I think almost every female has issues when it comes to
their hair. Either our hair is too straight, or it’s too curly, we could never
actually get it right. Sometimes problems with loving our hair are deeper than
those two reasons to despise our hair. As a black woman, I’m faced with the
choice to either straighten my hair or to leave it nappy and natural like how I
was born. When I was little I really loved my hair until it was time for my
mother to do it. It hurt so much that I so desperately wanted to get a perm so my
hair could match the texture of my eyebrows (I know it sounds weird, but it’s
definitely true). My mom never wanted to put a perm in my head because of the
damage that it had done to her hair. But when I moved in with my aunt, it was a
different story. She threw a perm in my hair because she couldn’t handle the
huge amount of hair I had. When she did that, I liked for a good minute, but
then I realized that I couldn’t go back to my naps unless I waited till all the
perm grew out, or chop it off. Chopping off my hair was and still is a “no-no” because
of the notions my aunt put in my head. She often said that it wasn’t professional
to walk around nappy headed at the workplace; hair looked prettier when it was
straight. So this to me is my own little middle finger to corporate America. Saying
that I am capable of whatever is needed despite the texture of my hair. I don’t
need my hair to be straight all the time.
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