I would go natural if my hair looked like yours ...

Most people would probably take this compliment and run with it, but I've always been very analytical in my thinking ... Why? WHY would someone say this? "I would go natural if my hair looked like yours ..."

What we're talking about is something that's attached to your scalp, your head, YOU!

I understand that not everyone is the same, and that some hair types might be more difficult to handle / frustrating than others - ESPECIALLY in the beginning when the hair is shorter and you don't have lots of any experience dealing with it, but from the beginning I'd decided I would embrace my napps no matter what size my coils turned out to be. I had my hair relaxed in basic school (In the Caribbean, Basic schools [or kindergarten] come before prep school, and I started prep school at age 6 in the 2nd grade), so I had NO memory of my hair in its natural state.

- And there lies another problem. So many little girls in this race get relaxers at an early age and never learn to do their own hair and because they never learned...they don't know how to do their daughter's hair... and their daughters don't know how to do their daughters' hair...and their daughters' daughters don't know how to do their daughters' hair - but that is another post all together, uhhh probably more than just 1 - 

ANYWAY

It is just so hard for me to hear the people around me say things like their hair isn't good enough for them to be natural. 

It makes no sense - you can't be natural because your hair isn't...right? Is it wrong then?

It takes a lot for me not to just start preaching, beseeching and teaching every time someone makes comments like this.  

If people would say 'they just prefer relaxing', I'd accept that without another thought, but them saying their hair isn't good enough is just sad.

I know the world won't change overnight, but I have to hope that sometime soon other members in this race of mine will stop devaluing what makes us unique. 

*None of the following pics were taken by me or are of people I know, they were taken from different websites and saved in a " Beautiful Hair " folder.


VEER:

A GAP ad in their window at Metrotown mall that made me stop and stare:

H&M ads that made me smile in their store:

and this one below I didn't see in the stores at Coquitlam Centre Mall or at Pacific Centre, but it is gorg!

And Lastly, random pics found via GOOGLE

Below: Model Sabina Karlsson