I am NOT My Hair...

Weave RANT...Some of us are busy thinking and calculating how we shall get married, get pregnant and populate Central Province with more boys, more boys to at least fill the void left by the many lost ones, thinking how we'll join a class to learn a new art before the year ends, and YOU are here ranting about my Weave? Our Weaves.... Seriously? get a job because without money, you cannot air your views loudly these days.

I recommend for those not married to get married first and try keep 'her' from weaves...I just don't get it, a guy trolls into your post and unrelated, complains and offers solutions - unwarranted ones - on how good you will look in your 'natural' hair instead of the ugly weave, you know what Mr Man,We don't Care what you feel, you complaining about weaves on women is like a cat purring at a tree - it won't get you anywhere. Weaves, wigs & hair extensions have existed since ancient Egypt, the queens and the kings wore them and no one complained, do you think your complains can be heard now? i don't think so.

Yes yes and yes, some weaves really smell when left on long - four weeks and beyond- for careless people, and when girls decide to sleep in plastic paper bags over their heads plus a stocking over, i don't know whether its to magically perm the hair or cheat it to being softer... and for your information; so do natural hair and braids, they stink too because out of concentrated ignorance, some people imagine their scalp does not sweat because they cannot see any sweat trickling down their edges. I have bent over to someone's head while trying to work on their PC, this girl's natural hair reeked like a dirty wet gym sock, the unpleasant odor was chocking! I am witness women 'hair sweat' smell is not a lesser evil compared to the armpit one from a constructions handy man.

Those of us who wear weaves do not hate ourselves according to the information y'all been passing around. We love ourselves so much that we do not limit ourselves, we do as we like. We wear new weaves every month, every three weeks, not to make us look beautiful, but to enhance our looks - and not for you to see. Everyone is at liberty to have on their head what makes them feel nice. If it was about men wearing weaves, that would definitely be a one sided debate.

Ladies stop wearing stockings, knit caps and shower caps to bed- they are called shower caps for a good reason... they actually make your scalp sweat at night, and you therefore give people a bad day with foul smelling hair, whether naturally yours or fake, it will sweat and stink. Do not be afraid to wash your bed-sheets and pillow cases every three days because your oily hair will leave all the green "peris" "hair food" on it. By the way, hitting your head in public to ease that itch is embarrassing, for a moment it makes you look like a crazy woman who is struggling to remember something. Slap it, hit it even with a hammer in private so that any guy that likes you out here wont see that madness. 

Jay z has Beyonce and she too wears weaves and braids and with all his money, he has never found the guts to ask her to stop, you know why? it's none of his business and he respects his wife's decisions to look whoever she chooses. All other beautiful women who you drool over on your television wear weaves and they don't care about making you happy. So zip it! cuz we don't care either.

Look beyond the weave, look see a beautiful woman with a good heart, appreciate her and move on. Ladies, whip your hair back and forth as you please, its yours! and if its a wig, beware it will fall off.

Guys, if you're not the one mouthing the strands of hair from the stupid weave while trying to kiss her, or you are not the one sleeping with a woman in a weave, please keep your mouth shut about weaves you don't buy, contribute to or sit next to, you've got zero rights to rant and we don't need your permission to do whatever we want with our hair. We are not our hair, i am not my hair.

Some of us wake up very early to work for our money, pay all our bills and we therefore can do with ourselves as we please. When a good weave, braids or good natural hair is on ME, its mine, i paid for it, it's my business. Only Husbands and Boyfriends can have a [polite] say in this matter, as for the rest of you, mind your own damn beeswax!

.....Next!!!

Yours,

Njoki, TheBadGirl