Comments on: Condition Your Hair Like Oprah, Part 1 http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/12/14/condition-your-hair-like-oprah-part-1/ Cosmetic chemists answer your beauty product questions! We are a group of cosmetic scientists who understand what the chemicals used in cosmetics really do, how products are tested, and what all the advertising means. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:42:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: janet http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/12/14/condition-your-hair-like-oprah-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-48438 janet Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:28:15 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/12/14/condition-your-hair-like-oprah-part-1/#comment-48438 on one hand as a black person myself i felt it was a bit negative but on the other i can understand natalie remarks. its just that black people have been trained or GROOMED over the centries by former slave masters to amongst ourselves to believe that our natural hair is BAD so we are in a phase of getting to know and love our natural hair. i hated mine because how my mother used to say my hair was like combing a rock, it hurt like hell too. i didn't understand how to look after it so i relax mine. african hair is all different some are softer than others and some less kinky than others. on one hand as a black person myself i felt it was a bit negative but on the other i can understand natalie remarks.

its just that black people have been trained or GROOMED over the centries by former slave masters to amongst ourselves to believe that our natural hair is BAD so we are in a phase of getting to know and love our natural hair. i hated mine because how my mother used to say my hair was like combing a rock, it hurt like hell too. i didn’t understand how to look after it so i relax mine. african hair is all different some are softer than others and some less kinky than others.

]]> By: natalie http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/12/14/condition-your-hair-like-oprah-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-36123 natalie Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:28:00 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/12/14/condition-your-hair-like-oprah-part-1/#comment-36123 I cant believe it. Can someone just write an article where it is not disected for every imaginged unPC word and people are not flipping out!! PLEASE I cant believe it. Can someone just write an article where it is not disected for every imaginged unPC word and people are not flipping out!! PLEASE

]]> By: Sweettea http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/12/14/condition-your-hair-like-oprah-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-35637 Sweettea Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:26:06 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/12/14/condition-your-hair-like-oprah-part-1/#comment-35637 I agree with CurlyGirly. European hair should not be considered the archetype or standard to which all should attain. Our hair is unique and not meant to be handled like straight hair. We indeed can comb our hair easily with a wide tooth comb or even with our fingers. Any hair type can get tangled and knotted and make it hard to get a comb through. It's all a matter of learning how to take care of your hair. Hair grows out of a healthy scalp but if your ends are dry and split they will break off. It's more of an issue of retaining the length by conditioning and moisturizing the hair and clipping damaged, split ends. I just get annoyed when negative words are used to describe our hair type. We have the most versatile hair texture of all ethnic groups and it is beautiful. I agree with CurlyGirly. European hair should not be considered the archetype or standard to which all should attain. Our hair is unique and not meant to be handled like straight hair. We indeed can comb our hair easily with a wide tooth comb or even with our fingers. Any hair type can get tangled and knotted and make it hard to get a comb through. It’s all a matter of learning how to take care of your hair.

Hair grows out of a healthy scalp but if your ends are dry and split they will break off. It’s more of an issue of retaining the length by conditioning and moisturizing the hair and clipping damaged, split ends.

I just get annoyed when negative words are used to describe our hair type. We have the most versatile hair texture of all ethnic groups and it is beautiful.

]]> By: CurlyGirly http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/12/14/condition-your-hair-like-oprah-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-34677 CurlyGirly Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:20:05 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/12/14/condition-your-hair-like-oprah-part-1/#comment-34677 In the interest of the PC, "kinky" hair is not "distorted". It's "different". Caucasian and Asian hair types are not a sort of standard for Afro hair types to be compared to as the "other", as one may glean from the wording of the post. I'd also like to note that kinks, curls, etc. are not necessarily "harder to get a comb through", as though it is defective in this way. ANY hair type can be difficult to comb. Afro textured hair, like my own, poses no issues for me. Others do have difficulty (as is the case in any group: it takes all types), but having Afro textured hair is not a death-sentence promising a life of "hard to get a comb through" hair. Often it's a case of using the wrong technique, tools and products and beliefs of inherited difficulty from articles worded like this one that those with this texture must deal with daily. Also, one might assume from this article relaxing is done solely to remove "kinks" to "get a comb through" Afro textured hair. That may be for some, however by and large its a style choice. Not everyone wants to be a slave to a flat iron and the high heat required to get curlier/kinkier hair types straight to perform the styles that require it. Also, imitation of European beauty standards has been demanded of those most likely to have this texture for hundreds of years and the psychological ramifications of this often prompt many to relax. As are the economic and social promptings to relax and in effect remove an "ethnic marker" -the Afro hair type. Society rewards assimilation -this is another reason many relax...not to "get a comb through" their mane. With all that said, thank you for being a source of good information. Albeit with less than perfect delivery at times. In the interest of the PC, “kinky” hair is not “distorted”. It’s “different”. Caucasian and Asian hair types are not a sort of standard for Afro hair types to be compared to as the “other”, as one may glean from the wording of the post. I’d also like to note that kinks, curls, etc. are not necessarily “harder to get a comb through”, as though it is defective in this way. ANY hair type can be difficult to comb. Afro textured hair, like my own, poses no issues for me. Others do have difficulty (as is the case in any group: it takes all types), but having Afro textured hair is not a death-sentence promising a life of “hard to get a comb through” hair. Often it’s a case of using the wrong technique, tools and products and beliefs of inherited difficulty from articles worded like this one that those with this texture must deal with daily. Also, one might assume from this article relaxing is done solely to remove “kinks” to “get a comb through” Afro textured hair. That may be for some, however by and large its a style choice. Not everyone wants to be a slave to a flat iron and the high heat required to get curlier/kinkier hair types straight to perform the styles that require it. Also, imitation of European beauty standards has been demanded of those most likely to have this texture for hundreds of years and the psychological ramifications of this often prompt many to relax. As are the economic and social promptings to relax and in effect remove an “ethnic marker” -the Afro hair type. Society rewards assimilation -this is another reason many relax…not to “get a comb through” their mane. With all that said, thank you for being a source of good information. Albeit with less than perfect delivery at times.

]]> By: Dena http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/12/14/condition-your-hair-like-oprah-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-28269 Dena Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:10:30 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/12/14/condition-your-hair-like-oprah-part-1/#comment-28269 I found your post very informative, are you still going to publish part II? I found your post very informative, are you still going to publish part II?

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