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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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#psa#hair relaxers#traccye love#black hair#carcinogens#hair straightening#natural hair#black hair care#straight perms#hair care
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The Food and Drug Administration is proposing a ban on using formaldehyde as an ingredient in hair relaxers, a huge step in raising awareness about the potential harms such products create for the many Black women who typically use them. The proposed rule would ban the chemical in hair-smoothing or hair-straightening products, also called relaxers. The FDA currently discourages consumers from using hair-straightening products that contain formaldehyde and similar ingredients, according to a fact sheet from the agency. The FDA didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Formaldehyde is a colorless, flammable gas that’s used in a wide variety of household products, including medicines and cosmetics, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s highly toxic, and repeated exposure can irritate the eyes, skin, lungs and throat. It is also linked to certain cancers, including myeloid leukemia, a cancer that occurs in the blood and bone marrow, according to the National Cancer Institute.
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Chemicals in hair relaxers linked to serious health issues
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old man bones
#his favorite stim toy#i just think he likes to play with his fingers and hair and his tassels and just likes to be touching all the time#trying to relax and your husband is just snapping your entire body like a glowstick#heaven official's blessing#tgcf#hua cheng#xie lian#hualian
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arthur notices merlin and lancelot’s chemistry in s1 and then merlin and gwaine’s chemistry in s3 and comes to the conclusion that merlin likes men with long hair. in completely unrelated news, arthur thinks he might look good with long hair and decides to grow it out
#bbc merlin#merlin emrys#arthur pendragon#merthur#lancelot#gwaine#mergwaine#mercelot#merlin DOES love it. he likes washing arthurs hair and brushing it out and weaving little braids thru it#when arthur is in one of his really good moods and takes merlin and the knights out to relax in the woods#he’ll fall asleep in the sun and merlin will adjust him so he can weave flowers into his hair#nobody says anything to arthur who doesnt notice until merlin is taking it down before he goes to bed#(he complains and pretends to hate it but hes lying thru his teeth)#(merlin knows this)#fanfiction#fanfic#fic ideas#prompt
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Athena with odysseus: surprise attacking odysseus and bodily slamming him to palace walls (for awareness training). Randomly kidnapping him from the palace to drop him in the woods (or the ocean or on two memorable occasions on a completely different island) (survival training), using her full strength in sparing matches (odysseus has many broken bones) dragging him up by his wrist so they're face to face. Not being careful with how often she uses quick thought or any of her other powers (what? He seems fine. She's sure odysseus has always been a freak it's definitely not brain damage it's/fine/hes /fine)
Athena with telemachus, after she accidentally knocked him out once: right right odysseus and penelope taught me how to do this when they had me babysit you. Gotta be gentle so so gentle. Gotta support the head gotta craddle humans not yank them up by the wrist (she knew odysseus was a freak why didn't he say anything??) Can't just funnel her full power into the kid gotta be so gentle.
#Athena#Odysseus#Telemachus#Penelope#The odyssey#Epic the musical#I feel like this works for both so#Reminder that Athena just lives in odysseus's house and that she and telemachus are besties#They are in their pj's and coloring and braiding each other's hair#Odysseus half fuming watching this because helo where was this care for mortal limitations when he was an actual child???#The other half is so so grateful that his kids gets to have this and maybe a little bit happy to see his old mentor relax a little#Penelope just finds it funny and is also grateful that her son will not have god induced brain damage like her husband does#Athena and odysseus's wacky “training” adventures#That's going to be the tag for all of the precanon Athena odysseus shenanigans I'm planning on writing a fic for this
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experimentations ft. the Artpop queen herself
Silly little (not so little) unrelated HC I developed later under the cut
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🎀- HC that EVE's most normal hobby - when not occupied with other things - is repainting dolls 🎀- Like in a blue moon you can catch her at the hobby lobby in mom jeans and a cardigan just looking for materials
★- In her down time (which is a bit rare these days) Nadia'll pick those ball-jointed Barbie/Bratz/MH dolls and give them a complete makeover ☆- While she's making them she's fervently thinking 'I will love you in a way that no one else EVER has' and she treats them all that way ★- She'll repaint them in the most unconventional ways possible but they're still gorgeous; a perfect reflection of her studio artwork on a body that isn't her own ☆- Sometimes if she's low on fabrics, instead of making a full-sized mockup of her exhibition fits she'll use her dolls to test the outfit design and make a mini version of the fit with small pieces of the final material ★- She's got this HUGE shelf on her pad that's got these fashion icon dolls displayed with their name and inspiration on a little plaque ☆- Whenever something significant happens and she doesn't want to paint, she'll hold onto the feeling, good or bad, and jot down an idea for a new doll's look ★- and she DOES truly love each of them - though she may have had to learn to love one in particular
🎀- She picked up the hobby in college (before she met Zuke) but didn't really think anything of it 🌸- It was just a means to practice different makeup looks and pencil techniques without sculpting something - and it was fun! She liked having a cute little gal at the end of the process 🎀- When she came up with the idea of using the dolls as models, she created a doll of herself but made the decision to make its skin completely white 🌸- When Nadia met Zuke, she sort of put the hobby aside to focus on her other art mediums, but she looked at the doll of herself and felt comfortable enough to repaint the right side pink (and she laughed a bit to herself looking at the final result, because it looked... Cute! Just like her other gorgeous dolls...) 🎀- After Rapturica, she didn't feel the need to create a doll based on her feelings as she didn't feel as hurt as she expected, but she did find it really, REALLY hard to look at the doll of herself, so she hid it away... 🎀- she picked up repainting again later but went in HARD - they began to look more artsy and alien, just like her other art pieces 🌸- After graduating she didn't really have time to repaint dolls and focused on creating other arts/music again, only occasionally using them to test outfits (but never the one of herself) 🎀- After the events of NSR though, she picked it up again as a form of self-care. It's something she doesn't have to create for the public eye, and she's rekindled the joy of creating a strange little gal and loving them despite their bizarre quirks. 🌸- ... I think she feels a bit more comfortable looking at the doll of herself now, too.
★- She's probably still got doll repaint videos up on her channel from her college days, hehe. ☆- (She's debating whether or not to make a mini exhibition about the concept of dolls.* Likely not, as she doesn't want to taint the tranquility of the act, but she still likes the idea. It's better to not mix work art with home art, anyway.) (* (How they can reflect their caretaker, they exhibit both confidence and vulnerability, they can be broken and discarded but repaired, they're still images that can be moved in a 3d space however you desire, they rely on a person to actually be 'real' ykyk that kind of thing. the symbolism of dolls.)
The doodle I made in the 3rd picture (above the cut) is inspired by those really pretty doll repaints... I think that that look in particular is one that she tested on a doll first... pre-ugly cry, that is.
Thanks for reading my very silly idea... decorated the bullets with Bows and stars because I felt like it, haha. Have a lovely day~🌸
#how does she even get her hair to do that she's so powerful...#(kinda popped off with the last one ngl ✋🙄)#i had a doodle of little Eve in my folders almost 4 years now so i decided to draw her again to see how my style's changed#i really forgot how much fun it is to just throw colors on the board... highly recommend!!!#also doubles as a destresser so it was a little relaxing :]#art#digital art#digital painting#fanart#nsr#nsr fanart#no straight roads#no straight roads fanart#no straight roads eve#nsr eve#nsr nadia#nsr eve fanart#end my suffering
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quick near art 🎭🤍
#death note#near#nate river#near death note#death note near#death note fanart#digital art#elle draws#he's so meow yknow#i like drawing his long hair so much it's relaxing for me
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sometimes i think about natural hair machete
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#OOHH#natural hair Machete!#I've drawn him with the trimmed fur for so long I had almost forgotten he's capable of being floofy as f- heck#shedding becomes instantly ten times worse#really captivated by the way you rendered the fur#it looks so soft and voluminous and the way the tufts curl just seems so three dimensional#the shading auh#the little bit of pink on the elbow#and the expression as well#he comes across a lot more casual and relaxed somehow#that's nice#such a lovely surprise! thank you!#gift art#alwaysoutofpaper#own characters#Machete#from pencil neck to mane
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Moment of peace
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#in stars and time#isat siffrin#isat bonnie#isat odile#isat mirabelle#isat isabeau#isat#in stars and time bonnie#in stars and time isabeau#in stars and time mirabelle#in stars and time odile#in stars and time siffrin#siffrin in stars and time#siffrin isat#siffrin#odile#isabeau#mirabelle#bonnie#isat spoilers#feelings buddies#isafrin#<- I mean isa is definitely looking with heart eyes so lol#he is braiding their hair :)#I think his touch starved ass deserves some relaxation after everything ok#they all deserve family cuddle time 😤#also sorry odile that you’re barely visible oops#she is chilling with her familytale#moon’s art
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vacation 🐍
#twisted wonderland#twst#ツイステ#ツイステッドワンダーランド#mmarts#twst oc#twst yuu#twst grim#jamil viper#epel felmier#jade leech#sebek zigvolt#idia shroud#im winging jam jams hair lmao#hes gonna relax and have fun on his own and good for him#www
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Tamagotchi Ingo!
I had been working on these for a custom tamagotchi back when I had my busted wrist because pixel art is easy to do with either hand, but once it got better I stopped working on it. Maybe I’ll pick it up again, I’ve got some unfinished backgrounds, facial expressions, and accessories to still replace ^^
#submas#Ingo#warden ingo#pokemon legends arceus#pokemon legends#PLA#pokemon#pokemon fanart#waywardstationfanart#it had been fun making this#the backgrounds make me want to tear my hair out but at the same time it had been relaxing haha#I also need to buy like three things in order to mod a tamagotchi and I haven’t done that yet lol
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croco art
#one piece#sir crocodile#monkey d luffy#crocodad au#my art#described in alt text#drew the first one in september. second from rn and nearly made myself cry drawing it lol#first one i was thinking about long hair and a more relaxed croc in a more casual fit#i love the one where's he's holding the glass it has such a vibe. hope i can draw smth like this again#i also. forgot about the first one like the previous post
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