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neverwhereWhy oh WHY does everyone pick on curly hair!?
Tonight on American Idol that bastard Simon told Kimberly: 'Ever since you got rid of that weird hair you've been so much better'. ARRGHHH!
Weird?? WEIRD? No, Simon, you tosser, it's CURLY -- big, beautiful, black curly hair, that had more PERSONALITY and looked a billion times better than the flat ironed, CONFORMIST hairdo she is now wearing -- which no doubt Simon the Sheep Shagger told her (sorry, advised) to change it to, because it was 'better'. More normal. More tame and BORING. And, let's be honest here, white. Where is that gorgeous curly afro Kimberly once had? When I first saw her I was absolutely in awe of her stunning, monumentally huge hair, which was big and bouncy and vibrant, just like her. When I don't tame my hair with styling products it becomes an unmanageable curly mess, a large, gravity defying Jewfro that looks nothing like the perfect kinky curls or bouncy ringlets I see on the afro-carribean women that I envy so much. And I fell in love with Kimberly's curls right away. Here, I thought, was an outstandingly talented girl that I could emulate in so many ways --- same body shape, same vocal range (though, very sadly, not ability -- only a few people on earth are gifted with her vocal prowess), same hair. If she could make it, there was hope for me.
Now, I know what you're thinking. Why the hell should hair matter so much? Well, trust me, it does. Everyone with curly hair will understand my pain, my incredible frustration with the rest of the world. If you have curly hair, it's a nightmare. You can't ever just wake up in the morning and leave the house, unless you want to look like Sasquatch or you just fell in a briar patch. Every fashion magazine tells you that your hair is wrong, that you need to straighten it and be normal. I once read an absolutely diabolical article detailing how people with curly hair do not come across as 'trustworthy' or 'serious enough', and that if you had curly hair you were twice as likely to be turned down for a job than if you had straight. Celebrities are told that they are not attractive enough with their natural curls, which is why people like Minnie Driver, who has some of the most enviable curls in the world, constantly straightens her hair and looks terrible -- her curls are supposed to distract the eye from her broad jaw and pointed chin, and without them she looks like a troll. But time and time again, these beautiful people are sacrificing a part of themselves in order to conform with how they think society wants them to be perceived. And so that brings us back to Simon 'The Only Dates I Can Get I Have To Pay For' Cowell and his insensitive and thoroughly ignorant comment. I hate Kimberly's new look, and I especially hate that this is how she thinks she has to be seen in order to be successful. *I* don't want to change my look, though god knows I'm constantly being told I have to. I am sick and tired of being told I'm a fucking Cabbage Patch Doll and that I need to alter my look if I want to get anywhere in life. I don't WANT to change, I think my hair is quirky and fun and a part of who I am. And Kimberly, so should you.
Curly hair is BEAUTIFUL, dammit! Stop trying to deny who you are! Embrace your curls! Please, for all of us who suffer in silence, embrace your curls.
Tonight on American Idol that bastard Simon told Kimberly: 'Ever since you got rid of that weird hair you've been so much better'. ARRGHHH!
Weird?? WEIRD? No, Simon, you tosser, it's CURLY -- big, beautiful, black curly hair, that had more PERSONALITY and looked a billion times better than the flat ironed, CONFORMIST hairdo she is now wearing -- which no doubt Simon the Sheep Shagger told her (sorry, advised) to change it to, because it was 'better'. More normal. More tame and BORING. And, let's be honest here, white. Where is that gorgeous curly afro Kimberly once had? When I first saw her I was absolutely in awe of her stunning, monumentally huge hair, which was big and bouncy and vibrant, just like her. When I don't tame my hair with styling products it becomes an unmanageable curly mess, a large, gravity defying Jewfro that looks nothing like the perfect kinky curls or bouncy ringlets I see on the afro-carribean women that I envy so much. And I fell in love with Kimberly's curls right away. Here, I thought, was an outstandingly talented girl that I could emulate in so many ways --- same body shape, same vocal range (though, very sadly, not ability -- only a few people on earth are gifted with her vocal prowess), same hair. If she could make it, there was hope for me.
Now, I know what you're thinking. Why the hell should hair matter so much? Well, trust me, it does. Everyone with curly hair will understand my pain, my incredible frustration with the rest of the world. If you have curly hair, it's a nightmare. You can't ever just wake up in the morning and leave the house, unless you want to look like Sasquatch or you just fell in a briar patch. Every fashion magazine tells you that your hair is wrong, that you need to straighten it and be normal. I once read an absolutely diabolical article detailing how people with curly hair do not come across as 'trustworthy' or 'serious enough', and that if you had curly hair you were twice as likely to be turned down for a job than if you had straight. Celebrities are told that they are not attractive enough with their natural curls, which is why people like Minnie Driver, who has some of the most enviable curls in the world, constantly straightens her hair and looks terrible -- her curls are supposed to distract the eye from her broad jaw and pointed chin, and without them she looks like a troll. But time and time again, these beautiful people are sacrificing a part of themselves in order to conform with how they think society wants them to be perceived. And so that brings us back to Simon 'The Only Dates I Can Get I Have To Pay For' Cowell and his insensitive and thoroughly ignorant comment. I hate Kimberly's new look, and I especially hate that this is how she thinks she has to be seen in order to be successful. *I* don't want to change my look, though god knows I'm constantly being told I have to. I am sick and tired of being told I'm a fucking Cabbage Patch Doll and that I need to alter my look if I want to get anywhere in life. I don't WANT to change, I think my hair is quirky and fun and a part of who I am. And Kimberly, so should you.
Curly hair is BEAUTIFUL, dammit! Stop trying to deny who you are! Embrace your curls! Please, for all of us who suffer in silence, embrace your curls.
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Date: 2003-04-25 08:39 pm (UTC)It's ironic, really. I spent the better part of my life trying for curls, but my hair is so straight it barely even holds a satisfactory wave.
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Date: 2003-04-25 08:41 pm (UTC)Arr.
I know I shouldn't rant and rave about something so trivial, but it annoys and frustrates me so much that curly hair is so maligned.
I'd gladly trade your hair for mine. Maybe we can make some kind of Fantine-esque deal? ;-)
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Date: 2003-04-25 08:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-25 08:42 pm (UTC)Huzzah! *high five* :D
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Date: 2003-04-25 08:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-25 08:48 pm (UTC)I know! That's what makes it so mind numbingly aggravating!
I wish all the girls who secretly desire luscious curls would rise up against the fashion industry and overthrow their nonsensical oppression of the Allmighty Curl.
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Date: 2003-04-25 08:45 pm (UTC)Straight hair is so boring ;-;
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Date: 2003-04-25 08:58 pm (UTC)Sadly, boring is socially acceptable.
But you're not boring. *grins and smooches* :)
Envy!
Date: 2003-04-25 08:53 pm (UTC)Simon's a jackass. Curly hair rules! XD
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Date: 2003-04-25 08:56 pm (UTC)Simon is a jackass. Unfortunately he enjoys being a wanker, so we can't mock him for it. ;-)
My hair still does very strange and scary things -- like staying completely horizontal when put into braids. I can get that Pippi Longstocking-esque gravity defying hair without even trying. *G*
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Date: 2003-04-25 09:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-25 09:04 pm (UTC)Wooohooo!
Untamed is good. Tomorrow I shall vow not to tame my hair in any way, and let it run wild and free! :D
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Date: 2003-04-25 09:00 pm (UTC)You have my sympathy.;(
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Date: 2003-04-25 09:03 pm (UTC)> I'm 21 and look no older than 16
ME TOO!
I mean, I'm 25, but I'm still mistaken for a teenager. All the soddingarsingwankingbollocking time. *snarls*
I just keep telling myself how thankful I will be when I'm 40 and still look enviably young, but right now it is such a royal pain in the arse.
*huuuuuuuuuuug*
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Date: 2003-04-25 09:12 pm (UTC)And at least your hair is fully curly. What it really sucks to have is hair that behaves as mine does: about 1/4 of it in fairly good ringlets, about 1/4 of it as flat and straight as ever hair gets, and the remaining half split up among wavy, flat, and just plain confused.
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Date: 2003-04-25 09:22 pm (UTC)I know. I shouldn't watch it, but as a singer I find these shows (Pop Idol, Popstars, Popstars: The Rivals) strangely compelling. It's partly to see what the competition is like, and partly because I know *I* would be better than just about everyone in the competition, so I have to live vicariously through them. I know I would be turned away, no matter how good my voice was, because I absolutely do not look like what they want. I nearly auditioned for both Popstars and Pop Idol, but my self consciousness got the better of me, because I knew I could never take such public rejection. I know I can sing, and I have a great blues/soul voice, but a Cabbage Patch Doll isn't exactly going to sell records and set the world on fire, is she. *sad smile*
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Date: 2003-04-25 10:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-26 06:04 am (UTC)*tosses hair in manner of shampoo advert*
Mmmmm...ravishing.
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Date: 2003-04-26 12:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-26 12:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-26 06:20 am (UTC)*blush!*
Well, there's no denying my hair has lots of personality. It just seems that lots of people don't like that personality. *grumbles*
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Date: 2003-04-26 01:53 am (UTC)*stills thinks Kurlz R Kewl and wonders wtf people are on if they say that they're "untrustworthy". I mean, whaaaa?*
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Date: 2003-04-26 06:22 am (UTC)'If you have out of control hair, then obviously you can't control other things in your life and don't care' is the basic thinking behind it. Isn't that absolutely ridiculous? *shakes head and sighs*
Curls are cool! And so are you. *smooochy!* :D
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Date: 2003-04-26 02:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-26 06:24 am (UTC)*laughs*
The idea of you with 'sproingy things attached all over my head' is just too adorable. But then, you're fantastically adorable without them. :)
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Date: 2003-04-26 02:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-26 06:26 am (UTC)*blushes happily*
Thank you! :)
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Date: 2003-04-26 02:36 am (UTC)And on that note... people dying there hair blonde! i know i did, but i'm already blonde and wanted it to be white. This is the same as the curls argument, Holywood says straight blonde hair is the way to go for women, so that most -the gulible consumerist ones- follow these trends religously.
Finally, my flatmte has curly hair, we took the piss for a while when he was growing it long because it looked like a white mans afro (and he really didn't suit it), but now it's grown to be, er, somewhere down his back, it's really quite cool and impressive.
(on a side note, i decided to grow my hair as well, and had to go through that period you do as a bloke when your hair is growing, and there is _nothing_ which makes it look good, it's just a mess and -like i did to my flatmate- you get the pissed ripped for it :P )
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Date: 2003-04-26 02:46 am (UTC)...
If you have curly hair, it's a nightmare. You can't ever just wake up in the morning and leave the house, unless you want to look like Sasquatch or you just fell in a briar patch.
ARGH! This is my hair exactly. Some of it curls, some of it doesn't, and the bits that don't sometimes will if I style my hair differently or something. And I always have to shower in the morning because I just can't do anything with it after it dries and I've slept on it. It just poofs and goes everywhere. I refer to this as my Hermione!hair. And I hate all those HP fics where Hermione's hair magically becomes straight and gorgeous, or turns into perfect curls. Will not happen, in my opinion.
I suppose I can see where the "untrustworthy" thing comes from -- "if she can't even control her hair, what else can she not control?" -- perhaps that's how the thought process goes? I always feel less put-together than my friends when we go out, because their hair looks perfect (most of them have straight hair or the really nice defined boingy curls) and mine is unruly - but I can't do anything about it!
Hair just has a life of its own, and I've actually gotten a lot better about accepting its messiness. I was so anal about it in middle school and most of high school - pulling it back into tight twists and then hairspraying the daylights out of it. Now I just don't care - the untidiness is just the way it is, damn it!
Heh, thanks for the rant, and for allowing me to join you. *hugs* *fluffs and swishes hair*
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Date: 2003-04-26 06:12 am (UTC)>if she can't even control her hair, what else can she not control?"
Yes! That's the (incredibly fucked up) idea. Can you believe it?? *sighs wearily*
I used to keep it in a very tight ponytail when I was little, which was a BIG mistake as I had a fat face, glasses and braces -- I should have used my hair to hide my facial defects, but instead I was so ashamed of it I made myself look a hundred times worse. Stupid Nevvie. *kicks self hard*
Thank you for joining my rant! *squeeeeeze* :)
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Date: 2003-04-26 04:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-26 04:28 am (UTC)constantly tangledstuff. :)Although I'm tempted to go straight one day so people will stop pulling it and going, "BOING!!! Your hair goes boing!!!" ;)
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Date: 2003-04-26 06:08 am (UTC)*laughs*
I am so torn about boingers -- sometimes I think it's great that random strangers will just come up to me and sproing my hair, because it makes me feel cute and appreciated, and other times, I just want to scream 'Piss off will you?? My hair is NOT a toy! Rawr!' Or something like that anyway. ;-)
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Date: 2003-04-26 05:24 am (UTC)If the Cabbage Patch Doll is you, Nev, she can. *hugs*
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Date: 2003-04-26 06:06 am (UTC)Heyyyy Laffy. :) *squeeeze*
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Date: 2003-04-26 06:27 am (UTC)MEDUSA!!! Even those ignorant gits recognized evil Izmeina's true serpentine nature :)
Izzie wanted to be boring and normal and just like the rest of those straight haired blond blue eyed Aryan Dursleys... but she aint' and never will be.
Izzie gets such smirks of satisfaction seeing all the silly creatures paying oodles of silver sickles to get poisonous and foul lotions and potions put on their hair to make it curly... Just Like Izzie's!
Now Izzie is ever so glad not to be NORMAL. And for some reason.. people associate hairy and scary so they don't mess around with Izzie.
Funny really... the best way to become beautiful is to be a first rate version of yourself rather than a second rate version of someone else.
Izzie knows... she has tried both! I mean.. it doesn't turn you into a Marilyn Monroe but being happy as yourself is infinitely better than the bitter and twisted resentment that shows when you don't succeed at being some one else. And its hard to look 'ugly' when you are happy
Oh and guess who just love cabbage patch dolls???
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Date: 2003-04-26 06:31 am (UTC)>guess what the culture vultures used to call Fuzzie wuzzie ickle Izzie in school on account of her wierd wild wig
MEDUSA!!!
OMG me too! Me too me too me toooooooooooooooooooooo. *throws her arms around you and sobs*
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Date: 2003-04-26 06:53 am (UTC)I love my curls and wouldn't give them up for straight hair any day! (Except for the times when I feel like changing for the day. ;)) I didn't even know people thought that about curls; anyone who I've ever heard talking about curly hair is saying that they *want* it.
Straight hair tends to have no perconality, imo, unless those who have it do something with it that is their own style. But curly hair is different for every person who's lucky enough to have it. :)
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Date: 2003-04-26 07:21 am (UTC)My hair is boring and straight, and won't hold a curl for longer than a few minutes. I tye it up in rags overnight sometimes but it just does not work.
So don't you dare feel bad about your hair. There's a lot of people out there who would *love* to have beautiful curls. Even if people *sproing* it.
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Date: 2003-04-26 08:04 am (UTC)My hair is straight, but I usually like wearing it in loose curls. My hair grows naturally curly, but in very, very tight kinky curls(basically nappy hair). My mom started relaxing my hair when I was 6, because it was a very painful adventure just trying to get a comb through my hair...
Now my hair(straight) is down to my mid-back, and easier to manage, but sometimes I wish I didn't get my hair relaxed. Aside from having to retouch every 8 weeks, I can't get my hair wet often or else it gets really dry.
I was also offended when Simon said that comment about Kimberly's hair. I liked her hair curly and I've always wanted hair like that. She's just doesn't look right with straight hair. She's confroming to the Western idea of beauty instead of keeping her African/Carribean hair. That makes me sad. It's sad to be sucessful you have to look a certain way. The music industry should be about talent, not looks.
It also pisses me off when Simon comments on people's weight. *smacks Simon*
*hugs and plays with Nev's curly hair*
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Date: 2003-04-26 08:10 am (UTC)My hair is also impossible to brush, unless it's very wet -- you would not believe how many combs I've broken or gotten stuck in my hair. It's really quite obsene. *giggles*
>She's just doesn't look right with straight hair. She's confroming to the Western idea of beauty instead of keeping her African/Carribean hair. That makes me sad.
That is EXACTLY what I think. She doesn't need to have Britney hair for godsakes! She is so beautiful without even trying, but when she aims to comform with what the (white) establishment thinks as beauty, she loses what makes her special. And this makes me very sad.
I've given up being angry with Simon about his comments on weight. He was even worse on Pop Idol, believe me. He's just such a tosser. *growls*
*squishhugs!*
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Date: 2003-04-26 09:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-26 10:18 am (UTC)>Gorgeous curls when contained right....and the scariest fro when not
*laughs* Yep, that is definately me. My jewfro is very frightening. But at least I never look like one of those scary trailer trash girls (or boys!) who are desperate for a makeover on Jenny Jones. *shudder* ;-)
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Date: 2003-04-26 09:30 am (UTC)