Showing posts with label curly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label curly. Show all posts

Sunday, June 24, 2012

New Edition - New Outlook



Just made it home from the New Edition concert. Seeing that my favorite band, N'Sync was inspired by New Edition, I thought it'd be pretty fun to go. But also considering that I wasn't even born when they first came out, I didn't know very many songs.
So what's the next best thing to do at a concert?? People watch! Besides the outrageous outfits that Oakland people (men AND women wear), I also noticed hair styles. The women tended to wear long, straight weaves. So different from the east coast, where this year's fad/trend/preference/whatever tend to be the curly weaves. That being said, I don't think I prefer straight hair anymore on myself. I'm not sure when the next time I straighten it will be, but I don't think it will be for at least another year or two (but we'll see how that goes).

What's the longest you've gone without straightening your hair?

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

#HGKWW

So I learned a new term today - HGKWW - Hair Gets Kinky When Wet.

Basically a friend of a fellow natural hair blogger said he preferred girls with looser curl patterns than kinky curl patterns. He started calling these girls HGCWW (curly).

Simply put, she implied the word kinky has a better connotation than the word nappy. To me they both mean almost the same thing. Is 'kinky' the new cool? Why? Word synonyms are socially constructed. Sadly we shouldn't care what connotations words have, we should just embrace our natural hair texture.

Is there really a difference between kinky and nappy? Why?