Urban Image Magazine November 2013 Issue November 2013 | Page 32

:
Distinguishing the
Myths About Natural Hairstyles.
By: Talia Rice

What is it about
black women and
hair? Especially natural
hair? Let a woman
rock the natural state
of her hair and watch
the jokes/cracks come
flying in she look like a
dirty tennis ball, crackhead, your shit is nappy as hell, etc. I have
never heard any other
style cause such a stir
more than natural
styles. The hair industry has Several weeks
ago comedian Sheryl
Underwood, co-host of
The Talk, made a comment about Heidi Klum

cutting then keeping her mixed kid’s
hair saying who
wants to keep
nappy hair? She
goes on to say
nappy hair is unattractive and ugly
and no one goes into a
hair shop become a
billion dollar industry
and guess who is making it that big? The sistahs which puts a
whole new meaning to
the song written and
sung by India Arie I Am
Not My Hair. With all
of this hate toward
natural wearing sistahs
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I beg to differ. asking
for the nappy wig. I am
a natural sistah and I
have thought about
going into a wig store
and buying a larger afro until my own fills
out so she is wrong on
that point. And if
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