did you know that a relaxer is a weak hair depilatory. so when someone relaxes her hair, they are actually stripping it to achieve that straight look. dum dum duuum the more you know! knowledge is power, and all that good stuff. heh heh heh i crack myself up.
Anyways, I bring this up, because I am wholeheartedly against relaxers, but I would nair unwanted hair at the drop of a hat. In essence, I was relaxing my leg hair away, but let someone barely mention that i should relax my hair and my ass puckers up tighter than the stereotypical white effeminate male going to the big house for the first time. He knows what’s going down, “don’t drop the soap bitch.”Let’s just say that was a world of EWWW, however, I support nair because they have diversity in their commercial. And god knows I’m a sucka for some diversity. The commercial features, not one but TWO dancing negro wenches, AND those chicks received about 30% of the airtime in that commercial (the most airtime went to the actual product). Even though the chicks were dancing negros, I take solace in the fact that they received most of the airtime even though they were shucking and jiving for teh man. But ya gotta pay ya bills. One of the chicks, even had natural hair. OMG Which brings me back to the hair thing, two black dancing chicks, one with natural and the other relaxed hair, dancing to promote a product that is the big sister of relaxers. Things that make you go hmmmmm.
while perusing the health food store for 100% unrefined shea butter
which by the way why is that so effing hard to find? and why is the beauty supply store the only place that carries this product. and not only the beauty supply store, the store in town that i swore i would never patronage because they are dicks and treated me like i aint shit but my money is still ok to accept. :breathing through the pain and moving on:
something hit me like a ton of bricks.
I am a beauty enigma.
I subscribe to most of the beauty norms that I said I would never do, yet I try to find all the natural alternatives to it.
- I wear makeup, and i try to find products that are organic, not tested on animals, and not too expensive
- I wear high heels, even though i know they are so horrible for my feet and knees (especially since Im overweight, all of my weight is placed on my knees and is multiplied by 30%)
- I keep my hair up but I refuse to relax it
I guess I’m not so much of an enigma, rather I still want to look pretty but I will do it on my terms. I pick and choose my own beauty aesthetic. Yeah I wear makeup but I won’t just wear any makeup. I’m going to keep my hair nice, but its going to stay natural. And when I say natural I mean natural. As I write this, I have some flax seeds simmering on the stove. Why? To make my own hair gel of course! I’m trying to keep my hair and my body as free of chemicals as possible. In addition to the homemade hairgel, I’m also going to make some whipped shea butter moisturizer for my hair. I wholeheartedly feel that whatever goes on my body, should be able to go in it as well. I try to avoid chemicals as often as possible:
- I use tom’s of maine deodorant. At first I was wholeheartedly about this product, but I might have to rethink it. It works wonders for perspiration, and ok for odor. If you get musty once, you have to detox or something because the product isn’t as effective. That doesn’t make sense. Let me try to explain this. The first application of this product worked wonders, but I let myself get musty, and now the product is not as effective now…I used to use baking soda with cornstarch, but it was burning my skin. Amazing against odor, not so much wetness and i sweat like a stuck hog. I also tried and liked lavelin, but it was too expensive and petroleum was its main ingredient
- I don’t use grease on my hair anymore. that stuff is icky, plus it clogs your pores. i now use as many homemade products as possible. see whipped shea butter, evoo to oil my scalp
- i don’t use lotion anymore. i use evoo. it absorbs almost immediately and leaves me baby smooth. bahbeeeee smuuuth
- im looking for a natural toothpaste. heard that toms of maines is that fire. was doing to info gathering on the interwbez and saw something about strawberries and baking soda will whiten your teeth like nobody’s business
- i do use mac cosmetics…thats not the most natural thing you could find but hey a girls gotta look purty
- i use witch hazel to tone my face the best you can get
- looking for a oil free face moisturizer bec my face is so oily it can fry chicken
- speaking of chicken, since ive become a vegetarian almost all of the fatty, fried, preservativeive filled foods including sweets, have become less important in my life. especially foods like twinkies and zingers. i used to inhale those things, but they are banned from my life because the cream filling is made using lard. um no. so eschewing animal by products have prevented a good amount of preservatives from entering mah life
- i use seventh generation washing powders. that stuff is the hotness
- i practice yoga
i know im doing good things for my body and life. however, i think all of these efforts are negated by my drinking habits. ::sigh:: damn tasty liquor.
what does all of this mean? my mother thinks that im a crazy hippie. im not, i have hippie tendencies but im not a complete hippie. i haven’t started wearing patchouli. i smelled that stuff today, and it aint for me, umm a world of no that is. plus i still rock stilettos everywhere i go, and i will NOT leave the house without my contacts and/or makeup.
so i have one foot in the hippie world and another still in the real world. maybe one day i’ll look up and i will have completely slipped into the world of hippiedom without noticing.
random comment, yah need to check out “Black to the Future” by VH1. They done it again.
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