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Loving who I am...Black & Beautiful

Monday, 3 December 2012

Do I look pretty with MY natural hair?


Okay so since cutting off all my hair and feeling free to let people see my hair, sometimes I wonder if I am equally as beautiful with my wigs/weave or with my natural hair. Yes I know as Ms.India Arie  proudly states in her song with Akon "I am not my hair" sometimes I still wonder. Ever since cutting off all my hair despite the challenge the change was and adapting I have loved it! Looking down at the picture below I do not doubt that I am beautiful in my natural state as I an a narcissistic  individual and am not ashamed of that. But as this is new to me (the reveal as I have not gone as far as the corner shop without my wig) I wonder what people will think. I wonder what especially what men will think? Yes I know shallow....but I am a single woman and these things matter. I know having hair gives me confidence....BIG hair gives me confidence. So if the fast forward 5 years from now and my hair had grown  and was a big bush like Afro I could handle that. So far the people who have seen my hair have all been white people who don't really understand black hair and are simply fascinated by it.....wanting to touch....wanting to understand. I'm sure I'm not the only woman to do her big chop and wonder what people might think. I wonder this espically when people have said "oh you look better with the other hair". I look better with someone else hair on my head, how is that suppose to make me feel about my hair? I know they mean no harm but in a way it still stings a little, especially when your trying to embrace the natural you and everyone else is content in keeping you fake.

You see I remember when my hair was permed and it was in a short cut (as i have always had short hair) and I was seeing this guy and he implied that he liked my hair when it was in weave and longer. Now I did not then change my hair for him....screw him but I wondered if he was implying I looked less beautiful without "long silky hair". Surprising years later when I was dating my ex-boyfriend he met me when I had kinky hair extensions and was dressed up coming from church. A few weeks later when we met up my hair was permed in a shoulder length weave and was wearing sweat pants. He thought I looked prettier than he remembered (as we met in the dark). The first time he saw my natural hair was a few months of us being together when I took the weave out and truth be told I was nervous and curious as to how he would react to my hair. Luck for me he loved it...said I looked good and strangely he wanted to take a pic of me (as he had no pics of me). That was then and a different guy.......what will the next one think.  Something I have noticed is that when my hair is in weave a different type of men are approaching me than when my hair is in hair extensions that look like natural hair "kinky extensions", WHY IS THAT???

CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THAT TO ME???

So what will the next man think? Should I care? Probably not but most young men are shallow, materialistic and what a certain "type" from head to toe.






So do I look pretty with MY natural hair? Or does it just give me a different look?

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