I am mixed roce and have curly ringlets that fall oast my shoulders. Getting my hair straightend (keratin) cost me so much money and took so much effort that finallybI decided to embrace my curls and reject the idea that I look less professional. It helps that I am really good at what I do, so I have confidence at work. I stopped trying to fight my hair and do what makes it happy. For me that means getting it wet daily, no towel drying, and letting it air dry after applying lwace in conditioner and mousse. Some humid days I end up clipping it all up. I admit to feeling a pang of jealousy when someone witj amazingly sleek straight hair walks by or states at me from the pages of a fashion magazine, but I know from experience that putting all the chemicals on my head that it takes to achieve that is not something I am willing to do anymore. I am married to someone who thinks my hair is sexy, and to those who think it less beautiful, I say to each their own. I can't be everyone's cup of tea.

Whenever I notice really beautiful hair, it's curly. But polished, silky looking curls, which are hard to achieve.

Anonymous wrote:The white features are the standard sadly.

Plenty of white people have curly hair and plenty of non white people have straight hair, so what is your point other than to race bait?

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Anonymous wrote:Globally, in the past few hundred years as western civilization rose, its culture spread all over. With it did the covetting of western features and body. Women everywhere from Asia to Africa to the Middle East go through a lot to look as white as they can. Asians get eye lid surgery to make their eyes bigger and rhinoplasty to narrow their nostrils. Middle Easterners get nose jobs to get cute button noses, wear blue contact lenses and dye their black hair blonde and light. Black people are almost universally regarded as unattractive since their appearance cannot be altered. It sucks but its what it is.

Black people are not all ugly for sure and also many black women where blond wigs, green contacts and use skin lighteners. I don't get it. White women lay out in the sun to be brown even if it wrecks their skin.

When most worked on the farms porcelain white skin was trending, because it was expensive to have someone to work for you.
Spend 50hrs a week in the office year round - tan is trendy., tropical vacations are expensive.
Has nothing to do with white people wanting to be black.

And whites with lip and butt injections just want to be...tan? who knows? haha
I think straight hair is actually less popular nowadays but maybe the OP was only referring to a specific demographic. Many women are embracing their natural waves, curls, coils and kinks. The broader selection of hair care products available in mainstream stores reflects this overall trend.

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Anonymous wrote:Curly hair looks unkempt

That is not "curly " hair. That is straight hair groomed into gentle waves - said the girl with frizzy kinks

It's 2b/c. Not a 3c, but definitely not straight.

I have really good curly hair. (Think Keri Russell in Felicity) and I really try to love it. Never wear it straight - it doesn't really do straight. But honestly - I never feel quite professional enough in my very professional job - and wish I had straight, slick hair.

Anonymous wrote:Curly hair looks unkempt

+1. A coworker at a consulting firm once commented to another woman about her fixing her hair that she should just wear it messy like [my name] does. Sigh. Curls are seen as messy and less polished. I have always wanted stick-straight Marcia Brady hair.

Asian here. I've had long straight hair for most of my life. I'm in my 30s and it started getting wavy in my early 30s. S waves. I'm not sure if it has to do with my layered hair cut, but I try to get hair cuts that maximize the s-waves, if that makes any sense. I HATED my boring straight hair growing up and in my 20s. I've ALWAYS wanted wavy hair, the kind I have now.

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Anonymous wrote:Curly hair looks unkempt

That is not "curly " hair. That is straight hair groomed into gentle waves - said the girl with frizzy kinks

Anonymous wrote:I love my hair curly, but it is much harder to maintain curly hair. I have very thick, curly hair and the curls only have definition the first day after I wash. So I would have to wash and dry every day and then when it's humid outside it's a mess. If I straighten my hair, there's almost no maintenance and I don't have to wash for an entire week. And it's super shiny and healthy looking too.

Me too..If you sleep on curly hair it looks like crap.
Look at Kerry Washington in Scandal..
Also I think curls look better if yo have fine features. I have heavier facial features so straighter hair gives balance I think

Anonymous wrote:Curly hair looks unkempt

I love my hair curly, but it is much harder to maintain curly hair. I have very thick, curly hair and the curls only have definition the first day after I wash. So I would have to wash and dry every day and then when it's humid outside it's a mess. If I straighten my hair, there's almost no maintenance and I don't have to wash for an entire week. And it's super shiny and healthy looking too.

I have curly hair and I don't mind it on casual days and the beach but for work I always blow dry. I hate stick straight. I just enjoy smooth and polished. Sadly,the humidity cares not and I get good hair days on dry days.

Curly hair looks unkempt

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Anonymous wrote:Globally, in the past few hundred years as western civilization rose, its culture spread all over. With it did the covetting of western features and body. Women everywhere from Asia to Africa to the Middle East go through a lot to look as white as they can. Asians get eye lid surgery to make their eyes bigger and rhinoplasty to narrow their nostrils. Middle Easterners get nose jobs to get cute button noses, wear blue contact lenses and dye their black hair blonde and light. Black people are almost universally regarded as unattractive since their appearance cannot be altered. It sucks but its what it is.

Black people are not all ugly for sure and also many black women where blond wigs, green contacts and use skin lighteners. I don't get it. White women lay out in the sun to be brown even if it wrecks their skin.

When most worked on the farms porcelain white skin was trending, because it was expensive to have someone to work for you.
Spend 50hrs a week in the office year round - tan is trendy., tropical vacations are expensive.
Has nothing to do with white people wanting to be black.