Tight Curls or Silky Straight???

[Poplife]

Originally posted by Eclipse:
Now as for the vibe I'm giving you...I don't think any of those things. My questions came from your assertions that a person's hair texture will probably change (like yours did) after they get rid of the perm and the "DREADFUL" state is not a permanant (no pun intended!) state. When I read this, I took from it that because of this a person should not be 'scared' to go natural. Since I didn't want to put words in your mouth, I decided to ask. I was trying to determine if your hair had stayed "DREADFUL" (your word, not mine) if you would have continued with your decision and trying to understand why you, with your 'happy to be nappy' self, would use such a word to discribe your natural hair texture. BTW...in the literal sense "dreadful" means "Causing great fear or anxiety". Most of the consciously loc'ed (meaning they are doing it for political or religious reasons) folks that I know detest the word "dreadlocks" as a friend of my says (I think she is quoting someone else) "Ain't nothing DREADFUL about my HAIR" I guess you could have meant the 3rd defination (according to my dictionary "inspiring awe!"

Dag, I forget that I'm not talking to close circle of natural friends.

"Dreadful" is a sarcastic term my friends and I concocted to describe what a lot of hair . We don't use it as a derogatory term...more like a explanation of texture. Like I said, we used it to describe hair that "dreads" on it's own. I say "dreadlock" because if you just say "loc" it's a slightly different look. Locs are tubular and Dreads are more angular.

I will rephase with just for you.

"My new growth was very tightly coiled when I first stopped perming."

It may not have been the permanent texture, but it was the natural texture.

New growth is NOT the true natural texture. As Serenity said, it's the fake me out natural that still has the chemicals on it that seeped through the scalp. It takes a while for your hair to purify itself. After that's done your true hair will come out. That's why I personally don't count new growth as natural hair.

Oh yeah...who said I ever got/needed a touch up? I might have 'good hair' that leads me not to use chemicals. (And I will leave it up to YOU to define 'good hair'!)!"

Good hair is hair that does exactly what you want.

Whether you perm or not, the tone you used when talking about nappy hair lead me to believe that you don't like it. You tell me which is worse: A black person with kinky hair that hates it, or a black person with "mixed"/straight hair that hates kinks?

Both are self-defeating.

[This message has been edited by Poplife (edited January 25, 2001).]