My Childhood Memories Of Hair

This epidemic although current and recent is not new; for years and centuries it’s been

The renaissance was a very nice era especially for the hair and jewelry for men and women. Many older women didn’t like showing their hair off, but on the other hand young ladies did. Men wore hair to their shoulder length and wore a lot of hats.

Are you a coarse haired natural? I am and yes, I love my coarse hair. Do I ever get frustrated? Heck yeah. But after five years I’ve figured out how to take the good with the bad. Here’s my story.

There has been a notable amount of conversation on the internet on the rebirth of the natural hair movement. Cherise Luter (2014) states that despite afros and the natural hair movement not being a new concept (i.e. the Black Power Movement), it has gone under what she calls a “refreshing change”. Furthermore, what used to be “I’m black and I’m proud”, has been replaced with “I’m me and I’m proud” (Luter 2016). So, what is the natural hair movement? It is defined as a movement where black women decide to not conform to the social norms of chemically altering their hair and wearing it in its natural, kinky, or curled state (Joignot 2015). The movement could also be considered as an outlet for black women to display their racial and cultural pride or to articulate their “political position (Brown 2014:297). However, simply the terminology “movement” is something that should be shocking to many. There is a great amount of historical context behind the continuous influence Eurocentric beauty ideals have had on black women for centuries. According to Nadia Brown (2014), Black natural hair throughout history has proven to be recognized as “either unintended or intended personal and political statements” (298). the beauty standard in Western society which praises European hair textures, has influenced many black women to be critical of other black women who choose to chemically straighten their hair, accusing them of being subservient to the dominant and pervasive racist

Hair is fibre, and it is a lot like wool. Every hair has three layers. The first and inner most layer of fibres are the medulla. The second layer is the cortex that is around the medulla, and the outer most layer is called the cuticle and it protects the other sensitive layers underneath from breakage or damage. Each hair grows around 0,653cm each month out of the follicles in our heads and it may keep growing for up to 6 years until it falls out and there is space for new hair to grow. The length of your hair depends on how long it grows for. If it only grows for less years than the average growth period of six years, it will be shorter. The thickness of your hair depends on the wideness of you hair

Hair in the 1910s became more fitted to the head and it started to be cut shorter. The hair was also seen in a bun. Pin seen were long and held the larger hats in place. The pins would have flowers made from ivory, enamel, leather and jet on them and other gems were also seen. Pins were made from metals such as steal and gold. Over the sharp end of the pin, a cap would be put on to provide protection when they were in the hair. World War 1 led to women being viewed differently and in 1918 women were able to vote.

I wanted to start of the event with this video. I made it a few weeks ago. When I started working on this project I really thought that this was a minority only problem and I wanted to focus on Hispanics because of my Colombian decent. I wanted to honor my roots while embracing my American life style. But it was Monday night, a slow day at a beautiful restaurant overlooking the ocean city somersault bridge and I was polishing glass for my side work and chit chatting with my coworkers. I was specifically talking to a co work. American. Blonde hair. Blue eyes. About 40 years old. I was telling her about my Tuesday plan that was handing out exit surveys at a polling location. She was confused. I said yes the primaries are tomorrow (this was Monday

3 samples of hair are picked from 3 suspects that maybe the murderer of Mr.Mowder. Another sample of hair was extracted from the crime scene left by the killer. Under the microscope, 4 samples of hair were observed. Sample A or Schwab’s hair sample was light brown, wide, had a presence of medulla, and dark shadings on both sides of the hair. Sample B or Clark’s hair was darker, thinner than Suspect A’s, and still had presence of medulla.The shading was uneven on the sides. Sample C or Klotz’s hair was light blonde or grey, wide, had no presence of medulla, and no shading. Finally the hair sample found on the body of Mr.Mowder was light brown, wide, had presence of medulla, and dark shading on the sides. Sample C was widely different from the other hair samples due to its color. Samples B, C and the victim hair are more similar due to it’s

The essay Hair written by Maria Alderich, is an analysis of women during the 1950’s need to conform, rebel, or fit in to societies social standards and the inner conflict it caused in women’s identity. The essay is Alderich’s firsthand account of the females in her immediate family and how they use their hair styles to define themselves and represent their self-identity.

Have you ever been through a journey faced with complications that lead you through frequent steps that can occasionally make you want to give up? I decided to do my capstone project on The Journey of Natural Hair, mainly focusing on the selections of afro-textured portions throughout my project. A journey of natural hair is a route you take along with your hair as you encounter different changes and ideas pertaining to your hair. The Natural hair journey technically starts when you are born because everyone is born with different varieties of natural hair. My reason for choosing such a topic is because it is something I can relate to. I have also experienced many of the common stages along my natural hair journey. This topic stands out to me and is something I enjoy talking and learning about. I understand that many aren’t able to self-experience a journey of natural curls which varies with race and background. Exposures to chemicals such as hair relaxers can permanently change the texture of the relaxed portion of hair. As I research further into my subject I hope to learn how certain things can manipulate the hair. I also seek to learn new things the journey has prepared as it continues step by step. I can achieve this by gaining more knowledge about natural/afro-textured hair through others experiences and studies on it.

I don’t know about you, but when I was a little girl, I would always walk around the house and picture how I might look when I was finally ALL GROWN UP... Well, that ‘look’ that I had in my head, almost always consisted of some style of curls, adorning my cinnamon brown skin.

As we discussed in the Get to Know Your Hair section, if your hair’s cuticle is damaged it will not lie flat, so hair will appear dull. The flatter the cuticle scale, the more light is easily reflected off of its surface causing the hair to have natural shine. Damaged hair has less natural shine. Damage to the cuticle will also cause hair to not have natural movement and body, so the hair appears lifeless and stiff.

Though I haven’t been stereotyped much in my life, but the biggest and most annoying stereotype I’ve ever faced was because of my hair. I have blonde hair, and a lot of the time people assume that blonde people are dumb. This, however, is untrue. I’ve fought my entire school career to show that I am not stupid because of my hair color, but still people stereotype me. At one point, I even dyed my hair so that people would stop, but it just made me more insecure about who I was. So, even if people try to tell you that you are dumb because of your hair, don’t believe them and don’t become a

Here, there, everywhere, all I see is more hair. Wild and untamable like a jungle, running freely all over me. Dark as the night, contrasting with my porcelain skin. Sure, I did start the bold brows trend, but that was short lived. While I look like a wildebeest, my mother resembles a Sphynx cat. Sometimes, I wish I looked like her, not having to care about wearing shorts or going down to the beach.

According to the Social construction of gender as a process, men and women should be masculine and feminine respectively. At the beginning of the movie “Good Hair”, the author want the society to know how important the hair is, especially for a black women. Black Women straight and “relax” their hair with having a thought that it will make them look sexier and lead them to be more feminine. They think that nappy hair makes them less feminine. These black women’s have a desire of having hair like the people they see in the magazines. Those are especially white women with natural and blonde hair. Black women’s found out many different ways to make their hair relaxed and straight like the white’s hair. One of the method they found was of applying