I never understood this. In my personal experience, black women are more likely to wear wigs than white women, when their hair is totally healthy. I think your hair is beautiful, gurl! You don't have to hide it.
A lot of times, at least from what I can tell, it’s more just about it being an interchangeable accessory. Not necessarily shame or per say wanting to hide it, just a cool thing you can do if you prefer the benefits of less upkeep
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· 6 years ago
It's so you can have a change without risking the health of your hair.
Oooh ok, I see. I suppose naturally curly hair is a little harder to work with, then a wig makes sense.
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Well afro Caribbean hair needs special care and can be more prone to damage especially if it's already been overworked. Even as a white woman with blondish hair, I think wigs are a better idea generally.
If you like change, then yeah, wigs are awesome, especially since you can wear different styles with different outfits which is cool. I'm kinda conservative (in other words, afraid that change is gonna fuck me up and I'm gonna look like a tool) about my hair so the only big change I ever did was cutting it from mid-back to shoulder lenght lol
Though I think that maybe it also has something to do with the fact that in the past, African American women have been shamed for their natural hair (there's a bunch of articles about girls being sent home to "fix their hair" because they had natural afro hair, in some cases this bias was even reflected in the schools' dress code, and some of those articles are even from 2017!) and some women tried to hide it with wigs or used straighteners which of course is not healthy for the hair. Hopefully, this terrible shaming is a thing of the past, people of any and all shapes, colors and backgrounds shouldn't be shamed for their natural look <3
Though I think that maybe it also has something to do with the fact that in the past, African American women have been shamed for their natural hair (there's a bunch of articles about girls being sent home to "fix their hair" because they had natural afro hair, in some cases this bias was even reflected in the schools' dress code, and some of those articles are even from 2017!) and some women tried to hide it with wigs or used straighteners which of course is not healthy for the hair. Hopefully, this terrible shaming is a thing of the past, people of any and all shapes, colors and backgrounds shouldn't be shamed for their natural look <3