Relaxers / Stereohyped

Nappturality Founder Talks Relaxers, Beauty Myths, And The Wonder Of Natural Hair

While the pros and cons of relaxing hair are discussed in detail at black hair salons everywhere, at Nappturality.com, the Internet's shrine to natural hair, chemical straighteners are not up for debate.

If you ask Patricia "Dee" Gaines, the Rhode Island-reared, Australia-dwelling founder of Nappturality, there are no pros to relaxing your hair.

"Hate is not strong enough word for how I feel about the product," Gaines told Stereohyped. "Not only do I see what it does to women's hair, I see what it does to their feelings about themselves. I relaxed for over 20 years. The mindset that I had when I was relaxing my hair for 20 years was that my own hair as it grew out of my head was not acceptable, and no one could tell me any different."

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Oct 25, 2007 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 43 Responses

Droppin' Science

Relax! It won't give you breast cancer...

Good news for the dark and lovely, the only thing chemical relaxers damage is your hair. Well, they probably damage other things, but at least they don't give you breast cancer.

Africans, the people least responsible for our current environmental disaster, will experience drought, famine, and extreme temperatures at far greater rates as global warming increases. Just add that to the list of reasons why global warming is bad. A list that everyone who can effect change chooses to ignore.

It's a good thing America's health care system is so fair! Patients who are treated unfairly are more likely to get both mentally and physical worse.

According to a recent study, you better start researching strokes if you are black, live in the South, and poorly educated. It's not looking good for you.

May 20, 2007 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 2 Responses