Someone Unexpected paid compliment to your hair

[newbiemom]

I was at the supermarket yesterday and a 40 something white man passes by and says" You are so pretty I love your hair". My hair was in a braid out with a headband. I was suprised not because I don't think I'm pretty but I didn't think men with his going to the golf club look would be checking for aa girl with kinks. Then when I was putting my groceries away another white guy complimented me.

 

[mj11051]

They love our natural hair, I had one a work who would come to my desk everyday and tell me how he loved my hair. He was sweet and a fool, always talking to other people about how he used my hair tips.

 

[nsmith30]

I decided a couple weeks ago to try my hand at transitioning. So I decided to get braids, well I met a new guy while I had my hair in braids. After I took the braids out, I spent the majority of the day pampering my hair. So when I next saw him, my hair had been flat ironed and had lots of body and bounce. He looked at me and asked if it was my real hair, and then told me that he would beat my a** if I ever put weave in my hair again, lol. I liked it because it was a compliment that I would never have expected to come from him.

 

[Flor]

My husband is a white 'going to the golf club look' and he always says that my hair is beautiful. He doesn't like when my hair is straight (almost never). I think that was one of the things that made me fall in love with him. He loves me the way I am! I do texlax my hair to make my life easier, but I do love the natural 'wash and go' look.

 

[winnettag]

You know, since I've had my HL braids in, I've gotten an unusual amount of compliments from our older caucasian customers. And they almost always ask how long it took to put them in.
One of the men even assumed it was my real hair and asked me how long it took to grow it. erplexed But I was happy he didn't assume it couldn't be mine!

 

[Nayeli]

I was in the store the other day and saw an older white lady give a black lady a compliment. Her hair looked like a wash and go that had been done a few days before - kind of poofy but really thick and lush.

The black woman looked so stunned for a second lol. I wonder what it is about that demographic (older, white) that find it so fascinating.

 

[beans4reezy]

Bumping.......

 

[stormy07]

Once when I had my hair in twists a white lady sitting behind me on the bus said how beautiful they were and asked if I had done them myself (I had) then a couple months ago my hair was in this crazy high curly poof and this older whte gentleman comes walking past like I love your hair it's so beautiful and I was just like wow thank you. The residents at my bldg always compliment my hair when it's down bcuz they're used to seeing my hair in a bun. But there's this one older blk that comments everytime I have my hair down that it's about time I let it get some oxygen and that I have that good hair :rollseyes:

 

[Keen]

It still surprise me when I try to give some people hair advice and they are like "Who are you to talk? you don't understand the trial people with no hair go through". I know it's a compliment that my hair is long but my jaw always drop because I use to think just like that before LHCF.

 

[jetbeauty09]

Wow, 15 minutes ago a probably 70+ yr old black man complimented me (I'm rocking my frohawk w/a flower). I'll never forget my now boss complimented when I had been here a month on my braids (medium sized, singles). I was blown away...he's about 45 and black but I woulda never known he was paying attention! lol

 

[sunshinebeautiful]

I used to get tons of compliments on my natural hair... from the 'country club' types to folks living in the hood.

 

[panamoni]

That happened to me yesterday too. (I'm not natural, but I am nearing the end of a 6 month stretch.) Anyway, this week, I have my hair in a sort of sideways french roll (like a horizontal banana) with a shear scarf headband, and it's a nontraditional hair style for me -- I think I look like Don King with a french roll because it's poofy, but I also think it looks cute. And a coworker came up to me to tell me that she really liked my hair like that. I think it also has to do with how I've been carrying myself lately.

 

[BlackMasterPiece]

The summer I had finished my transition I decided to wear my fro out for the first time, by the time I wore it out it was really huge, which is what I wanted. I went to take my friend from out of town sight seeing in manhattan, I put on this cute pink retro mini dress and a coordinating headband and we went out.

We were transferring trains at Union Square Station and this white guy ran up to me from the other side and was like "I LOVE your hair! You look beautiful!" I was taken aback not because of what he said but how emphatic he was I thanked him and thought to myself wow thats so nice. Then the same day I took my friend to brooklyn with me ad we were walking down the street and this jamaican man stopped me and said "sista I love your hair!" he happened to be the owner of a restaurant and said to me "choose a cake I want to give you a gift before you walk away", we got a red velvet cake and he said "stay natural sista you look beautiful queen".

I'll never forget that because it was the first time I rocked my BAA and it was SUCH a positive expeience

 

[in_di_vi_du_al]

I was SO suprised! I walked into my MORE than boring English class yesterday, and one of the 'white' girls said: "Chamieka! I love your hair, how do you get it so straight .. dot dot dot" I personally didnt know how to react! lol