For Quayblue and her beautiful hair!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Back in the 60's (the stone age) when I was in high school, all of my Black friends either had gorgeous Afros or those beautiful tiny braids that lay close to the head. Sometimes they had pretty beads all entwined in those braids and I was so jealous. I wanted braids like that done to my hair so bad that I begged my old fashioned dad to let me have it done. Now, dad didn't believe that his girls should do anything to their hair like coloring, frosting or cutting too much so of course he said flat NO. He said if I wanted to braid my hair, just braid it down the back and leave it alone. The years go by and I forget all about wanting to have those braids until just a couple of weeks ago. I take this old 65 year old body to the beauty shop and I ask the stylist if she can do it. Sure, she says, but I usually charge about $150.00 for doing it. Okay I say. That's a little steep but I figure it will last a long time. How long does it take I ask. It usually takes me about 6 hours to do the job right. I look at her like she is from another planet and say "as you shitting me?" My lower back jumped three feet into the air, twisted up in knots and I hadn't even sat in the chair yet. I paid her 20 bucks for a wash and a trim instead. The moral to this tale is be proud of your beautiful hair. There are a bunch of us old white women who swap your naturally curvy wavy hair for our own any day of the week.
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I am white, 74 years old, so natural curly hair is easy to take care of....one thing though...natural curly hair sometimes does what it wants to do and not what I want it to do 
take a trip to the Bahamas or any of the Caribbean Islands and stroll out onto any beach ... you can get your braids (with braids) and a Rum Punch for less than $20.00!
so I could make my limp, stick-straight hair fluffy and kinky. We all want what we don't have.
I really enjoyed Quayblue's thread too. Rember that time they made black women's hair against military regulations? 
That was some next-level bullshit. Hair is such a personal thing, but also political. The thread was so good because it married both sides of that coin really well.
Jessica Williams explains Operation Black Hair.
