Response to "Evil people are real"

[SmileyNY]

The only people I think may try something are hair stylists. Not necessarily out of jealousy, but just because they don't know anything about healthy hair. They only learn how to make hair "look good" in beauty school... That's why I don't go to them.

As far as how things have changed since having long hair... nothing that we haven't heard on this board before...

1. People telling me that my hair is nice, but theirs "can't" grow that long
2. People assuming that I'm not "all black"
3. People asking for hair advice
4. People touching my hair without permission
5. People assuming my hair is a weave

.... Basically people being people

 

[BostonMaria]

Well damn!

I didn't have long hair till my late 30's so I never encountered stuff like this. People sure do act stank.

 

[greenandchic]

I find it really interesting that your main bully stopped the ones that tried to put perm in your hair. I wonder what came over her.

I don't think I'll ever know. I think it was this weird hostility because I didn't have a relaxer in my hair, my hair was pressed most of the time at that point and super straight. I guess it was because my pressed and even unpressed hair looked 1000% better than their permed hair anyway, I had edges, etc.

 

[tenderheaded]

The mess doesn't stop when you get older. A fifty something white woman I work with always has something to say. When I started wearing my hair out (wig doens't fit anymore) she asked if it was ALL my hair. It's a braided bun very loose. Waht does it look like? She has been the ONLY person I've encountered in the past 7 months to behave like this.

The year before a relative followed me out to my car and started ripping the pins out of my bun saying she wanted to see how long it was!

 

[CurlsOnFire23]

I had very thick kinky hair that was almost waist length....

....there is dried glue in my hair and one of my pony tails were cut of (on the very top at that so imagine how hard that would be to blend in)....QUOTE]

LOL!!!! My mom was on the war path after that. I wouldn't tell her who did it so she came to the school and looked each kid in the eye and scowled. She sat in my class all day LOL it was embarrassing.

 

[empressri]

The mess doesn't stop when you get older. A fifty something white woman I work with always has something to say. When I started wearing my hair out (wig doens't fit anymore) she asked if it was ALL my hair. It's a braided bun very loose. Waht does it look like? She has been the ONLY person I've encountered in the past 7 months to behave like this.

The year before a relative followed me out to my car and started ripping the pins out of my bun saying she wanted to see how long it was!

Please tell me you karate chopped her or SOMETHING before she could get another pin out of your head. Please tell me you did not stand there and let this woman de-pin your bun.

 

[MsBoinglicious]

Tell me why an old secondary school acquaintance (I haven't seen in almost 10 years) leaves a comment asking why I am lying about it being my hair. Who are you trying to fool? You didn't have good hair in secondary school so where could all of this come from?

I kindly informed her that I am well aware of her hair struggles and know for a fact, this

...was under her bodacious weaves. If she needed tips, she can holler. *Flips APL hair back*

Wait did you actually show her that pic?

 

[EssenceOfBeauty]

Wait did you actually show her that pic?

MsBoinglicious

Yes. The picture is of a Zambian entertainer (Mampi) who was in the Big Brother Africa Star Game and the acquaintance had confessed to a mutual friend that she also shared Mampi's hair struggles.

 

[SimJam]

Im glad I dont have anyone like that in my close circles .... the only hair product issue Ice ever had was with the BFs sister who used my shea butter mix without asking ... I actually thought it was my BF who was using it because it was going down real fast.

so I commented - something like - "you really like that shea butter mix" and I offered to mix up an unscented batch for him ... he said he had not touched it !!!!

I guess he spoke to her about it because its never been touched again.

 

[vtoodler]

You all might be interested in this thread on jealousy:

http://www.longhaircareforum.com/showthread.php?t=634217

 

[Bozcurls]

I actually kept my hair longer as a child because that is what my mother wanted. Ever since my early teens I cut it to BSL and kept it there until I got it cut to my neck a few years ago. Nothing negative happened to me because of its length. Then again, I was one of those weird kids that picked up bugs and played by herself so no one really messed around with me lol

 

[Kindheart]

I won't hide any of my hair products ,not many people come in our house so the risk of someone tampering with them is extremely low ..besides i have so many conditioners they d have to gp to the bathroom with gallons of Nair ,suspicious much? i m more scared of ethylene glycol in sweet drinks .that ish kills u.

 

[SerenavanderWoodsen]

Wow @ these stories. I've never experienced anything like this thank goodness.
Maybe my hair isn't nice enough *sniffles* lol.