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Hair stretching is a simple technique that adds length to natural hair through stretching, or non-chemical manipulation.
After shampooing, natural hair can experience varying amounts of shrinkage – a reduction of hair length – once dry. Because natural hair can have a variety of curl patterns, from coils, to spirals and curls, our hair, which may be very long when wet, can shrink as much as 75% when dry as our curls start to tighten.
Can you relate to any of the following while considering whether to go natural:
“Going natural takes much too long.”
“Natural hair is too hard to manage.”
“It’s much easier to have relaxed hair. I don’t have the time to style natural hair.”
“Won’t my hair break off more easily if it’s natural?”
Pamela and Dianne share their viewpoints on the deeper issues inherent with embracing the beauty that is specific to black women.
From the history of slavery and its effects on our perception of our natural hair and other afrocentric features, to modern day cultural influences, Pamela and Dianne cover each end of the spectrum as it relates to our natural beauty.
Yes, I know what you’re thinking. Do black men really love black women with natural hair?
Women have conversed about it with each other and even blogged about it, but now there’s an event and the brothers are talking!
Dianne & Pamela dish about reactions people have to their natural hair at work; particularly during the transition period. We also discuss whether natural hair is a “career killer” in the workplace.
In my pre-teen years, I was intrigued by my neighbor, Dorothy’s, master braiding skills. She would sit on the front porch and do her young daughters hair in all sorts of corn-rowed and other braided styles and I wanted in.
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