Okay, there’s (broadly) four types of hair, with many different subtypes: straight, wavy (my type), curls that look like corkscrews, and kinky or “Afro-textured” hair. They’re numbered, one being straightest and 4 being the curliest. “Curly Girl” is written mostly about Type 2 and 3.

There are other qualities that determine what hair looks like, of course. The texture, the volume, the hairline, the color, etc. And it varies quite a lot race by race. But most white people tend to have type 1-3 hair. You usually find type 4 in people of African descent, and some Jewish people. Asians tend to have pretty straight hair. These are really broad generalizations, though.
I don’t know why straight hair is valued so much over type 3 hair, though. You can’t chalk it up to racism because plenty of white people have curly hair.

That theory might work in a European society where people are born with roughly the same tone of skin. However, it does not apply to India at all. Some Indians are born as dark as light, and some are born as light as most Europeans (or even lighter than the average Anglo). I might go up and down a shade depending on if it’s summer or winter, but it’s impossible for me to get super dark. Just like it’s impossible for an Irish person to get as dark as the average African.

There is a lot of reasons why there are skin issues in India. They resulted from religion, colonialism, and globalization.

There is no fooling Indians that their skin color is based on how much physical labor is done. They all accept it is something you are born with. Just like there are thousands of Indians in the tech industry that stay in their office all day, and yet I (medium light brown skinned) will never get as dark as many of them even though I’m constantly doing out door activity.

I have thick, wild hair that is never perfectly straight or wavy in any way that seems to make sense. It curls under on one side, over on the other, flips up in the back and cowlicks in the middle. I also can’t wear bangs because of how curly my hair gets when it’s short. I see women on shampoo commercials with perfectly straight, shiny hair and wonder what I’m doing wrong with mine and what’s wrong with me that I can’t have “good” hair like those women.

Reading this article and watching the preview for the documentary has been eye opening. I never realized how much women struggled trying to get “good” hair and it made me realize that I have the type of hair that most people would consider good, yet I don’t like it anyway. I always wonder if we’re conditioned to hate things about ourselves so we feel like we have to fix them, and therefore spend money on products we don’t really need.

It is free at youtube. 6 parts including an update from London, England.

It explores the Korean Take-over of the Black Beauty Supply and Hair biz..

The current situation makes it hard to believe that Madame C.J. Walker once ran the whole thing.

I am not a hater, I am a motivator.

Plus I am a White guy who stumbled upon this, and felt it was so wrong I had to make a film about it.

self-funded film, made from the heart.

Can it be taken back?

Link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p96aaTSdrAE

The black actresses he portrayed in the trailer were all saying they have a weave. Yet some girl is crying cause she can’t have Raven Simone’s hair or Megan Good’s hair. shame…we have our own hair and it’s about time we learned to love it.

I think after we learn to appreciate our natural looks that’s when we can start having fun and experimenting. I just got a wig made for the first time in April and it’s okay but I can’t see why people would want to opt for that over natural, beautiful hair…

While I am not at all familiar with black women’s hair, it wouldn’t surprise me if some weaves, somewhere, were made with yak hair.

I will say, though, that the ad is poorly written all around.

Am I the only one who feels this way, or…?