Benson Abigail Nneoma
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Growing up as a child I constantly sneered at some women who do not apply relaxer on their hair -A relaxer is a type of lotion or cream which makes hair less curly, and easier to straighten by chemically "relaxing" the natural curls. The active agent is usually a strong alkali, although some formulations are based on ammonium thioglycolate instead. read more
As I thought it is a norm and hairstyling that every woman must do to achieve a beautiful look. Though, most black people are born with wavy hair or naturally curly hair. The texture of black hair has a tight curly zigzag pattern which is most times impossibly stubborn and hard to comb, while, the Caucasians have straight and soft textured hair. This led to a feeling of inferiority among the black women due to a false ideology that having to keep natural hair makes us look savage, uncivilised.
Application of the hair chemical was adopted from the western way of hair making used to maintain their hair texture. The thought of keeping straight hair as the Caucasians do, led to the use of relaxer which has to be applied to enable easy styling, looking and feeling soft and straight like the "whites". This was usually the notion. However in recent years, the repercussions of using relaxer has caused hair bleaching, continuous hair scrapping and stunted growth as a result of the weighty adverse effect on the black hair.
Read on effect of relaxer here
Obviously, the black women are becoming self confident, loving and embracing who they really are with self worth attached to their natural hairdo thereby overcoming low-self esteem, intimidation and the feeling of being less privileged bedevilling them for decades.eat by use of heat tools. African women especially the Nigerian women are realising these effects and as such embracing their natural hair, are eager to learn the best way to grow and maintain it, using less extension on the hair itself and more wigs. There is a rapid increase in number of African women who have chosen to go back to keeping their natural hair unrelaxed, ranging from celebrity ladies to yet to be celebrated black women who have realised the beauty of being and staying black and natural. Likes of Chioma Chukwuka Akpotha, Chimamanda Adichie, Omoni Oboli and others have taken to their pages on social media to support and encourage Nigerian ladies on nurturing and maintaining virgin hair. read
Obviously, the black women are becoming self confident, loving and embracing who they really are with self worth attached to their natural hairdo thereby overcoming low-self esteem, intimidation and the feeling of being less privileged bedeviling them for decades.
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