I have bi-racial hair.
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Check out this video. It’s a discussion I had about bi-racial hair with Al Letson and Hari Kondabolu for the Skin You’re In series on WorldCompass.
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I’m curious to know from the curly-headed mop crew (especially the girls), do you notice a difference in the way people react to you when you wear your hair curly? When I wear it curly, people think I’m just wild and creative, when it’s straight I get taken more seriously, especially at meetings. What’s your take?
I feel prettier when my hair is straight, but I’m not sure why. It’s kind of a chicken or the egg thing: Do I feel prettier because I think I’m prettier or is it because I get more attention from men/told I’m pretty when my hair is straight versus when it’s not. I mean afterall, I do have the same face whether my hair is straight or not, lol. Sometimes i think i actually look like a different person when my hair is straight vs curly. The other issue here is that when my hair is curly, it’s usually put up and pulled back, whereas when it’s straight, I let it out and down.
I cut all of my hair off last year because I was tired of my curls looking tore up due to my abuse of the flat iron. I’m pretty sure I felt my ugliest during this regrowing process, hence why I have taken less and less pics and posted them online in the last year or so (many of my avatars are a year or more older). I’m glad I cut my hair off because in the end, it was more about my need to want to wear my CURLY hair with pride (as opposed to always pulling it back/wearing it up). I cut it off so my curly hair would grow back healthier. Even though I’m taken more seriously/noticed more with straight hair, it’s a hassle. i don’t like paying a bunch of money for blowout, nor does my hair seem to really like being straight for longer than 2 days. It’s cool for special occasions here and there, but I pretty much am going for a head full of long flowy, curly hair.
Now my age is threatening my happiness with gray hair growing in.
It never ends, does it?
