People have been all over weave as of late, from Tyra Banks declaring a 'Real Hair Day' to Chris Rock's Good Hair" myopic biopic on lye, stop it. Weave is wonderful, though.
How else can a person with 1-centimeter follicles enter a building and emerge a few hours later with HTB (hair-touch-butt) syndrome?
As the audiences hee and haw at Chris Rock's "Good Hair," a look inside the hairstory of black women, many are taking aim at someone on the sidelines: Chris Rock's wife. Malaak Compton-Rock has been scrutinized heavily (and that's putting it nicely) since her husband's film came out. She's notably absent from the documentary, many say, and it's because she wears exactly what Rock makes fun of in the film: A weave.
Recording artist The Dream has a song on heavy rotation on urban radio called "Sweat it Out," where he describes the pleasures of loving and the bad hairdo that comes as a result. Is sweating it out a concern for most women? Me thinks not. (At least I hope not). But sex is not the only way women sweat their hairdos out: I know several women that refuse to exercise explicitly because it would ruin a good perm before it's time. The good news? Men don't really care about a sweated-out do (trust me). Chris Rock has been getting blasted with the release of his "Good Hair," for putting black women's hair woes on front street, but it's high time everybody - men, women - dealt with each other on an intimate "real" level. Men have a BUNCH of hang-ups as well, that have yet to reach daylight. When will we all deal with that?
Chris Rock's wifey Malaak Compton Rock is changing the image of the celebrity diva-spouse that countless "better halfs" have contributed to. As head of the Angel Rock Project,check it out here, Compton-Rock promotes causes that benefit inner-city and underprivileged children through grass-roots efforts. Most celebrities attach themselves to a cause after their kids or a relative is afflicted by some illness or disorder. Very few take it upon themselves to promote outreach with it affecting them very personally, but that is what Compton-Rock has done. And she's done it with a giving spirit and humble attitude, enlisting other celebrities, including Oprah Winfrey and Ashanti, to help bring attention to the effort. Malaack Compton Rock is a consummate Popwife.
A woman in Kansas City, Mo., is probably in church this morning bowed in prayer ... or at her hair salon crying and hugging after her hair weave stopped a jealous ex-boyfriend's bullet. I didn't know weave could be woven so tight, but if so, then perhaps bullet-proof vests could be layered with the material (Nothing like that good "Indonesian" to stop a crazed madman). Evidently, the ex-boo thought that since he couldn't have her, nobody should and took a shot at her head. What's more disturbing is that she was apparently set up! Read the account right here. We knew there were bullet-proof bras out there, but now is this now an incentive to wear tightly woven weave?
Comedian Chris Rock said he was apprehensive about bringing his documentary about the black hair experience to the Sundance Film Festival in Utah this week. "Because I think this is the blackest movie ever made," said Rock, a producer and co-writer on the film. "So I was kind of scared to come to Utah, because it's so white." "Good Hair" is chockful of interviews with celebrities and people who have unique hair - including Al Sharpton, Raven Symone, Ice T, Eve, Maya Angelou and Nia Long. Several hair shows are featured in the film including Atlanta's Bonner Brothers gala and the irresistable "Hair Wars" of Detroit. All types of woman instill witty insights about their hair from those under the dryer to those undergoing perms with chemicals that damage the scalp to those that pay thousands to have hair from India (Rock makes a trip to the Far East to track down where the exotic, silky black strains comes from). So, the question is, why, do you think, black women (and by extension all black people) are so self-conscious about their hair?
