4:39 pm - 06/09/2012
Don't crown Solange Knowles the queen of the natural hair movement just yet.
"My hair is not very important to me...so I don’t encourage it to be important to you," wrote the singer in a series of tweets about natural hair.
Solange says she brought up the issue after someone noticed the "constant hair comments" on her Instagram photos and pointed her to an article on the topic. She continued: "I cut my hair ALL off 4 times in my life all for very different reasons….I only reiterate this because this is nothing new for me...This 4th time did not define me, just as it had not the previous 3 times."
The article in question points out that when it comes to natural hair, there is a bias towards celebrating curly hair types like Tracee Ellis Ross's more than the tightly coiled coifs of the Solange's of the world. "Why are not more tightly coiled naturals regarded as hair idols?" writes blogger Moderne Meid.
Solange added that she'd never painted herself as "a team natural vice president," before ending with the tweet: "i don't want to talk about no damn hair, no mo."
The songstress recently told ESSENCE that she was surprised by how people reacted to her going natural. "I honestly was just tired of the energy surrounding my hair," she said. "So when I cut it, I didn't think about what anyone else would think."
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Solange Knowles Addresses 'Natural Hair Police,' Says Hair is Not Important
Don't crown Solange Knowles the queen of the natural hair movement just yet.
"My hair is not very important to me...so I don’t encourage it to be important to you," wrote the singer in a series of tweets about natural hair.
Solange says she brought up the issue after someone noticed the "constant hair comments" on her Instagram photos and pointed her to an article on the topic. She continued: "I cut my hair ALL off 4 times in my life all for very different reasons….I only reiterate this because this is nothing new for me...This 4th time did not define me, just as it had not the previous 3 times."
The article in question points out that when it comes to natural hair, there is a bias towards celebrating curly hair types like Tracee Ellis Ross's more than the tightly coiled coifs of the Solange's of the world. "Why are not more tightly coiled naturals regarded as hair idols?" writes blogger Moderne Meid.
Solange added that she'd never painted herself as "a team natural vice president," before ending with the tweet: "i don't want to talk about no damn hair, no mo."
The songstress recently told ESSENCE that she was surprised by how people reacted to her going natural. "I honestly was just tired of the energy surrounding my hair," she said. "So when I cut it, I didn't think about what anyone else would think."
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Take that shit elsewhere
I got wank from my parents when I decided to go natural tbh (when it was at that awkward length when there it's short but curly when you haven't done a braid out...)
My hair is really curly, and I only started learning how to deal with it when I was like, 20. I used to straighten it all the time before then.
i love solange's fro. it's beyonce whose hair always looks like shit.
not that bey isn't beautiful too
Edited at 2012-06-09 11:33 pm (UTC)
but bey is prettier
and bey is like, FULL BLONDE WIG
tbh i think hair is really important and as a black woman i have a connection to my hair that is really hard to explain to people who aren't black women.
also i side-eye the fuck out of her carol's daughter ad for natural hair, why she is is wearing an afro wig in them. girl just go away
i will NEVER purchase a thing from that rag. i dont even want to go into it but they messed up BIG time and they are paying the price for it now.
Dyed the hell outta the area I pick it on >:(
I don't have a problem with relaxed/straighten hair. If I hadn't damaged mine so badly, I'd probably still be relaxed.
I *will* say that the aggressive pro-natural folks are very clearly speaking out from a place of being constantly berated about *their* choice to stop relaxers, which sucks. But the whole counter-douchiness approach has always left me mumbling "not helping".
But in the end, it's about your very last sentence. Live and let live. Dont black women have enough problems to shovel through without getting at each other over hair? Goddamn!
i got the back of my hair shaved and left the front long and everyone was freaking out about it :|
i used to wear it curly when i was younger, but now when i try, i've realized i have no idea how to do it anymore.
So fierce. Her hair is gorgeous, though. Makes me wonder what Bey's looks like.
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