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Re: People's Most Beautiful Women: Beyonce
Amen!
Ditto nitaw re: overexposure of Beyonce. Also, I miss Destiny's Child.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DBy that same token, you don't see the similarity between all women who add chemicals to their hair to conform to whatever society has decided to be the standard of beauty?
Shiit, I don't have the patience if you're going to be deliberately obtuse, NB.
Yes, it happens to white people too. Does that make you feel better?
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You had your baby???? Congratulations!
I don't know how to respond to this.
I don't really think Paula Patton is that pretty but I liked her in Precious.
I don't understand why Bey doesn't show her natural hair sometimes either. A sew-in weave can be a great protective style, she has worn them for YEARS. Her hair should be much longer than her weaves by now, unless she wears the weave for fullness.
Also I can't look at Sophia V the same after one of those trash mags did a before and after of hollywood actresses with make-up and without. She looked horrible.
I think Michelle Williams is the one who is most naturally pretty on the list.
I was wondering just the other day what would happen if Beyonce came out with her natural hair. I feel like everyone would be talking about it. And that's why I want her to do it.
And I'm surprised no one asked what a kitchen is.
I am sooo jealous of Sophia's body.
sbp - I have a friend who looks EXACTLY like Charlize Theron, body and all. She could not be sweeter and funnier as well. She is difficult to keep up with. Whenever we go anywhere all the sour-faced Germans light up and smile drunkenly, whether male or female. It's not easy to be her friend
I suppose you could say, why yes, there are similarities but I can certainly understand why it bothers you that the beauty standard is based on the idealization of caucasian features and characteristics.
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I don't recall her sister (Solange?) being too well received when she went natural.
Pretty much.
Solange is Blowing UP the natural hair circuit. She's all over the natural hair blogs. Me, I'm trying to get to here:
Give me two months and I got this Boo!
Ditto. I don't even like her singing. She is too screechy to me. She's too overexposed.
Hair aside, is Solange still considered a hideous human being on the inside? Or has she redeemed herself?
Yeah, she's the natural hair mascot. BTW, I big chopped last Saturday Cookie!
Thank you so much!
::waves to fellow naturals in post::
Ok, bye.
Yay!!! I can't wait to see it! I have the info for Sunday and can text it to you tonight when I access my email from home. I found a new person to go to 5 minutes from my house. I now have a standing appointment with her so I am hoping I can keep up being perm-free even after the baby gets here. We will see!
My hair is mostly natural lol. I refuse to break my addition to Perfect 10 medium golden brown.
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You can do it! I'm 2 1/2 years in and LOVING it! I can say with great certainty that I will never go back. There was an awkward Miss Celie stage, but once I got past that, it was all good in the hood.
You got it. There are also tons of people on youtube to follow when you get to the awkward lengths.
FFS my comment was deleted. FFFFFF.
Anyway, here's the thing...
I hate my hair. Always have. I hate the fact that if I role out of bed and do nothing to my hair I look like a homeless person. Whereas if my husband roles out of bed he has "bed head" and looks sexy. I'm a bag lady. He's hot. NOT FAIR.
I'm sorry that the standard of beauty is based on caucasian features. I'm sorry that standard of beauty requires me to do my hair every freaking day otherwise people will hand me spare change. I'm sorry that society expects so damn much of every woman in this country. Yes those standards do not impact everyone fairly. But every woman has to battle the American beauty industry on a daily basis. And almost every woman wakes up every morning wishing she could just shave her damn hair off because they are so f*cking tired of having to "do it" every morning (or is that just me?).
Curlynikki.com is my best friend right now.
ooookay then
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I didnt want to be the one to ask
The googles tell me it's 'nappy ass hair on the back of a neck'.
Your black-folk reading for today:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081108085910AAgK4Df
http://www.kisforkinky.com/2011/10/03/natural-hair-beadie-beads/
http://www.curlynikki.com/2010/12/growing-kitchen-natural-hair.html
I just literally LOL'd at my desk.