CurlyCap
January 8th, 2014, 11:06 AM
Hiya LHCers,
I recently visited several of the polynesian islands, and it was great to finally find a large population of curly-heads. I remembered that was the case from trips when I was a child, but as an adult, it was wonderful to see adult women and men have hair like mine and feel very little cultural pressure to change their hair's appearance or behavior.
It was also a high humidity environment and a huge lesson to me that no hair regimen is fool-proof. My tried and true routine (posted in my blog) completely failed, and I walked around for almost 2 weeks with poorly defined curls that were as big as they were long and completely horizontal in places. But it was also empowering because at home I would have considered this a "bad hair day", but on the islands, I was just another curly head.
Anyway, this is a completely random post. I know. I just thought it was interesting how much representation of similar hair types in the community changed my opinion of what was tolerable in my hair.
I recently visited several of the polynesian islands, and it was great to finally find a large population of curly-heads. I remembered that was the case from trips when I was a child, but as an adult, it was wonderful to see adult women and men have hair like mine and feel very little cultural pressure to change their hair's appearance or behavior.
It was also a high humidity environment and a huge lesson to me that no hair regimen is fool-proof. My tried and true routine (posted in my blog) completely failed, and I walked around for almost 2 weeks with poorly defined curls that were as big as they were long and completely horizontal in places. But it was also empowering because at home I would have considered this a "bad hair day", but on the islands, I was just another curly head.
Anyway, this is a completely random post. I know. I just thought it was interesting how much representation of similar hair types in the community changed my opinion of what was tolerable in my hair.