#black hair care

[creatingblackcharacters]

Examples of Protective Hair Coverings

I had to scroll through unreasonable amounts of white people for this. Oh, Google.

Durag

Silk Bonnet

Silk Scarf

Loc Socks

Okay, I admit. I've been using loc sock and loc bonnet interchangeably bc I've worn both and I know what I mean, but I cannot do that anymore.

Different styles will require different night time protective care! If your Black character has a silk press, she may choose to wrap her hair in a scarf. If they've got long locs or braids, a long silk bonnet will be better. A teeny weeny afro? A short bonnet will suffice, or they might even go bare. These are far from the only methods! We have oodles of options on how we maintain specific styles. Black hair care requires effort! Research and pick one!

[slyvester101]

Another headcanon for Tucker

Since Tucker is a black man stuck in the military with the same mostly white fuckers in a box canyon for years on end without any kind of salon/hairdresser/barber around, he gets fucking good at doing his own hair.

He orders all the stuff from Vic and has a designated ‘hair day��� for when he undoes, cuts, braids, or generally does his hair care. He gets hella good at it. He can do all the fancy, complicated shit. He can do the very mundane and simple shit too. He even learns how to dye his hair (it’s boring in blood gulch before Donut and Caboose arrived and kickstarted the next decade of shenanigans)

And since he’s the only “hairdresser” in the canyon, it’s obviously his job to take care of anything hair related.

He cuts Caboose’s and Church’s hair semi-regularly. Caboose lets him experiment and cut his hair however he likes, Church gets the same stupid haircut every time.

He helps Tex put her hair up in braids and buns when it’s just not cooperating. When Kai complains about a lack of hair care availability, Tucker gives her a full on spa day, treating and braiding her hair for her.

He also sometimes helps the reds with their hair. Sarge has only ever asked to borrow a razor (something Tucker still hasn’t gotten back), Simmons also gets the same damn haircut everytime, Grif has very curly and long hair like Tucker and often needs help taking care of/braiding it (especially since he’s too lazy to do it by himself) and Donut enjoys getting pampered whenever Tucker does his hair (Tucker doesn’t half-ass this shit. It’s a full production when Tucker does someone hair.)

He helps Wash and Carolina dye their hair. He braids Kimball’s hair into combat braids when she asks. He teaches the soldiers of Chorus how to do complex braids and how to do proper hair care while in an active warzone.

Taking care of hair, cutting, braiding, washing, it all becomes second nature to Tucker. It becomes woven (ba dum tss) into his very being. What used to be something he did out of vanity and necessity became something he did because he genuinely enjoyed it, because it brought him and the people around him joy.

Tucker using hair as an outlet, maybe as a coping mechanism. Tucker giving to others what he wishes someone would’ve given him.

A decent fucking hairdo.

[floof-ghostie]

I just think it's so depressing how much natural hair is associated with struggling, and how many people opt to perming and damaging their hair as opposed to taking the time to learn to love their hair the way it grows. And then make people who promote wearing their hair natural out to be controlling when they aren't. I especially hate how this narrative is used to fuel capitalism, and buying 60 different products "guaranteed to grow your hair". I don't know. I have a lot of thoughts on this. I'm just tired.

(nonblacks can interact but please be respectful)

[odinsblog]

Traccye Love used hair relaxers for years and believes the chemicals in those hair products are related to her uterine fibroids. Love, of Oak Park, had a hysterectomy two years ago and is one of thousands of women who have filed suit against the hair care companies.

Growing up in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood in the late 1990s, Traccye Love wished for the long, smooth tresses of pop star Aaliyah.

“That was the look then — smooth and straight,” said Love, of Oak Park. “My mom would press it (with a hot comb), but I wanted it to stay straight.”

Love wasn’t allowed to get her first chemical hair relaxer until she turned 18. For most of the women in her close-knit, predominantly Black community, the rite of passage of using relaxers to straighten their naturally kinky, thick hair had come much younger. Love’s mother worried about the dangers of using a relaxer: chemical burns or brittle hair caused by lye and similar chemicals in hair-straightening products.

Throughout college, and well into her 30s, Love slathered on chemicals from home straightening kits every six weeks or so. Then, in her late 30s, she began to feel knee-buckling abdominal pain during her menstrual cycles — on her worst days each month, Love downed five 200-milligram tablets of ibuprofen every four hours.

“It felt like someone was taking my ovary and twisting it like a balloon,” Love said.

After several years and trips to three different doctors, tests revealed Love had multiple, golf ball-sized fibroid tumors in her uterus. In 2022, at the age of 38, she had a hysterectomy. She was still using hair relaxers until her husband spotted a social media post about lawsuits targeting the manufacturers. She now thinks the relaxers caused her tumors.

“It had never occurred to me that there was serious risk to using relaxers,” Love said. “I thought the risk was getting scalp burns.”

In October 2022, the first of several thousand lawsuits was filed at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in the Loop by a woman from St. Louis claiming that chemicals in hair relaxer products she used — such as Soft Sheen, Just for Me and Dark & Lovely — caused her cancer.

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[sbrown82]

Meghan Markle & Mariah Carey talking about Black hair care! 👩🏾‍🦱

[wakandama2]

Wash n' Go's were invited by some lightskin 3b devil that has infiltrated the soul of our community and I stand on that😤😤😤

[mimi-0007]

Janet Jackson 😍🤩💜💜💜

[thejaguartour]

Victoria Monét at Garnier Fructis’ vegan Hair Filler launch with Xochitl Gomez & Charli D’Amelio! 🤎💚

[bellamer]

Hair reveal before I blow it out because I high key need advice on what to do with it. I might just cut it off tbh. I’m tired of being covered in hair balls and clogging up the drain and I think it’s damaged in the back (it’s always been like that though so I think it just grows different back there). I tried As I Am black castor shampoo and conditioner and to be honest I kinda don’t like it

[op0ssumlord]

Okay because apparently some people need this reminder

👏BLACK WOMEN ARE NOT THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO CAN HAVE CURLS/COILS HAIR IS NOT A RACE👏

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk

~ A very white person with very curly hair

[not0fthiswurld]

[andelkacroatia]

How to retwist…for dummies 💕✨

OG Creator theeglamnaija on Tiktokrepost from tik

[sbrown82]

I really think white people, non-Black POC, and Black men need to leave Black women alone when it comes to our hair. How y’all always mad when Black women straighten their hair, wear wigs, weaves, extensions, and color it. But when we get natural styles and wear our hair the way it grows out of our heads, you damn sure are quiet when we’re bullied, harassed, and degraded because of it. That’s on top of the fact that we run the risk of being suspended from school, fired from jobs, and being called a “nappy head”. So…my question is: WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT FROM US?!?!?