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Politics of Black Hair...Kinky... The Other "N" Word...Nappy
Look for Chris Rock's "Good Hair"
Look for Chris Rock's Sundance
Award-winning Good Hair film coming
to HBO...I'm sure he's going to expose
the ridiculous obsession black woman
have about our Un-natural hairstyles.
Vintage Hair Pomade
It's Sensational, Joe Louis Hair Pomade" -
around in the 1940s. Joe Louis was
World Heavyweight Champion from
1937-1952.
"THE I'M MAD AS HELL...& I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE" AWARD of the MOMENT Goes To....
The wonderful actress, Kerry Washington -
overflowing in a mass of fabricated fake-ness.
The Real Halle
Then
Now!
Halle's rockin' her REAL hair, again....Amen!
Crazy Hair
Pink & Black Braids? This woman has lost her mind.
1950s Quiz
This 1952 Ebony magazine quiz asks,
who's Black, who's White?
The hair is certainly not a giveaway.
Crazy vs Natural
Which makes more sense this?
or
This?
Headwraps for Centuries
(photo by Georgia Scott)
We been wearing headwraps for centuries. Countries like
Morocco, Mali, and Niger wear them to protect their heads
from the harsh heat.
Is Shame Hiding Under the Headwraps?
Perhaps Black women have & still are wrapping
our hair due to shame or hard to control hair.
Many of us have never taken the time to understand
the natural flow of our hair. We'd rather imitate
someone's else hair texture. & when we can't
get it -- we wrap it up.
Here's an old cardboard trade card advertising
Clark's O.N.T. spool cotton from1894....
The sister's hair is hidden under the headwrap.
Black Women & Headwraps
Here's a vintage ad from 1941 advertising a Servel Gas Refrigerator.
The maid is Mandy whose got her headwrapped Aunt Jemima-style.
Weaves for Babies - OMG!!!
(courtesy of BlackHistory.Wordpress.com)
I know we've lost our mind!
Now, we're slapping weaves on our babies.
It's called baby bangs. A headband of fake
straight hair.
Beyonce Weaving It Back When She Was 12
Beyonce before she was a teen was weaving it.
Weaves on young, weaves on old -- weaves are
ravaging the Black community.
Braid Extensions - Black Woman's Ethnic Answer to Long Hair
(above montage photo courtesty of theglamourouslife.com)
Braid Extensions = Long Hair with a conscience.
Woman Attempts Guinness World Record for World's Longest Locks
Asha Mandela is attempting the Guinness World Record
for the Longest Locks.
In the above video, however, ignore her remarks about
she's from a mixed family and that's why her
good textured hair grows so fast. Child, Please!!!!
Little does she know that it is kinky hair that adheres to locks
the best. And what is she talking about good textured hair?
Anyway...check it out. It took her 20 years to cultivate.
Beauty of Natural Hair by Naturalnana
Our Natural Hair IS Beautiful!!!
"Good Hair" Documentary Featuring Chris Rock Competing at Sundance
Comedian Chris Rock is featured in a documentary competing
at the Sundance Film Festival Jan 15-25, 2009. It's called:
Good Hair.
Chris uncovers the real deal on the unique Black Hair Industry.
It's directed by Jeff Stilson.
It all started when Chris' daughter, Lola, came up to him crying,
"Daddy, how come I don't have good hair?"
Not having a solid answer Chris committed himself to search the ends
of the earth to find out what put this concept in Lola's head.
The film takes you to India's sacred temples where many of the hair weave hair originates; and what's an expose on Black Hair without featuring Atlanta's Annual Bonner Brothers Hair Show.
Other celebs featured in the film include: Ice-T, Kerry Washington, Nia Long, Paul Mooney, Raven Symone, Maya Angelou & Rev. Al Sharpton.
I pray the film is informative and in good taste...with all his comedic genius --we know how Chris can get.
Check out Eurweb.com and Sundance Film Festival 2009 for more on the film.
Koreans Dominate Billion Dollar Black Hair Industry - Film by Aron Ranen
Koreans dominate the Black Hair Industry.
The billion dollar revenue is leaving our community!!!
Filmmaker Aron Ranen is exposing the truth. Support him
at Blackhairdvd.com.
The billion dollar revenue is leaving our community!!!
Filmmaker Aron Ranen is exposing the truth. Support him
at Blackhairdvd.com.
Ange Can't Find Barbie Dolls with Kinky Hair for Zahara
Mediatakeout.com mentioned that Angelina Jolie in an
interview said that Zahara wants her hair to look like
her mummy's: straight.
And when she looks for an Black Barbie, the hair is
straight.
So Zahara has hair issues that's going to snowball.
Mediatakeout suggests Ange call Jada..she needs to hire
a full-time conscious hair stylist -- just for Zahara.
Who Knew? The Brother who invented the Traffic Light, also invented Hair Relaxer.
Garret Augustus Morgan (1877- 1963)
The website Skin Biology: The Truth About Hair Relaxers, elaborates
on how Garret Morgan, known for his invention of the
traffic light and gas mask, also invented the first hair relaxer.
He was working in a sewing machine repair shop around 1910. Garret was trying to invent a new lubricating liquid for the machine needle.
The story goes that he wiped his hands on a wool cloth. He came back the next day and the woolly textured of the cloth had smoothed out.
He was perplexed and wanted to find out how the liquid chemical straightened the wool.
Garret experimented with an Airedale dog; known for its curly-texture.
Airedale Dog
The same result.
Then Garret tried the concoction on his own hair. He called it,
hair refining cream.
He patented the first chemical hair straightener.
This was the jump start to his own personal grooming
products company which included, hair dying ointments,
curved-tooth pressing combs, shampoo, and a hair cream
advertised as:
Positively Straighten Hair in 15 Minutes.
.(courtesy of ric.edu)
...and the brainwashing has continued into the next millennium.
JCPenney; "We Don't Do African-American Hair"
All an African-American woman wanted was her hair dyed at
JCPenney's Hair Salon in a Downey, California. mall. At AOL Blackvoices.com
Hair Apparent writer Hayat Mohamad explains how a Sister was denied
a dye job.
She's suing JCPenney and has hired high-powered attorney Gloria Allred
to set JCPenney straight.
The sister regularly wears wigs and wanted her gray-haired temples colored
to match the wig.
Say, No To Fake
Here's actress Golden Brooks of the now-defunct Girlfriends TV Show;
wearing Fake Hair on the OBVIOUS tip.
Cream Crack! How Do I Hate Thee! by BoingBoing
Cream Crack
How Do I Hate Thee!
by BoingBoing
How Do I Hate Thee!
by BoingBoing
You hooked me!
I woke up in cold sweats pining from your deadly
fumes that filled me up with the aroma of love.
You burned me!
To touch you left me with patches
that stripped life away
from the very roots that bloomed from within.
You kept me!
So dependent in a way that I could never walk
without the crutch you gave me
to lift my head high in pride.
False hope!
To think that life would be worthless without you,
because I would be worthless without you.
You stole from me!
Constantly taking the essence that was given to me --
as a gift, replacing it with your mirrors
to reflect the image you see me in.
You tortured me!
Empty and hollow full of holes from wounds of abuse
caused by the toxic disease you carry within your
formula of beauty.
You poisoned me!
Filling my head and thoughts with words and
sweet whispers of self-esteem lasting only 6 to 8 weeks.
You deserted me!
Leaving me in a coma, depriving me of those free
of your mental and emotional restraints of
a chemical prison.
I woke up!
Alive and free and educated to be what God made me.
I got smart!
Finally realizing the only way to rid you
was to neutralize you!
F**k You!!!
My self-worth is not determined by the straight,
relaxed path of destruction you leave behind,
but the bend and the curve of a rhythm...
I choose to roam!
*snaps fingers*
(poem courtesy of BoingBoing at Natural Boing
Weave On the Clothesline?
Blow drying...Okay.
Weave drying on the clothesline...
Ridiculous!!!
Are We Rejecting Self?
Are we legitimizing
another culture?
...& rejecting our own?
Oppressed Hair
Alice Walker said in a speech
a few years ago that
oppressed hair
puts a ceiling on the brain...
From the Archives: Our Beautiful Natural Texture
We are repressing our
natural texture...
instead of
embracing it.
Hair Gone Wild & Baby Too!
Mother Daughter
What are we teaching our children?
Give Me a Pack of ....
There's a pack of Cigarettes...a pack of Cards...a pack of Wolves...
& then you've got your Pack of Hair...
From the Archives: CRACK CREAM
Crack Cream = Hair Relaxers
Aren't Hair Relaxers nothing more than
crack cream?
It's addictive...relatively cheap...easy
to get & one of the hardest addictions
to overcome.
And it easily takes over one's life.
Additionally, it damages your hair,
scalp and who knows what else as
it penetrates your blood stream.
Being hooked on hair relaxers makes one a
hair dope.
Beyonce & L'Oreal = Fake
Is this a L'Oreal ad for hair care?....'Cause we all know the
hair is fake...
Hair Grease -- Back in the Day!
Sweet Georgia Brown Hair Dressing Pomade from the 1930s to early 1950s
....just had to "hold down those kinks..."
From esnarf.com.
Afro Hat
Only Kinky hair could do this.
The Konk Hair
Should Negro Men Marcel Their Hair? This was the title of the
above article from Jet magazine on September 24, 1953.
Some folks back in the day said marcel or processed hair; also known
as konked hair looked, "sissified" on Brothers.
A konk-wearer explained, "We don't look any more sissified than the
men of Victorianian times who powdered their wigs or wore pompadours."
The article goes on to say men like renowned singer
Nat King Cole (above) and boxer Sugar Ray were regarded
as well-groomed with the process look.
Today, we have folks like the Rev. Al Sharpton (above)
who process their natural kinkiness.
Give me a man with the Kink any day!!!!
Black Memorabilia...Hate It!
Here's a "N" Hair Tobacco tin from the early 1920s.
How insulting! To be politically correct the B. Leidersdorf
Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the late 1920s
changed the name to Bigger Hair Tobacco.
Anybody interested? You can buy the demeaning tin @ Trocadero.com.
Real or Fake?
....just asking...Is Mrs. Smith hair the real deal
or added on extensions?
The Survival of Fake Hair
The Fake Hair Phenomenon, unfortunately, is not slacking off. See (from
top left- clockwise) Ashanti, Kelly Rowland, Chaka Khan & Telma Hopkins
Beyonce Loves Her Lace-Fronts
According to Mane and Chic Beyonce pays about $50,000 for 1
customized lace-front wig.
The mesh part is handmade from Swiss lace.
Each strand of hair is transplanted one-by-one into micro-openings
in the wig cap. It gives the illusion that hair is growing directly
from the scalp.
All this for an erroneous perception of reality.
Ange & Brad - Time to Dial Up Jada about Zahara's Hair
Okay, Angelina & Brad, it's time to talk to one of your black
female Hollywood friends....Dial up Jada.
It's admirable about adopting children of color...but you
need to get help with Zahara's hair.
Lace Front Wigs --- Damage Hairline
See Naomi Campbell's damaged hairline due to
constantly gluing fake hair to the hairline; wearing lace-front wigs.
This nonsense has to stop. She, like many other
Sisters are ruining their hair & hairline; being sucked
in to a mindless straight-hair psychosis.
R Kelly -- the Anti-Goldilocks
R Kelly -- the Aniti-Goldilocks....
Was this necessary?
Braids in Antiquity
Sisters were rockin' braids 1000s of years ago!
