With India Arie's song I am not my hair......and Chris Rock's documentary on weaves, both worlds are often at conflict with each other, where the one group feels the other is hating on them.
Could this be a bigger phenomenon than hair, where the one "proudly" African group tends to accuse the other of not loving thyself. Pretty much like religion, where anything different is wrong?
I have relaxed my hair for as long as I remember. I recently had an attempt at growing my hair natural but I figured I don't have the patience for it. I love natural hair, and think it looks beautiful. However, I find growing it to be quite a mission, and this is my only challenge with natural hair.
My gripe, however, when it comes to hair is that there seems to be war between the naturalists and the relaxers/weave-wearing woman. At the risk of
sounding diplomatic, I reckon (and this is my personal position) that beauty in all its forms is about how you feel about yourself. So, if you feel beautiful in your natural hair, great, and if weave or relaxed hair does it for you, also great.
The issue here, should be celebrating beauty in its different forms. There is no standard definition of beauty, so let's celebrate it in whatever colour, texture or shape in comes.
Here's to woman and her beautiful self.
Lady B!
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