Hey Curlies,
So a coworker and I were talking about hair and I told her I have a blog about natural hair and she looked “surprised.” She asked exactly what it was about and I told her it was all about the “transition”…she said “what transition”? So once I started explaining things to her it seemed like she understood a little more and this showed me some people are very ignorant when it comes to this topic!
**Fast Forward to later that day**
An African woman walks in with a huge puff and I was say, “wow, she has so much hair”.. I honestly LOVED the way it looked. The first thing my coworker said was…” its fake.” I didn’t understand why she would make this assumption so I asked why. She said simply because the ends of her fro were kind of “curly.” This is where I sort of got defensive..lol (didn’t mean too) I said “Have you never seen a natural with curly hair? That’s what being natural is,curly hair.” Anyway, lol I just thought I would share this, I found it so silly that she would say that.
How do you feel about this topic?
I definitely think a lot of people think that when you're natural it equals nappy. I've always thought that my hair would never have ANY type of curl, but since I've been moisturizing it as much as I can, I've seen some waves!! There are a lot of oblivious ppl in the world though!