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Igbogirl
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Username: Igbogirl
Post Number: 94
Registered: 09-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 01:31 pm: | 
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My niece, just entering her teenage years, is desperate to get a straight, silky weave. Her natural texture is cute, like Lauryn Hill's, but she hates it. Every time I name beautiful black women in the public eye who DO NOT wear weaves, she tells me they do. I've mentioned Erykah, Jill Scott and more: my niece says they have all work fake hair a lot. She even said Lauryn's locs were extensions. Please help me point out some fly sisters to her who wear their own hair. I can't even hardly think of anyone. |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 1545
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 01:46 pm: |
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I would suggest that you buy her some books and magazines featuring natural hairstyles. Once she sees all the lovely ways that our hair can be worn naturally, maybe she'll change her mind about her hair being weaved into straightness. And maybe treat her to some natural hair care products, wooden combs and hair decor, etc. Another deterrent would be for her parents to tell her she must pay for those weaves herself - that ought to change her mind. LOL! |
Renata
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Username: Renata
Post Number: 1337
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 01:54 pm: |
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Angie Stone's hair looks real to me, and it's GORGEOUS.
If she mentions Lauryn's locs as extensions, then buy her some LOC extensions. Gotta start somewhere.
One thing she can do for gorgeous hair....wear her own. Overprocessed hair with gunk glued into it doesn't grow as long and gorgeous as natural hair free to breath. Every other week or so, she can get a blow out.
A really cute style...take her natural hair and braid it Friday night while it's wet. Unbraid it Monday morning and FINGER COMB all of the curls/waves out. Don't use a comb as it will frizz it all out. The more you manipulate it, the more it will frizz. Anyways, this makes a really cute curly afro. The longer her hair is, the MORE she will have to frizz it to get it to fro, otherwise, it will be in loose curls. However, if it's on the shorter side (not much longer than her earlobe) she won't have to frizz it as much and can wear a short curly fro. If she wishes to wear it as a CURLY fro, then it's importan to SLIGHTLY curl the ends on a small sponge roller. If she doesn't, the ends will look too straight and will frizz while the rest of her hair is curly.
And when she gets sick of this look, she can always get it blow dried straight.
She'll look even more "fly" (do they still use that word?) if she has a few hair styles she can choose from: curly week one, fro week two, straight week three, braids or twists week three...pretty soon everyone's just going to wonder what she's doing to her hair for the upcoming week.
ON THE OTHER HAND....if she's one of those types who just wants to look like everyone else, I don't know how to help you. |
Igbogirl
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Username: Igbogirl
Post Number: 95
Registered: 09-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 05:07 pm: |
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You hit the nail on the head. She IS one of those types who wants to look like all the other girls. She is worried that her own hair cannot grow long. I tried to be an example to her by wearing my own hair natural and long (in locs that hang to just below the shoulder). She likes my hair but says I can 'pull it off' but she could not.
Oh well, I tried. And if you've seen Angie Stone on TV on Celebrity Fit Club, you might have been a little surprised by her hair, LOL
Oh and Lauryn's locs were beautiful. |
Renata
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Username: Renata
Post Number: 1340
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 08:42 pm: |
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I don't have cable and don't watch much TV. Please tell me she didn't bleach it! |
Igbogirl
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Username: Igbogirl
Post Number: 106
Registered: 09-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, September 25, 2006 - 12:51 am: |
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LOL, no Angie didn't bleach her hair. She's wearing a strange little straight weave. And she is acting like a jackass on that TV show. i can hardly believe it. She is embarrassing the hell out of herself. |
Dahomeyahosi
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Username: Dahomeyahosi
Post Number: 89
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, September 25, 2006 - 07:41 pm: |
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If you're looking for beautiful hair (natural, relaxed) check out www.longhaircareforum.com
There are many black and some West African women there with long natural and relaxed hair, all their own.
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Renata
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Username: Renata
Post Number: 1347
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - 02:46 pm: |
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I checked out her hair on the internet. I don't think that's a weave. Sister has a lot of her own hair, she just straightened it out....as a matter of fact, her own hair straightened should be longer than that, so she probably had it cut, too.
Too flat for me, but it looks OK on her...somewhat... |
Brownbeauty123
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Username: Brownbeauty123
Post Number: 1100
Registered: 03-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - 04:21 pm: |
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Renata, are you talking about Angie Stone's hair?
If so, that is nothing but a straight textured wig. |
Igbogirl
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Username: Igbogirl
Post Number: 162
Registered: 09-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - 04:31 pm: |
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Yeah, Angie's hair doesn't look in the least bit real |
Renata
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Username: Renata
Post Number: 1349
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - 04:56 pm: |
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I HOPE it is a wig....hopefully, she left her own hair un-cut and un-relaxed. |
Igbogirl
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Username: Igbogirl
Post Number: 169
Registered: 09-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - 09:01 pm: |
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I heard that even the "natural" hair was a weave. Just a really nice weave. And now she has a not very nice weave.
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Renata
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Username: Renata
Post Number: 1353
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - 09:42 pm: |
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http://i.rollingstone.com/assets/rs/147/8584/images/79843_med.jpg
If THIS is a WEAVE, then I really need to shop for beauty supplies where she goes, cuz that style is the BOMB.
http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/6/0/3/2/582306_170x170.jpg |
Fortified
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Username: Fortified
Post Number: 326
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - 09:46 pm: |
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Heather Headley has worn her own hair.
So has India Arie, Isaiah Washington's wife, S. Epatha Merkeson (from Law & Order). |
Renata
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Username: Renata
Post Number: 1354
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - 09:46 pm: |
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OK...OK...
I got some plans for what my hair is going to look like next week. I'm going to be completely GLAM.
BIG FUCKING CURLY AFRO and some shiny lip gloss and metallic/frosty eye shadow.
(and I ain't got no damn place to go.) LOL
Seeing that hairstyle just makes me want to get glam and be seen. |
Igbogirl
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Username: Igbogirl
Post Number: 177
Registered: 09-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - 10:01 pm: |
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With all respect, I don't think my niece is going to see S Epatha as a beauty icon or somebody she aspires to look like. I've never actually seen pics of Isiah's wife. |
Igbogirl
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Username: Igbogirl
Post Number: 179
Registered: 09-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - 10:05 pm: |
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Yes its weave. How do I know? She admitted it herself in an interview in some magazine or other. Loads of people have weaves as nice as that here in New York, they've got some pretty good salons that specialize in that kind of thing. |
Renata
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Username: Renata
Post Number: 1356
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - 10:41 pm: |
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I've seriously never seen a weave like that. Damn! You New York girls KNOW HOW TO DO IT.
People here wear their hair like that, but it takes them two years to grow it out that big.
That's a REALLY GOOD WEAVE. I don't think I'm going to put them down as much as I used to.
There's a really good salon here that specializes in doing STYLES like those, but they refuse to use weaves...those natural, hippy, vegan type salons where they use all natural products. |
Igbogirl
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Username: Igbogirl
Post Number: 186
Registered: 09-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 - 09:14 am: |
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Renata, yes, they do some really hot weaves here. The good ones - like that - are usually pretty expensive I think. A friend of mine got loc extensions done and you could actually not tell at all that they were not the real thing.
The natural hair thing is quite big here and a lot of women want a fly natural do NOW but they don't want to grow out their perm and wait two years to get length - so the salons can accomodate them with instant locks, instant twists, instant curly 'fros etc. They treat the fake hair to make it the exact same colour and texture as yours - if thats what you want. When I started my locs I actually considered getting temporary extension locs and it was going to take them two weeks to handmake the fake locs to be the exact same texture and color as the short locs I already had. In the end I didn't do it. It was going to cost at least $1000 all told. In the end I just waited until I had that same length naturally, without extensions. That took three years! |
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