How To Describe African Hair

Black people know this white people dont. Hair is naturally kinked or styled that way via a perm chemicals and heat.

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Black braided hairstyles are incredibly versatile and can be traced back to 3500 BC.

How to describe african hair. Kinky is simply a descriptor of the texture of some ethnic namely afro-textured hair. This hair type has the slowest growth rate 09 centimeters per month due to its spiral structure that causes it to curl upon itself during growth. This is why limiting the growth of the hair by the width of cornrows or length of strands doesnt make sense at all.

Others are always watching how we put colors together and how we tend to our hair. Some examples from my own writing submitted for your consideration. It is coarser springier and has more of a zig-zag pattern as opposed to a curl.

This is an okay descriptor for a person of any race to use. An African hair strand has a flattened shape. Although blond can describe the hair of either males or females many writers prefer blond for males and blonde for females.

An afro can be defined as a halo of natural hair left in its natural state and Davies is probably one of the most famous fros of all it was an anti-establishment way of wearing her hair and a symbol of black power during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. There are a variety of textures and appearances in the black hair community. And yeah this is in part inspired by a certain very lengthy discussion of race representation and respect in the SFF community that took place recently in the blogosphere.

Despite its name this hair texture is also found in some parts of Oceania and Southeast Asia. While playing around with word vectors and the HasProperty API of conceptnet I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words its like a thesaurus but gives you a much broader set of related words rather than just synonyms.

Coily hair commonly referred to as Afro-textured or kinky hair is naturally very dry and spongy in texture and can be soft and fine or coarse and wiry. Find the work that has been done. A combination of different phrases is able to give a reader a full description of the hair for example using a description like.

Not a claim of correctness or The Best Way or anything of the sort. We went from sporting Afros at picket lines in the 60s to watching YouTube naturalistas. Likewise with the hair or fur of gender-identified pets and animals.

Bitch youve only been around black people since 98 what the fuck you know. The overall effect is such that compared to straight wavy or curly hair afro-textured hair appears denser. African hair braiding can vary in size and shape and have often been used to identify various tribes.

Hair braiding has always been popular with women however men with long hair are often spotted wearing braided styles. Thats how we know Rachel Dolezal was a fraudbecause she tried to convince people that she knew everything about black hair. Strands form very tight small curls of.

Check out this articles chart for a more in-depth explanation It may come in spirals coils loops zig zags or other curves. Coily coarse kinky curly corkscrew wavy s-curl z-pattern etc. Each strand of this hair type grows in a tiny angle-like helix shape.

It is usually short to medium. Afro Males and females. Properly describing how hair is cut or styled is critical in describing the appearance of a character in a story or the subject of a work of nonfiction.

Its been a long time coming but natural hair is steadily gaining acceptance in dominant American culture. But I also just felt like sharing. Black women describe themselves as women of faith whether they identify as Christian Muslim.

Braided black hair or straight hair will let a person knows more about the black hair. Black hair is literally different than all other hair. African hair is generally characterized by tight curls and kinks and grows almost parallel to the scalp.

And because this post. While other races can have straight wavy or curly strands most black people have varying degrees of tightly curled strands. Shes on camera trying to ingratiate herself with black folks by telling us her hair.

Afro-textured hair or kinky hair is the natural hair texture of certain populations in Africa and the African diaspora. The kinked hair stands out in a puffball halo around the head. Natural African hair is curly and so to measure it one would have to stretch out the coils.

Nappy on the other hand has a similar history to that of another n-word. Better than direct replacements however try exploiting the following suggestions as kernels and brainstorm new color descriptions.

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