Multi-colored hair: Cool?

It is with reasonable trepidation that I ask your opinion on the following: Is multi-colored hair okay?
I mean we all know that a number of factors come to into play when it comes to deciding what hairstyle you should rock: Culture, occupation, image, even head shape.
But is it ever okay to mix the colors of the rainbow into your skull? And if so, which way do you comb something like that?
I mean, would you hire someone who had at least three different pastels in their follicles? I mean, long live the weave but I need to understand the motivation and reasonings behind the current trends of haircare that are circulating out there.
Am I old fashioned? Or is the peacock the "in" thing right now?

Women with mustaches: Cool?

If you want to be technical about it, all women and men, boys and girls, and yes, babies, have hair above the lips. In the cases of the younger set, it's just so small that you can't see it.
Genes, hereditary factors and other influences make some people's whiskers a little more pronounced.
But is it cool to have hair, right there? I mean kissing would be a bit uncomfortable as would drinking milk (or would it?) I'm sure it's not a new thing but there are many women who are letting their 'staches grow. As long as it doesn't become as thick as a catepillar I don't mind, actually. Besides, it's been documented that people like furry things much more than not. PETA would be proud.

Weave: Why it will never die

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?

'Good Hair': Is Chris Rock's Wife Unbeweavable?

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.

Comments range from: L"I didn't know his wife had 'good hair.'

Others say: "His daughters don't like their hair because their own Mamma is sporting weave and a perm..."

The posts can get pretty brutal.


I say give the woman a break. It's not her documentary, it's her husband's, and he's a comedian.

P.S: Ashanti's hair looks mighty "good," too, don't it?

Hair Wars: Don't You Hate when you 'Sweat it Out'?

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?

Is it a Wrap for Weave?

It's been the summer of the shave-off for many women across the land. First the celebrities, (Cassie, Rihanna, etc.) then the regular folks.
Is this the end for the long, luxurious weave?
Women have been wearing it extra long since the 1970s, when posters of the lion-like mane of Farrah Fawcett used to be in every bar, restaurant and male teenage bedroom.
The long weave in essence owes its popularity to the European archtype of beauty, glowing locks of tuft curls or stalks of straight hair all down the back.
But now things are changing.
Women have pretty much rebelled against the acidic perm and are going au naturale with abandon.
Is it a wrap for the long, European-style weave?


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Everybody HatesLoves Chris' Wife

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.

Police: Hair weave stopped bullet

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?

Chris Rock's "Good Hair" unbeweavable

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?