The Study of Racialism

Beauty · Experienced User Joined: 02 Jun 2007 {Posts: 100 }

Sagascend, you mentioned oil is not good for the hair. Would you please explain that further please? I use olive oil and coconut oil and I have been told it is not good for the hair.

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Beauty · Experienced User Joined: 02 Jun 2007 {Posts: 100 }

Sagescend, thank you for your reply. It is necessary to put moisturizers in your hair in additions to the oils? I use the pink moisturizer in my hair occasionally but I am a bit wary of putting products in my hair because black hair products have been linked to cancer.

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Beauty · Experienced User Joined: 02 Jun 2007 {Posts: 100 }

Apparently, there are hormones in the products which increases the risk of getting cancer particulary on younger woman and girls. It has also been linked to earlier puberty. There were cases of babies going through early puberty.

cherri2 · New User Joined: 09 May 2007 {Posts: 29 }

cherri2 · New User Joined: 09 May 2007 {Posts: 29 }

sagascend · Moderator Joined: 17 Jun 2006 {Posts: 2087 }

You're welcome! I have never used just shea butter on my hair but I think that many African use it as a hair dressing.

About your hair being dry - what kind of conditioner do you use and how often do you use it? If you are not using a leave-in conditioner and you have curly hair I would recommend doing so. Especially if you live in a dry climate. I live in the Southwest and the intense dry heat can really put a lot of wear and tear on skin and hair.

cherri2 · New User Joined: 09 May 2007 {Posts: 29 }

Wiingashk83 · Posted: Sat 30 Jun 2007 10:44 Post subject:

I have come to despise 'black' salons. Every time I have ever gone to one something bad happened. As far as straightening combs go, I have been severely burned more times than I can easily count, have had my hair fall out as a result of my stepmother, who is black, telling the stylist to perm my hair(age 15), and have had my waist length hair cut above my shoulders when I was almost 14 as a result of asking for a 'trim'.

Crying or Very sad

And of course when they are done I feel like I could donate grease to at least 5 people. I am almost 24 years old and still have not found a middle ground.

I also get annoyed when going to ordinary salons and they tell me that they don't do ethnic hair. First off, what is ethnic hair, and when was curly hair restricted to any one type of person?

Confused

Wiingashk

femmedecouleur · Posted: Sat 30 Jun 2007 18:04 Post subject:

cherri2 · New User Joined: 09 May 2007 {Posts: 29 }

pianoplayer111 · Mentor Joined: 16 May 2007 {Posts: 379 }

I think some people don't know what to do with different types of hair. I wouldn't go to a black beauty salon ( I would only if I knew and trusted the people who worked there) because most of them don't know how to handle my hair. Like mixedmom said, heavy oils don't work well with certain hair types. While trimming is needed to keep it looking nice now and then, it is not necessary to snip off a foot of hair. Laughing

White salons work with my hair pretty well...I've had the occasional comment about "ethnic" hair from one or two people but I'm like, whatever. Rolling Eyes

All people have this so-called "ethnic" hair. It is one of the ways people try to define, determine, and judge the race of others. I prefer to wash and run out the door. I rarely go to the beauty shop...there's only one person I trust to do my hair besides my mom and myself anyway. I consider it a luxury to go to the salon. The lady who does my hair about once a year simply gives me a shampoo, blows out my hip-length hair (which takes about an hour to do), and puts this stuff on it that smells delicious. While we're on the subject, do you guys prefer natural beauty products or more high-end stuff?

cherri2 · New User Joined: 09 May 2007 {Posts: 29 }

Natural beauty products from health food stores that doesn`t contain chemicals but only things from the earth.I would love to swim in a cave that contains healthy water to cleanse myself Laughing

.I heard that Hot springs in Japan does something to the body.
I don`t have much money so I just use soap and water Sad

geekycat8927 · Probationary Joined: 06 Apr 2008 {Posts: 9 }

well, im chinese but i never have complete straight hair. in fact quite a bit of them are on the wavy/curly side and rest is just hold whatever shape they got air-dried in.

i dont like going back to hong kong (where im from) to have my hair cut because they constant suggest that either i got a straight/ionic perm (which i dont like) or just cut it short (which look bad on me).
im in canada right now and a indian lady cuts my hair, i dont know how that gonna turns out and mayb i might have to get a new hair dresser if the next appointment doesnt work out.

mixedmom · Moderator Joined: 27 Nov 2004 {Posts: 775 }

Lill · New User Joined: 21 Dec 2007 {Posts: 43 } Location: Sweden

Some of you are talking about "pressing the hair. What is that? I have never heard about it before. And you also talk about straightening combs, what is that? Can someone explain?
My experience with "black salons" are only here in Sweden, I have been to one once and I will never go back. Most of the black salons here in Sweden have stylists from Africa.
I went there to straighten my hair (my hair is long, to the middle of my back and wavy/corkscrewy with big curls) and I thougth that they would know how to deal with it, but they didn't.
Although I said that my hair needed a very light (not so strong) relaxer she used a strong one and much of my hair fell of after some days and I also got bruses in my scalp. And I also told her that I didn't want any oil at all, my hair doesn't need any oil, oil only makes it very greasy and flat, but she put oil in it anyway!!! It looked terrible I had to go straight home and wash it out. It is like the African black women don't understand that you have to treat wavy/curly hair different than kinky hair. I have two other biracial friends who had the same experience from black salons here in Sweden.
I never went there again, now I wear my hair natural and if I want to have it straight I use my flat iron, it's enough for my hair, it becomes totally straight when I use the flat iron and it lasts until I wash it the next time. When I went to the black salon there was no flat iron jet in Sweden.I
I agree thet it is much easier to have straight hair, when my hair is straight I just comb through it and then I'm ready to go. When I wear it curly/wavy I have to make it wet and put a curl enhancing product in it to get nice curls.

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