#straight perms

[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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[elericelery]

caterpillars lost in space time :)

[kotdish]

Two weeks of straight studying made this cathartic

[xhanisai]

Due to all the stress from Ladybugging and school and all that, Marinette's hair texture changes and becomes wavy. So her friends are like "omg your hair is so groovy nice styling" and she's like !?!?!?!?!?!!?

[mtndw-whteout]

Curly haired Mob? Yeah!

Curly haired Ritsu? YEAH!

[emberglowfox]

furry blast also

[dawnofiight]

Anyways I'd like to think that Sophia has relaxed her so much that it doesn't have that natural coil anymore and she quite literally refuses to show her gray hairs though she has a lot of them.

Damien did love her reddish tint to her hair so he kind of copied it and he still does to this day. He has his coils tho 🥺

[the-cat-at-the-theatre-door]

Once again I am thinking about the lyric parallels between Gus the Theatre Cat/Grizabella the Glamour Cat and Memory, not only in the comparison of how the other cats (namely Jellylorum) talk about Gus vs. how they talk about Grizabella, but more specifically how that one set of lyrics:

For he isn't the Cat that he was in his prime/Though his name was quite famous, he says, in his time

I can smile at the old days/ I was beautiful then

Putting emphasis on the concept of *was* - as in no longer. As in these cats are trapped in a modern world that no longer has any use or affection for them, as it did once. Of...outliving their usefulness or their talent or (even more emphasized) the virality and attractiveness of their bodies (see how even affectionately Gus' physicality is commented upon as being a "shame" now, as is Grizabella's - less affectionately - considering what it was before), and struggling to adjust in a way that will never quite be possible for them. They are relics of old, they *realize* this even if they are aware of little else, and it's too late for adapting or catching up. They will long for their prime, but it will never be back in their grasp.

[courfee]

tagged by @sommerregenjuniluft thank youuuuu

this is the picrew (they didnt have my kinda glasses so i went for sunglasses instead cause there shapes dont actually matter)

np tagging @where-is-vivian @otrtbs @ultravioletbrit @imsiriuslyreading and anyone else who feels like it and wants to pretend i tagged them <333

[goxjo]

I’ll be more online once I finish these fucking research slides they’re taking forever to finish 🥹

[burningcomputerpersona]

ahhhhhhhh guess who made the mistake of getting a haircut

[eeblouissant]

Today I’m thinking about the time Dorothy said that she gave herself a perm during her ‘midlife crisis’ in response to Stan impulsively buying a car

[lonelydipshit]

Chat should I try perming my hair straight?? I need to make a decision soon ish because i want the option to have my hair go back to curly before I start going to work officially, but I want to see what happens.

[ratsbanes]

yearly gender crisis currently unlocked

[fullsaw]

a thing ive noticed

[bingobongobonko]

my god i need to buy products for my hair if im keeping it long. i put it in a ponytail for work and it has been in the same sticking up position. it is stuck.