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We've taken the conversation into the kitchen. Now it's time for you to join us. Share your hairstory with The Root, and let your strands speak for themselves.
You've read our take on tangles and locks. Now it's time for you to weigh in. How has the recession affected your 'do? What's your best or worst hair memory? We know you have plenty to say, so write in to TheRootTwist@gmail.com and share your twist on hair with The Root. Be sure to include the following:
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Paunice Savage: Patience, prayer and "this-too-shall pass" hair specials.
Michel Martin: Sometimes a haircut is just a haircut.
A'Lelia Bundles: A 5-part manifesto on hair peace.
Yodith Dammlash: A candid look at the tangles between black women and their hair.
Bijan C. Bayne: How black men have shaved, conked and cornrowed through history.
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My thoughts on hair have gone through a lot of changes throughout the years. I, like most African-American women, grew up getting relaxers or getting my hair straightened with a hot comb. My hair was always described as "coarse" and thick. But when I was in my last year of college, I needed a change. My hair was long, but thin and it didn't feel healthy. So I decided to take the plunge and cut it all off. I got my hair done in coils that eventually turned to twists when my hair was long enough. In 2004, I started locking my hair with a natural hairdresser and now still sport locks that I maintain myself. I will eventually cut them off. Just for another change.
My thing now is, that it's just hair and it is not a big deal. No matter what texture your hair is, a lot chemicals/coloring and heat are damaging. Everyone should try to keep a healthy head of hair. And while I feel straightening isn't the healthiest choice, you can still do your best to maintain chemically treated hair.
The only thing I regret is that it took a degree of acceptance in the community at large for it to be deemed "okay" to go natural. Forerunners in the mainstream like Whoopi and Lauryn have to make it cool before the masses think it cool. Sure, people did the fro in the 70's, but then came that Jheri Curl, etc. and back to straightening. Certainly, most women still straighten their hair and it's still the norm, but sporting locks, a tiny fro, or twists are not worthy of a double take anymore.
But I will say again, at the end of the day, it's just hair, people, :)
I was bless to grow up in a family that honored beauty. Like so many I was a dixie peach...hair rep...crown royal colored girl who sat sandwich between my mothers knees as she pulled the hot comb through my coarse kinks...straightening each strand into a respectability.
It wasn't because my mother and grandmother thought my hair was ugly...it was just the way we did things back then... it was part of the ritual of getting ready to put on our Sunday Best! I loved having big bangs...and a head full of shiny curls...as much as I liked black patent leather shoes and petticoats under a yellow chiffon dress...that was how we did it...
I don't recall the exact moment of my epiphany...but I'll never forget the words my grandmother spoke soothingly to me in an effort to mend my broken heart...
"I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well".
She also preface that Psalm's verse with pearls of her own wisdom by saying
"baby just 'cause someone refuse strawberries
doesn't mean that something is wrong with strawberries...
strawberries sweetness and beauty is always appreciated by
those who love 'em."
At pondering those words, I realized that my personhood...and my hair was as lovely as God had intended. That was thirty years ago...snd my hair has evolved from french perms...to Afro to Maasai-do...and I've worn dreadlocks for the last eighteen years...
Does it have to be the hair? Does the hair style define a black woman? Of all the beauty in a black woman, why so much talk about BLACK HAIR? I think it is this excessive focus on black womens hair that is making a lot of black women to focus on issues that are not so relevant. Today, I see black women with blonde hair, green hair, pink hair. What happened to those nappy hair that makes blackmen happy? The beauty of a blackwoman is versatile. To be honest with you, hair don't even come close.
Maybe we should start thinking about BLACK HAIR HISTORY MONTH. How about that?...lol.