brianna-alyssa
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I'm a 15 year old junior at my school. Yesterday in class this asian girl i know asked me why i cut my hair. I told her due to thin ends. My hair was collarbone length but i chopped it up to a bit below chin length to rid myself of my ridiculous pre LHCF ends. She then told me that i could deep condition and my ends would get thicker 
I was like right....*silence* So then today & yesterday her & a white girl in my class start asking these other black girls about black hair care. Asking things like why does our hair not move, how long does it take to grow our hair, why is it so greasy, & things of that sort. The black girls were giving them ignorant answers like it's hard for black girls to grow long hair & if she gets some she better treat it right. & they kept talking about going to buy hair from some beauty supply store & how they once bought extensions from Walmart. Some girl even said that alot of people think black people grow black hair but they don't and they must dye it & get semi permanent dyes to get it black. WTF?! Not once was a positive thing about their natural hair said. They were talking about that yucky brown gel & their favorite greases. & how black girls don't like straight hair they like it to be bumped & a whole bunch of other bull. One girl said she gets relaxers every 4 weeks because she has money & she doesn't want to look ghetto and unkempt. At this point i'm like 
I REALLY wanna speak out & educate them all on hair but:
1. i don't want to seem like a weird hair freak (which i am
)
2. It's an all senior class & i don't want to seem like a know it all.
3. Now that my hair is chin length it may seem as i have no credibility or no reason to speak of healthy hair care practices since my hair is short. Even though it's shiny, healthy, soft, moisturized, & thick.
4. They would probably want to know where I learned all this information from & sorry but i want to keep LHCF & other hair forums my little secret until I BC in December
I understand that these girls just haven't happened to make a great discovery like I have, & are just going based off of what family members, friends, & stylist are telling them but still, they just sound so stupid to me.
after all that being said, question is: SHOULD I LET THEM ALL KNOW THAT THEY ARE TELLING & LEARNING FALSE INFORMATION & THIS IS WHY THE BLACK GIRLS ARE STUCK AT SHOULDER LENGTH & HAVE GREASY THIN HAIR?
I was like right....*silence* So then today & yesterday her & a white girl in my class start asking these other black girls about black hair care. Asking things like why does our hair not move, how long does it take to grow our hair, why is it so greasy, & things of that sort. The black girls were giving them ignorant answers like it's hard for black girls to grow long hair & if she gets some she better treat it right. & they kept talking about going to buy hair from some beauty supply store & how they once bought extensions from Walmart. Some girl even said that alot of people think black people grow black hair but they don't and they must dye it & get semi permanent dyes to get it black. WTF?! Not once was a positive thing about their natural hair said. They were talking about that yucky brown gel & their favorite greases. & how black girls don't like straight hair they like it to be bumped & a whole bunch of other bull. One girl said she gets relaxers every 4 weeks because she has money & she doesn't want to look ghetto and unkempt. At this point i'm like I REALLY wanna speak out & educate them all on hair but:1. i don't want to seem like a weird hair freak (which i am
)2. It's an all senior class & i don't want to seem like a know it all.
3. Now that my hair is chin length it may seem as i have no credibility or no reason to speak of healthy hair care practices since my hair is short. Even though it's shiny, healthy, soft, moisturized, & thick.
4. They would probably want to know where I learned all this information from & sorry but i want to keep LHCF & other hair forums my little secret until I BC in December
I understand that these girls just haven't happened to make a great discovery like I have, & are just going based off of what family members, friends, & stylist are telling them but still, they just sound so stupid to me.
after all that being said, question is: SHOULD I LET THEM ALL KNOW THAT THEY ARE TELLING & LEARNING FALSE INFORMATION & THIS IS WHY THE BLACK GIRLS ARE STUCK AT SHOULDER LENGTH & HAVE GREASY THIN HAIR?
. I never say anything because i actually find race jokes sort of funny...
erplexed
) I often question myself about if I'm doing things because I want to do them, or if I'm doing them to not be singled out or be the odd one out. I'm often referred to as weird or different haha. & i'm proud of that but, sometimes I still have my moments of maybe I should wear my hair like this or by these shoes so I won't have to hear any backlash from anyone. I'm trying to learn to get over doing things like that. Besides, once highschool is over, i won't keep in contact with these people anyway!
Do what you can and feel comfortable w/, but don't let it stress you too much. People are gonna think what they wanna...never forget this. 
Look at Iris/Irresistable's hair...how many girls in your school have hair like that, regardless of race?! 
