Wigs, Weaves And Perms Symbolize Self Hate

If you're using toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, and soap, the you also hate yourself.
Abi, how natural can one get?

I love my wigs. . . hardly use them
I love my perms . . . get them all the time
I love my weaves. . . have one on right now.

Health issue - No one has died from excess use of moisturizer on either skin or scalp.

Financial issue - Technically, Asians make cars too. . . should we stop buying cars then? Nigeria should make their own hair products if it makes them feel so good.

Sacrilegious - not all of us are christians and for those of us that are, it talks about not putting tattoos or permanent marks on our bodies as desecrating God's temple. Premarital sex does that too . . . why not preach that first?

Psychological - It increases one's self esteem and improves one's body image.

Any questions?

Deodorants do alter the sweat glands. . . . Same goes for shaving blades that causes bruises on the face.

If women give up weaves, wig, and perms, then I suggest the men  give up trying to find hair regrowth solution and I'd suggest Viagra/ steroid producers  stop making their products.

So many people are worried about the recession, ecomony crunch etc, you're worried about  perms and wigs. Go figure!

I just wonder when the hair regrowth for men advertisement will stop showing on my TV screen.

So many products are health risks. Your cell phone, your car,  soda, salt, etc.
Well, I do understand your point. Too much perm is health risk, but what I don't get is how it's associated with self-hate.
If you were a woman, you'd understand how touch it is for a black woman to keep her natural hair. well, some black women. 
I can go 4-5 months without perm. My hair is soft. . . but hard to manage after a while. Hard to comb, to make into a style etc. Does it mean I hate myself? no. My appearance is also my characteristic. The way I take care of myself, esp my hair, shows a lot about how clean I am.  I can't dress nice with crappy hair.

If perming, wearing wig/weave is immoral, then we might as well say wearing condoms, getting out immunization shot, wearing glasses, etc is immoral. It's affecting the body, is it not?

we hear you. . . . .

I agree with the giving up of the wig weave perm thingy. Most black women know this but will never admit to the fact that they do it to look more caucasian (acceptable). Some claim their hair is too rough, tough and unmanageable others claim it is cute. Why can't being your natural self be cute? It has so long been embedded that some of us can't break from the pretty hair: ugly hair spell. Others think that being natural means only wearing an afro but actually there are more natural hair styles than can be worn with weaves and perms. When I went back to school with my new natural do everyone said it was amazing but as soon as I said you can do it too. "Oh only someone like you can pull it off. . . blah blah. I enjoy being me and not being ashamed of my natural being. I haven't worn an afro yet but I know people are dying for when I will debut it. Anyways my point is going natural does not stop with afros and like  India Arie said "I am not my hair."

I love my hair. . . .I love my hair at its best. . . .I guess I hate myself for making my hair look nice. chei!!
Aiye le!

what d hell r u on about?

some ppl actually like weaves, not becos they hate themselves or r tryin to be acceptable. . .  they just simply like the look,  a concept some people here dont seem to understand

Fayasoul I do agree with you somewhat about the basis for black women wearing straight-hair wigs and using acidic and possibly carcinogenic chemicals to straighten naturally frizzy hair in an effort to mimic the naturally straight hair of other races such as white, hispanic or Asian, BUT let us face it, if a black woman leaves her hair in its natural kinky state, her hair-style options would narrow down to a military close-shaven head which looks too masculine on a female, a 1960's Big Hair Afro which makes the girl's head appear twice its normal size, or plaited hair which is about as exciting to look at as a pair of copulating hedgehogs.  

The Naomi Cambell/ Beyonce straight-hair look has worked its way into worldwide social consciousness as a standard of black feminine beauty, and so it would take a black woman of supreme self-confidence to defy current aesthetic conventions by leaving her hair in its natural "nappy" state, what with all the funny looks she would get wherever she went.

The one category of black "beauty" products that to me do signify intense self-hate are skin bleaches, which generally contain highly poisonous mercury compounds which sicken, disfigure and often kill users, and which do not EVER produce the intended result of making a black woman appear white.

the last time i checked, it was pple who liked themselves alot that went d extra mile to make themselves look good.

how does spending shitloads of cash to glam up translate to doing urself grievious harm?

and when the white women apply a perm, hair color, wear curls or tan their skin,they hate themselves.

let these au naturel macy gray -like, erika badu-like ,India arie-like girls leave us alone.
not all of like afro
not all of us like using cast Iron combs on our hair

na by force ?
sheesh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bs, Bs, Bs. . . sure they simply like the look just like some Jews use to make themselves go bliind by trying to pour acid to induce blue eyes during Jewish Genocide.

what does her sex life have to do with the fact that white women also wear weaves

The was the point, what the hell does sex tape have to do with anything

They are worn for versatility. If your hair is short and you wnat it long for an evet, you can. If you want it short for an event, instead of cutting your own hair, you can get a short weave.

If anyone is bringing in irrelevant crap its you

Alex Wek has never worn a weave. is she not a runway model? She's been one for years now. Weave-less.

Tyra ko. Taiwo ni.

Karma,   Alek Wek is so masculine looking that only a gay man could ever really find "her" sexy.   She was deliberately elevated to the status of a super model just to SPITE all black women, by reminding them just what they would look like if they retained natural frizzy hair.  

Like Savanah mentioned, Tyra Banks, on the other hand, has a look that would reduce most men to pleading, 3-legged horn-dogs, and WHO CARES what she does to her hair or body to look so devastatingly sexy.

I dont think Wek is masculine at all. Infact her face is very childish.

Tyra got in cos of her colored eyes. Not her hair. when she first started modeling, she did NOT wear weaves.

well even white women straighted their hair also I really do not understand what you mean by to be more acceptable

Alex Wek is not on the level of Tyra for a reason and that was what Tyra was alluding to. Their are many beautiful black women who will never reach to the level of Beayonce unless they take the route she has taken. Light skin and getting lighter with long straight or curly weave that keeps getting bigger ( like when she had that silly lions mane and wore it to an award show).