Yes this is my hair!!! vent

I also dont like when poeple ask me that quetion when i was little people always used to say is that your hair? or the worst quetion what are you mixed with?  they constantly ask as if black women cant grow their hair and anyone can.  When i was in class this new girl said that she didn't know black poeples hair can grow so long just because hers is short. I feel like she is so ignorant for saying so. As of now ive been natural for 10 months and just had the big chop about 5 inches so now i have about 5 inches of new growth so happy.

Edited by BlackBeauty - January 22 2007 at 1:54pm

I don't have seriously long hair like yall, I just have seriously thick hair. Even when I get a perm the thickness is apparent. Its about 2 inches from my bra strap now but a year and a half ago I cut it just past my ear. People litterally wouldn't talk to me because they were just sooo angry, WHAT THE HECK, how dare you refuse to talk to me becuase I cut MY hair! It was almost as if it had been their own! Not only that but my hair grows reasonably fast so EVERY DAY someone, that I could have seen every day for the past 4 years, will walk up to me and ask if its mine, pull on it a little, tell me not to cut it, and tell me how they love my thick "long" hair. I personally dont' think its that long because most of best friend truly has long hair so I know what long hair REALLY is. I can understand how yall feel, but I mean, why do people that see me EVERY DAY ask and say the SAME TIRED OLD THING every time they see me. I wish I was exaggerating but I'm not. My ultimate hair goal is waist length by my graduation in May 2007, so If i reach that goal I don't think I'll be able to handle the constant questions... lord bless these simple minded hair lovers. Lol.
    

Edited by mealncholymonie - May 14 2006 at 10:30am

Renata you got that right! Just a minute ago, some girl passed me saying, " U think you special with your hair up and all."  My response was, "I sure do, or no one else would."

Well for some these comments could be a mile stone. To those, I wish them luck. But when they try to yank your hair out of your head...you'll know what I'm talking about.

Damn straight you think you're cute!!! I'd think less of you if you thought you weren't cute. Sadly, in this society, women who hate what they look like is so normal that people think something's wrong with you if you don't dislike what you look like.

So the next time someone says, "she thinks she's cute," just smile and say to yourself, "DUH!"

 Its irritating how many of us think our hair can't grow long not long ago I was one of those people, we've been told so many lies about our hair anyway my hair is just a bit off shoulder length and I hope for armpit by the end of the year and then on to bra strap, I can't wait to start having people ask me THE annoying question "Is that your real hair?"hee hee, I'm gonna take it as a compliment until about I'm asked the "one millionth time" then someone's gonna get bruised

I am so glad that someone can feel my frustration.  Yeah people really do need to think. But thinking is too Easy, many like to learn the hard way.  Grab the wrong hair and they will find out

Pokahontas wrote: I hear your frustration.  I get sick of people yanking my ponytail just to see if it comes off.  They try to pretend that they're doing it in a playful way but I know why they're doing it. Oh, here's another one.  When I wear my hair natural I get so sick of people yelling "Oh, you cut your hair!".  Don't they realize curly hair shrinks up, duh!  It dosen't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out....sheesh!

That one gets me too. I always wonder how some people can be so "empty". Pardon my bluntness. (In my case, it's when I wear it curly)

If they think about it for a second, they can compare hair coils, ringlets, or curls to a piece of string or some other item they can wrap around their finger. They can see that when they hold it out straight, it is long, but when they wrap it, or coil it, it looks shorter. That doesn't mean that it is truly shorter though. When hair is curly like in a roller set, it is doing the same thing. An experiment like that shouldn't even have to be acted out for them to figure out how it works.

Edited by Phoenix1017

Okay should I be offended if noone asks me that question lolol but I understand that it can be annoying that ppl think Afam women can't grow their hair

Oh my