Personal Essay: Why I Love My Natural Hair Journey

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

Summer is here and we couldn’t be more excited! However, as much as we love summer, no one likes hair getting stuck to their wet sticky foreheads. This is a very uncomfortable situation. Hence, we are here with 10 hairstyles that you can rock this summer and avoid the uncomfortable situations of pounds of hairs mixed with the summer heat!

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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.

In the movie Hair I didn't see the day to day violence as seen in Catch 22. In Hair you see young people displaying the feelings against war with love and peace. The movie brought awareness to war by showing a possible alternate way of life in which love, happiness and freedom dominate. Berger showed sacrifice by allowing Claude time to visit the girl he likes and unfortunately got stuck in Claudes place. It did however show one reality of war when Berger was walking to his death onto the plane, heading to the unknown. This could of been his perception of hell. I’m sure to his family or anyone else’s family war is hell.

There is a social friendship group made up of six females. The females’ names are Samantha, Diana, Tiana, Victoria, Jala, and Shadiya. Shadiya recently went natural and became a “woke” black person. Diana, Tiana, and Victroia are also “woke” black people but they have relaxed hair. Jala and Samantha are “woke” and have natural hair like Shadiya. Shadiya has started to ask for advice from the friend group about how to take care of her natural hair. Diana used to be natural for four years until recently and tries to give Shadiya advice when she asks about it but Shadiya just ignores it because she believes that since Diana has a perm, there is no way she knows what she is talking about. Shadiya then goes and ask Jala and Samantha about taking care of their natural hair, they tell her what they do and what might work for her but for some reason Shadiya just ignores their advice as well because it is not the same thing that she has read about natural hair care from online.

I began my hair journey in 2011, after many years of wearing my hair in everything from jheri curls, relaxers, press and curlcombs, wig, weaves, and many other styles both natural and not so natural. I finally decided to embrace my natural hair for many reasons. For one thing, the chemicals in the products were irritating to my scalp and my hair never really seemed to thrive. Additionally, especially after carrying children, I felt more

Most natural hair women opt having to do their own hair to risk stylist damaging their precious tresses. I personally think it’s nice to treat yourself to fabulous blowout and straighten style and personally not to worry about doing your hair and take the stress off yourself. Before, that can happen you have do your own research, ask you around the street, make call ins and question the stylist before deciding to down and have style your hair. For example, I remember one time my friend went to a "natural hair salon" and she told the stylist to co cleanse her hair. The lady looked at my friend like she was speaking a dead language. Might I remind you this is technically a salon that carters to “natural hair”. My friend had to call me over and we had to break it down for the stylist. We basically held a mini lecture on the purpose shampooing the type of shampoos and the purpose of them. Long story short I removed the cape off my friend and we walk out the salon with her money intact. Personally, my friend learned a lesson that day. If I have to a give licensed hair stylist a crash course on shampooing you must be out your batty mind to think I’ll that person touch my friend’s

my hair would look shiny like I just washed it and the curls would be defined my hair would have a soft and fluffy texture this would be the perfect hair day because it is the only time I have ever had my hair look so perfect and having it look like this would make me happy and feel elated my hair would look shiny like I just washed it and the curls would be defined my hair would have a soft and fluffy texture this would be the perfect hair day because it is the only time I have ever had my hair look so perfect and having it look like this would make me happy and feel

Recently a client asked, “After being a hairdresser for so many years, how much more can you learn attending hair cutting classes every year?” Thinking of the most recent three-day-advanced class in which our salon team participated, I thought of a term that we were taught pertaining to hair cutting and that I relearned about life in general. The term, ‘where does that hair live’ is one of Eufora’s core concepts in learning to cut hair effectively. Where the hair lives (area of the head from which it grows and the direction where it falls naturally) is an important factor in considering the over all cut, style and manageability of the look one is trying to achieve. Another factor taken into consideration is the diameter of the hair (fine or course) and is the hair straight, wavy or curly. But most important is where does that hair live naturally?

Adventuring with new hair styles has always been fun for me, because I never like having the same style for too long. When timed arrived to register for classes my sophomore year, a new dual enrollment cosmetology was available for 10th graders and up. Only ten people who requested the class were chosen out of over 500 students, thankfully I was blessed to be one of the ten. This was the life changer that I never saw coming. Going into the class I only wanted to learn how to braid better, but in the end, I came to love to do all types of hair and spa services. I continued to undergo the course for two years. Unfortunately, I was unable to finish the course work considering the information that was given to me at the beginning of the class,

Hair, I’ve always had a lot of hair even at a young age. There has never been a time in my life that my hair has been controllable. A brush does nothing, curling iron nothing, and a flat iron, well that’s just a joke. My hair mocks me when I straighten it. My hair curls up and refuses to straighten, no matter the intense heat.

While sitting in my mom’s new apartment one night, I debated what my next “hair project” would be like. I picked up my dyes and brush, and mixed away. The aroma of hair dye mixed with conditioner filled the room from ceiling to floor, wall to wall. From a few feet away, I heard my mom ask, “Are you sure this is what you want to do?” and I replied, “Of course, this is who I am”.

Everyone loves to look stunning everyday - but this doesn’t happen all the time this is because we don't have that much time always - or we don’t feel like doing our hair every single day. This is extremely common as hair is the final thing that is done when getting ready, but from now you don’t have to just struggle your brush through your hair and run. There are hundreds casual hairstyles for girls who are very lazy doing their hair in the morning because they don’t want to spend ages in the mirror or basically don’t have time to style their hair. So here we bring you three simple and easy casual hairstyles for lazy girls, that doesn’t take ages, and you can do in seconds.