I wonder what the next generation of girls' relationship with their hair will be like. I hope that all of our collective efforts will cause them to be proud of their hair. Do you think natural hair is normalized now?

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Normalized, no. More accepted, absolutely.

Normalized will be when we stop questioning or being questioned about whether natural hair looks natural.

When you can go to any salon and they know how to do the basics for your hair (I'm not expecting everyone to be a specialist, and I wouldn't trust just anyone, but I should be able to at least go to a black salon for a simple wash and twistout type do).

When our hair care products aren't priced at a premium.

When TV shows and movies are representative of what black hair care looks like (it makes me happy to see characters go to bed with silk scarves on their head and not wake up with perfect weaves).

When non-black people stop being so clueless because it really doesn't take much to be minimally educated.

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*looks professional/gorgeous/sexy. I'm tired lol

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I hope so. My scalp has been irreparably damaged from years of relaxers. I am natural now and have been for the past 8 years, but the damage that was done is done. No fixing it. I tell all my friends with young daughters, don't relax their hair.

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I think there is some hope. My niece is 14 with 3c hair and my sister has a relaxer. Sister didn’t know how to do anything but braid/take her to get it straightened but my niece just hopped on YouTube and figured out natural hairstyling real quick. She never had to endure the relaxer phase like I did, followed by big chopping, etc. Mostly I’m a little jealous because my natural hair was long as a kid and I really hated the TWA stage on my face shape lol.

Also when I bc’ed in 2009 NO ONE was doing it and I got so much shade from family and “friends” that it was going to look ugly, I wasn’t going to get a job, a man...I don’t think it would have gotten that same kind of reaction today. Box braids and wigs are more popular as styling options to get you through the TWA phase so there’s less fear around it. And don’t forget curl fest! Lol. So yeah. We have incremental progress towards normalization but it’s happening

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I BC’d in 2006 and honestly, I think it was a great time to go natural because I had no choice but to learn how to do my own hair at home. I didn’t have a lot of products to choose from and my only guidance came from forums and a handful of people on YouTube. I was able to master a handful of styles that I still lean on today vs being overwhelmed with options and a lot of heads of hair that look nothing like mine.

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Natural hair is starting to be popular

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I remember thinking that my hair was bad as a kid, but now I see these babies on Instagram giving natural hair tutorials 🙌🏾

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I big chopped for the first time in 1995 so you can imagine, I was the only natural girl

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No. Relaxers are still a thing and even some folks who are natural continue to struggle with actually wearing their natural hair out because it is not a “preferred” texture or they never learned how to style it. With negative feelings about their own hair, there’s no way that they are raising children who can love and care for their natural hair or appreciate it when they see it on others.

For starters I have always been natural but chose to blow my hair out in my earlier years. At the time there were not enough products or hairstylist that knew how to do natural hair and if they did they would charge an arm and a leg. The next generation of girls have a wide array of products, YouTube and parents that can do their hair.

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