An Article I Stumbled Upon

So I was sitting in the bathroom about an hour ago, helping to do a touch up on my sister's hair. ( Yes just because I don't use it on my hair doesn't mean that I don't help my sister out everynow and then lol). I asked her what strength of relaxer she used. She told me it was a Mild, someone told her that Mild is less harsh than Regular of Super.

I believe if they all have the same ingredients than it may not make that much of a difference... But I wanted to put that to the test. So I looked it up and searched on Google: Is a mild relaxer better than a regular relaxer?

The first link that was on this list was an article was from buzzle.com titled : "Relaxers for Black Hair"

The statement I read in this article and I will quote says, "To manage black hair, the easiest way is to use relaxers for black hair."

The first thought that popped into my hair was WTF?!?! How can people make articles with such bold statement? It made me a little upset. I understand that majority of the African- American women and some men choose to chemically alter their hair. That doesn't necessarily make the taking care of your hair process easier. I'm sure if many people ( not only blacks) with tightly coiled, kinky, or curly hair knew how to TRULY care for their hair types, they would not feel the need to chemically alter their hair unless they truly wanted to. NOT because that's all they know.

I'm not saying I am the type of person to discriminate against relaxers, that is someone's personal choice which I will not influence. However, if articles with statements like that are put on the web or anywhere that will make us believe we do not have alternatives or options to get straight hair. Which in my opinion is completely wrong!!! I now realize that I do have options. If I wanted straight hair I can put a weave in or flat iron it. If I wanted to maintain my naturally curly styles I can do twist outs, braid outs, or bantu knots and so much more.

The point of this blog is to say know that you HAVE OPTIONS and don't settle for one thing if that's not what you want to do.

Until next time world,

StellaMillz Out! :-)