Here's a "N" Hair Tobacco tin from the early 1920s. How insulting! To be politically correct the B. Leidersdorf Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the late 1920s changed the name to Bigger Hair Tobacco.
Anybody interested? You can buy the demeaning tin @ Trocadero.com.
The emotionally penetrating video below breaks down to the lowest denominator; floodlight Truths of Sisters' legitimate/24-carat/Royal everlasting Queen-dom
Presenting A Black Woman's Smile
perfomed and written by Ty Gray-El (a brother who gets it) for Sneak A Peek Productions.
To the Sisters (and handful of Brothers) who put chemical straighteners crack cream in their hair -- Did you ever wonder why the hairstylist is wearing gloves for protection and your head & scalp is bare naked?
Does that tell you something about the harm of the crack cream?
The Young, Black, and Fabulous blog nailed it, calling Jermaine Jackson a wax museum piece. And check out his hair. It looks like tarred asphalt on crack.
Juices & Berries is a leave-in hair moisturizer by Baltimore-based & black-owned Oyin Handmade products.
The company was recently featured in an AP Wire story: Entrepreneurs ReclaimBlack Hair Care Market With Niche Products for Newly Coveted Kinks
Another black-owned hair care company for natural hair mentioned in the story was My Honey Child out of Raleigh, NC.
Bottom line, Sisters are getting tired of chemicals, straighteners, wigs, weaves & what have you.
The Kink is coming back & Black entrepreneurs are filling the void for natural hair care products.
Let's hope we can hold on to this market and not go the way of past decades when L'Oreal, Alberto-Culver, & Procter & Gamble busted in & devoured our black-owned companies like Johnson Products, Carson & Soft Sheen.
This is a hair accessory for bad hair days: The Mane Clip. It's a great idea. However, it's still promoting the Eurocentric beauty standard. The sister who invented the Mane Clip is creative. It looks like if The Mane Clip-wearer ever was in a Jerry Springer moment it would be difficult to dislodge the fake hair.
Any Sister familiar with Dominican Hair Salons knows you leave the salon with your hair bone straight; able to blow in the wind -- for real.
Dominican stylists give -- hands down -- "the best damn blow out!"
Dominicans are a mixture of African, Spanish, Native American. The Carribean Sister is familiar with a variety of hair textures.
...and they will whip out that crack cream (relaxer) in a heartbeat.
In the early 1970s from Hispaniola: A Case History in Multicultural Madness -- Dominican sociologist Daysi Josefina Guzman identified 15 kinds of hair textures. Her scale went from bueno (good) for soft Caucasian hair to malo (bad) for kinky, Negroid hair.
Here's a peek at her crazy hair spectrum:
1. Lacio - straight & smooth 2. Achinado - stiff hair 3. Espeso - thick, abundant & slightly wavy 4. Macho - thick & strong, abundant but without luster 5. Rizado - thick and fine with small waves but dull 6. Muerto - thin and greasy 7. Ondulado - wavy 8. Vivo - thick, dry & out of control 9. Variable - indescribable 10. Crespo - thick & frizzy 11. de Pimienta - peppery, growing slow & tight to the skull in small balls 12. Motica - like peppery hair but thin, wavy 13. Pegaito - so close to the skull that it is impossible to comb
The Black Hair Inferiority Mindset has claws that intersects all corners of the planet...
W. Calvin Chase was founder & Editor of the Negro NewspaperThe Washington Bee. Established in 1882. It lasted 40 years. (It's motto: Honey for Friends, Stings for Enemies) Chase died in 1921.
Now, in his March 5, 1910, editorial according to the book, Blue Veins and Kinky Hair by Obiagele Lake -- Chase suggested God discriminated against Black women when he gave them kinky hair.
Chase's editorial went on to say:
"We say straighten your hair, ladies beautify yourselves, make
aggravating, reclusive, elusive, shrinking kinks long flowing
tresses that may be coiled or curled or puffed to suit Dame
Fashion's latest millinery creations, even if it takes every
ounce of hair straightening preparation that can be manufactured
...even God, who discriminated against our women on this
hair proposition, knows that straight hair beautifies a woman.
Yes, straighten your hair and do it at once."
...and our internal hair wars continues into the 21st century...