Comments on: Derek J Takes the CurlyNikki Challenge

By: Noell

Noell — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:48:00 +0000

I think beauticians/stylists should learn or improve their skills on working with kinky hair. The relaxer is used is make black/kinky hair look like white hair. We are ok or beautiful as we are. We as a people have let the media make us think we must look like others. The beauticians I have met offer a relaxer as the first styling solution. So sad.

By: DaughterofISIS

DaughterofISIS — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:18:53 +0000

He needs to read THE Science of Black Hair by Aubrey Davis-Sivasothy she really breaks it down to a complete understanding of hair and not just styling. Very get source of knowledge

By: newcurly09

newcurly09 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:00:32 +0000

I don’t agree with extremism or nasty comments (including #2 here about Crack Ho’s). The problem with the comment that some people need relaxers is that he had never done research on any alternatives, and that people who are not familiar with natural hair (especially Black natural hair) take the comments of a Black hairstylist as law. Although he didn’t mean anything mean by it, others can take the comment to mean that Black women can do anything with their hair, that it has to be changed, that there is something wrong with it. He also doesn’t seem to get that some of us just want to do what is easier for us. I personally didn’t have a ‘come to Jesus moment’ with my hair. Why should he think something as extreme as that? Because he only deals with weaves and pressing combs and doesn’t know any better. Thanks to Nikki for trying to educate him.

By: Fiyahwerks

Fiyahwerks — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:47:29 +0000

No one needs anything. It’s a simple want. Relaxers is a choice, and one of the many choices African American women/men can do to their hair. It’s not their last resort or something that has to be done for manageability. What it boils down to is women/men learning to take care of their hair before chemicals hit it. I think it’s the basic key to maintaining healthy hair before or after alterations (i.e. chemicals, cuts, products, etc.) Many females I know in my area have never experienced this because the first thing their parent(s) do to a girl’s head is slap chemicals in it for whatever reason. So the girl never gets a chance to see or nurture her natural hair because this is all she knows.
I used to be one of them. I do disagree with the extremism that some individuals do take when they finally have their “eye-opener” about being natural.

By: BugEyeZ

BugEyeZ — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:17:43 +0000

Lord, some of these black women NEED a relaxer of the brain, heart and spirit to counter all this overreaction. Fact is, MOST black women getting their feelings hurt over what these hairstylist are saying were creamy crack hos thatlongago! Attacking the man like a wild banshee over such an offhanded comment just demonstrates how insecure some women in the “natural hair movement” are. I love the way Nikki kept her dignity about the subject without beating the man to a pulp. If more black women were as secure with their curls and kinks as she is all this internet bruhaha would be unnecessary.

By: adthomas

adthomas — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:35:54 +0000

Comparing natural hair and not wearing a bra?? WTH!! Whatever!!! It’s not some women NEED a relaxer. It’s some women WANT a relaxer. There’s a difference. And those dresses you made were fugly!!