Blog 5
Happy to be Nappy
Nappy Hair. Yep… Nappy. Buck shots. Nap balls. It didn’t matter, if your hair wasn’t wavy or straight like white people –you had nappy hair.
When I was younger that was the one thing you didn’t want to have as a child –nappy hair, thick nappy hair, a kitchen, bead-a-beads. You better hope your mom gave you a kiddie perm or a relaxer so give you that “white girl” stuff. As long as you didn’t have nappy hair, you were cool.
Fast forward, I am twenty eight and happy to be NAPPY! I wear my natural hair in a fro that I like to call my “Angela Davis.” I love it, my mom loves it, my friends and family love it so much that I have converted most of them to natural. My best friend Danielle did the “big chop” (cutting all of the perm out of your hair) a couple of years ago and she hasn’t looked back.
My co-worker went natural (freeing herself from her attachment to chemical relaxers) about a year and a half ago. She doesn’t rock a fro, but her hair is beautiful and healthy. She’ll never get a perm/relaxer again. People come into the library day after day and compliment us on our hair. When we tell them what we have done their response is this, “My hair is too nappy. I can’t do it.” I want to scream ARE YOU SERIOUS? WHO TOLD YOU THAT LIE? I want to let them know that our hair is beautiful be cause it is ours. Whether is is loose and wavy or tight and curly with a beautiful all around kink. Our hair is beautiful because it is our own. Who said that I had to look like a blond fair skinned barbie to be pretty? Who said that my hair had to be bone straight in order to be considered beautiful?
WHO SAID I AM NOT AMAZING JUST THE WAY I AM?
Just the way God intended to me to be?
Yeah, my hair may not be bone straight. I may have to wear a scarf to keep this wild (beautiful) stuff in line. So. I. Don’t. Care. I’m beautiful, inside and out. I am happy to be nappy!
Peace and Love!
