Let’s do the same with the Curlies ! (Tallies version here)
Curlies ! Be turned into a cartoon ! Tell me the funniest / weirdest / meanest comments and questions you’ve ever heard about your hair ! Answer here or on my Facebook page !
If there’s a profile pic of you anywhere or if you’re willing to send me a picture later, you could be turned into a cartoon character that will tell your story ! Post as many as you want !
Tall AND curly ladies like me : YOUR STORIES ARE AWAITED TOO !!! 😀
ATTENTION : By sending your story, you understand and I accept that I will use it and probably modify it to turn it into a cartoon, that I will share it on my blog, all my social media accounts and anywhere else I might need to, and that I will own the copyright of the comic.
I was at a concert one night and the guitarist in the band was about to throw the his guitar pick into the audience. Everyone in the audience (including myself) had their hands in the air trying to catch the pick when he threw it. When he finally threw the pick, I felt it tangle itself straight into the depths of my afro. Everyone around me began looking around for the pic or at least for whomever caught it. When I pulled the pick out of my hair, the guy beside me told me to “do it again!” LOL
I wish that more of these comments were positive. I love the story where the niece compared her hair to her aunt’s. That was very touching. I have so many funny stories but my favorite would have to be this one because it includes my grandmother.
First you should know I’ve always been told how pretty my hair was. From when I was a kid with the long swinging braids, to after it was relaxed and remained thick and health, and even now that it’s grown out most people compliment my curls.
I went to visit my grandmother for her 90th (maybe 89th) birthday. She, like everyone always told me how beautiful my hair was when it was straight and kept going on and on about how she just likes straight hair better. Now my grandma always kept her hair cut short and she was in need of a haircut. But I was being polite and said nothing about it. Plus she’s my 90 year old grandmother after all. But when day two continued with more 8 liked my hair better before comments I’d had enough. I looked at her and said “Well grandma, I don’t really like your hair much right now either so I guess we’re even.” Of course she was shocked and my mother yelled my name in an disapproving tone. I told my mom “She can say whatever she wants to say because she’s old but every single thing that comes out of her mouth can not be negative if she doesn’t want me to say something crazy to her.”
I stood my ground as they continued to be shocked.
Ok, so I have big, curly natural hair.
So I was on the bus with another black girl and this was the conversation…
Girl: Your hair is really pretty.
Me: Thank you!
Girl: But you know this whole “natural hair” thing…It’s getting really old and it’s sooooo unoriginal. Like it doesn’t look good on a lot of people.
Me: Oh. *winces*
Me: *what I should have said:* Yeah, totally! Your 18-inch ombre weave is definitely some shit I’ve never seen before. Well done!
True story.
Oh! Last one.
China is so fun (and by fun, I mean strange) for natural girls. My co-worker (who is also natural and often wears her hair in twists) and I were waiting to buy train tickets into Beijing. Two older Chinese women are behind us and start chattering quickly and loudly. Quickly realizing that one of us understood Chinese, they began shooting off questions to her (in Chinese):
Are you American?
Is that your real hair?
Is that her real hair?
Can you make your hair like hers?
Can she do her hair like yours?
Can I touch it?
*She answers them but won’t let them touch*
The man in front of us, who is also Chinese but speaks English, laughs quietly at their persistence. He turns and briefly informs, “they like your hair”.
Uh huh.
I’m presently living in China and working. In a land of 98% naturally straight hair, I can’t help but stick out.
One day I was particularly frustrated with my hair (having tried a new conditioner that just didn’t work for me and left me with extremely dry curls). I started pushing my hair back and bobby pinning (with about 15 minutes to spare before my class started). My learning partner (who is Chinese) was sitting in the room watching me…transform. I decided to do a faux-hawk. When I turned around she gasped, “Oh my goodness! You look like a rooster (which just happens to be my Chinese sign)!”
I go down the stairs to meet my class and all the “local” (Chinese) staff and parents are in awe.
“I like your hair,” one of the parents says in careful English.
My learning partner cues in quickly, “It’s natural. It grows like that.” In English, then in Chinese. The mothers nod with interest.
What’s been most interesting. When buying products, Chinese salespeople take a large amount of pride in telling you what they think you need. Not having met with many people with a curl pattern like mine, they tend to push shampoo into my hands.
“I want this,” I explain in the little Chinese I have picked up, and grab the conditioner. They don’t understand. And it isn’t for them to understand. They just smile and nod.
I was in the girl’s locker room at school changing my clothes for gym, when this black girl said, “I love your hair how did you get it like that?” (There is only three other natural that I have seen at my school. The rest have relaxers or wear weaves). “I just twist it a nigh and take it out in the morning…” The girl keep asking more questions about my hair, when I felt something literally digging in my scalp. I glance up to look in the mirror and see a different girl (also black) behind me exploring my scalp. I guess she noticed me looking because she quickly retracted her hand and said, “your hair…it’s so soft.” I plastered a little smile on my face and replied, “well thank you.” That was my first time getting weave checked.
Once I had just got my hair done in a protective style because that previous week I had my curls coils out a lot. and i was like i better go ahead and get it done. so I got some poetic Justice braides. with beads on the end. I went to school and my blonde. Friend girlS goes. “Omg now why’d you go and do that?” And I’m like “what?” And she goes “your hair? i thought you were natural ” and I’m like ” i am natural (giving her a confused look). And she’s like “no your not with all that in ur hair …. I like it bettter the other way” and my other blonde girl friend goes “It doesn’t look right it looks bettee the other way” and inside my head I’m over here getting selfconcious . and so one of my friends goes I like it it looks nice. (Maybe she detected the hurt on my face but idk) i guess their just really used to my curls. but that was so uncalled for.
Well, I was sitting in a whirlpool with my two classmates. They both have absolutly straight hair. In the whirlpool they had those tiny tight buns (you know what I mean, right? :D) and I had a loose bun and I let some curls frame my face.
One of the girls looked at me and then asked: ‘Is your hair curly even when it’s wet?’
ok now that was really funny!!! 😀 Jade
So, I’m mixed but I have really really light skin. I look like a white person with a big ass fro, which is awesome and I’m proud of it! But about 2 years ago when I first big chopped, I was dating this guy who had extremely rude parents. And when these parents saw my fro, the father said that I should go “join a circus with that thing. It would make a great attraction.” What?! You ain’t ever seen a white girl with a fro before?! The so-called loving boyfriend didn’t even defend me. That relationship did not last long. Thankfully I had been taught a good bit of fro love before that, so my confidence wasn’t too bruised by the comment. Oh and the guy that made the comment was bald (nothing against baldness).
A previous mentor asked if I’d lost a bet when I went natural.
lmbo !! Comic material !!