seeminglysweet
New Member
I was just looking through a few fotkis and I saw some hair inspirations and some of them were weaves, or at least extensions to the natural length or thickness (i.e. kellis, jada).
My question is, is this realistic? Is this ok?
We have all seen threads discussing the "American standard of beauty" and somehow the correlation between a long weave and this standard of beauty somehow, IMO, create a distorted standard of beauty within our own culture. No we are not idolizing barbie or Pam Anderson, but we are inspired by women wearing european hair weaves, which can be construed as them aspiring to the "barbie" image, especially in the cut-throat celebrity world, where that image is most important.
It's obvious that long hair is obtainable in our culture but I guess I find it difficult to strive to achieve something that the person wearing the hair didn't even acheive. I have nothing against weaves and I can understand admiring the STYLE. But in many cases it is not solely about the style of the hair but also the length and appearant health.
What are your thoughts?
My question is, is this realistic? Is this ok?
We have all seen threads discussing the "American standard of beauty" and somehow the correlation between a long weave and this standard of beauty somehow, IMO, create a distorted standard of beauty within our own culture. No we are not idolizing barbie or Pam Anderson, but we are inspired by women wearing european hair weaves, which can be construed as them aspiring to the "barbie" image, especially in the cut-throat celebrity world, where that image is most important.
It's obvious that long hair is obtainable in our culture but I guess I find it difficult to strive to achieve something that the person wearing the hair didn't even acheive. I have nothing against weaves and I can understand admiring the STYLE. But in many cases it is not solely about the style of the hair but also the length and appearant health.
What are your thoughts?