In 2013, I wrote an article titled; “Is Natural Hair the New SEXY?” in which I stated among other things that I admire and love the growing generation of natural hair rockers of which many are departing from the cosmetic influenced conception that relaxed hair is beautiful and ought to be more acceptable.
This was way before many of today’s natural hair rockers jumped on the bandwagon.
To some extent, I equated natural hair to smartness and sexiness—but that was also before a bunch of the new shallow natural hair rockers hijacked the culture. It was at the time some sort of a rebellion against the establishment and popular idea, that the African woman must wear a hair belonging to a different race to feel accepted.
Interestingly, in 2015, a spoof study emerged which “trashed” my position, claiming that women with natural hair have lower self-esteem compared to women with treated hair.
In relation to the research, NewsNerd reported that; “According to the study by Bountiful Hair, natural hair being viewed as a messy look is causing many women, who wear their hair in that manner, to feel inadequate and less desirable as their counterparts. Those feelings of inadequacy causes women with natural hair to lash out at women with treated or straightened hair, and in turn lowers their self-esteem.
