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Black Girl With Long Hair
Teyonah Parris is a certified hair idol and source of styling inspiration for many naturals. But recently the gorgeous actress, who stars in Mad Men and Survivor’s Remorse, took to Instagram to keep it all the way real about coming to terms with her tightly curled texture. She posted the photo above with the following caption;
I love my nappy edges, my clump in the middle that never dries completely, the shrunken, fluffy, coarse kinks that God has blessed me with! Took me a long time to accept that my twistout will never look like those IG pictures I drooled over in their ability to achieve an immaculate twistout, that my edges will never ever be SLICKED FOR DA GAAAWDS, that my hair will consistently be inconsistent, and that’s everything I’ve learned to love about it! Girl, you gotta learn to love what God gave ya and stop looking over there to the left!! #RealLife (For those interested this is a Bantu Knot Out ????)
Love it!
Ladies, what do you think of Teyonah’s honest words?
Check out a couple more gorgeous flicks from Teyonah’s Instagram account below.
13 Responses
She is EVERYTHING!
Love Teyonah Parris!! She’s my celebrity hair role model!!!
Since going natural, I don’t even care about my edges like I used to in the relaxed days. It matches the rest of my hair now! And without the lye, my edges are softer and healthier than ever.
i like that piece and eve though i do slick my edges i am comfortable when their in a puffy mess
I couldn’t agree more with Teyonah Parris. I never slick my edges.
She is such a glowing role model!
Short yet interesting article. The question is “do we really love our kinky hair?” As part of a self-reconnection, back to roots journey, we embrace our natural hair and we claim “we love it, we are proud”. Do we really ? The truth is that is not easy. I’m a 4C thin hair so a hair very prône to breakage. I’m 31 and I never have seen my hair long except when I had locs. I am right now in TWA and I struggle so much. At times, I say to myself that I’d like to perm my hair (which I haven’t done in 10 years) or have curly hair…because not only my hair would be more manageable but I’d be more socially accepted. This is a secret I’ll never tell my relatives and I alsways I was bullied physically and psychologically from Primary school to Seconday school because “I’m dark skin and ugly” so yes having my natural hair is very an “activist” choice but sometimes I resent my hair not for what actually is but what it socially represents. And the fact that we spend our time praising each other’s healthy, full, shiny long hair and claiming how much we love our hair prove that we are still insecure about it. We grew up in societies where we were told that kinky/nappy hair is bad hair so living our hair is a long process and I’m glad we started it and that our children won’t go thru that.
I think you are totally right!
The goal is that we dont need Sites like bglh because hopefully one day it will be normal for everyone to Wear their hair in their God given State thus no need for reafirmation.
Btw: i totally understand yourself: im 31 too with medium lenght type 4 hair, Never had long hair in my life, Unlike all my White friends (i life in Germany) and my soft, type 3 Haired sister…:(
Lets just stick with it and hope it will Pay off and in between go for extensions and Most and formost remember that we arent just our hair and that some People wished they had hair ( eg Cancer patients…).
All the best and God bless! 🙂
She’s beautiful and so is her attitude!
Love this. I’ve said it before: fuzzy edges forever. I care for what I have, stopped envying slick edges and as a result, my hair is healthier and stronger. No thinning edges here!
Luv her, can’t wait for the new season of Survivors Remorse! Luv that show
Beautiful hair!
Finally, a message that I can relate to. Unfortunately we learned to hate our God given features, but thankfully, we can recondition ourselves to love them. I always tell myself that God didn’t make any mistakes when he made me. We must not allow ourselves to fall victim to what sociologist have referred to as “whiteness” and I will tell you that since going natural, I have had to stare at my hair, edges and all, until I realized that the natural curl pattern and the way in which they shrink, grow up, out and eventually down my back is really quite lovely.
I truly love my kinky hair and I do not allow myself to read or subscribe to anything which suggest, “smooth or silky” because my hair is fluffy, soft and feathery and has a matte appearance. It’s unique!
Please read my opinion on the recent natural hair controversy:
https://sinologist500.wordpress.com/
Lovely and I love her hair!
Just when I thought I couldn’t adore her more – such encouraging words