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chelsea_love · 12-21-2009, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by cryscurls

Screw some curls, can I please get some moisture up in my head?

When I was younger I used to hear stuff about being a "pretty little dark skinned girl" and even "pretty for a dark skinned girl." I think all my exposure to people's stupidity about my skin tone has made me just come to expect it about my hair being curly. I don't know that I really hear it. Some days I pick my TWA out and rock it strong, some days I rub product through to define curl. I wear it with defined curl 100% of the time to work though. I like the way it looks both ways but I find that I wear it curly more often. I am kinda thinking about that now like- am I wearing the curls defined because subconciously I am still allowing myself to be swayed by a relaxer preferring world? ITA with the posters who said it is about other ways to divide and classify.

Lol to the first quote.

And to the second one, I tend to wear my hair with product to define my curls more also and I've wondered why that was before. I think it usually feels more 'tamed' to me - I tend to feel overwhelmed by the amount of hair growing out of my scalp more often than not and when my curls are more defined, it seems not as big and crazy.

I did pick my hair out a lot and wear a huge afro with a scarf tied around the front when it was shorter though. I actually really liked that look, but now that my hair is longer, it just doesn't seem to work. It takes extra, EXTRA picking to fluff it up, and then some parts seem thin and wimpy and flop to the sides. Unless I picked it out when it was completely dry, which is kind of a no-no because I only comb my hair when it's wet, I'm not even sure I could do the big fluffy afro anymore.