African American Hair
I, like many black women have done it all to my hair. I’ve had perms, weaves, and braids, dye jobs, texturizers, home jobs, press and curls, finger waves, and last but not least “au naturale”. Part of me is ashamed to admit it, but I used to like the way my hair felt soft and it didn’t hurt to comb when it was relaxed. It was shiny and it swung and was still thick. However, it was relaxed and I, to a certain extent, felt like a sellout, a trader to the cause, a liar. (Maybe that last part borders on melodramatic but that’s how I felt.) When my aunt used to put my relaxer in, I wanted to yell for her to STOP!! I had made a mistake, she should just wash and curl it and I would work with it from there. As I sat waiting for the relaxer to take all I could think about was how long it would take before I had enough new growth so that I could go natural. I used to worry about what people would think of me if I decided to go natural, but now I attend the Mecca, the epitome of black hair pride, where it seems that if you aren’t natural, to a certain extent you are condemned. I’ve now accepted the fact that black hair is unique and that being highly textured, black hair is naturally more coarse, dense and brittle than other hair type. I hav
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Approximate Word count = 1048
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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