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Monday 2 August 2010
Tuesday 27 July 2010
Loc Turban - Head Wrap
I love headwraps, they have really come in handy these days as my dreads have become increasingly crawling down my neck. So regal, so beautiful.
I also use them because i believe, our hair holds a lot of energy. Have you ever noticed that when someone touches your hair, it makes you shiver, sometimes in a good way depending on the person doing it :-) !!
On the other hand, being from Europe stereotyping still exist, we still get the odd negative vibe, and when those vibes touch the locks, i feel it takes some of your energy too. So the best thing to do is to wrap it up and protect them from prying hands and eyes.
On a lighter note, I'm sending love to those who compliment them and have true interest in starting locs and look at mine as a n inspiration, i have to remember 4 years ago i was in their curious shoes too.
Wraps are beautiful, with all different styles, lengths, colours, heights and individuality
The Natural Hair Obsession
the current obsession of natural hair
As mentioned previously, My family and i have being natural from as long as i can remember, if anything i was the rebel who went and relaxed my hair during my late teens, and fearing from my newly straightened hair would be totally chopped off buy my strict parents, and as a teenager in the 90's that would have not been cool (compared to today)
The bottom line, its is all about hair types and how curly we are trying to get our hair to be with the help of 50,000 different products on the shelf, which are full of chemicals and plastic. We have been obsessed about, finding the right product or gel to make our hair curly so we can abandon the tightly coiled napps some people have been born with, there is no shame in that. I find natural hair in its natural state just as beautiful as a curly big fro, how come the majority do not think so? Why do people believe the looser the coil the more beautiful the fro?
This obsession does not stop with just the afro, i believe it continues on with Locs too. Whoever reads this and is easily offended please click the x button on the top left or right of your screen, if you haven't already! I freeform, because i want my hair to follow its natural pattern, i love my hair and always have, never at all been ridiculed for it, ever felt i was beneath those who had silky straight hair, to me it was all i knew.
However as locs are growing more and more popular, i feel there is also an obsession with high maintenance. I thought locing was about giving your hair a break from all the stresses and strains of vanity. Leaving it to be free. but all people tend to do is concentrate on those few fuzzies at the nape, WHY? enjoy it, let your mane grow!! enjoy seeing them coil around each other and intertwine its natural.
Its the same theory as the relaxing process i think, soon as you see a few fuzzies, we reached for the box of 'lye'..Why?
Anyway i agree totally with Saxygurl8, she put it out there and i salut her hopefully more and more females will embrace what they already have and not try to change it or enhance it, isn't this the reason for the natural journey in the first place?
Sunday 25 July 2010
The most beautiful thing on the planet
Is the natural black woman?z hair
So it was so unfair
To tell u it was unattractive, unprofessional, and uncared
Truth is
We was scared
Because black womenz hair
Representz diversity and strength
Whether u rocking a teeny-weeny afro
Or something shoulder-length
Black women be goddessez
Tressed in coilz and kinkz
And if our African women are going to be treated as queenz
Then we need to recognize that it?z their natural hair
That breedz confidence, pride, and self-esteem
Napptural hair is about more than fashion
It?z about physical and spiritual well-being
Afro puff equalz self-love
And you?d be surprised how a head full a twistz
Can connect u to what your history is
And if we took the time to learn about corn rowz
We wouldn?t call y?all queenz hoez
Because you?re worth so much more than how u look
And yet u still keep holding up the whole community
Despite all the mistreatment you?ve took
So go ahead
Take the plunge
And do the big chop
And let?z raise these shortyz with some Bantu knotz
Because this is the last generation of black women
That are gonna be raised thinking
That what they were born with isn?t beautiful
U are beautiful
U are intimidatingly beautiful
And I?ll give my life fighting anyone who tellz u different
U can search the universe
U will not find anything more diverse
Than the natural black womanz hair
So I wanna spend my life seeing yourz grow
Whether u want to loc it or pick it out in a fly afro
I wanna see it grow
Because every day I see another natural woman
I see the black community growing in strength
I know sometimez u get frustrated
Thinking how long?z it gonna take to get back to this length
Or damn
What would my napz be like if I never relaxed?em to begin
Keep ya head up
Cause that don?t matter
If u a natural black woman
U are royal and respected
Tightly coiled
Highly textured
And as the leaderz of the black community
You?re gonna dictate what this future?z gone be
So never be ashamed of who u are
U represent everything in life that makez me care
U possess the most beautiful thing on the planet
The natural black woman?z hair. . .
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