No matter what you do, your hair needs work.
You spend hours sifting through blog sites for your favorite icons latest hair style and you’re determined to mimic the exact look.
You invest time and money perming it, dressing it, putting horse tail in it so, may be it’s longer and more full.
Than you cut it, and you literally “CUT” anyone who dares take a closer look at your roots. Then you dye it, blue, green, grey and than dye it back to normal when you realize the sisqo look maybe wasn’t for you.
Why? Because we all want to hear from our peers…
Oh You Got That Good Hair!”
The term many of us aspire our doos to be considered. Hair has so many looks, not everything can be good right? That’s what our world has many of us pitted against, is it good hair or bad hair? When really we can’t simply define what good hair actually is.
Watch this IAMOTHER Stereotypes episode below and see for yourselves the struggle to be deemed the one with that “good good.”
But what about that natural hair? Have we forgotten about the finer things, have we become lost in all the chemicals, the product placements and all the crazy things we can do with our manes today!?!
Being one of the few in our world suffering from the serious illness of Young and Balding, I like to consider myself on this earth as a hair voyeur.
I’ve noticed more than half of the woman I’ve dated have never given me the privilege to actually see their natural hair [and believe me I’ve tried, I’m probably just a horrible boyfriend]. Before you assume that I only date black girls, don’t get it twisted I don’t judge, and in todays world fake hair doesn’t either. Just as much white girls are paying out for weaves and extensions at the local beauty shop to capture that “long hair don’t care” look.
Thanks to the help of media, platforms are constantly pushing the envelope of what good hair should be. Movies, ads and celebrities we like to look up too, have many people thinking they don’t have good hair at all and we never will. Justin Bieber’s cut is aimlessly surreal and we hardly ever see Beyoncé’ s real hair anyways, and the European beauty standards mentioned in the video above have us all in a kafuffle, in search of the meaning of good hair.
If we call our “doos” our hair style than that’s our own expression, our individuality, an accent of who we are as people. Good hair is really subjective.
Everyone is going to drop their two cents about what good hair is and what it isn’t but it really it’s whatever you want it to be. So whether you want to rock weave to the floor or show your little baby hairs, good hair is based on your own good free will.
And don’t say you didn’t hear it first, coming from a balding handsome gentlemen…the bald look is totally in these days.
Featured image retrived: blackgirllonghair.com
