Showing posts with label question. Show all posts
Showing posts with label question. Show all posts

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Black Hair @ Work

Apparently my hair concerns in a previous post are common. To catch you up, I didn't want to go from long kinky twists @ my internship to my shorter braidouts/twistouts. I'm not ashamed of my hair. I love my hair. In fact, I see it as an accessory. But, I just hate all the questions from co-workers about my hair! Here's what I wish I could say:

1. Did you do "something different" to your hair? ...*roll eyes and ignore the question*
2. Why did you cut your hair? I didn't cut it. It actually grew!
3. What happened to your hair? What happened to your face *as I proceed to slap it*

Two friends of mine are at opposite ends of the spectrum. One, if she doesn't finish putting in her havana twists, will finish the edges and bun it for the rest of the week or until she has time. The other, took her senegalese twists out, showed her short permed hair, and is about to get a long weave. But I already have people at work asking me why she "cut" her hair. Even if she did cut her hair, why would I know?! Le sigh.

Sometimes I wish all cultures could tell when braids/twists are using "external" hair. Or at least let them know it's not okay to ask such stupid questions. It's quite annoying answering these questions every time you see someone else in the hallway.


Thursday, December 29, 2011

Random but..

Do more females have natural hair on the east coast than the west coast? Because it sure seems like it to me :\

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?