Race in everyday life
Apr. 4th, 2015 12:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resonantFor some reason, this spring I am kind of obsessed with finding a way not to have to wash my hair every day.
My hair is about chin length, and I have waves on some parts of my head and big co'cola-can curls on other parts. When I wake up in the morning it looks like a wheat field after a tornado. Styling it on the second day actually takes more time than shampooing it again. And yet somehow I feel that this is something I ought to be able to do.
So I read an article that suggested that a wrap or nightcap made of satin might improve second-day curls, and I went off to a beauty-supply store to buy one.
There was a nice rack of possibilities for kids and adults. The color palette was earth tones, and all the models on the packaging were African-American, but that didn't seem too odd, because, you know, who has the curliest hair? So I put a nice dark brown wrap in my basket and walked around the corner ...
... and there was another rack of pretty much exactly the same products, in a pastel palette, with all white models.
If I had wanted the same wrap in pink, with a blonde woman's face on it, I would have had to pay an extra $3.
(in case you're wondering, what a satin wrap does for curly hair is slide off of it in the middle of the night.)
My hair is about chin length, and I have waves on some parts of my head and big co'cola-can curls on other parts. When I wake up in the morning it looks like a wheat field after a tornado. Styling it on the second day actually takes more time than shampooing it again. And yet somehow I feel that this is something I ought to be able to do.
So I read an article that suggested that a wrap or nightcap made of satin might improve second-day curls, and I went off to a beauty-supply store to buy one.
There was a nice rack of possibilities for kids and adults. The color palette was earth tones, and all the models on the packaging were African-American, but that didn't seem too odd, because, you know, who has the curliest hair? So I put a nice dark brown wrap in my basket and walked around the corner ...
... and there was another rack of pretty much exactly the same products, in a pastel palette, with all white models.
If I had wanted the same wrap in pink, with a blonde woman's face on it, I would have had to pay an extra $3.
(in case you're wondering, what a satin wrap does for curly hair is slide off of it in the middle of the night.)