I am a dark-skinned girl with curly, 3C hair. I am not (directly) mixed with anything but good ole Blackness! I have spent my entire life hearing comments about my hair..."How did you get that kind of hair?" "Is that your real hair?" "Your hair looks like a weave!" "Well I know that must be your hair because it's been like that since elementary, but how did you get that hair?" It is a HUGE misconception, and frankly ignorant, to think that the ONLY way a dark-skinned girl can have 3 type hair is that she must be mixed!
Knowing that I have this hair type has helped me find other ladies to follow on YouTube and I have gain valuable insight into how to better take care of my hair, and sometimes products to use that actually work. The ignorance that I see in comments astounds me. I have 8 siblings-we a resemble each other but we all look different. We span the whole spectrum of color. One of my brothers is light-skinned with 4 type hair...very thick and cotton-like with no curl whatsoever. My baby brother is blond! With green eyes to boot! Yes...same mother and father. And ironically, he was teased for having curly, blond hair and not looking like the rest of us.
One day, I hope that we all learn to have compassion and sensitivity to the differences and uniqueness of every human being. We get caught up in trying to IDENTIFY someone-mark them and put them in the "appropriate" place, that we forget to just accept people for who they are and have fun...living.
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