some encouraging words about our hair
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LondonDiva
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That is VERY encouraging to hear that other people think it's worthwhile advertising that we CAN grow our hair long.
Serena is that your hair in your picture. If it is it is really beautiful.
Serena is that your hair in your picture. If it is it is really beautiful.
ChocolateCutee
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I agreed with the first half of the essay but then in went into some sort of advertisment for a relaxer /images/graemlins/mad.gif I know we have the most fragile hair but saying that a relaxer grows hair hmmm I don't think so. I didn't read all of that Essay because it was obviously biased. A company called black like me makes me think, are they black owned or white owned with that sort of ignorance to black hair /images/graemlins/scratchchin.gif
It is a trip how everyone says Ethnic hair grows slower....I don't know if I believe that. I believe our hair grows just as fast as everyone else's, but it is the curl pattern that deceives. I bet if our hair was stretched out and measured it would just as long (ie relaxers, blow drying, hot combing) as other hair (ie shrikage). Also that hair products have JUST started to really have moisturizing ingredients instead of grease also adds to the dillemma!!
BrightEyes
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I agree with you Cutie. That article was biased as the day is long. If it had given a few options, a realxer being one of them, then it would have been cool. But it talked about relaxers as if they were the only option.
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The company is actually owned by black South Africans.
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Well, that doesn't mean anything. If you want to know the truth, Blacks are more obsessed with Blacks having straight hair than any other race. Any many SA people still have issues. Apartheid didn’t end that long ago. Many racists mentalities are alive and well. /images/graemlins/ohwell.gif
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The company is actually owned by black South Africans.
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Well, that doesn't mean anything. If you want to know the truth, Blacks are more obsessed with Blacks having straight hair than any other race. Any many SA people still have issues. Apartheid didn’t end that long ago. Many racists mentalities are alive and well. /images/graemlins/ohwell.gif
LondonDiva
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NayNay said:
It is a trip how everyone says Ethnic hair grows slower....I don't know if I believe that. I believe our hair grows just as fast as everyone else's, but it is the curl pattern that deceives. I bet if our hair was stretched out and measured it would just as long (ie relaxers, blow drying, hot combing) as other hair (ie shrikage). Also that hair products have JUST started to really have moisturizing ingredients instead of grease also adds to the dillemma!!
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NayNay said:
It is a trip how everyone says Ethnic hair grows slower....I don't know if I believe that. I believe our hair grows just as fast as everyone else's, but it is the curl pattern that deceives. I bet if our hair was stretched out and measured it would just as long (ie relaxers, blow drying, hot combing) as other hair (ie shrikage). Also that hair products have JUST started to really have moisturizing ingredients instead of grease also adds to the dillemma!!
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Serena is that your hair in your picture.
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Yes, it is, LondonDiva. The pic was taken in October 2002, when my hair was going through an exceptionally dry spell, for some reason. I figured it needed some serious moisturising, so I used Fantasia IC Braid Sheen Spray on it, which did a great job of moisturising the hair, as well as cutting down dramatically on breakage. It also made my hair appear very wavy, as you can see in the pic, even though it is relaxed. I had just taken my hair out of a bun, well dampened with braid sheen, when I took the pic. Thanks for the compliment. /images/graemlins/smile.gif
Serena is that your hair in your picture.
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Yes, it is, LondonDiva. The pic was taken in October 2002, when my hair was going through an exceptionally dry spell, for some reason. I figured it needed some serious moisturising, so I used Fantasia IC Braid Sheen Spray on it, which did a great job of moisturising the hair, as well as cutting down dramatically on breakage. It also made my hair appear very wavy, as you can see in the pic, even though it is relaxed. I had just taken my hair out of a bun, well dampened with braid sheen, when I took the pic. Thanks for the compliment. /images/graemlins/smile.gif
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Leshia... YOU DID DEM THEM BRAIDS BY YOURSELVES????
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