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Black Girl With Long Hair
We’re used to seeing supermodel Naomi Campbell in a bone-straight weave, but for a recent taping of the Graham Norton show she switched things up with an afro wig, and we LOVE the look! Channeling 70s Pam Grier, Miss Campbell was serving all kinds of sexy! Check out the pics and let us know your thoughts!
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Aww I love her 🙂
She looks cute and like another woman. She is eternally ageless.
wow, she looks amazing! i hope this particular look becomes a mainstay for her, because those long silky straights don’t do her much justice IMO. maybe if her own natural hair were long silky straight, but this seems SO Ms. Campbell. I dig it!
She looks amazing. I am sorry her own hair can no longer do this, due to the tyrannical whims of the beauty industry she entered at such a young, impressionable age. I hope this marks a new start for her. She really looks stunning.
such a back handed compliment… smh
I was not AT ALL attempting to be backhanded. Having worked in the beauty industry for 12 years (I’m the one who shared the anecdote here about a coworker referring to we wanting to wear my natural hair as me “playing the race card”), I am furious at the beauty industry and what it does to black women. I spent so much time as an editor running behind writers trying to stop the magazines I worked for publishing horrible insensitive things (referring to textured hair as “brillo pads”), I can barely covey it to you. Luckily I entered the industry as an adult, unlike Naomi. I’ve seen the pictures of her hair under the extensions (extensions the models DON’T get a choice in wearing, often because the models are little disoriented girls barely on the far side of fifteen years old, and they are being treated as furniture). I also remember the 80s, when natural hair was barely a consideration, because you needed a relaxer to be “taken seriously in the workplace” — I remember the days when women had to sue.
I left the industry because it demoralized me and affected my health, and I wasn’t even out in front — I was back at the editorial desk. And I am pissed of at it for what it does to the women involved in it. I tried to phrase it calmly above — apparently that doesn’t work so well.
I am effing pissed off at the Western beauty industry, and I consider it directly responsible for the state of Campbell’s hair, and the hair of hundreds of other women like her. I think it’s vile, and I am ANGRY.
Please don’t project motives onto me, an Internet stranger you’ve never met. My motives are my own.
(Please excuse typos — am on phone)
Seriously — have you sat in a salon and seen the number of women who come in to have their hair taken down — young women! — and seen the amount of balding that is happening among women now? It was NOT this way when I was a kid, and it is heartbreaking and infuriating and… GUH. Who is telling them they have to do this, to actually damage themselves in order to look “polished” and “done”? Also keep in mind that when Campbell was young there were even fewer women of African descent in the major, “Top Model” category — even now the industry only seems to want to allow one African-descended front-runner at a time, let alone a darker-skinned one. At the start of her career you *only* see her surrounded by white women in her ads and runway walks — completely alone.
Just last week on the BBC they aired a documentary about black women getting hair follicles taken from the backs of their heads to replace disappeared patches at the front and sides — you can see these women crying on their families, so happy to have a chance to face the world in their own skin again.
Who but the beauty industry (and related media reinforcing the supremacy of this industry) is responsible for this? It’s money — masquerading as “advice” and “help,” but only conveying the message “Our advertisers want money, and so we’re going to tell you how ugly you are, something is wrong with you, but give us thousands of dollars for years and we’ll help you fix it, temporarily. Until we change to different advertisers and they tell us to tell you to spend thousands per anum on something completely different.” Take this slimming pill that will give you a heart murmur. Use this hair treatment that will give you lung cancer. Plastic surgery is “cosmetic enhancement” now, and fun times for all! Curls are a defect, but soon we’ll totally have a pill for that! You want to wear the hair God gave you? “Why are you playing the race card?”
Just. Ugh.
(Okay, I’ve been out of the industry for a couple years now, but apparently I still feel extremely strongly about this. Signing off. I need tea.)
Naomi could rock a cow on her head and be fly.
flying cows, yo
She looks so good!
It really does bring her out.
I must say that she rocked that fro, real or not!
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now thats whats up!! She looks so beautiful! 🙂
I hardly pay attention to Naomi Campbell, so sometimes I just overlook her beauty. But looking at her, WOOOOOW. She’s really beautiful!!!
Us Campbell’s always serve up some fabulosity!;)
Naomi Campbell Steady gives me live through all of her moments, the bad and the good loving the afro.
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Very nice! Now thats how you wear a wig.
It looks amazing, she looks amazing!
Naomi looks like a goddess…she should really should consider salvaging the hair on her scalp ( I don’t know how but she has the money to figure it out) and become a natural diva. Or at least sport the Afro wig more.
Gorgeous!
Love it!
She could wear a paper bag on her head and be stunning!
She looks stunning, and I dare say, that she even looks younger, than she already looks!
I agree. I think women always look younger with natural hair!
it’s a shame she doesn’t give a damn about her real hair.
She looks great. I hope t hat she loves it too. I always thought she was exotic and beautiful
What a beauty.
this just goes to show that it is just hair..wear it straight, wear it curly, wear it kinky..WHATEVER..the only person that should care is YOU,aint nobody else give a F**K
She is a natural beauty but with this combination she is even more stunning.