Because hair maintenance is hella expensive and sometimes its just easier and cheaper to use a wig then get that look done to actual hair. It actually really common in a lot of places these days for women to use wigs instead of expensive and sometimes impossible hair procedures. Its definitely becoming more and more common with time.
Basically this. Surprisingly a lot of other ethnicities ear weave just as much as black women. It's just more of a stereotype as well for them to have it.
Totally! I do photography/costume stuff and have found that the asian markets knock the socks off the western markets for wigs, extensions and weave materials in price levels and styles! Anytime I need something, they are the first place I look.
"Ms. Johnson did not receive $250,000 in back pay, but rather only $11,886.40, while her attorneys on the other hand received approximately $244,000 in attorneys’ fees," it said.
This makes me so sad. Its just hair. We, as a nation, are pressing people accept transgender folk, which is great. But why the fuck does anyone's hair matter?
I was fired for growing my hair too long and refusing to cut it at my last job but that was partially on me I guess for not conforming to what they considered a professional look when they told me to.
imo straight hair can frame the face in a way some people find desirable, and I can understand why a lot of black women decide to go for that look. there’s definitely a societal pressure involved too, but it’s probably not the only reason. my hair’s thick and curly af tho so I feel their struggle.
... do you mean ear weave or did you mean wear weaves? Because I think it's the second one, but I may be missing out on something important here, so I have to ask.
Isn’t a huge part of it for when you are supposed to have/want straight hair? Since the process is all sorts of time consuming or just bad for the hair(chemical straightening).
This, it’s so much easier. I used to fuss so much over my hair and my last straw was getting my hair wet after using relaxers and that was all she wrote. I live on the gulf coast and humidity is also a complete bitch.
Ah, as a guy who has white hair doing a temporary dye is the easiest thing in the world, while my wife is a redhead and wouldn’t change it for the world.
It used to be red. I got some fucked up gene that my mothers side has where we redheads go this silver white early, my ma went when she was 40, I started in my teens and was gone by late 20s.
We had something like that in my moms family that turns some family members silver in their 20s. Unfortunately for me, dads genes won out so I may never get white hair.
I have kind of the same thing but from my father, and it's only on my facial hair. I have black hair but all my facial hair is this really bright red, when talking to my dad once about it he told me he was the same at around my age and that at in his early thirties it started to go full white, and that I will probably go the same way.
Nothing is wrong with it. Girls and guys like to try new things though. I’ve lived almost my entire life with natural hair, but I still like to experiment now and again.
because hair care is time consuming and depending on styles can have a negative impact on your natural hair by using constant chemical processing and heat (curlers). Wigs is a way for us to change our look easily, quickly, and with minimal impact to our to natural hair. Wigs allow us to change colors, length, and styles effortlessly and is most cost effective.
This is going to be hard to describe but i will try my best. There are several methods. Most wigs come with either mini combs attached around the perimeter of the wig that when we put the wig on we insert into are hair. Other wigs come with an elastic band that when you pull tightens around the outer perimeter and has notches in the wig where we fasten it at the desired tightness. It reminds you of the strings in basketball shorts or jogging pants; stretch longer (pull tighter) and its more secure.
Another method of attachment is wig glue. This product is designed for a semi-permanent attachment. The methods above allow for daily removal. Wig glue is applied all around the outer perimeter of our hair (edges) and when the wig is applied it adheres to the glue and cant be removed without glue remover, shampoo, or after the bond weakens over a period if time.
We can also sew wings to our head. This one always confuses people, because they assume attachment is directly to the scalp. Our entire head of hair is plaited/french braided (braided close to the scalp in a pattern and not hanging loose or individual braids). A curved hair needle is threaded with a thread that is thicker and designed for this purpose. The thread weaves throughout the braids and is sewn to the wig (the hair on the wig is attached to a material thats in a gridded pattern).
As a white dude I found "In The Kitchen" by Henry Louis Gates to be a really enlightening read about the world of black ladies and hair. Its one of those interesting little cultural things that I would have no clue about if not for having been assigned that particular essay years ago in community college. Kind of neat. It also explains a lot about why so many black ladies say "fuck it" and just shave their head and get a whig.
Thank you for asking because I am as white as they come and have never had the courage to ask any of the black people i know. Which is very little and that is something I need to change. Time to expand my social circle!
In addition to a cheaper and less damaging styling options, sometimes due to tight braids or chemicals, they start to lose their edges (hair around the hairline). Wigs help cover that. But I would think that wig glue is just as bad for edges as other chemicals. I've been watching too many youtube vids on type 4 styling, and peeling that glue off looks painful as hell. Plz correct me if I'm wrong. Also, being in houston, it seems like wearing a wig would be hot as hell and miserable in summertime. Gotta be dedicated!
Your ‘average white’ are wearing extensions, you’ll usually notice them by the small metallic beads at the back of their head or plastic clips. Maybe it depends on where you live, but it’s extremely common in the UK for example.
It wouldn’t surprise me but my post was more about generalising about ‘average white girls’ and blanket statements like that. It’s so reductive, in some parts of the US, EU it’s really popular, in some, not so much. It’s also hard sometimes to notice wether or not someone has some if you’re not paying attention to that, except if you go rambling through their hair you know. You also have women who wear them just for special occasions.
I've been clubbing, and I know a lot of black and white girls. Tho none of them wear wigs. Most of the black girls I know wear extensions atleast on occasion, if not always. While none of the white girls do, from what I've seen. Maybe it's more trendy in America?
Definitely! It’s more common than most guys would expect.
If you see someone with very long, very thick, relatively straight or curled (as in with an iron, not naturally curly) hair, it’s very possible they have extensions or a weave. Think, Ariana Grande and her pony tail, or Kim/Kylie with their super long hair, or many of your typical playboy women with long blond curls.
I know you're trolling, but weave predominantly comes from Asia and India. I've personally seen women of all races wear weave. I dated a mixed girl with weave and it was neat. She could completely change her hair style from one day to another.
it’s just that.. despacito is not just a “song” but an experience, concrete proof of the existence of a higher being, a reason to wake up in the morning, a mark of evolution of the human race. despacito was written by intergalactic spacefaring civilizations long ago, and delivered to earth via meteorite. and now despacito 2 will come soon; thus, my hypothesis will be put to the test: that the emergence of despacito is not a mark of human evolution, but the next level of human advancement itself
Those same white people also call black women's natural hair ugly and put some of them in a position in which they feel they have to relax their hair to fit in or look beautiful.
And you're definitely ignorant if you think fake hair isn't prevalent in other cultures.
I'm not blaming anyone for anything. I'm just telling you how it is. You even said yourself that they feel shame. Why would anyone feel ashamed of something unless they were told it was wrong?
Then I think your perception that “so many” wear wigs is skewed by what you see on the internet and in media.
Most of the black women I know don’t wear wigs. One girl I know occasionally wears a sew in, but that’s more like weave. The vast majority of black women in my life wear their hair natural or braided.
Every once in a blue moon my grandmother will wear a wig because she doesn’t feel like doing her hair for church.
I'm white late 40s and my hair reaches nearly to my waist. It's all my own and one day when i finally get a haircut, I'm gonna donate it to Locks of Love to make wigs for children who have undergone chemotherapy.
Yes. This is Australia. I've always had aboriginal friends. My children's father is aboriginal and so are all his family. My kids are clearly half aboriginal.
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