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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?
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