Peple with brastrap length ..do you have aparent or grandparent of another race

[FAMUDva]

You prolly my cousin then! I am sure I have some GeeCee people somewhere down the line.

ha ha!! shut yo mout gul! I probably am yo people gul!!! lol

Where are your people from? My great grandma is from outside of Charleston and moved to Blacksville on the season before she had my grandma. My granny says she's a "high-land geechee"... not sure what the difference is. erplexed

 

[SparklingFlame]

ha ha!! shut yo mout gul! I probably am yo people gul!!! lol

Where are your people from? My great grandma is from outside of Charleston and moved to Blacksville on the season before she had my grandma. My granny says she's a "high-land geechee"... not sure what the difference is. erplexed

The bulk of my entire family is from SC, the Conway area which is 100 miles from Charleston. A lot of my fam practices some of the GeeChee ways. Like growing up my G-ma would always tell us to use a spiders web for a bandage and stuff like that. I was reading that link and I was nodding my head thruout reading it. I live in Charleston now among some hard core Geechees. You ever heard of Qeen Quet?

I can weave you up a sweetgrass basket if I had some materials!!! I LUUUUUV basket weaving. I told my DH that one of my ancestors must have been a basket weaver b/c I picked it up so fast and it seems to be something that sits well with me.

 

[gone_fishing]

It seems as if asking this question is not pc in this forum .

For the ladies who got all huffy...I doubt OP was saying that you CANNOT grow your hair long if you aren't mixed, I think she was looking for some encouragement maybe? Maybe she isn't mixed and is frustrated and just needs some encouragement that you can be 99.9% black if there is such a thing with long flowing hair.

 

[Oasis]

no one can claim to be of undiluted African ancestry.

I disagree.

 

[chellero]

If everything was as simple as a "wash and go" this board wouldn't be here. I think we as Black women are smart enough to maybe have found this out by now (if that were the case).

I can say that Black women (for the most part) don't know diddly squat about what it takes to take care of hair. But I'm going to say that suggesting one method as a scapegoat for all is IMHO a slap in the face. It's almost insulting to our intelligence by saying that this "simple" method was in out faces all along and we are too dumb to realize it.

I'm happy that some of yall found wash-n-gos to be holy grails for your hair but please don't think this works for all. Even though I strongly believe a simple method is best, I'm still aware of what works for some will NOT work for everyone.

Wash and go's work for my hair, and yet I still completely agree with you. Some people just can't wash and go and look decent or wash and go and have moisturized, tangle free hair and it an insult to suggest that it's that simple. I had a great wash and go a decade before I found LCHF and since I'm not waist length yet, obviously it takes a bit more than that.

 

[chellero]

The average hair growth rate is half an inch/ month. Some people grow more, some less. I grow about half an inch a month/ rather by the 6 weeks when I measure ( yes, im that sad .. erplexed). sometimes less, sometimes more. My main problem is retention. As I have colour in my hair, im maintaining my length and cutting my clolour off as it grows 'cos my hair didn't like it. I grow more when im co-washing most days.

Mixed race or people of other races can afford to wash their hair everyday/everyother day without thinking too much about it and this definitely aids growth. They also don't have much of a problem with retention hence they seem to 'grow' hair easier. We all grow at a similar pace, however, we (black women) have issues with maintenance and retention unfortunately

As the other ladies have said, not enough information about best way to go about it .... yet.

Basically, it's easier for some people then it is for others. And if it were as simple as buying some Auburey Organics (which I love by the way) then this board would not be here.

 

[MsAngie]

My mom's white, and my dad was half Indian, half black. Before taking care of my hair, it never, ever got beyond SL.

 

[mieshae]

I am almost bsl and no, I am from two black people.

 

[angelbaby]

Say it AGAIN!!! It makes me mad, and it makes me upset, looking at the ingredients on the CRAP that most black women use in their hair. And do we even have to GO into the out and out LIES and FALSEHOODS that the supposed 'expert' hairdressers/stylists tell black women about how to grow their hair? It's no SURPRISE to me that most black women have short/messed up hair, considering that almost ALL of the 'common' instructions on how to take CARE of black hair will DESTROY rather than support your hair.

That's the elephant in the room - the black hair care industry is DESIGNED to keep us spending more and more money on products that are supposed to help our hair, and in reality, are destroying it - it's one way to insure that people keep coming back for more.

It's no accident that black people - women, specifically - spend BILLIONS of dollars a year on our hair. It's not because our hair is so bloody hard to deal with, it's because MOST of the crap designed to deal with our hair is wrong, wrong, wrong, WRONG.
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This is so true. As soon as I simplified my haircare routine I stopped having stiff and brittle hair and started having wash and wear hair. I started using two products on my hair. Johnson's hair and body wash amd Hello Hydration. I can't believe the change in the feel, condition, and manageability in my hair.

 

[seeminglysweet]

Well My Great Grandmother was Biracial
Black and indian

mine too...

 

[fluffylocks]

Never saw this thread before....Interesting....

Im a few inches from BSL All black.
I dont really get into the "Everyone is mixed" thing. Im dark/brown skin, 4 hair texture, and consider myself 100% black.

I think that the looser your curl pattern, the less moisture your hair *may* require, and that sometimes the tighter your curl pattern, the more delicate your hair may be/will break easier.... and so in the past and now without knowledge it may have been easier for some "mixed" women to grow their hair long given the same regimen and crappy products. Also the whole straightening thing that alot of black women do, the looser your curl pattern the less amount of time/strenth relaxers people were probally putting in your hair as a kid and irons/pressing combs....

For the genetics i think there was a very high percentage that MOST people can grow their hair past SL and to BSl

We all put in hard work though, struggle is a struggle...The only thing i usually do like this "" to in my mind when it comes to growing hair is people, mixed or all black, light or dark, type2-4 who came with long hair already.

 

[vestaluv1]

I'm nowhere near BSL, but I thought I'd just add my on this matter:

My cousin on my mothers side is just above waistlength unstretched. Her mother (my mother sister) is full Bajan (no mixes anywhere), my mothers parents and my aunties parents are not mixed either. My cousin's father is not mixed either and neither are his parents.
I mean, I know it's hard to know what different races you have had in your family WAAAAAY in the past, but I feel anyone can have long hair with the right hair practices... I guess the question is how long though.

 

[vestaluv1]

Never saw this thread before....Interesting....

Im a few inches from BSL All black.
I dont really get into the "Everyone is mixed" thing. Im dark/brown skin, 4 hair texture, and consider myself 100% black.

I think that the looser your curl pattern, the less moisture your hair *may* require, and that sometimes the tighter your curl pattern, the more delicate your hair may be/will break easier.... and so in the past and now without knowledge it may have been easier for some "mixed" women to grow their hair long given the same regimen and crappy products. Also the whole straightening thing that alot of black women do, the looser your curl pattern the less amount of time/strenth relaxers people were probally putting in your hair as a kid and irons/pressing combs....

For the genetics i think there was a very high percentage that MOST people can grow their hair past SL and to BSl

We all put in hard work though, struggle is a struggle...The only thing i usually do like this "" to in my mind when it comes to growing hair is people, mixed or all black, light or dark, type2-4 who came with long hair already.

I agree with the bolded. Having more kinks in your hair makes it more susceptible to breakage I think.