Why are so many black women wearing extensions and wigs? Don’t they have any real hair and why is it not long?
Monday, February 8th, 2010 at
12:26 am
It would seem like black women know how to grow their hair long so that they don’t have to wear extensions. Is it because they don’t have time to take care of it? My sister has long natural hair and she’s one of the very few black females I see with long hair, she takes good care of her hair.
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I’ve always wondered this, too. I live in a place where there’s like no black people, so there’s no one to ask. Those that I do know I think would be offended if I asked them this.
The way I understand it, black people hair grows more slowly and unevenly than white or Asian people hair, and apparently it breaks more easily (especially if it’s kept in braids), so it’s much harder to grow out. Each and every trim at the hair salon pushes back length of years of growing, so people with black people hair are hesitant to get it cut. This, though, makes it break more, and continue to be short.
I hope you get an answer from someone who knows for sure! I’d like to know if what I’ve heard is true! I find it really odd that there’s a rule like this for an entire race, when there are so many exceptions to it (like your sister) that have long, healthy hair with no problems.
Their mothers never teach them to care for their natural hair. Nor do they extend to them a value for their natural texture. So these women likely feel it wasted energy to commit to educating themselves about something they hold no real value in to begin with.
They grow up with their mothers giving them two options-perming or straightening.
It also largely deals with conformity.
Human beings,by nature,have a certain level of conformity. Whatever default is in place is what most will go by. The default of these black girls is straight hair. Their mothers,other adult women,&entertainment all establish this default. There is no widely justified reason to go “against” this default,therefore no resistance of it.
Liz- That’s actually not quite the truth of it all.
You were correct when you said black hair is more fragile,making it more prone to breakage. The thing you were wrong about was the amount of growth. Everyone’s hair grows the same amount. It’s a person’s ability to ‘maintain’ that length.