Hair
I was going to post this as a response to the "hair" post, but I'll start a new post anyway, since this is a current and on-going issue.
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I finally cut off my hair last winter, cut off ALL the straightened part of it
THEN i went back and straightened it again.
Hair never looks good in in-between stages unless you style it.
It's too bad that Alicia Keys and Nicole Richie go and straighten their hair now....it's like they all move towards that in the end. I like to change hairstyles, I miss my curls after a while...I just want it to be LONG!!
Also, I have noticed that more and more women wear their hair out (In NYC for example) and in other cities, like Helsinki (I live in Finland as of now, by the way). People stare at me all the time, but also because my facial features are different and I have learned to accept it. Most of the time they are thinking "Wow she is pretty" or "What cool hair" but their expressions say nothing. And it really doesn't matter!
Good news: they finally have Black Hair magazine in Finland!! Finally!! WITH PHOTOS OF MIXED WOMENS' HAIR!!! Natural styles, too!!
My points are:
A.we need more role models who wear their hair curly (WITHOUT blonde streaks, WITHOUT perms and WITHOUT post-curler-effect)
B. We need to be easy on our hair if we do straighten it (x-nay on the oloring-kay plus emichals-khay)
C. We need professional or educated hair stylists since there is obviously a lack of them (I don't know about all the Dominican salons out there, it seems all they specialize in is blow-drying...If that's what you want). See, I cut my own hair which is fine, but if I wear it straight then it looks choppy.
So.. since we are "in the middle" I guess that means we can be and look like whatever we want. Shouldn't we be happy about that? If you or I straighten our hair, then we do, if we don't, then we don't..We just give extra points to some because it's considered "brave" to "be yourself." Interestiiing... What do the guys have to say about this?