Styling? Psh. More like workout routine.
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I wore my hair in box braids from late summer into fall of last year and after taking them out and giving my fro some love, I’m ready to get the braids again. Why? I want to give my hair some time to grow and I’m not in the mood to always mess with it every morning! I miss just rolling out of bed with my hair already done for me for three blissful months. Of course, having long box braids had its own set of challenges but they were still so fun to rock that I can’t wait to throw some braids in there again ASAP.
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Trends come and go, but taking style from black and brown people without credit, throwing them on a white body and calling it chic and cool is forever.
Wait, maybe I should backtrack here for a second.
When I was a kid I wore my hair in cornrows most of the time. Getting my hair done was a ritual, as it is for many people in the black community. I listened to grown folks gossip as I sat for hours in a chair as my hairdresser twisted and twisted and twisted extensions into my hair. Cornrows are a distinctly black hairstyle that I, one of the few black kids in my grade at the time, wore with a mixture of love and hate. Loved it because I could swim without my hair turning into an afro. Hated it because I sometimes got silly, ignorant comments about them like “OMG THIS ISN’T YOUR REAL HAIR, RIGHT? SO I CAN PULL IT, RIGHT? DOES THIS HURT?” I never felt as cute and pretty with braids, which is easy to understand since I was surrounded by girls (white girls) with straight hair every day.
If only I waited a little over a decade for Kendall Jenner, right? Remember when Kendall Jenner had a few cornrows in her hair and Marie Clare was super excited about it? They said, “Kendall Jenner takes bold braids to a new epic level.” Of course, black women–myself included–were both amused and insulted by the insinuation that Kendall was rocking some new look in a bold, new look that black women–including black celebrities–have been rocking forever. But I wonder how I would react if I was still that little kid who felt weird about being black. Would seeing Kendall’s cornrows–my black hairstyle on a white girl–make me see them as beautiful and cool? What about braids on rapper Brooke Candy? What about Katy Perry? (Read on..)
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