#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

[emberglowfox]

furry blast also

[a-concert-just-for-me]

You ever make a picrew version of yourself and think “damn if only I looked like this for real”

Anyway me vs. what I would look like in a perfect world lol

[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

[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.

[nicolasbitch]

Jonny got a perm for s2, Luke N got a perm for s3, all I'm saying is if someone spots Luke T with a perm we know who's leading s4

[drifloonz]

i like posting parts of canon sr trilogy that people dont think about. anyways steven hair. Wavy???????? ? ? ? ? ? Perm???????

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[riddlelily]

that scene where scott pilgrim goes "you know your hair? it's all bluuue...." in awe to ramona? eddie/klitz when he sees my wavy hair coded

[kendallroyspeacoat]

Roman's hair this season is all evil Spiderman in the front, fash in the back