A Celebration Of Black Beauty: The Politics Of Black Hair | Glamour Uk

It was literally no other race of people that have that many assumptions tied to a guest on 15 years ago, natural hair out afro, hair out was seen as unprofessional and unkempt, and even now, kids in school are still fighting to have the right to wear their Hair in its natural state to school because to some teachers it's seen as unkempt or undone, which is distracting who's at first, I always felt like. I wasn't allowed to express myself and wear my hair. The way I wanted it even at school, I wasn't allowed like long swishy braids would be thin or anything like that. When I was going to school, I used to hate my mum footing. My hair cuz, like I felt, like I know, like a spider, I usually say like I've, got like eight legs coming out and my mum used to be like it's the easiest thing that she knew how it was generation and now I kind of feel bad that, Like I never learned how to do it, I do feel like within the community there may be the natural hair people and the people that wear weave and sometimes natural hair people feel like they. If you wear weaves, you hate yourself, they were pressure within that community. To always have these curls doing do this and you know the fur just to be this size and the collar to be amazing. It'S like who's good, the time, because I'm so mean I just find. With my experience, Hair Stylist might be more used to dealing with European hair. I mean I do wear wigs, which is kind of like a costume man. I usually have like an afro yeah. Wigs has become even it's like almost the rows of reversing now, because it's like Europeans tend to use it more through, and that was me through watching that Game of Thrones and like programs and understand how much they use as well like more than probably we need. I know a lot of black people, especially black women, who rocked the whole really Afrocentric natural hair yeah. They would look at what we've got a now to be like you, don't love yourself. I remember the first time I got my hair cut is because it was a it's because it was damaged from a relaxer all right and when I remember like crying so much and being like. Oh, I look like a boy this that and the other like I'm. So attracted with short hair and because I've grown into it, I think now it'd be weird to to go back the other way. Yeah. I damage my hair so much as well. I'Ve said too much. Oh, my god. I damage it so much to the point where I like. It was kind of like translucent here, and so it's just like. Let'S kind of I used to have my hair and like a big afro with a bit of I'll cause, follicular assistance, and I want my hair like that for a year and I'd never got into so many arguments with strangers because well everybody wanted to touch it. Just that sense of entitlement and having that ownership over somebody's closet, you just without a second thought and and people that, in other ways in many other ways, are often like very reserved. This is where you've got strength to touch my head. This is where you're flexing and that's what's crazy to me. I would never go up and touch a stranger like never liked any part of them. Our hair is just so politicized and in a way that just makes no sense. I think black hair still is. Is political and if it, if it wasn't, you wouldn't have laws coming up just being written into legislation like this this year, making it like illegal to discriminate against black people for being so audacious as to leave their hair in the way that it naturally naturally grows From their head for me, it's not just black hair, that's political, I feel, like black bodies are political. I feel like hair will be political as long as black women are denounced and more commented on just because of the hair that they choose until all children can go to school, with braids over to work with dreads and feel like they can go in their natural Hair hair black woman's head will be political, which is such a shame. Everything we do is always gon na be seen as political yeah, and it is innately political as well right, but sometimes it literally is just cut my hair off. It'S easy to say manage time in the morning. No, I definitely mine was like the mixture of that and the mixture of like they're, like oh, the rebel fighting, I'm still a jeju-do, with a big on with a big off with straight hair. With a for her, however, it is I'm still the same person and it kind of feels like can. I just be me first before I'm actually a representation of black women