NATURAL HAIR IS CHEAP!

Hey guys, am sorry I have been out of touch for a while, life eih! ... But anyway am back!  While I didn’t blog for a while I always tried to update the facebook page, so if you haven’t checked it out make sure to do so at www.facebook.com/NaturalToto

Anyway for my come back I decided to share with you one story that I came across recently. It’s a discussion of hair in the Kenyan setting, why most women prefer weaves, and in particular it follows a young lady in her quest of hair beauty. The story didn’t actually shock me, as this is something I have come to know and understand about not only Kenyans, but lots of girls & women in Africa. Most of us HATE! Our natural hair.

It’s a mindset we have been conditioned and accustomed to from a young age, a mindset which has been influenced by the western world and its depiction of beauty and therein in part, lack of our own depiction of beauty. This mind set where straight hair, permed hair, weaves and wigs are chosen as the ideal standard of beauty, while our own God given hair is seen as ugly, nasty, unmanageable, uncontainable and some kind of a sin put upon our head which we must hide and alter at any given time to seem presentable! This is a mindset I blame mostly to our own Ignorance.

In the story the lady whose life is followed can be heard as saying she hates her hair because its kinky, funny enough her hair is full of chemical still, and it has just a bit of “growth” on it. But just by the mere sight of her natural hair she is angry, sad, and feels unworthy or ugly because of it, and has to run back to the salon to get it “retouched.” 

Still in the story, is one of Kenya’s most prominent her salonists, she confidently and without shame says that Natural hair is cheap!!! And seems so proud to say of how she goes to far off countries such as China and India to collect hair, which for some reason only she would know, is made pure by the fact that it is cut in temples!!! Again I can only blame such utterances as Ignorance.

It is such a shame to bring children in the world and give them a mindset that being as they are is not beautiful and they have to plaster or add other things to their physique to make them beautiful. It’s such a shame for one to feel so intelligent in saying your natural hair is cheap (as compared to assumedly dead people hair from far off lands) and that it’s something done only by people from the rural areas.

I just hope can learn from this video, see how low we have stooped and go back to our roots! It’s only natural.

What are your sentiments about natural hair, do you also think its cheap?