Comments on: Good Hair: For Colored Girls Who’ve Considered Weaves When the Chemicals Became Too Ruff

By: Poison

Poison — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:23:58 +0000

I am glad I only spent $9 on this book because it had very little helpful informaton.
Rating: 2 / 5

By: Queen D. Sellers

Queen D. Sellers — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:44:41 +0000

A little advice for those who figured they could not try any of the natural hair styles that Mrs. Brittenum Bonner mentioned in the book. I personally feel that if you don’t want to wear any kind of chemical in your hair and want to try a hair style besides braids or dreads, its litterally impossible without some kind of help from a chemical. They even have wash and wear relaxers on the market, but even they to have some kind of mild chemical straightener in them. You don’t have to totally kill your hair with a chemical relaxer going totally straight. Like Mrs. Bonner said in her book, the page next to last. Use the relaxer as a texturizer to loosen some of the curl, not totally straighten tightly curled hair. At least by texturizing it, your not taking all the curl out. If you texturize it, you can try some of those great hair styles mentioned in the book. I just recently came out of braids, i could’nt stand to have them in any longer. So after 6 months of new growth hair, what was i gonna do? Kill it again like I’ve been doing for the last 10 years with my hair growing to one lengh then breaking off. After reading Mrs. Bonner’s book, I decided that a mild texturizer was the way for me to go. With the thickiest hair in the world there was no way I can wear any of those hair styles in that book without my hair drawing up because of a little bit of water on it. Ladies with thick hair like mine, if you don’t want to put some sort of mild chemical to it,or a wash and wear relaxer, you might as well pull out that straightening comb and comatize the hair with heat or wear those braids. Just because you may texturize it one month dos’nt mean that you have to texturize the next month especially if your wearing the natural hair styles Mrs. Bonner mentions in the book. Im just disappointed that she did’nt put more in there. Ladies, I recommend the cork screw crimp. satisfied consumer
Rating: 3 / 5

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:38:33 +0000

If you grew up with a mother who taught you the correct way to take care of your hair. . . . . this book will bore you. I think the older generation (35 and over) may relate to this book more than the 20 somethings to early 30’s. They speak of jheri curls and making protective hair wear (ex. instead of buying Goody products) as if it were yesterday. I didn’t find any of Bonners’ hairstyles appealing. Also, she didn’t seem well educated on the truth about relaxers. Who would be so foolish to go to salons that go against your will by not providing the service you asked for? Ridiculous. If there are that many women out there who are “repeat offenders” of bad beauty stylists/salons, then they don’t care too much about their hair afterall. Whether your hair is relaxed or natural, she doesn’t teach anymore than you “should” already know. She also makes a few false statements in reference to relaxed hair. It’s just common sense that you wouldn’t use a thin toothed Ace comb on Afro hair. Come on, is she trying to insult the intelligence of African American women?p. s. Is her name Brittenum or Britten?
Rating: 2 / 5

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:24:20 +0000

If you grew up with a mother who taught you the correct way to take care of your hair. . . . . this book will bore you. I think the older generation (35 and over) may relate to this book more than the 20 somethings to early 30’s. They speak of jheri curls and making protective hair wear (ex. instead of buying Goody products) as if it were yesterday. I didn’t find any of Bonners’ hairstyles appealing. Also, she didn’t seem well educated on the truth about relaxers. Who would be so foolish to go to salons that go against your will by not providing the service you asked for? It is ridiculous if you are sitting in a salon chair and do not open your mouth to say, “STOP!” There must be a misunderstanding because I asked for a texturizer and you are giving me a full relaxer”. If there are that many women out there who are “repeat offenders” of bad beauty stylists/salons, then they don’t care too much about their hair afterall. Whether your hair is relaxed or natural, she doesn’t teach anymore than you “should” already know. She also makes a few false statements in reference to relaxed hair. It’s just common sense that you wouldn’t use a thin toothed Ace comb on Afro hair. Come on, is she trying to insult the intelligence of African American women?p. s. Is her name Brittenum or Britten?
Rating: 2 / 5

By: Miss M Abena-Yoko

Miss M Abena-Yoko — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:10:03 +0000

okay if you want something to stop you from feeling bored,with grammatical errors. Some information would educate others. I am reviewng it because I think it is worth a read. As you may or may not know African coily hair is quite unique in vision, texture, behaviour and probably in chemical make up too. Coily haired women around the world, go to the most extremes in terms of spending. (Spending time, spending pain and the spending price to have African coily hair styled)A hairstyle that we believe looks good or will help us to become socially and economically advanced. Or maybe for our own self-esteem and maybe to attract the charms of a love interest. Either way, psychologically and philosophically I believe that your hair is a reflection of the state of your consciousness, your internal beliefs and your relationship with the world. What about exploring physics through african hair?For example how much pressure, gravity and tension and tearing do we put our hair through by combing it?let alone excessive harsh combing. Mathematically speaking how many of you readers can tell me how many curls/coils per inch your hair has, and does it vary in coil and moisture?Next question:When does the nature of the hair change and why?(i know it does!) It seems to me all these books on afro hair are good and I welcome it, but we still need to be more informed and they all seem to need better editing, just like Black American beauty magazines. I must campaign for better grammar and less air brushed photos!!!It is as if we like to see ourselves falsely rather than the reality of what we are. . . Black women need to demand more scientific reasoning from our books and be less competitive over black men which only fuels their egos and as a result probably creates more baby-mothers!!!Sorry but I had to vent out my opinions. I give this book four stars for the effort and time invested as a writer I know it takes time. . . I maintain that it is still worth reading,more than any carcinogenic chemical so called hair treatment that you pay for. Anyway what do I know I am a black african british woman!!!!Most of you Americans think we in Britain have no trains or any kind of progressive development!!!Anyway if I wrote my book answering my questions that I put to you how many of you would buy it?
Rating: 3 / 5