Why am I on this box? Well, I'm glad you asked cause I'm about to say it anyway. Today's rant is about hair types. You know the ones. Type 1 to type 4 hair and what it means. This typing of hair seems innocent and evil to me all at the same time. I'm totally new to this "natural hair" movement so I may be totally out of line but here it goes....
When I started to read blogs and watch YouTube videos on how to take care of your hair everyone was making mention to their particular hair type. I had no idea what anyone was talking about. So I started google-ing it. I found a chart on a forum and quickly decided that I must be a type 4. I read the descriptions of the subtype and couldn't for the life of me figure out what the difference was between 4a and 4b. So then I started looking up pictures and everyone and their mother was a 4a with sprinkles of 4b. They would show a picture of their 4a along side a 4b and frankly some of them looked the same to me. I went from thinking I was a 4a to thinking that I was a 4b but I totally was not seeing these z formations or whatever they were talking about. So I figured I must be a combo of them too. I understand that this classifcation system is a great way to find people with similar hair so you can do similar thigns to yours. As a way to help people it makes total sense. What didn't make sense was how everyone in cyber land was a 3c or a 4a
Here's where the "evil" part comes in. Everyone appears to want to be closest to the gold standard type 1 hair. Why is my hair type 4 anyway? Everyone wants their hair to have the easy curl that requires no manipulation to achieve. I think goes back to our unconscious quest to be part of the majority. This is probably why I had felt the need to flat iron my hair to have type 1 looking hair. The reason why keratin treatments are getting so popular.
But as I type this I can also see the other side of a possible argument. We all want what we don't have. Girls with curly hair want straight hair and girls with straight hair dream of curls. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
Ok, I'm getting off the box. I don't think I know what I'm talking about. I think I am only going to be concerned with myself and being me. Yeah, that's right people ...be yourself! Erm.. ok I'm really getting down now
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