Kinky, isn’t it? (Part 1)

Okay. So if you’re reading my blog, I assume you know me. Or at least have seen me.

That being said, you all know I have curly hair. Now, it has taken me a while now to finally accept my hair. I was born bald, so my hair didn’t really grow out until I was about 3 or 4 (but I would like to point out, I was still the cutest baby ever). Once it did grow out, I had ringlets. However, at some point in my life, my hair went more straight than curly, and my mom felt the need to brush my hair out. Therefore, I didn’t realize I had curly hair until 7th grade when my sister decided “hey, let’s put mousse in your hair and scrunch it and see what happens.” So I did, and viola! Curly Hair!

I hated my curly hair. I continued to brush it out until the end of the summer right before high school, where I decided there is no way I’m going to high school with frizzy, disgusting hair.

In high school and college, I still hated my hair. You don’t realize how great it feels to brush your hair all the time until you can’t really brush it. I would straighten my hair on occasion (or make people straighten my hair for me), but most people hated it! Even today, when I straighten my hair, I get a few family members/friends/coworkers saying, “oh…I like your hair curly…”

Anyway, to make a long story short, I get compliments on my hair all the time, people get pissed off at me and have even threatened to stop hanging out with me if I ever chemically straighten my hair, and it is low maintenance (I just wash it, comb it, put mousse in it, scrunch it, and air dry it)! So, if so many people like my hair, why does it seem that every celebrity that has ever had curly hair goes straight? It’s like Millionaire Matchmaker when the matchmaker makes all the curly haired girls go straight on their first dates.

Example 1: Kathy Griffin

During Suddenly Susan. Did anybody actually watch that show besides my parents?

Kathy Griffin now, with a Creative Arts Emmy?! Figures she would get one, once she went straight.

*Note: I’m actually glad that Kathy Griffin went straight. I think she’s obnoxious and refuse to be in the same hair category as her.

Example 2: Keri Russell

Growing up watching Mickey Mouse Club and Felicity (yeah, I admit it), I wanted to be her! I thought she had the most beautiful hair ever! This might be one of the reasons why I refuse to cut my hair.

However, she went away after “Felicity” for a long long time, and came back looking like this:

Not curly. Now she is in leading film roles such as Waitress, August Rush, and Wonder Woman!

*Note: She was in films prior to Felicity, but they were mostly child roles and it doesn’t count. Everybody likes a cute curly-haired girl (not so much a cute curly-haired woman).

Example 3: Debra Messing

Yeah, I really don’t care about this one too much, but I am going to say, it was pretty difficult to find a picture of her with curly hair on google images (I’m not going to lie, I didn’t look that hard). Uh, didn’t she have her hair curly throughout Will and Grace?

Example 4: Minnie Driver

Yeah, I’m not a big fan of her, either. But I would like to point out that she did get pregnant AFTER she straightened her hair. Figures.

See also: Rebecca Gayheart, Julia Margulies, and many many more, I’m sure.

Okay I’m wrapping this up now. My attention span is gone. I would like to point out some curly-haired women that have kept their locks just they were (even though, some of them have changed it up a bit on occasion):

Sarah Jessica Parker (She switches it up, which is fine. She hasn’t gone completely straight…yet)

Taylor Swift (I have never heard any of her music, but she is so fricken’ cute)

Shakira (I guess I will count her in here)

Nicole Kidman

Wow…I just wrote the longest blog ever about hair.