So that's what she goes around telling people.
erplexed
erplexed
Damn...
If you use chemicals to alter the texture of your hair in any way, you are not natural I don't care how "natural" a person think it looks, it ain't natural.
By her definition, there aren't too many naturals out there because most of us use at least one commercially made product on our hair.
So, in my opinion, your definition is right and hopefully, someone else will cosign on it.
If not
But isn't color permanent? It has to grow and be cut out of your hair eventually. I may be wrong, but that's what I thought.
All color isn't permanent and permanent color is not used to permanently change the texture of one's hair.
… D!!!! With those bras there’s no way you can guarantee that what you see is what you get ….”
I think we should make a difference between texture, maintenance and styling when it comes to hair. Obviously, it is up to anybody to call their hair whatever they want, from the moment they are comfortable with their own definition. The following is only a point of view.
Relaxed women are not natural in texture; relaxers alter the inner structure of the hair. But those women can be natural in maintenance and styling. I’ve seen lots of relaxed women applying their homemade shampoos, conditioners and moisturizers (natural maintenance, no chemicals other than relaxers). They are aware of the fact that relaxers are very strong on the hair shaft; so, having a natural maintenance is a way for them to limit the damage at a decent level.
Some women can be natural in texture and not in maintenance and styling. If your maintenance includes shampoos, conditioners and moisturizers with chemical ingredients, so it is not natural maintenance. If your maintenance helps in defining curls, smoothing texture, growing hair faster… it can not be called natural. Let’s see this way, those weird names we see in the list of ingredients are not there for fun, somewhere chemistry was involved in it.
When it comes to natural styling, I’d think anything that changes the appearance of the natural hair is not natural. Coloring, texlaxing your hair is not natural. I am sorry but I have had more damage from coloring my hair than relaxing it. Coloring hair does change the hair chemically and mostly it is not reversible. I don’t know much about henna, so I can say much about it. On the other hand, when it comes to the so called braid-outs, weaves, wigs, pressed hair, we must admit that those styles are not natural since they change the appearance of the natural texture momentarily. The good thing is they are reversible, at least for the braid-outs, twist-outs, wigs, weaves; but I am sorry, pressing my hair frequently when I was natural, did change its natural texture overtime. I did not pay attention to that until my mother (who knows best my natural hair than her) told me that. My hair texture was becoming straighter than the natural one, and washing it more frequently would not do anything to help.
Talking reversibility, I think that aspect opens to a lot of misconception whether you’re wearing your natural hair for convenience or ideology. If you wear natural hair by convenience, meaning you’re looking for less maintenance, more thickness, good manageability, I can understand that from times to times, you’d try some non natural styling. But if you wear your gorgeous natural hair by ideology (blackness, purity, pride etc…), you better stick to it no matter what. You can braid, twist, cornrow you hair and wear it with pride. But since braid-outs and twist-outs may change the real appearance of the texture, it’s kind of confusing; it’s hard to see the true blackness of the texture behind all those nice waves. We dont want to mimic the bone straight hair of a white women, what about the curly nice waves of a mixed, mediterranean, or latin chick...I know the reversibility is possible, but momentarily the real message is not there anymore. But again, it is up to anybody to define their own way of being AU NATUREL...
All that discussion reminds of one of a friend of mine (a guy) who was always complaining about women wearing wonderbras. We, women, all want the girls to be all up on the ceiling, but time, breastfeeding, gravity certainly don’t help at all. But still, we like to claim ours natural and would make fun of those celebrities that would go under sugery to get The gorgeous fake ones. Nevertheless, we don’t mind wearing wonderbras to end up with quite similar results MOMENTARILY. Well, my friend would say “those wonderbras should be illegal. By wearing them, these women fill us with false hopes. You meet a great looking conservative chick, you look at her package and your expectations are up on the ceiling; hours later, your disappointment is down to the floor, and you feel like life is so unfair
WOW!!!!!! I think many are looking far too deep into a simple thing. Braiding your hair and then unloosing it DOES not mean u are not natural. Using products to get smoother hair or temporarily pressing it out to get a different look is NOT changing the fact that your hair is natural. Adding pieces for a week, makes you un natural?I think we should make a difference between texture, maintenance and styling when it comes to hair. Obviously, it is up to anybody to call their hair whatever they want, from the moment they are comfortable with their own definition. The following is only a point of view.
Relaxed women are not natural in texture; relaxers alter the inner structure of the hair. But those women can be natural in maintenance and styling. I’ve seen lots of relaxed women applying their homemade shampoos, conditioners and moisturizers (natural maintenance, no chemicals other than relaxers). They are aware of the fact that relaxers are very strong on the hair shaft; so, having a natural maintenance is a way for them to limit the damage at a decent level.
Some women can be natural in texture and not in maintenance and styling. If your maintenance includes shampoos, conditioners and moisturizers with chemical ingredients, so it is not natural maintenance. If your maintenance helps in defining curls, smoothing texture, growing hair faster… it can not be called natural. Let’s see this way, those weird names we see in the list of ingredients are not there for fun, somewhere chemistry was involved in it.
When it comes to natural styling, I’d think anything that changes the appearance of the natural hair is not natural. Coloring, texlaxing your hair is not natural. I am sorry but I have had more damage from coloring my hair than relaxing it. Coloring hair does change the hair chemically and mostly it is not reversible. I don’t know much about henna, so I can say much about it. On the other hand, when it comes to the so called braid-outs, weaves, wigs, pressed hair, we must admit that those styles are not natural since they change the appearance of the natural texture momentarily. The good thing is they are reversible, at least for the braid-outs, twist-outs, wigs, weaves; but I am sorry, pressing my hair frequently when I was natural, did change its natural texture overtime. I did not pay attention to that until my mother (who knows best my natural hair than her) told me that. My hair texture was becoming straighter than the natural one, and washing it more frequently would not do anything to help.
Talking reversibility, I think that aspect opens to a lot of misconception whether you’re wearing your natural hair for convenience or ideology. If you wear natural hair by convenience, meaning you’re looking for less maintenance, more thickness, good manageability, I can understand that from times to times, you’d try some non natural styling. But if you wear your gorgeous natural hair by ideology (blackness, purity, pride etc…), you better stick to it no matter what. You can braid, twist, cornrow you hair and wear it with pride. But since braid-outs and twist-outs may change the real appearance of the texture, it’s kind of confusing; it’s hard to see the true blackness of the texture behind all those nice waves. We dont want to mimic the bone straight hair of a white women, what about the curly nice waves of a mixed, mediterranean, or latin chick...I know the reversibility is possible, but momentarily the real message is not there anymore. But again, it is up to anybody to define their own way of being AU NATUREL...
All that discussion reminds of a friend of mine (a guy) who was always complaining about women wearing wonderbras. We, women, all want the girls to be all up on the ceiling, but time, breastfeeding, gravity certainly don’t help at all. But still, we like to claim ours natural and would make fun of those celebrities that would go under sugery to get The gorgeous fake ones. Nevertheless, we don’t mind wearing wonderbras to end up with quite similar results MOMENTARILY. Well, my friend would say “those wonderbras should be illegal. By wearing them, these women fill us with false hopes. You meet a great looking conservative chick, you look at her package and your expectations are up on the ceiling; hours later, your disappointment is down to the floor, and you feel like life is so unfair
ITS NOT THAT SERIOUS! What is the real reason for these rigged rules? According to this, nobody would be natural EVER!?!
as I said beforeI think we should make a difference between texture, maintenance and styling when it comes to hair. Obviously, it is up to anybody to call their hair whatever they want, from the moment they are comfortable with their own definition. The following is only a point of view.
Relaxed women are not natural in texture; relaxers alter the inner structure of the hair. But those women can be natural in maintenance and styling. I’ve seen lots of relaxed women applying their homemade shampoos, conditioners and moisturizers (natural maintenance, no chemicals other than relaxers). They are aware of the fact that relaxers are very strong on the hair shaft; so, having a natural maintenance is a way for them to limit the damage at a decent level.
Some women can be natural in texture and not in maintenance and styling. If your maintenance includes shampoos, conditioners and moisturizers with chemical ingredients, so it is not natural maintenance. If your maintenance helps in defining curls, smoothing texture, growing hair faster… it can not be called natural. Let’s see this way, those weird names we see in the list of ingredients are not there for fun, somewhere chemistry was involved in it.
When it comes to natural styling, I’d think anything that changes the appearance of the natural hair is not natural. Coloring, texlaxing your hair is not natural. I am sorry but I have had more damage from coloring my hair than relaxing it. Coloring hair does change the hair chemically and mostly it is not reversible. I don’t know much about henna, so I can say much about it. On the other hand, when it comes to the so called braid-outs, weaves, wigs, pressed hair, we must admit that those styles are not natural since they change the appearance of the natural texture momentarily. The good thing is they are reversible, at least for the braid-outs, twist-outs, wigs, weaves; but I am sorry, pressing my hair frequently when I was natural, did change its natural texture overtime. I did not pay attention to that until my mother (who knows best my natural hair than her) told me that. My hair texture was becoming straighter than the natural one, and washing it more frequently would not do anything to help.
Talking reversibility, I think that aspect opens to a lot of misconception whether you’re wearing your natural hair for convenience or ideology. If you wear natural hair by convenience, meaning you’re looking for less maintenance, more thickness, good manageability, I can understand that from times to times, you’d try some non natural styling. But if you wear your gorgeous natural hair by ideology (blackness, purity, pride etc…), you better stick to it no matter what. You can braid, twist, cornrow you hair and wear it with pride. But since braid-outs and twist-outs may change the real appearance of the texture, it’s kind of confusing; it’s hard to see the true blackness of the texture behind all those nice waves. We dont want to mimic the bone straight hair of a white women, what about the curly nice waves of a mixed, mediterranean, or latin chick...I know the reversibility is possible, but momentarily the real message is not there anymore. But again, it is up to anybody to define their own way of being AU NATUREL...
All that discussion reminds of a friend of mine (a guy) who was always complaining about women wearing wonderbras. We, women, all want the girls to be all up on the ceiling, but time, breastfeeding, gravity certainly don’t help at all. But still, we like to claim ours natural and would make fun of those celebrities that would go under sugery to get The gorgeous fake ones. Nevertheless, we don’t mind wearing wonderbras to end up with quite similar results MOMENTARILY. Well, my friend would say “those wonderbras should be illegal. By wearing them, these women fill us with false hopes. You meet a great looking conservative chick, you look at her package and your expectations are up on the ceiling; hours later, your disappointment is down to the floor, and you feel like life is so unfair
I would generally agree with the OP's description of what is "natural" ie no CHEMICAL that changes your hair texture PERMANENTLY.
The rest of it is just over-thinking/ overstating the whole thing
My hair is very slightly texlaxed AND coloured and though I do not say I am natural, I do rely on natural hair threads and practices to maintain my hair since my hair behaves more like natural than fully relaxed.
Next thing you'll be unnatural for breathing "city air" with all the chemicals in it
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I think we should make a difference between texture, maintenance and styling when it comes to hair. Obviously, it is up to anybody to call their hair whatever they want, from the moment they are comfortable with their own definition. The following is only a point of view.
Relaxed women are not natural in texture; relaxers alter the inner structure of the hair. But those women can be natural in maintenance and styling. I’ve seen lots of relaxed women applying their homemade shampoos, conditioners and moisturizers (natural maintenance, no chemicals other than relaxers). They are aware of the fact that relaxers are very strong on the hair shaft; so, having a natural maintenance is a way for them to limit the damage at a decent level.
Some women can be natural in texture and not in maintenance and styling. If your maintenance includes shampoos, conditioners and moisturizers with chemical ingredients, so it is not natural maintenance. If your maintenance helps in defining curls, smoothing texture, growing hair faster… it can not be called natural. Let’s see this way, those weird names we see in the list of ingredients are not there for fun, somewhere chemistry was involved in it.
When it comes to natural styling, I’d think anything that changes the appearance of the natural hair is not natural. Coloring, texlaxing your hair is not natural. I am sorry but I have had more damage from coloring my hair than relaxing it. Coloring hair does change the hair chemically and mostly it is not reversible. I don’t know much about henna, so I can say much about it. On the other hand, when it comes to the so called braid-outs, weaves, wigs, pressed hair, we must admit that those styles are not natural since they change the appearance of the natural texture momentarily. The good thing is they are reversible, at least for the braid-outs, twist-outs, wigs, weaves; but I am sorry, pressing my hair frequently when I was natural, did change its natural texture overtime. I did not pay attention to that until my mother (who knows best my natural hair than her) told me that. My hair texture was becoming straighter than the natural one, and washing it more frequently would not do anything to help.
Talking reversibility, I think that aspect opens to a lot of misconception whether you’re wearing your natural hair for convenience or ideology. If you wear natural hair by convenience, meaning you’re looking for less maintenance, more thickness, good manageability, I can understand that from times to times, you’d try some non natural styling. But if you wear your gorgeous natural hair by ideology (blackness, purity, pride etc…), you better stick to it no matter what. You can braid, twist, cornrow you hair and wear it with pride. But since braid-outs and twist-outs may change the real appearance of the texture, it’s kind of confusing; it’s hard to see the true blackness of the texture behind all those nice waves. We dont want to mimic the bone straight hair of a white women, what about the curly nice waves of a mixed, mediterranean, or latin chick...I know the reversibility is possible, but momentarily the real message is not there anymore. But again, it is up to anybody to define their own way of being AU NATUREL...
All that discussion reminds of a friend of mine (a guy) who was always complaining about women wearing wonderbras. We, women, all want the girls to be all up on the ceiling, but time, breastfeeding, gravity certainly don’t help at all. But still, we like to claim ours natural and would make fun of those celebrities that would go under sugery to get The gorgeous fake ones. Nevertheless, we don’t mind wearing wonderbras to end up with quite similar results MOMENTARILY. Well, my friend would say “those wonderbras should be illegal. By wearing them, these women fill us with false hopes. You meet a great looking conservative chick, you look at her package and your expectations are up on the ceiling; hours later, your disappointment is down to the floor, and you feel like life is so unfair
.. Thank You
