Kinky Hair

[Nylah]

I am sure this has been discussed before but let me pose the question again: how do u define kinky hair?

I got into an interesting quarrel with my hairdresser the other day.

She got offended (yes she did) that I referred to my hair as kinky. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img] to me my hair is kinky because it super curly and thick. she kept insisting that my hair is not kinky because I got "soft" even though it si really curly at the roots.

I told her I dont business with the good har bad hair thing cause none of that was chatted in my house. She proceeded to quarrel with me because she thought I was wrong to say kinky because I have "soft" hair.


Note: I like the texture of my hair and that it is very thick and curly.

I gave up trying to explain myself and stopped replying cause I just wanted my hair done and none of the argument.

So, when someone says kinky is your conotation a negative one -one of those words that has been imbued with negative conotations because of legacy of slavery when in fact it isnt in essence a bad word but an simply a description of a hair texture?

The whole good hair/bad hair is something I learned outside of my home.

what u think?

[Bizzy]

Re: Kinky Hair

kinky

[Bizzy]

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if yuh hair is anything like dem deh den mi say it kinky.

one a my sistaz have one piece a kinky head pon har...stress fi shi deal wid it harself..

an moas ppl weh si har describe her hair as 'good hair' [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img]

dis a piece a wig look like her hair

[kia027]

Re: Kinky Hair

I would consider the above examples as curly

erikah badu I would call kinky

and not bad because it is well maintained

[Nylah]

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my hair is even tighter curls than that but still soft [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img]

i just dont get it. so what i tried to tell her is that everyone have a different definition. for the hairdresser it means coarse hair - and then she said like the African girls that are boarding wth me. their hair is finer than mine and not as curly IMO.

but she viewed kinky as a bad thing which i didnt get.

altough my hair is very curly at the roots and hence the reason i relax my hair, it isnt hard to deal with. i used to braid my hair at night and pull it out and it would like those above but thicker.

[Nylah]

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yeah, i agree with u Kia - more curly than kinky [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img]

[Bizzy]

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Which one a Badu style dem u a refer to..

Mi always tink of kinky as one wavy lookin type a hair [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img]

an den fimi natural hair or like lauryn hill mi would say more 'nappy' than 'kinky'

[Bizzy]

Re: Kinky Hair

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Empress_Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

my hair is even tighter curls than that but still soft [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img]
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Post a pic

[kia027]

Re: Kinky Hair

i posted badu pic up above

I think nappy same as kinky or type 4

den there is type 3 which is the curly as you describe

type 2 fayva de spanish girl curls
type 1 fayva white girl wavy

[Nylah]

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to me they are pretty much the same texture.

now, if i had said nappy when referring to my hair then i could get her reaction due to the politics of the word.

[Nylah]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bizi</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Empress_Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

my hair is even tighter curls than that but still soft [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img]
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Post a pic </div></div>

I have only a pix of when i was a kid with my hair in it's natural state - none as a grown up

[Nylah]

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so kinky has different "levels"?

[kia027]

Re: Kinky Hair

There is a site for everything on the internet!! Hair Types!!

[Nylah]

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this a pix from when i was a kid and had no chemicals in my hair.



Kia, all of that looks complicated for one poor word [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek.gif[/img]

[Kurlie]

Re: Kinky Hair

Nylah, I would call your hair Kinky.

I would call the ones bizi post as kinky, not because your is curly doesn't make it Kinky..There are different types of curls some Kinky some loose, etc.