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Samantha Warnick: i have strong opinions about curly hair

Mandatory curly girl reblog.

What people don’t understand about curly hair is that it’s not straight, it’s not ‘fro, it’s in between.  Mine is way curlier than Sam’s (my curls are tight gurl - many times I was told I have “white girl ‘fro” whatever that means), and it took me a WHILE to be able to manage it…. I had the same problem though, growing up, my mom would cut my hair into a short SHORT cut. My hair never grew - I learned that my hair doesn’t actually grow beyond a certain point. Oh well! That too, I have learned to accept and I love my curly hair that I wash every other day or twice a day - depending on how warm it it - moisturize thoroughly, and let air dry as much as possible. Crazy hair? So WHAT??

samanthawarnick:

My hair has been a thing for my entire life. At the start, I didn’t have any. My parents lovingly called me cue ball until my curls finally began to come in when I was 2 years old. I could walk, talk and read(!) before I had hair. During my early years with hair, it mostly grew in the back and…

19 July 2011