I'm natural, to be honest I do not like braids, weaves, or wigs. I've seen what it does to the hair of black women and it is just not good.
Our hair is extremely sensitive to heat and styling, and I've noticed a lot black women losing their hair to breakage due to over styling their hair so much and braids and weave seem to be the main culprit.
It's just not good for our hair, it puts so much tension on the root of your hair and weakens the hair after a wile that eventually the hair follicle will pop out the scalp or break.
I see so many beautiful black women going prematurely bald due to this and the sad thing is a lot of them don't know cause they have grown use to this type of abuse to their hair.
They don't notice that their edges are breaking or completely gone and destroyed, their not connected the dots but will keep going out and putting this fake hair in their heads to cover the baldness but don't realize they keep adding to the problem. I think the best thing to do is go natual, its healthier for our hair and it less stress but thats just my opinion.
I like box braids some times.. I prefer black hair for myself. I think it's ok to get any color you want... finding a color that pairs well with your skin tone will help.
As for as them being not good for our hair. It's just not true for everyone. The people who have issues may have had them too tight or just didn't take care of them.
Don't be terrified of them. Talk to your stylist. Don't be timid. Tell them about the sensitive areas of your head don't let them pull the edges too tight.
I'm gonna be honest, I now I'm bashing my own race but only black women can pull it off. When ever I see a white girl with box brides It makes be think of them trust fund baby's who go bag packing to "find them self" .
@Jayjoy I don't have a problem with it, it not hurting anyone. I just think it looks silly on white women sorry, if you were looking for fight with with some sjw chatting crap about cultural approbation but that ain't me.
I was thinking the first and third look good. I don't know if I'm being objective about the braids, but I think the young lady in the third picture is the most beautiful of the three. Does that make me racist?
kind of gross, unless your undoing it before a shower and doing it up again, and assuming you take at least a daily shower. talk about a way to lock in odor, bacteria, and other things you like to generally wash off after taking a pee. also, unwashed hair starts to smell after a while... because it's dead... which is why there's fragrance in shampoo.
I think they're gorgeous, guys like the girl that wears them not necessarily the braids themselves. My hair changes all the time, braids, curly, straight. Some styles grab more attention than others BUT, mens attraction tends to be the same regardless of my hair style. I have no issue with non-black girls wearing box braids but they always look a bit weird in my opinion.
I love the look and my hair is plenty long enough for it. Unfortunately they just wouldn't look as tight and neat in my hair (I'm white with red hair) as they do in these pictures.
I think they are lovely on people of color. They are cultural appropriation on white girls. (We'll be ok, we have plenty of other ways we can do our hair than box braids.)
I whole heartedly agree with your first sentence. However, as far as cultural appropriation goes, America is a melting pot of cultural appropriation. I'm not crazy about that term. The way the left talks about it, it sounds like a bad thing to appreciate someone else's culture. Why can't it be celebrated instead of appropriated? Why can't we have cultural appreciation instead of cultural appropriation? Why must our cultures be segregated? From past experience segregation hasn't seemed to work so well. Maybe your experience has been different.
@Defboy69 My experience is that people of color are prevented from wearing box braids in many workplaces because they are told it's unprofessional, and what is considered more professional is to look more white/European by having straightened/relaxed hair.
I as a white person don't get to walk into that situation and say "Oh, it's all fine now because it's just me appreciating fashion."
Cultures can be appreciated, even shared, and I am not always sure the exact line where appreciation and sharing becomes white people taking ownership of something that doesn't belong to us, but there is a line somewhere, and occasionally I'm aware enough to tell where it is.
I wore my hair in dreads as an older child who couldn't manage her hair, and it snarls like dreads very easily. I don't wear my hair that way as an adult because I realize the cultural significance of dreadlocks, box braids, cornrows and other ethnic hairstyles over which people have faced discrimination...
I don't like them, it's a weird thing where if your with a girl you like you want to run your hand through their hair... box braids ruin that feeling because it makes the hair feel more coarse, and as a side effect I dislike them.
I think it only looks good on black girls. Not that I think white girls aren't allowed to wear them because of cultural appropriation or whatever but it somehow doesn't look good on them. You need thick hair for this or the edges look weird
I really like them. I wear them myself a lot. I like the way they look, they help my hair grow faster and i don't have to comb out my full set of hair and struggle to get it in a bun every morning.
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On black girls yes I like them on white girls I don't. I like light brown, auburn and black or dark brown
I was kinda thinking the same thing as I browsed the pictures. Not to sound racist, but the black young lady wore it best. Is it because she's more beautiful than the other models? Or does her beauty come from her hair? For the record, I think all the young ladies are beautiful, but the hair on the nonblack ladies just seems a little off.
I like them , I don't think I can pull that off. I don't think it looks good on all face types , I have seen it looking brilliant for round face. I will go for Mahagony or chocolate brown colour.
I love box braid and i think most females can rock them rbh they just gotta know how but they do tend to look a bit better on my darker skinned females tho
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