Stereotyping is stupid, but unfortunately people do it anyway. When you go natural some people will make assumptions about you just by looking at your hair. We’ve seen this in action at the 2015 Oscars, when a certain someone said Zendaya’s faux locs looked like they smelled of weed and patchouli oil. Since she was rocking dreads she just has to be a weed smoker right? SMH. Since I went natural and started rocking my fro, I have observed some interesting changes in my interactions with people and their perception of me. Below is a list of just a few: When
Real Hair Talk: I Regretted The Big Chop The Big Chop has been a popular subject to me since I first became interested in going natural back in 2009. YouTube was just beginning to become a place where women shared hair tutorials and their own experiences with natural hair. To be honest with you, I had no idea what “natural hair” was. It was foreign, but eye-opening, the idea of not getting relaxers anymore- something I had been doing since I was eight years old. To my understanding, a relaxer was just something every young black girl did. The best thing about