Angelayalet
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The hair in the back of my head is very soft/silky and doesn't tangle much but the rest of my hair is like coarse/dry and tangles alot. Does any have this problem? Is there anyway for all my hair to be like my kitchen?
wow...I never knew that.... someone told me its called the kitchen because of the brillo pad that people use to scrub pots in their kitchen.... or something like that lol..I dont know.. I dont use those terms anyway.Hmmm....that's interesting. Usually it's the other way around with the coarser textures being at the nape. In fact, back in the day the reason that it was referred to as "the kitchen" was because much like a kitchen, it was where a lot of heat would build up such that when a person began to sweat, it would be the first place that the kinks would show up.
In fact, the kitchen of one's head has traditionally been steeped in issues of featurism/colorism. Many older black folks (much, much older) used to have stories of finding out if a person had "good hair" or not by checking the nape of the hair. All truths would be told by a person's "kitchen". As the old folks would say---- the person could have the best conk or hot comb this side of the river Jordan... but the kitchen wouldn't tell a lie.
Hmmm....that's interesting. Usually it's the other way around with the coarser textures being at the nape. In fact, back in the day the reason that it was referred to as "the kitchen" was because much like a kitchen, it was where a lot of heat would build up such that when a person began to sweat, it would be the first place that the kinks would show up.
In fact, the kitchen of one's head has traditionally been steeped in issues of featurism/colorism. Many older black folks (much, much older) used to have stories of finding out if a person had "good hair" or not by checking the nape of the hair. All truths would be told by a person's "kitchen". As the old folks would say---- the person could have the best conk or hot comb this side of the river Jordan... but the kitchen wouldn't tell a lie.
same here. i have about a 3x2 inch patch at my middle nape that's 3b/c. i thought the silky loose curls were heat damage until cutting and looking at it with a mirror to realize it was that texture all the way up to the roots. after 5 years of being natural, i'm still learning new things about my hair.Mine is looser too. When I was transitioning then did a big chop, I ended up cutting it again months later thinking I hadn't cut all the relaxer out. Then months later I was like why is my hair so straight still? I haven't used heat or anything. Then I really examined and looked back there with a mirror and saw it was the same at the roots!