the questions, but I get so annoyed by girls who ask what I've been doing to my hair, but don't want to listen to me. They act like they have all the answers and I'm the one with a mess of broken hairs on my head instead of them!
I relaxed my hair this past friday night after being 16 weeks post. Saturday evening, I went to Walmart to pick up some things and saw a girl I'd had a few classes with, but never spoken to before. She saw me (with my hair loose for the first time in a long time. With 16 weeks worth of naps, I had been wearing my hair in a silk scarf ALOT) and started peppering me with questions about my hair.
What kind of products do you use?
How often do you get your hair done?
How do you get your hair to grow?
She also said she'd assumed I was bald-headed because I wore a scarf so much (???).
So when I started answering her (many) questions, she started looking at me crazy like I didn't know what I was talking about. Every piece of advice I gave her, she acted like I wasn't making sense.
What do you mean you wash you hair 3 times a week? Too much water dries out your hair.
You wash with just conditioner? You can't do that!
You use lye relaxers? I didn't even know they made those anymore! Doesn't it burn all your hair out?
You're not supposed to stretch your relaxers because it makes you hair break.
You use XYZ product? But that's for white folks. That's not for our hair.
Using conditioner too much will make your scalp greasy.
The thing that gets me, is WHY ASK IF YOU WON'T SHUT UP AND LISTEN?? She's sitting here acting like she's not the one with hair that's broken within an inch of its life!
The only advice she took at face value was that ORS Olive Oil Lotion is a good product. She only seemed willing to try it since the Wal-Mart in our area keeps it with the other "Ethnic" products. She wouldn't take my advice and get some S-Curl (Naw! I don't want my hair to be drippin' like I have a jheri curl!), but why did she proceed to pick up not one, but TWO bottles of PINK OIL. At that point, I didn't even say nothing because I knew she wouldn't listen anyway.
Other things that annoy me are girls who assume I'm "mixed" with something, and then when I tell them I'm actually Nigerian, they say something like, "Oh, well Africans have different hair from regular black folks' hair." (huh?) And then completely ignore my advice because "it won't work for them".
I was once giving a girl advice, and SHE at least seemed interested in what I had to say, but then some other girl who had "long" hair proceeded to butt into our convo and debunk everything I was saying. Now when I say she had "long" hair, it was longer than mine but was completely see-through. I'm talking, the bottom two layers of her hair were the only parts that stretched beyond her collar. I wanted so bad to tell her to cut that mess off, but I'm not that mean
Urgh. Sorry for the long rant, but I had to get that off my chest.
I relaxed my hair this past friday night after being 16 weeks post. Saturday evening, I went to Walmart to pick up some things and saw a girl I'd had a few classes with, but never spoken to before. She saw me (with my hair loose for the first time in a long time. With 16 weeks worth of naps, I had been wearing my hair in a silk scarf ALOT) and started peppering me with questions about my hair.
What kind of products do you use?
How often do you get your hair done?
How do you get your hair to grow?
She also said she'd assumed I was bald-headed because I wore a scarf so much (???).
So when I started answering her (many) questions, she started looking at me crazy like I didn't know what I was talking about. Every piece of advice I gave her, she acted like I wasn't making sense.
What do you mean you wash you hair 3 times a week? Too much water dries out your hair.
You wash with just conditioner? You can't do that!
You use lye relaxers? I didn't even know they made those anymore! Doesn't it burn all your hair out?
You're not supposed to stretch your relaxers because it makes you hair break.
You use XYZ product? But that's for white folks. That's not for our hair.
Using conditioner too much will make your scalp greasy.
The thing that gets me, is WHY ASK IF YOU WON'T SHUT UP AND LISTEN?? She's sitting here acting like she's not the one with hair that's broken within an inch of its life!
The only advice she took at face value was that ORS Olive Oil Lotion is a good product. She only seemed willing to try it since the Wal-Mart in our area keeps it with the other "Ethnic" products. She wouldn't take my advice and get some S-Curl (Naw! I don't want my hair to be drippin' like I have a jheri curl!), but why did she proceed to pick up not one, but TWO bottles of PINK OIL. At that point, I didn't even say nothing because I knew she wouldn't listen anyway.
Other things that annoy me are girls who assume I'm "mixed" with something, and then when I tell them I'm actually Nigerian, they say something like, "Oh, well Africans have different hair from regular black folks' hair." (huh?) And then completely ignore my advice because "it won't work for them".
I was once giving a girl advice, and SHE at least seemed interested in what I had to say, but then some other girl who had "long" hair proceeded to butt into our convo and debunk everything I was saying. Now when I say she had "long" hair, it was longer than mine but was completely see-through. I'm talking, the bottom two layers of her hair were the only parts that stretched beyond her collar. I wanted so bad to tell her to cut that mess off, but I'm not that mean
Urgh. Sorry for the long rant, but I had to get that off my chest.
Actually, that's much worse than the bald-headed comments! People can be so dumb, I swear!
