I just received this great heads up from our new Multicultural Beauty Guide, Gerrie Summers (if you haven't already checked out her site, please do!).
Raise your hand if anyone has ever touched/grabbed your natural hair without asking. Or did they ask first, and then touch? *
CNN has an article and video discussing this sometimes weird, sometimes flattering fascination with black hair in its unaltered state. Not surprisingly, some people are offended when perfect strangers just reach out and grab their hair. Whether or not this has to do with feelings of prejudice -- real or imagined -- that span centuries of a painful history, or just preferring that others don't invade your personal space, it can be disconcerting, to say the least, to have this experience.
If this has ever happened to you, I'd like to hear your thoughts, or leave them at the CNN article. Were you affronted, angry, flattered or just plain weirded out that a stranger would touch your hair (or even ask to touch your hair)?
*By the way, I'm raising my hand. And I was weirded out.
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