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It was with surprise and disappointment that members of our community at NaturallyCurly.com alerted us to Oprah’s Great American Haircut Makeovers. In case after case, beautiful waves, curls and kinks were beaten into submission with blow dryers, flatirons and extensions.
Oprah is well loved the world over, due in no small part to her uplifting gospel of self-acceptance. Yet, in the eyes of curlies, these makeovers suggest that in order to be beautiful, one must completely alter one’s appearance into something not at all natural.
Our web site has worked for 10 years to help change perceptions about curls and kinks. In the past few years, recognizing a trend toward self-acceptance and natural beauty, almost every hair-care company has created products that enhance texture — many with the guidance of NaturallyCurly.com. Countless examples exist of celebrities, including you, and of everyday women working with and embracing their curls, rather than fighting them. We are proud to espouse the message that curly hair, like eye and skin color, is always in style. After all, curlies make up more than 50% of the world’s population — we need to rock our curls!
We would love to work with Oprah to find stylists who aren’t afraid of a few curls and kinks – people who have a passion for them – to collectively show millions of women that textured hair is beautiful and sexy.
If you want to join NaturallyCurly in our appeal to Oprah, you can! To align our efforts and create one underscored voice, we would ask that you submit the following message here:
As a member of the NaturallyCurly community, we would love to see a redux of the Great American Haircut Makeovers that showcases textured hair being embraced in its natural way. See how Gretchen and Michelle have helped make a difference for all us curlies!
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Curly hair is wonderful. It’s bouncy, shiny, and completely gorgeous! But if you don’t take care of it properly, it can become something else: poofy.
Now I love big curls, but sometimes us curly girls want to keep our hair a little less poofy and a little more defined. So how do you keep your curls perfectly perky and not too poofy? I have some tips!
The right haircut can always help. I’ve learned that with the wrong haircut, it’s almost impossible to get your curls to keep the shape you want. For most curlies, long layers work well to give your hair a nice shape. However, cutting your hair to one length all over will usually result in the dreaded triangle-head, where hair poofs out too much at the bottom. But everyone’s hair is different, so get the haircut that works the best for you!
Another way to keep your hair from poofing is to not style your hair in the bathroom after taking a shower. Why? Because all of the steam in the air will make your hair poof extra!
If your hair is flat, applying products and rinsing it upside-down will help give it a boost at the top. Otherwise, don’t try this! I’ve learned that hair if I apply my products upside-down, my hair will be too poofy for my liking.
Using a diffuser on your blow dryer can create beautifully defined curls. I think that when I diffuse my hair, it has a bigger shape then by just letting it air-dry. So my hair is less poofy even though it is bigger, but more defined overall. I prefer to diffuse my hair then let it air or towel dry, but it takes about 20 minutes – not something I can do every day before school.
By Carolivia Herron
Illustrated by Joe
Cepeda
Published 1999
Random House Childrens Books
African Americans
/ Fiction32 pages
ISBN 0679894454
“Nappy Hair” by Carolivia Herron
“Nappy Hair” is a lively, empowering story about Brenda’s knotted-up, twisted, nappy hair and how it got to be that way! Told in the African-American “call and response” tradition, this story leaps off the page, along with vibrant illustrations by Joe Cepeda. Winner of a Parenting Reading Magic Award.
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PreSchool-Grade 3. The title leaves no doubt about the focus of this picture book. At a family picnic, everyone pokes fun at the youngest girl’s nappy hair. Devised as a call-and-response dialogue, the interchanges offer explanations and comments on why Brenda’s hair is the nappiest, the curliest, the twistiest hair in the family. The answers involve African origins, God’s intent, and pride in one’s self; e.g., the Lord “looked down on this cute little brown baby girl” and said, “One nap of her hair is the only perfect circle in nature.” The slightly exaggerated, colorful illustrations depict hair as wild and woolly as Don King’s, and they comically embellish the message. The device of the multi-voiced dialogue, characterized in different type styles and sizes, rhythmically carries an ethnic flavor, but what’s missing here is story. It’s nice to see such familial unity but there’s no strong narrative to reinforce that theme. Because the message is the entire point, the effect is akin to a one-joke book. — Julie Cummins, New York Public Library
Rascal Flats bassist/pianist Jay DeMarcus’ said bandmate Joe Don Rooney spends the most time on his hair. “Joe Don is the one that pulls his flat iron out, and it takes him about 30 minutes,” DeMarcus said. “His hair naturally is curly. So he’s got to spend a lot of time straightening it out. We’ve got a semi (trailer”> devoted to hair-care products.”
Curls are like cashmere
The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty is a global effort that is intended to serve as a starting point for societal change, and act as a catalyst for widening the definition and discussion of beauty. Instead of images of long locks, longer legs and incredibly lean bodies, Unilever’s Dove promotes its products by encouraging women and girls to celebrate themselves as they are.
“I will never straighten my hair to impress a guy ever again,” says country star Taylor Swift.
“Whether you’re blessed with natural curls, craft them using rollers or borrow them from a bottle, ringlets of every variety are bigger than ever this year. The mane difference is the focus on free-form curly cues. If your hair is naturally, bent, scrunch locks under a diffuser using curl-enhancing for extra dimension. Wind individual strands around fingers to fill in any gaps. Got frizz? Go ahead and flaunt it — this looks makes being messy an asset!”
“She doesn’t have the most statuesque look among Hollywood beauties, but with her mane of hair, who cares if she has a nose worthy of a Halloween witch?….Sarah is one of the sexiest-dressed women in the acting profession today. Did we mention she has great hair!”
— Askmen.com on Sarah Jessica Parker
— Justin Guarini
“He’ll take an hour to get ready,” says ‘N SYNC bandmate Lance Bass. “Everything has to be perfect, especially his hair.” Ah, The Hair. Since achieving stardom, Timberlake ‘s blond curls — now shorn — have been more closely scrutinized than his ex-girlfriend’s navel. “When he had curly hair, we’d joke around with him, like, ‘Uh-oh! Curl No. 66 is out of place!’ ” says Bass. “He wants to make sure he looks good.”
— From People magazine in an article about Justin Timberlake
Curly hair quote:
“Franny B. Kranny loved her long, frizzy hair. The longer and frizzier it got, the more she liked it. Franny B. Kranny thought her long, frizzy hair was beautiful. She could brush it down in front of her face and pretend she was in a cave. She loved to press her hair flat against her head and watch it boing out again.”
– From the book ‘Franny B Kranny, There’s a Bird in your Hair!’
“I’m not unhappy with the way I look now. But I really would like curls.”
— Michelle Pfeiffer
“Curly hair is like a forest. It’s very dense. You have to cut paths in it.”
— Howard McLaren, creative vice president, technical director of Bumble and bumble
“On the way home from the BeZI computer, I stopped in at a gallery where there was a show by Petah Coyne. Vast webs of hair, ensnaring animals and birds, were stretched across the walls. In corners stood small Madonna-like figures weighed down by yards and yards of tresses. It was a poignant reminder of how many of us are still living in ignorance, trapped and martyred by our own hair.”
— Mary Tannen, New York Times Magazine ‘It’s The Hair, Stupid.’
“Don’t remove the kinks from your hair. Remove them from your brain.”
Marcus Garvey
Activist (1887-1940″>
