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Black Girl With Long Hair
It’s Rudy Huxtable! Keshia Knight Pulliam posted a throwback natural hair picture on her Facebook fan page with the caption;
Before flatirons!!! Working on getting back here with @hairfinity… #tbt
The actress is the current celebrity brand ambassador for Hairfinity hair vitamins.
Cute!
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Keisha had beautiful hair. I wonder y she started wearing weaves. My cousin did the same thing and now she has thinning and missing patches messing with clip in extensions when she didn’t need it.
That is Kesha’s hair and it is beautiful.
She look better with the weeve. I look betta than her. She think she cute. She aint
lol cant even spell weave. and you a hater
I’m using Hairfinity too. I like it an it has really helped my hair health. Just like Rudy, I was the baby in my family. However my father put some stuff in my hair that was too mature for my hair and really damaged my hair (in his defense the poor man had no idea that the product would do that). So we had to do a cut ( A mushroom cut)and my hair grew back (after like a year of constant teasing), but then my mom jumped on the creamy crack band wagon and up until last year I’ve had an on again off again relationship with it. But I transitioned and have just the ends left (which I’m getting cut off today). But during the transition my hair was still week so I used Hairfinity and it really helped. My hair is strong and I’ve always had thick hair, but its really healthy now. I’m glad Keisha is using it too. Sometime we get so caught up on trends and weaves, and colors, and relaxers etc. that we really mistreat our hair, so I say use hair vitamins. I’m trying to get used to my texture again and let me tell you I can’t seem to get a successful twist out, braid out, or curl former to save my life.
As a young girl growing up in the 70s/80s, everyone had long, natural hair. Not having long hair was the unusual thing. Not sure when it happened that we stopped combing our own hair on a daily basis and started down the weave path.
That’s not what I personally remember from my childhood or community. I was a child in the 70’s and 80’s, too. I was a teen in the ’90’s.
Amongst Black women and girls, I remember long hair being the minority in my community. In the area where I grew up little Black girls wore plaits and twists suspended above their shoulders – not below them – or their hair touched their shoulders. It was all tightly secured with balls and adorned with barrettes in different mutli-colored shapes. Some girls had Jherri curls or Rick James-like extensions complete with beads on the bangs. Not many girls with long hair.
In every elementary school classroom I was in from K to junior high, there were always about five girls in each classroom out of say 17 girls with plaits, twists or loose hair trailing down their backs – most of those girls had one non-Black parent. I remember the girls with shorter hair playing in their hair. One of those girls hated when her mother styled her hair loose because other girls wouldn’t leave her alone.
Then in junior high, Black girls got their hair relaxed and styled or cut like Salt and Pepa and J.J. Fadd (folks around my age might know them). Very few of us had relaxed hair all around our shoulders or trailing to the middle of our backs. It stayed at most of our shoulders or above them. Because long hair was considered rare in the school I attended and the area in which I grew up, girls with long hair were put up on a pedestal or envied.
In high school, forget it. Weave, relaxers, blond hair dye galore. I only recall seeing three Black girls in my whole high school with long hair. TLC’s biopic was just on Vh-1, and that film reminded me of how people would make over Chili and call her “the pretty one” mostly because she had long hair. When the CrazySexyCool moniker was adopted, Chili was the sexy one! I always thought all the girls of TLC were pretty and sexy. In the mid-90’s, People magazine voted T-Boz who had short hair as one of People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People – not Chili. Funny how White folks see things differently than we do. But I digress.
Now, I have daughters of my own and b/c of YouTube, this site, and Curly Nikki, I have managed to grow all of my daughter’s hair to great lengths and refrain from relaxers. There are a few other Black girls in their predominantly White school with long hair but the rest of the Black girls attending have short or medium length hair relaxed hair, just like in the elementary school I attended. Things are slowly changing where Black women are becoming more educated on natural hair care, retaining length, etc. and those women are utilizing this knowledge for their daughters. But as you stated, HAHARRIS, long hair is unusual now. I just personally think it was always unusual – at least where I grew up.
As I was reading this, I was going to say, well most people think T-Boz was the prettiest one. Lol but then you mentioned the magazine cover she was on. In my opinion I could never stand Chili, I am not white, and just never did see her as beautiful. I would have say T- boz Lisa left eye and then Chili. I just think chili face is average and it’s not a feminine face. T boz was far sexier. I grew up around diverse people, and I noticed many of the black girls had short hair, most of the West Indians had between short and long hair. But I think TBoz was the best looking to white people, just like many other short haired black women appear prettier to white people. One thing I learned about white people was that they have a skin fetish. Since T Boz had that “golden glow” and more feminine features than Chili she was going to be the prettiest to them. I just felt her facial structure was prettier than Chili’s. But you are so right, black people and white people have diffrent beauty standards and ideals. I do think Gabrielle Union is gorgeous and yet I am not sure she made Peoples list? Which is nuts?!
We must be the same age, ’cause I remember only a few girls had long hair most didnt!
^^^ this was directed to KELLY
Well I am black and that time I had natural hair sometimes I grew it long ans sometimes I wore it short. I was ALWAYS natural but my hair was never short unless it was by choice. Most of my friends had long natural hair and so did my family members I guess it depends on where you are from and what the trends are.
The reason why her hair is not like that anymore is because of the constant use of flat irons & weaves. She once had beautiful hair & it’s a shame she has to take Hairfinity to get her beautiful hair back, if it’s even possible!
Its not a shame at all. clearly she has realized that she has done a lot of damaged and recognize that she needs extra nutrients to help her hair recover and grow. I think its smart. You can always grow your hair back to a beautiful state (unless you have cancer and its just not feasible at that time chemo and pills and what not) , you just have to be careful with it. Something that I am learning myself especially through the detangling phase.
hairfinity is overpriced. get the same thing from whole foods or gnc for MUCH CHEAPER. Not $40 a bottle! Get a 3mo[120 pills] supply for $8. I hear even walmart(which I don’t support0 sells MSM and niotin(which is what is in hairfinity that makes hair grow by encouraging longer growth cycle)
If KKP really wants her length back she needs to drink water and eats lots of e, spinach, broccoli.
hairfinity is overpriced crap. …but hey she gotta get apid right?
Hairfinity is not $40 a bottle. It’s $24 and it WORKS! Yeah, you can get cheaper vitamins in local stores (I’m using cheap ones from Walmart right now myself), but no, it’s not the same.
I can’t believe that African women have to justify wearing their natural hair in this time and age!
Stop killing yourselves by chemicalizing your good hair and body, and killing your folicles by wearing wigs and other entrapments that is not doing a bit of good for your natural hair growth. Practice a good balance diet, accompanying exercise, drink plenty of nutritious fluids and message your scalp at least two times per week. Find a unique way to manage your stress and remember to minimize what’s on your emotional plate.
Stop putting money in the pockets of the Asians and South Asians because they are just as racists as their masters! Get back to basics and keep your hair natural and beautiful. Remember we don’t control that industry they are only taking your money for their beauty! Wake up and wise up….
This is not cute nor is it beauty!
I don’t like that we have to justify anything we do whether we choose to go natural or not.
Gorgeous hair, wishing her well with her vitamin endeavors.
nice pretty lady.
I always thought she was beautiful and I loved her hair on the Cosby show. The thing that puts me in awe is her baby face. I’m glad to see her on this site and still acting, hopefully.
I always wondered what happen to her hair and Tatiyan(sp) Ali!!
They both had very long hair and now they are weaved up. Tatiyan had very curly type 3 hair, what the heck happened?!!? Was that even her real hair!
nothing happened. people change over time.
The Cosby show had the best natural hairstyles! Lots of natural hair inspiration. I was watching an episode the other day and Denise had the cutest bantu knots, she was rocking them just like that. All the Huxtable ladies were beautiful & flyy naturalistas.
Love her twist out <3
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That is not Denise. It’s Rudy (Keisha Knight Pulliam) Huxtable as a teenager.
She didnt say it was Denise!! You jumped the gun!
Madame, please do not bogart my illustrious career by your astute observations
*cackles*
Everyone on that show had amazing hair, but her & Claire- hands down the best. It was refreshing to see another young girl on tv with puffs.
She is so beautiful!!!!!! And, look at all of that hair!!!!!!!!!! #loveit
She definely does look cute.
love her
I loved her when she was on the cosby show!!!