Basically hair straightening is about conformity and it comes from a biased cultural viewpoint. What I mean is, most people in the world have straight hair, so it's considered the "default" hair and everything else is treated as freakish or a deviation. That's why curly/kinky/nappy haired women are encouraged to straighten their hair (and curly/kinky/nappy haired men encouraged to keep their hair short). This idea of straight hair as being the "norm" or more "put together" only appeared in Africa after it was colonized by Europeans.
IMO if you have curly/kinky/nappy hair you should stay true to yourself and don't let anyone else define beauty for you. If you want to straighten or switch up your style because YOU feel like it, go ahead, but no one should feel pressured to change their hair's natural appearance just to conform to some Eurocentric "beauty ideal" that was decided upon by someone else.
Not everythings about racism, thats complete bullshit. Straight hair being in fashion is a very recent thing, in the 80s for example curly hair was massive and people were way more racist then, it's just in fashion at the moment. As a girl I straighten my hair because it feels nicer to touch and it makes it longer.
Is it normal to not like straightened hair?
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Basically hair straightening is about conformity and it comes from a biased cultural viewpoint. What I mean is, most people in the world have straight hair, so it's considered the "default" hair and everything else is treated as freakish or a deviation. That's why curly/kinky/nappy haired women are encouraged to straighten their hair (and curly/kinky/nappy haired men encouraged to keep their hair short). This idea of straight hair as being the "norm" or more "put together" only appeared in Africa after it was colonized by Europeans.
IMO if you have curly/kinky/nappy hair you should stay true to yourself and don't let anyone else define beauty for you. If you want to straighten or switch up your style because YOU feel like it, go ahead, but no one should feel pressured to change their hair's natural appearance just to conform to some Eurocentric "beauty ideal" that was decided upon by someone else.
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Not everythings about racism, thats complete bullshit. Straight hair being in fashion is a very recent thing, in the 80s for example curly hair was massive and people were way more racist then, it's just in fashion at the moment. As a girl I straighten my hair because it feels nicer to touch and it makes it longer.
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Well said.