I am so happy to see women stop using weaves and wigs, and take the ‘journey’ to grow out their natural hair and own who they really are down inside. \u00a0For many years, in the past and future to come, women will always feel the need to compete and compare themselves to what’s socially acceptable and pretty. \u00a0It’s draining to see women drag themselves through the mud just so they can be accepted by society. \u00a0I think these women not buying into weaves, wigs, hair extensions, and hair relaxers are so incredibly strong and are putting their middle finger to social beauty standards. \u00a0If we want to get rid of beauty standards, we have to stop buying into them. \u00a0There are a plentiful amount of black women who have gorgeous, long, ethnic hair, and rock the shit out of it, but you don’t see those women on the cover of vogue or Marie Claire. \u00a0It also infuriates me when white women try and use black women hairstyles and try to make it look cute or as if it’s some new hairstyle. \u00a0Black women have fought so long to finally be thought of as pretty and still to this day get ridiculed for the type of hair they have,and then white women have the audacity to try and use the same hair black women don’t want? That’s the biggest idea of appropriation I’ve ever seen. \u00a0Having these women retire the weaves & wigs save animals, because a majority of the weaves come from horse hair or even sheep or lambs wool. \u00a0They use this hair because it’s soft and long, or soft and curly. \u00a0They shave these animals or saw off the horses tail in order to have enough hair to make into a weave. \u00a0It’s harmful towards the animal which they have no say in whatsoever. \u00a0I can’t applaud these brave women for accepting their natural, black, kinky hair for what it actually is and rocking it. \u00a0Not only are they accepting their hair, but they’re accepting their blackness, and with the harsh times we’ve seen recently in this country, it’s most important that these black women own who they are and don’t let anybody feel bad about it, because who you are is amazing and no body or hairstyle can change that about you. \u00a0I hope that this trend of going through the natural journey continues with years to come, because then finally people will start to not feed into the beauty standards and feel confident in their own body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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