Good Hair

Hello world

So, I just finished watching the documentary Good Hair and, combined with the fact that my current favorite book is The Hunger Games, I'm convinced that the world is falling apart...

FIRSTLY did you know that African American women spend 1000 of dollars on weaves?? Many of which are made from human hair from India? Indian women (and men) give up their hair in a religious ceremony, which is then sold by the temple to companies who clean it and sell it to businesses in America. The business has become so lucrative, that women are being scalped while their asleep, or while watching movies in a public theater. Basically, in India, if you're not paying attention, you lose your hair.

And you know that African Americans aren't the only ones who are using weaves and extensions and all to "enhance" their beauty.  I'm positive women of all ethnicities are.  And that's just hair! Besides that, there's plastic surgery, botox, make-up, and all the other beauty enhancing products out there.  SO many people are spending SO much money to make themselves more physically attractive - by the standards of today's society.  To take the weaves as an example, they can cost thousands of dollars - where is an average woman getting this money?  The national health care bill is around because "people can't afford to pay for health care" and houses are being foreclosed on all over the place, but women can afford $1000 hair pieces?  As well as other hair treatments and boat loads of beauty products??  What gives??

Don't get me wrong, I'm a clothes and cosmetics whore, but I buy the stuff that I do because I have the money.  Actually, in this case my parents have the money, because I'm so fortunate as to still be able to mooch off of them for a few more years.  But when the time comes for me to support myself, I plan to make enough money to buy those things, or forgo those luxuries.  I would not make taxpayers pay for my welfare, and forgo paying my rent or feeding my family to be able to afford some Indian woman's hair.

This again comes back to Operation Beautiful, in a way.  The idea of popular beauty, how women are slaves to it and how some people are trying to break away from those ideals.

So, check out Operation Beautiful (Again) and Good Hair (A documentary by Chris Rock)

Thanks for reading!
~Rachel