Afro-Caribbean Hair and the Influences Upon It
Personal Experience
Growing up I always wanted perfect hair. Perfect hair being long thick hair that I could show off and flaunt to my friends, hair that would flow with the wind in the top down of my Mums Suzuki Vitara. (CRINGE I know but it was a while back!) But alas I was blessed (or cursed) with naturally thick nappy hair which soon lost a war against chemicals, tight braids, skull caps and continuous weave. In a vain attempt I would pour gallons of hair creams down my scalp that "guaranteed" to give me "fast rapid growth" in "less than three months". Well, lets just say its taken more than three years to get my hair back on track and that only occurred because I went back to Nigeria ( where there is an absence of social stigma around shorn cuts) and cut my hair, allowing it to grow back naturally.
