Black Women Can Grow Hair (Ask Melania!)
Well for example:
1.- the girl that was doing my hair is an afro-american girl, she use to put the relaxer in my hair as she was putting a hair color with a brush, that use to burn my scalp right away I couldn't stand the relaxer more than 5 mins. and my hair is not that kinky and she was using a super strong relaxer in my hair.
2.- she didnt put the rollers in my hair, she comb it the way I wanted (the hair being wet yet) and put me under the hairdryer.
3.- instead of using a blower to do my hair, she used a hair iron and packed my hair with an oil or grease and my hair was all flat and not wavy.
My hair wasn't growing at ALL, and she just wanted to trim my hair because the ends were splitting, I wonder why :tired:.
NO OFFENSES TO ANYONE but to most of the black girls their hair don't grow that much, thats why they have to wear the hair extensions.
I know that this was posted along time ago but I felt that I needed to clarify a few things so that other black girls and women won't read what you said and think that it's true. Just to clarify,
it's definitely NOT true that most Black women can't grow hair and that this is the reason why they wear extensions! Black women's hair grows just as well as anyone else's hair (1/4 inch to 1/2 inch a month). The reason why it doesn't
appear to grow as fast is because;
1) when it's in its natural state its curlier and therefore
appears shorter
2) most black women don't know how to take care of their hair because they haven't been taught and;
3) up until recently there haven't been many good products on the market specifically for that texture hair.
So because of all of that, some black women put the wrong products in their hair, put too much heat in their hair and do things that ultimately ruined their hair. Again, their hair
still grows but due to the lack of knowledge that some have about hair, it breaks off faster which is one reason why they choose to wear extensions.
But just as there are African American women who don't know how to take care of their hair there are
just as many Black women who have long hair because they know how to take care of it. You've probably passed a few black women in the street with their own long hair but because you think that black women can't grow hair you probably thought it was a weave when it was theirs all along! I know because now that my hair has grown out, I get "weave checked" all the time!!
This is why hairdressers such as Melania are important to have.
She shows both black women and Dominican women (who by the way have african blood in them too) how to take care of their hair so that their hair will retain its health and length without burdening it with too many products or worse - the wrong products!
Hopefully you will go to a dominican salon like Melania's some day (I'm talking to the person who said that black women can't grow hair) and then maybe you'll be more educated about black women and realize that your comment was not based on fact but based upon just another harmful stereotype.****
