A few of the many comments i’ve come across when i dare to wear my natural hair…..it’s true as a black woman your hair is not your own, i remember some years back when i let my hair out for a good couple of months the endless comments i would get from fellow black people about my hair it also didn’t help that my hair is natural (because i don’t believe in chemicals)…..but other races who don’t have the hair texture i have as a black woman would come up to with such nice and genuine comments about my hair,
‘its beautiful’
‘why do you always hide it in braids’
and this is where my confusion and internal battles stem from- who doesn’t want to be considered beautiful from people who are like them (in this case me in the black community), but the reaction to natural hair is so strong you find yourself tired of ‘fighting’ this hair battle and just give in to the weaves, hot combs, relaxers, braids, i mean some woman would actually rather be bald than to have there natural texture in an afro.

Keeping my hair natural is my small way of ‘fighting’ the common ideal of beauty.