Clever girl!

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The ancient Celts had a unique hair style which attracted the attention of many Classical authors.
Diodorus of Sicily - says the Celts were tall and muscular, with pale skin and blond hair which they highlight artificially by washing it in lime-water. They then gather it back from the forehead to the top of the head and down to the nape of the neck… and therefore the hair becomes so heavy and coarse that it looks like themane of horses.  Could be they considered the Unicorn or Horse God as their Mother.

Irish texts refer to hair so long and stiff that it would have impaled a falling apple. The Irish hero godCuChulainn is described this way, and it is added that his hair was of three colours, darkest near the scalp and lightest at the end. If he is a Hound constellation we can see the dimmer stars, or it could be thereference to the style of bleaching they learned to do.

That’s not dreadlocks, folks. That’s a very specific hair style, and while, yes, I have seen people rocking something very similar to this, it is not dreads. Nor are the braids that Celtic women wore with beads and feathers.

“similar” is not the “same” and justifying appropriation because you saw something on a movie isn’t really okay.

(via strugglingtobeheard)

I was walking to a meeting earlier & an older black lady w/natural hair looked at me & said, “Pretty hair!” as we passed each-other in the hall. 

I was like

black-culture:

A new study in the American Journal of Epidemiology has linked hair relaxers to uterine fibroids, as well as early puberty in young girls.

Scientists followed more than 23,000 pre-menopausal Black American women from 1997 to 2009 and found that the two- to three-times higher rate of fibroids among black women may be linked to chemical exposure through scalp lesions and burns resulting from relaxers.

Women who got their first menstrual period before the age of 10 were also more likely to have uterine fibroids, and early menstruation may result from hair products black girls are using, according to a separate study published in the Annals of Epidemiology last summer.

Three hundred African American, African Caribbean, Hispanic, and White women in New York City were studied. The women’s first menstrual period varied anywhere from age 8 to age 19, but African Americans, who were more likely to use straightening and relaxers hair oils, also reached menarche earlier than other racial/ethnic groups.

While so far, there is only an association rather than a cause and effect relationship between relaxers, fibroid tumors, and puberty, many experts have been quick to point out that the hair care industry isn’t regulated by the FDA, meaning that there’s no definite way to fully know just how harmful standard Black hair care products really are.

Fibroid Facts

Fibroids are tumors that grow in the uterus. They are benign, which means they are not cancerous, and are made up of muscle fibers. Fibroids can be as small as a pea and can grow as large as a melon. It is estimated that 20-50% of women have, or will have, fibroids at some time in their lives.

Volks sells “wig spray” for doll wigs that’s probably the same thing, but it’s like USD$12.00 for 10oz or some ridiculous price like that.

Up until I was 9 or so, my hair was fairly fine & barely wavy…the way a lot of little kids’ hair is, I suppose. As I entered teenage-hood, my hair got coarser & curlier. Neither of my parents really knew how to make it look presentable or cute, so for a few years I had a shapeless brillo pad hairdo. 

Once I discovered hair gel (L.A. Looks, what’s up!?), I had a better idea of how to get my hair to look like something that I could be comfortable with. 

There were many mornings, however, when we’d be getting ready to go somewhere & I’d announce that I just had to do my hair & then I’d be ready. “Men comb their hair, women do their hair!” my dad would growl at me. Like many Latinos, saying that something was associated with women or femininity (and sometimes, ‘rich people’—like Pomeranians, which I adored, but were declared “for women & rich people”.) was a way do deride its merit.

My dad, of course, has smooth, not-too-thick, barely-wavy hair & doesn’t understand that one does not simply comb curly thick coarse hair.

“I have to do my hair & then I’ll be ready,” I’d repeat.