Comments on: Natural Hair In The News

By: Betty Chambers

Betty Chambers — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:35:12 +0000

Really interesting articles you linked to. It’s interesting to see this stuff hit the mainstream.

I can’t walk about with a wet head: I’d get sick. I deep condition (with oil) every week or two. I shampoo once in a while. I only comb my hair after I wash it. My hair doesn’t tangle much anymore.

I’m heavy handed, so I am working on using only a modest (half-dollar size) amount of leave-in conditioners, Castor oil, etc.

For the winter, I blow dry my hair straight with low heat, and I use a heat protectant. I wear it two french braids, plaits, or a ponytail. It’s a nice style to wear out as well, but since it’s winter, my head stays mostly covered.

For the summer, I blow dry the root, and two strand twist. Or I may curl with IC Fantasia while the hair is damn or rather wet. Even gives my 4a/4b hair a nice curl.

By: kk

kk — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:01:15 +0000

is there anything you can do no chemically to turns kikks to curls i am a 4b

By: Shernica

Shernica — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:11:38 +0000

I have noticed in the media that an African America woman’s beauty is portayed as: long weaves, straight hair, big butt and big lips. Why? I don’t understand, are women really telling their daughters that you have to have straight hair in order to be accepted? It’s hard enough for kids to compete with peer pressue than their self image alone. Don’t get me wrong, I just started the natural thing, I don’t get support from my friends and family. But someone has to step up and dare to be different. It should not take chemical processors to get it done!

By: tabitha

tabitha — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:10:46 +0000

I went through the same thing! People of ALL races compliment me on my hair on a near-constant basis now that I’ve stopped relaxing. A lot of people did a “big chop” but I just let me hair grow out and then cut off the ends, which was all the relaxed hair that was left (took about three months). I do, however, find it funny that the article proclaims that curlies spend more time on their hair-when my hair was relaxed, it had to be blown-out, rolled, smoothed, etc, and I had to put humidity-resistant everything in it. Now that I let my curls be themselves, I wash, gel, and leave the house. No blow-dryers. No flat-irons. No problem.

By: axelle

axelle — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:41:08 +0000

Hey guys, I have been growing my hair natural for the last two years now, no curls nothing, just natural. It is about 5-6 inches long now. I so want to get my hair done like Tenika Ray, but i do not know where to start or how. Any ideas?

By: HT

HT — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:33:15 +0000

Yay! Tanika is my godsister, and she’s even more beautiful in person. I remember being so jealous of her hair when I was younger, it was so long, thick and curly, I loved it!

By: Tesha

Tesha — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:29:43 +0000

I too have never gotten more compliments on my hair since I went natural. I wear my hair closely cropped and although I am usually blonde-a color most men respond positively to-even when i wear my natural color I get a lot of positive feedback as well. I NEVER got this type of response when my hair was relaxed and much longer. I love my hair in its natural state and while it is a constant struggle keeping my hair and especially my scalp hydrated I have concluded that I will never go back to relaxed hair!!!
I give tremendous thanks and express mad gratitude to sites like this and the Yahoo Groups I belong to for keeping me up on what to do with and how to care for my natural hair.

By: knitnbytch

knitnbytch — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:44:55 +0000

I decided to go natural in sept. 2006, but I am transitioning. I have a nice amount of new growth that is wavy in the front and spirals in the back. But even though I am frustrated with the 2 textures(spirals/waves, and relaxed hair), I am trying to get to know my hair, and so far I am happy with going natural. I’m not ready to do the BC yet. I decided to give myself until september. What doesn’t curl, gets chopped!

By: Peajai

Peajai — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:06:37 +0000

Bella,

I purchased the DevaCurl LowPoo at a salon not far from my house and I love it. It produces great lather, and it really kept the moisture in my hair. My curls are so defined, I even have spirals in my (formerly) frizzy hair in the front. I highly recommend it.

By: Eve

Eve — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:36:04 +0000

What is all the fuss about. I was brought up by my father, one of 4 kids in England, we had no issues with our hair, we had more important things to deal with. I have never straightened my hair with chemicals, nor had the desire to, or pressure, to do otherwise from, so-called Society.I have sported ‘The Great Bush’ for many years, it as, given me great strength of character, of which I needed for my next journey. My beautiful father, my best & oldest friend died, and I found out I had breast cancer. The roller coaster begins, no more children, fear, chemotherepy, lumpectomy, mastectomy, MY HAIR. The challenge begins, I cut my hair, before chemo. did it for me. Then went to the barbers, to have them shave the rest, Chemo, starts the next day. Today, 2 years later, at 37, I have a little hair, but, really there are more important things we could put our energys into. That we can, love & respect each other, whatever our hair is doing.