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by Laquita
It wasn’t long ago when natural hair wearers had to either go on a scavenger hunt for products to maintain their natural tresses or become Kitchen Beauticians and make their own. Nowadays, you can go into practically any store and find products that are geared toward maintaining and styling natural hair.
As a result of the natural hair surge, many large corporate cosmetic companies have also, for lack of a better term, jumped on the natural hair bandwagon, touting products for ‘curly’ hair and/or ones that contain natural ingredients such as Olive Oil and Shea Butter.
Years from now, will these larger companies end up buying out the smaller internet or home-based ones making them obsolete? Will executives without a strand of natural hair on their heads end up selling natural products? The following bloggers/natural hair product makers shared their thoughts with Kinnks.
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The decision to go natural was one decided long before it actually happened. As a kid, every six weeks I endured the painful ritual of relaxing my short brittle hair; all the perm in the world could not tame my mane. As soon as the slightest bit of new growth emerged from my scalp, my smooth wrap would turn into a fly away half-fro. I always preferred the cornrows my godmother seemed to sew into my hair. They too were painful but the result was always gorgeous. Sometimes long, sometimes a unique pattern; my extensions and cornrows defined me.
It’s cheezy…. I know but its true.
In my adolescence my vision for adulthood entailed what
I imagined as daily spoken word poetry nights, just like the ones in the movie Love Jones
I imagined debating politics, and inspiring social change
I imagined being grown and sexy hanging with other Black Yuppies
Eric Roberson is eye candy! Lalah Hathaway is adorned with beautiful locs. In watching you will be inspired by locs, ‘fros and twist outs!
I now know adulthood is more than just what adults do for fun…
This video reminds me of my youthful vision of adulthood…
Eric Roberson is eye candy! Lalah Hathaway is loc inspired… other ladies wear beautiful ‘fros and twist outs. I love the drama this video unfolds, and the spectators reaction!
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The Black Power movement showed the progression of the Black race. For the first time in history, American Blacks had the opportunity to name themselves… African-American. Terms like Negro and Colored were considered taboo.
Black history month is proof that African-American history is becoming more mainstream and common knowledge. I learned few facts growing up, but the majority of my Black history knowledge was attained after high school in my undergraduate studies.
In gaining Black history knowledge or “consciousness” many people go through a Black Power stage, sometimes in an extreme sense. To become pro-Black, as we know, does not necessarily mean anti-White or prejudice. It is an expression of self pride. An expression, which at a time, was absent in our mainstream society.
I consider this Black consciousness stage similar to the consciousness of natural hair.
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Random Thoughts •
I can definitely relate to Uzuri’s story. As I child, when it came to choosing my style from the walls of the JC Penny salon… my hair just couldn’t duplicate the options provided. It lead to relaxers, Jheri curls, etc. Read more about what pushed Uzuri to the natural side…
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Bad Hair
For a long time, I knew going natural was the right thing to do, but I’d been taught that my hair texture was “bad” and given every reason to think that my hair being “nappy” was the worst thing it could be. Because of this thinking that was forced on me as a child, I went from hair that hung to my middle back when it was pressed out, to about 11 inches of confused mess.
I went through every hair chemical known to man from the age of 9 to 16.
Styles • TWA (Tennie Winnie Fro) • Twist-Out • Guest Blogger • Products •
