[Beauty1913]

Originally posted by DELTAQTE
Now I feel y'all on what you guys are saying on the ignorant statements, there is no need for that(I'm a brown skinned sista myself).

BUT

Why are you guys offended when someone asks you if that's your hair? Black women do ROCK the weave quite often, there's nothing wrong with that, but I do have a very low percentage of friends who hair is ALL ENTIRELY their hair. Usually my long haired friends throw in a track or two, just to make it look fuller.

And it damn sure don't help when I see HOODROACHES wearing the most AWFUL weave hairstyle imagineable! One girl who works with me has her weave shaped like a gold telephone, right on the top of her head. talking bout "I put that on der cause I'm always on the phone gurl" I was thinking " Girl you need 1-800-NEW-DO. Another girl downtown has the letter T on top of her head with fake diamonds in it! Can we say TACKY?

But I don't agree to anybody touching or feeling in your hair, if someone did that to me, they would get knocked out Chris Tucker style.


QTE

I agree with you. It has even gotten to the point where I don't compliment most women on their hair (by saying "you have very pretty hair") because I am afraid that they will be embarrased if its not theirs. This distinctly happened in the grocery store yesterday...Now, if it is simply a nice style, I will say "that is a nice hair stlye" because a woman can have a nice hairstyle with weave or her natural hair, but if I am not sure if her hair is her own and I think the way its curled is cute or something, I will just keep my compliment to myself. That's unfortunate, but then again, that is the point behind weave, at least I think it is, for people to not be able to tell whether its real or not.

Now about the rude coments about dark skinned women with nice hair, that makes me very angry as well. But, nothing makes me more angry than when someone compliments another person on their hair and the person being complimented feels that they have to explain why it is nice; i.e. "yea well, you know, I gots Innnndian in my fammmmily" or "yea, I have a lot of white in me" and they'll be as black as night. I HATE this! Whenever I can, I try to remind people or educate them that each individual has their own set of genes and DNA combination. That means that regardless of your race, environment, culture, nationality, etc. etc. etc., your hair is going to vary. It doesn't mean you have some other races blood mixed in, it just means you have that certain type of hair. And, actually, if you just pay closer attention from day to day as you move about and see a lot of black women, most of them will have long, beautiful hair. This is not to say that long hair is beautiful because its long, it just should begin to get people out of the subconscious mindset that black women most often and naturally have short hair. Try this, you'll see.