What was your hair inspiration as a child?

[Lady S]

Jem & The Holograms. I blame them for my descent into hair dye madness. I wanted Aja's hair (the blue haired asian one).

The doll of Shana had pretty hair, the cartoon version? Not so much. It was shaped like a football as you will notice. Not. Cool.

 

[Duchesse]

at Jem! I wanted Jem's light pink hair myself.

Ariel from The Little Mermaid

Rudy Huxtable...I had the puniest braids back then, still do

The younger sister from Family Matters

Lisa Turtle

 

[laprima]

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[laprima]

Black Baby Chrissy

"Her hair just grows and grows."

:locks:

 

[JinaRicci]

Going to the salon with my mom.

 

[LadyPaniolo]

Crystal Gale :notworthy :lovedrool: OMG I swear it hurt my soul watching her perform... because I *yearned* for hair like that and yet my head looked like a national disaster area

 

[My Friend]

Crystal Gale :notworthy :lovedrool: OMG I swear it hurt my soul watching her perform... because I *yearned* for hair like that and yet my head looked like a national disaster area

Wonder what her regi is

 

[SheaButterBaby]

This is waayyy out there but as a kid, Sailormoon and Rini were my hair idols. I had an obsession with pigtails...oh boy

 

[LunadeMiel]

Jasmine from Aladdin

 

[SmilingElephant]

Mine desire for really long hair started when i was really really young. I remember when i was 5 years old in kindergarten and I always had the long haired friends....i wanted hair like their's SO bad. And then on top of that i have 3 older cousins whose hair was really long back in the day....i mean Mid-back waistlength hair. And my mom had pretty good length when i was little as well..i think it was around APL. Then i started getting into celebrities like Aaliyah and Ashley Banks from Fresh Prince and I always wanted hair like Ariel the Little Mermaid and Princess Jasmine.

But my mom would tell me i couldnt have hair that long. Needless to say i had my hair relaxed when i was like 6 or 7. When i was 8 my hair was around BSL...and on top of that i had the curling iron used on my hair DAILY and Pink Lotion and hair grease while using heat at the same time ...i just thought it would really be impossible.

Long story short I found a good stylist who was from NJ when i was 19...and she told me to cut out the Pink Lotion and just use Oil Sheen everyday...my hair did start to grow...but then she moved back up north...had a run in with a scissor happy stylist who chopped my APL hair to SL...i had a worse experience b4 her though where my whole nape fell out...and then i found another stylist. And then i went online looking for a good shampoo for black hair....and BAM!!! Hello LHCF!! Now i'm almost at where i've ALWAYS wanted to be!

 

[aquajoyice]

OMG I remember Jem! You took it way back LOL. I loved it when she turned into the rocker chick and that pink hair was all that back then

 

[UniquelyDivine]

I remember at 5 having a black barbie with an Afro! I'll never forget she was wearing a yellow sundress and I loved her hair.

Wooow my mother used to collect dolls and she had the same one you are talking about in our living room, I remember one day she took it down and let me play with it. The dolls hair was sooo soft and beautiful, her Afro was the bomb!

 

[aquajoyice]

Mine desire for really long hair started when i was really really young. I remember when i was 5 years old in kindergarten and I always had the long haired friends....i wanted hair like their's SO bad. And then on top of that i have 3 older cousins whose hair was really long back in the day....i mean Mid-back waistlength hair. And my mom had pretty good length when i was little as well..i think it was around APL. Then i started getting into celebrities like Aaliyah and Ashley Banks from Fresh Prince and I always wanted hair like Ariel the Little Mermaid and Princess Jasmine.

But my mom would tell me i couldnt have hair that long. Needless to say i had my hair relaxed when i was like 6 or 7. When i was 8 my hair was around BSL...and on top of that i had the curling iron used on my hair DAILY and Pink Lotion and hair grease while using heat at the same time ...i just thought it would really be impossible.
Long story short I found a good stylist who was from NJ when i was 19...and she told me to cut out the Pink Lotion and just use Oil Sheen everyday...my hair did start to grow...but then she moved back up north...had a run in with a scissor happy stylist who chopped my APL hair to SL...i had a worse experience b4 her though where my whole nape fell out...and then i found another stylist. And then i went online looking for a good shampoo for black hair....and BAM!!! Hello LHCF!! Now i'm almost at where i've ALWAYS wanted to be!

I can totally relate to your story. The bold is exactly to a tee my past. What I really hated is when people would make comments like "oh your hair is growing don't cut it" then a few weeks later it would have broken off becuase of the damage and then i'd get the "why did you cut your hair?" Yeah it was a constant rollercoaster ride. But i'm thankful God led me to this site late one night as I was just surfing the web It's been growing ever since! thank-you for sharing your story, SmilingElephant!!

 

[aquajoyice]

Wooow my mother used to collect dolls and she had the same one you are talking about in our living room, I remember one day she took it down and let me play with it. The dolls hair was sooo soft and beautiful, her Afro was the bomb!

I LOVED that doll! I was 5 and remember playing in her gorgeous hair! It's funny becuase recently I just bought a Barbie, for inspirational purposes only I bought the one with the waist length hair. It's sitting here on a stand in my living room LOL. Here are a pic of the two barbie's I was soo excited about. Mind you I haven't owned a Barbie since I was like 10, LOL.

 

[wavezncurlz]

Lisa Bonet - I wore my hair with that big curly side bang just like her.
Jasmine Guy - I met her a few years ago and she's close to my hair twin. I wore her updos all the time.
Cree Summer - I liked her carefree style
Amel - She's still my inspiration. She's in my inspiration folder. I want her pocahontas braids.
Journee Smollet - I loved her long twists. She so reminds me of my dd1 and I almost named my dd after her
Shiela E - remember the drummer? Glamorous Life?
Vanity - I knew her sister. They both had nice hair. Easy to straighten - tons of body - long and healthy

 

[BlkOnyx488]

Ok I don't have a photo
but my first hair inspiration was my Kindergarten teacher
I can't even rememer her name but I remember her hair.

See was so pretty she had a smooth beautful dark complexion, and I remember one day I was showing her a drawing I did and her hair fell foward from the back of her shoulder to the front when she lean over to look. and I remember thinking wow I have never seen a black person with hair like hers. My Fantasy would be to be able to lean over one day and hve my hair fall the same way

 

[aquajoyice]

And let's nto forget about the ultimate woman Mrs. Claire Huxtable!! She was one of my role models growing up. Intelligent, beautiful, classy, witty, cultured woman

 

[Mizz Diamonds]

Brandy
Aaliyah
Keisha Knight Pullam
Mel B
My mum
Tia and Tamera
Ashley Banks
Janet Jackson (especially in the movie Poetic Justice)
Raven Symone she was soo cute.
And Sailor Moon too. Sheabutterbaby you are not alone. I wanted all the sailor scouts hair yes the blue haired one and the pink haired one too.

I even had my mum put long braids in my hair and I fixed them into Sailor Moon style with the meatballs on top.

 

[MayaB12]

Rudi Huxtable of course. And this girl I went to elementary school with, she had beautiful WL hair. Aisha Jones where you @???? I bet she's a LHCF sista...

 

[lolascurls]

I loved Aaliyah's hair growing up

 

[Lady S]

Oh gawd, I just remembered one. Linda Dano from "Attitudes" and "Another World" during the 80s. It was one of those short 80s haircuts and I thought it was so chic. Can't find a decent pic of her in all her 80s glory, so here's a YT video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2dl3EsDEO4

See all the fun you 90s babies missed?

 

[Coil Tresses]

Oh wow, I didn't give a hoot about hair as a child. I didn't become obsessed until I was 28.

Me neither!

But when I became a teen I was on point and so particular about my hair and how it looked. I was so into weaves in the late 80's and 90's that I had techniques so unheard of that now people are using. I should've became a hairstylist. I lost my touch and care more about somebody doing it for me.

 

[Bene]

Princess Buttercup.

 

[aquajoyice]

Oh gawd, I just remembered one. Linda Dano from "Attitudes" and "Another World" during the 80s. It was one of those short 80s haircuts and I thought it was so chic. Can't find a decent pic of her in all her 80s glory, so here's a YT video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2dl3EsDEO4

See all the fun you 90s babies missed?

Yes I ws loving that short thick beautiful do! And the color to die for!!

 

[candy626]

Definitely Tia and Tamera Mowry! I didn't realize I liked hair until I saw them rocking their natural curls.

Also Jurnee Smollett, from Eve's Bayou. When I saw her hair in that movie it reminded me of my own hair at that time.

I think most of my hair inspirations have always been curly heads rather then relaxed straight heads. Even now actually.

 

[kinkycurlygurl]

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=thel...&w=432&h=324&ei=TIZTT4mwBZCd0gHB6Li0DQ&zoom=1

I remember begging my Mom to put it in a puff for picture days and church.

 

[BlackHairDiva]

As I child I always wanted to look like ....

Latoya Jackson ( I also wanted hair like hers)

...of the early 80s.

 

[carletta]

FOR ME ...LET GO OLD SCHOOL N SAY CHER....

 

[CurlsBazillion]

Oh wow, I didn't give a hoot about hair as a child. I didn't become obsessed until I was 28.

same here, as a elementary age kid I use to put a shirt over my head
and swing and swing away like it was real hair. after that I wanted a hair cut like t-boz and push waves, finger waves, waterfalls...i was just concerned with style not length. I didn't even like long hair then. Now, at age 27, I have to have it.

 

[ArrrBeee]

Jayne Kennedy