Hair is Your Crowning Glory - Wear It With Pride

It only takes a walk through a place as busy as Noord/Bree taxi rank in central Johannesburg to realise how personal and diverse hair has become in the past 20 years.

Differently styled weaves, unconventionally colored braids and the fast spreading swine flu, the mohawk, has infected people of all sexes and race all around the world. two decades after people, especially black people from the ghetto have seen past the 's-curl, cut n tong and the bob n mullet' hair cut, South Africans are falling into the global bowl of international hairsyle

The buzz around hair has recently sparked anger in many south African women, after shows like 3rd degree and 3talk raised the topic of what makes women beautiful. Black Consciousness and other movements argue that the Western look in terms of hair places black women in a bracket of natives who are ashamed of their natural features. whats hair got to do with it?

If for argument purposes we suggest that the way you whip your hair represents your views on things, we can assume that Rihanna and Nicki Minaj change their views as often as they change the color of their hair. We can assume that Dineo Ranaka hides her views under the various wigs she has and also suggest that video vixen Amber Rose has no views on anything because she has no hair. Hair for many years has subsequently played the same role a belt, bracelet or clutch bag would - an accessory to complete a certain look.

Unfortunately celebrities such Beyonce and Uyanda Mbuli have given the false impression that 'if it looks good on me, it will look good on you too'. So as a result you bump into people as dark as shame with blonde hair and rocks it with confidence. She might not look as great in it as she would had she chosen something different but the attitude she wears it with makes her beautiful.

I will not mention the people who walk around with weaves crustier than a box of rusks, those weaves that are so hard that even if a strong wind were to pass it would still be in the same position it was when she left home. (lol its a shame really). Its fair to say that most women do not have the hair that they have to make a statement to the world about individuality, but to show us that she too can look like Keri Hilson.

Our heads are different in shape and form. Our hair is different in texture and volume therefore we can honestly not say that what looks good on Bonang will essentially look good on Ntsiki Mazwai or vice versa. There's a lot that one can do with hair that has not been done to perpetuate that individual sense of self beauty. Just like fashion, you accessorise your hair along with your attitude!

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