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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.
Fake Hair For ALL
Fake Hair for ALL...Who's next? 5-year-olds?
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!
Fake...Fake...Fake = Fraud
Stars and Their Fakeness
Extra TV entertainment correspondent Tanika Ray
is all about the natural.
Sisters with Bad Weaves = Comic Relief
How long is this weave craze going to last?
Sisters walking around like wacked out, psychotic,
counterfeit pretenders of nature.
Say, NO to Fake Hair
Free Your Hair & ....Your Pride will Follow
Embrace Your Texuture
Many Sisters are repressing their
NATURAL TEXTURE instead of
embracing it!
A BLACK WOMAN'S SMILE
The emotionally penetrating video below
breaks down to the lowest denominator;
floodlight Truths
of Sisters' legitimate/24-carat/Royal
everlasting
Queen-dom
Presenting A Black Woman's Smile
perfomed and written by Ty Gray-El (a brother who gets it)
for Sneak A Peek Productions.
Absorb!
breaks down to the lowest denominator;
floodlight Truths
of Sisters' legitimate/24-carat/Royal
everlasting
Queen-dom
Presenting A Black Woman's Smile
perfomed and written by Ty Gray-El (a brother who gets it)
for Sneak A Peek Productions.
Absorb!
Do you THINK Crack Cream is Harmful?
To the Sisters (and handful of Brothers) who put
crack cream in their hair -- Did you ever wonder why the hairstylist
is wearing gloves for protection and your head & scalp is bare naked?
Does that tell you something about the harm of the crack cream?
Another Jackson Needin' a Self-Love Makeover
The Young, Black, and Fabulous blog nailed it, calling
Jermaine Jackson a wax museum piece. And check out
his hair. It looks like tarred asphalt on crack.
Black Entrepreneurs Reclaiming a Piece of Niche Market
Juices & Berries is a leave-in hair moisturizer by Baltimore-based
& black-owned Oyin Handmade products.
The company was recently featured in an AP Wire story:
Entrepreneurs Reclaim Black Hair Care Market With Niche
Products for Newly Coveted Kinks
Another black-owned hair care company for natural hair
mentioned in the story was My Honey Child out of Raleigh, NC.
Bottom line, Sisters are getting tired of chemicals, straighteners,
wigs, weaves & what have you.
The Kink is coming back & Black entrepreneurs are filling the
void for natural hair care products.
Let's hope we can hold on to this market and not go the way
of past decades when L'Oreal, Alberto-Culver, & Procter & Gamble
busted in & devoured our black-owned companies like Johnson
Products, Carson & Soft Sheen.
Lace Front Wigs Are Ridiculous
Leave it to mediatakeout.com to blast OK Magazine
for showing a close up -- unintentionally -- of Jennifer Hudson's
glued on Lace Front Wig.
C'mon, these lace front wigs are absurd....gluing a wig
to your hairline.... Black woman have lost their minds.
It's Not Just a Kinky Hair Issue
6-year-old Bryan Ruda got suspended
from kindergarten in Parma, Ohio.
School officials said his mohawk was
a distraction to the other students &
violates school's policy on being properly
groomed.
Bryan's Mom ain't changing the hairstyle.
She's enrolling him in another school.
Expensive Weave Hair vs Cheap Weave Hair
Did you know that the expensive Indian weave hair
comes from the Hindus where they offer their hair to
temples as a blessing.
And the cheap weave hair comes from the loose hair
that remains on the combs. It is called dead hair.
Ancient Egyptians Cornrowed?
Photograph by Kenneth Garrett, The Egyptian Museum, Cairo --
Courtesy of National Geographic
Nubian Queen Kawit shown on her sarcophagus
having her hair dressed....
Now, check out the hair. Queen Kawit is either getting
her wig fixed or getting her natural hair braided.
Whichever, it's still Afrocentric hair.
Get Up & Go Hair Accessory
This is a hair accessory for bad hair days: The Mane Clip. It's a great idea.
However, it's still promoting the Eurocentric beauty standard. The sister
who invented the Mane Clip is creative. It looks like if The Mane Clip-wearer ever
was in a Jerry Springer moment it would be difficult to dislodge the fake hair.
Real vs Fake
Clearly, former America's Next Top Model looks
better sans her new weave!
Rosalind Cash -- Trailblazing Locs-wearing Actress
Rosalind Cash was a Locs Trailblazer in Hollywood.
And she didn't hide her naturalness underneath a wig.
The Sister refused to play stereotypical roles. You know,
the maids, slaves, and Aunt Jemimas.
Rosalind Cash left the planet in 1995, at the age of 57.
FINALLY -- STEVE HARVEY RETIRES THE FAKE HAIR
Hallelujah....Amen....the wicked toupee is Dead!!!!!
Dominican Hair Salons -- "the best damn blow out!"
Any Sister familiar with Dominican Hair Salons knows
you leave the salon with your hair bone straight;
able to blow in the wind -- for real.
Dominican stylists give -- hands down -- "the best damn blow out!"
Dominicans are a mixture of African, Spanish, Native American.
The Carribean Sister is familiar with a variety of hair textures.
...and they will whip out that crack cream (relaxer) in a heartbeat.
In the early 1970s from Hispaniola: A Case History in Multicultural Madness
-- Dominican sociologist Daysi Josefina Guzman identified 15 kinds of hair
textures. Her scale went from bueno (good) for soft Caucasian hair to
malo (bad) for kinky, Negroid hair.
Here's a peek at her crazy hair spectrum:
1. Lacio - straight & smooth
2. Achinado - stiff hair
3. Espeso - thick, abundant & slightly wavy
4. Macho - thick & strong, abundant but without luster
5. Rizado - thick and fine with small waves but dull
6. Muerto - thin and greasy
7. Ondulado - wavy
8. Vivo - thick, dry & out of control
9. Variable - indescribable
10. Crespo - thick & frizzy
11. de Pimienta - peppery, growing slow & tight to the skull in small balls
12. Motica - like peppery hair but thin, wavy
13. Pegaito - so close to the skull that it is impossible to comb
The Black Hair Inferiority Mindset has claws that intersects all
corners of the planet...
What a Great Picture!
This is famed artist Annie Lee's Extensions....It's real.
The Kink Refuses to be Put Down
Checking out an article by Djehuty Ma'at-Ra -- He reminded the reader
that Perms are not Permanent! dherbs.com
He went on to school us about what Kwame Ture (formerly Stokely Carmichael)
said in the rap song by KRS-One -- Ya Strugglin':
No matter how hard you try to disguise yourself,
it can't be done.
Africa is so strong,
that regardless of what you put in your hair,
she will snatch it off!
Our African Kink Rules & Refuses to be Put Down.
Negro Newspaper Claimed Because of Kinky Hair - Even God Discriminated Against Us
(Courtesy of docsouth.unc.edu/
W. Calvin Chase was founder & Editor of the Negro
Newspaper The Washington Bee. Established in 1882.
It lasted 40 years. (It's motto: Honey for Friends,
Stings for Enemies) Chase died in 1921.
Now, in his March 5, 1910, editorial according to
the book, Blue Veins and Kinky Hair by Obiagele Lake
-- Chase suggested God discriminated against
Black women when he gave them kinky hair.
Chase's editorial went on to say:
"We say straighten your hair, ladies beautify yourselves, make
aggravating, reclusive, elusive, shrinking kinks long flowing
tresses that may be coiled or curled or puffed to suit Dame
Fashion's latest millinery creations, even if it takes every
ounce of hair straightening preparation that can be manufactured
...even God, who discriminated against our women on this
hair proposition, knows that straight hair beautifies a woman.
Yes, straighten your hair and do it at once."
...and our internal hair wars continues into the
21st century...
Some Black Hair Care Products May Cause Breast Cancer
Now Our Hair Care Products May Cause Breast Cancer!
From http://greenerside.typepad.com it stated that the
puzzling phenomenon of breast cancer among African-American
woman under 40 compared to their White counterparts... is
nearly twice as much.
It was suggested it could be the contaminants & ingredients
in hair care products.
Estrogen compounds in Black hair care products could be
a possible explanation.
The majority of the products listed below contain placental
extract, placenta hormones or estrogen.
In 1983, Dr. Devra Davis (epidemiologist & director of the
Center for Environmental oncology, part of the University
of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute) & co-researcher Leon Bradlow
advanced the theory of xenoestrogens -- synethetic
estrogen imitators, being a possible cause of breast cancer.
The list:
(from Dr. Chandra M. Tiwary, pediatric endocrinologist)
- Placenta Revitalizing Shampoo (placental extract)
Skin Care
Kinky Hair & the DNA Molecular Spiral
(Photo courtesy of http://nappyme.wordpress.com)
The Kink -- Spirals like the DNA Molecule.
The DNA spiral is the program for all
life.
Perhaps one day, we will regard our
kinkiness as divine as the ancients did,
calling kink