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: Cut it Out, Already

Amber Rose is ground zero of the revolution that has taken hold of black women's hair this summer. If you've got a mane of curly locks or even a slick-back style that has never hurt anyone, you've found yourself on the frontlines this time.
You've been told for ages how bad a perm is for your hair, but now the debate has switched to plain ole long hair. PERIOD. Nothing is safe.
Do you shave it all off, and come on over to the Dark Side?
Or is not shaving it off considered the Dark Side?
Should you adopt an alter ego you know very little about?
What the follicle is going on?

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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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?