Why Do Women Of African Descent Relax/perm Their Beautiful Hair

of course you would uche

anyway who wants to bet Sista's hair is relaxed. 

Donz, you should definitely go the Sharpton route. Just make sure you post a pic for us to see the result 

*falls off his chair laughing so hard*

lol, Euphoria, you need to take it easy

lol, sh.t is really getting funny in here. . .

Don't you just love my kinks Ucche? Would you say my hair has chemicals or would you say my hair is all natural? Also, do you see any natural African resemblance of hair going on there?

@ Sista Natural as far as my eyes can tell


@Ndipe I don't think Divadarlin is complaning about what u are saying. She is just saying ( at least to my understanding) that we should start thinking about solving problems that are peculiar to us be it hair or whatever! Nobody is saying that it is capital crime to perm ones hair but then i agree with her that the reason that natural hair is fussy in terms of maintenance sounds kind of of lame.Ok, it is hard and difficult to m aintain what then have we done to make it a little easier.
Okay let me go a bit further to illustrate what i am thinking. I don't know if u are Igbo but if u are then u should know the way we tap palm wine in our place. That same method was  and has been the same method used for over centuries to tap wine. If my great great grand father comes back to life he is still going to meet the same way of palm wine tapping with all its attendant risks. I dare say that palm wine tapping is kind of peculiar to us and since we have not given so much thot on how to improve it, it still remains that way.If it were of any concern to the white man, I bet u that we will still not be climbing palm trees with ete (rope) to get our delicious palm wine

I aint even talking about abandoning one's race and I did not get that impression from Divadarlin either but rather about being more proactive in terms of what relates to us.
To perm,curl , cut or watever ones hair boils down to a personal choice,,,it is not a race thing.But my concern comes from the reasons that were being given. They were not saying that doing stuff to their hair makes them more attracctive or even more confident.No! The reason was that it was hard to maintain. That suggests that most of them would have wanted to keep the hair natural but just could not because it is hard to maintain.Lack of options and that is what bothers me!

@ Ndipe the reason why u don't know of any palmwine tapper that has fallen off a tree is because urs is not a palmwine tappiong community  

I can't even begin to count how many have died as a result of slipping off while tapping a tree not to talk of those that fell and survived! Apart from that due to the posture that u have to take while clinmbing the tree u run the risk of having back pains. I would not want to tell u how m any times I had to rub my grandfather's back with some form of ointment for back ache

WesleyanA




Actually Wesley, my hair goes a Little passed my shoulders, that is how beautifully kinky it is, it just really shrinks up. I love my hair. I do many things with it, many. My sisters hair is kinkier, nappier (which ever you prefer) than mines, I am the hairdresser in the family,  I keep up her hair as well. I am going to find some pictures of her with her natural hair styles I did in her hair and post it. That will be fun. Thank you for the compliment on my smile.

By the way, I miss you, how are you doing today?

 I must say WesleyanA, I am so proud of you. 

Hmmmm ,  now I like to think of myself as an open-minded person, so perhaps Shango can explain the apparent contradiction in this post for us. I am, to quote another Nairalander, confuzzled by this. In another discussion, you posted the picture of a woman and said that was you. Abi there are two Shangos on Nairaland 

Honestly, my first preference is for women with natural hair, but it becomes much more of a debate than it needs to be when people think they can judge your politics from your hairstyle. There's an Outkast lyric about this: "Is every nigga with dreads for the cause? No. So don't get caught up in appearance. "

I agree with u Terra! Not everybody that calls me lord lord will,  (God I am bad at quotations  )
But then we are talking about giving ourselves more options than what we really have instead of just using what is out there just because there is nothing else to use

Shango is confused, that's all.

Dreads?, I don't think my forefathers wore dreads. 

The Senegalese and the Egyptians wore their hair in locks.

@Hotangel


Some people have agreed that keeping the hair natural is actually easier. With chemically relaxed hair, the hair becomes damaged more easily and if you want your hair to stay as healthy as possible and look good, you must touch the new growth up and you must clip the ends, if you don't, you will have a very mad perm. After that, if you don't know how to do most of those things yourself, you will paying a lot of money to keep it up. If you get to know your natural hair and you love your natural hair and you also see the beauty of it and in it, there are many things, wonderful things you can do to your hair. People especially white people, they area always asking to touch my hair. I have been told that my hair is so soft. I love my hair I must say.


Here is my pic, you better hurry to come see it.

Yeah some sort of demonic possession, lol, They call it "isi dada" and they cut if off before the child matures.

Those twists are natural?, I used to wear my hair really long and they never twisted like that. I don't believe you!

Sista, you look like a Yoruba woman. You should make peace with ThiefofHearts, you might be her long lost sister. 

It's the white peoples fault that black people think that sort of hair is "demon possession" 

@Seun

Not really, this is something people in the villages do. It's more about tradition that christianity, they just don't like dreads. 

@Sista

I already cut my hair, thanks for the advice.