Website to sell your hair online

Website in French (Europe) 

Before advertising your hair you can calculate its value online.The criteria determining the value are length, volume, natural state or not (natural meaning: no coloration, no perm, not straightened, never having supported any extension), thickness of a single strand, general state (healthy or damaged), color, age and gender.

#Economy

#Natural Hair

#Europe

Hair Story from the Blog Speaking From An Open View

Found on the Blog: Speaking From An Open View (click to read the full post)

"Young black men with hair length beyond an inch or two are presumed to be nothing less than delinquents."

"I had landed a job at a very prominent commercial bank. During the interview process members of the interviewing team spared no chance to make a joke or comment about my “unkempt” hair. I believe had it not been for my impressive test scores that opportunity would have been lost. I went on to face some rather nasty ridicule from staff members who thought it was a disgrace to have my hair like it was working at the bank. Nevertheless I was extremely defiant and confident in the fact that my performance at the bank was beyond reproach. I recall the operations manager confessing to me that she had a completely different opinion of my character before I started talking. While I sympathize with her sentiments, I was not amused."

Hair Story from CharlB

I have natural hair and often love to change my styles regularly, it's a way for me to be expressive of the moods i am in as well as just have fun. I have a album on my FB page which shows various different hairstyles.  

Often people ask me if it’s a wig or weave because it is long and I am "black" plus i constantly change the color or even the texture (straight to curly to wavy to ...) but it’s always MY hair. I will never be an "unbeweavable" girl! Straight from the root only! 

There have been many occassions where people touch my hair, even without asking me, maybe thinking I will not feel it....the polite ones will ask first!

When I was 30 I cut my hair into a bob which was "short" seeing that before it was  down to my chest. I decided that finally I was a full grown adult and it was MY hair, that I could decide for myself, despite of all the frenz and family asking me to keep it long. Or as they love to say in  JA ..."tall hair" 

In 2013,i had a really difficult year, I went through many different challenges! So i  cut everything off down to 2 inches of hair. At the time my hairdresser did not want to comply so i just took the scissors and cut a big piece out of the front of my head and then said ..."FIX the rest".   It was a new beginning , a fresh start, A REBIRTH!

charlB, 47, Female, Jamaica

#NaturalHair  #Diversity

Hair Story from Corey

As a mother to two bi-racial children (1 boy and 1 girl) living between Kingston, Jamaica and Brooklyn/New-York (US), I find I get two distinct reactions to my children's natural hair depending on our location. In Brooklyn, words that have been used to describe my children's hair include: beautiful, fun, awesome. In Jamaica, the words are: untidy, unkept, unruly. It has been suggested that I keep my son's hair "low" meaning shaved close to the scalp. My daughter's hair is always described as being "uncombed" which I have come to interpret as "unbraided" because it is certainly combed and styled every morning. 

Different culture, different  perception.

Corey, 40's, Jamaica-New-York 
#Culture #Cultural Perception 
#Natural Hair 

Hair Story by Nicole: Be careful not to let the pendulum swing the other way

I've had long hair and short hair, natural and processed, coloured and not  

coloured. Right now my hair is relaxed and that's the way I like it... for  

now. I don't believe there's just one hairstyle per person. Natural hair is  

fashionable now... again.... and that's great. But sometimes I feel judged  

because I've chosen to go against what's in vogue now and relax my hair. I  

think that the reason a lot of women are choosing to go natural is because  

they don't want society to dictate to them what's acceptable. But at the  

same time, we should be careful not to let the pendulum swing the other  

way. We should all be free to choose what we prefer and if that's to  

process your own hair, then so be it.

Nicole, ?, Female, Jamaica

#NaturalHair #Relaxer

#SocialPressure

Hair Story by Teika: An African Queen

For most of my adult years I never know my strands, my natural strands of hair. What they felt like, how they curled when wet and how strong they were. In 2013 I stopped processing my hair for no other reason than it didn’t feel normal to me anymore. Now I feel like me. I wear my hair free. Curls in the shape of a crown on my head. An African Queen.

Teika

#Heritage

#NaturalHair #AfricaConnection

#AfricanQueen

Hair Story by Kadesha

First I had relax my hair as I entered high school, not really have an appreciation of my natural texture, then fast forward to my college day and seeing my sisters natural texture I was curious to see my own. This journey from transitioning to being completely natural came me a sense of confidence, patience and self-love. I love my natural hair and all the trails & error and learning that came with it.

Kadesha, 22, Female, Jamaica

#NaturalHair
#Confidence #Patience #SelfLove #LearningTrail

Hair Story by Chantal: I feel free without label

I have naturally curly kinky big hair that I now love. But for years I didn’t. I wanted waves + uniformed curls. At age 12 I got my first relaxer. At age 15 I cut that all off. But still I was not comfortable with my hair texture. Then at around 18 I started growing locks which I loved for around four years. Then I missed the loose texture + the dreads felt heavy, hot + I felt burdened (?) In 2011 I cut the locs off + freed myself since then. I have coloured, straighten + shaped + styled my hair. Now I feel free without label + without restrictions.

Chantal, 29, Female, Jamaica 

#NaturalHair

#FreeWithoutLabel

Hair Story by Courtney: It took a while for people to accept it

When I was about 13 I had my naturally kinky hair straightened to make it easier for me to manage on my own. At about 16 I decided to grow my hair out and cut off my processed hair. This process taught me to be strong in my choices and my standards of beauty for myself because I got comments from so many people, young and old, about why it would be a bad idea to transition back to my natural hair. After I cut off all the straight hair it took a while for people to accept it, but I learnt that if you act like something belongs for long enough, people will either start to believe it belongs too, or get lazy trying to convince you that it doesn’t. My fro feels like a part of me now.

Courntey, 21, Female, Jamaica

#SocialPressure #Resistance #Patience #Confidence

#NaturalHair #Afro

#StandardOfBeauty

Hair Story by Britania

I have 3b/3c natural hair. I use to want to relaxed/american hair but my sister always told me not. I believe that my hair represent how proud I am of my culture and heritage. I have always loved my hair but now I love it even more

Britania, 16, Female, Jamaica

#Culture #Heritage

#NaturalHair

Hair Story: #BlackIsBeauty #NaturalIsBeauty

I always hated my natural hair and struggled with insecurities. What made it worse was my dark skin… I processed my hair thinking that it would make me feel better but it only caused me hate what I’d become. I started to feed myself with black beautiful women, So I would feel the same. Now I’ve been natural for 2 years and I love it. It has made me a beautiful young lady and I profess it in my art pieces. Now I am an African Queen, using my natural hair as a symbol of natural beauty. People ever compliment me on the fact that I am natural and how I haven’t adjusted my skin tone. #BlackIsBeauty #NaturalIsBeauty

K., 16, Female, Jamaica 

#NaturalHair #HeritageAfrica

#BlackIsBeauty #NaturalIsBeauty

Hair Story by Dahlia

I never had the luxury of “going natural”. Growing in New Testament Church of God believing household there was no real choice. It could only be natural. I’m grown now. Free to make my decision I wish concerning my hair. But I keep it natural. I’ll keep it that way. It’s the pride and the struggle of it all that keeps me keeping it this way. It’s the pride and the struggle of it all that keep me from letting anyone touch it. There’s too much history in this coils. I keep them sacred.

Dahlia, 19, Female, Jamaica

#Religion #Sacred #Pride #Struggle

#OwnChoice

Hair Story by Lexine

I always had natural hair, but there were times when I straightened it, during that period, when I had straight hair, I believe there was a more refined beauty. However because I am very dark skinned, black, Rastafarians especially would compliment my skin, my “Africanness” and all I seem to represent. Now I have gone back to my natural hair, but with a new perspective where I appreciate the beauty I was born with the kinky, unruly hair. I was created with it growing from each of my pores, it’s my peel and there is no imperfection in it.

Lexine, 19, Female, Jamaica

#HeritageAfrica

#NaturalHair #MyNaturalBeauty

Hair Story by Kacy-Ann: To be Black & Free !!

No one combed my hair on a regular basis so it was relaxed at a very young age, then jerry curls (it grew) then relaxed again, it never grew. Did the big chop Aug.17.16 and it is quite lovely. Soft, wild and free. Fit for a Gemini like me. Struggling to maintain it but it is definitively worth it. To be Black & Free !!)

Kacy-Ann, 21, Female, Jamaica

#NaturalHair #Freedom

#ToBeBlackAndFree

Hair Story by Tami: I learnt to love me

I’ve always had brown hair but growing up in Jamaica people with light skin & brown hair were called dundus or albino. Later as a teen I wanted my curly semi negro hair to be straight, so I processed it to be like the white people. At age 33, after a series of unfortunate events, I decided to go back to my roots of my brown semi negro curly hair. I get compliments everyday! “I wish I had your curls” or “Your Hair is so pretty”. It’s from this that I learnt to love my hair and love the natural colour & love me.

Tami, 35, Female, Jamaica

#NaturalHAir #SelfLove

Hair Story by a skimmer

As a skimmer (black swimmer) to be exact it’s hard to keep processed hair. Why process it in the first place? To make it “straight” and more “manageable”. For only 2 years I had processed hair but after not much thought on whether I wanted to give up skimming for my hair, or “my hair for skimming”, I chose to give up my hair because skimming is my passion and I have learnt that my natural thick brownish black curly kinky hair is the best hair I would ever have. I don’t think I would “straighten” it again. I love my natural curls and I will continue to be the best skimmer with them.

X., 16, Female, Jamaica

#NaturalHair #Relaxer #SelfLove

Hair Story by Natalie: My hair says about my heritage & ethnicity

Before going to high school I always wanted to relax my hair at my mums disapproval. My mum eventually went on vacation and my aunt relaxed my hair without my mum’s approval but to my delight. After 2 years of relaxed hair & realising my hair wasn’t growing at the rate I expected, I decided to go back natural. I am no longer insecure about the texture & length of my hair. I am confident in what it says about my heritage & ethnicity.

Natalie, 22, Female, Jamaica

#Heritage #Ethnicity

#NaturalHair #Confidence

Hair Story by Annette: All hair is good hair

I am pure african in my style and loves it more as I get older. My hair is natural short “Flannel Ball” style but with a little more than usual. I’ve inherited a perfectly round head from my late dad and so the hair style complements my features a lot. I’m proud of my heritage, I wear my style with great confidence and will always have it. All hair is good hair: we are created by God and beautiful.

Annette, 58, Female, Trinidad & tobago

#Short #Natural Hair #AfricaConnection

#AllHairIsGoodHair

Hair Story by Nicole: be careful not to let the pendulum swing the other way

I've had long hair and short hair, natural and processed, coloured and not  

coloured. Right now my hair is relaxed and that's the way I like it... for  

now. I don't believe there's just one hairstyle per person. Natural hair is  

fashionable now... again.... and that's great. But sometimes I feel judged  

because I've chosen to go against what's in vogue now and relax my hair. I  

think that the reason a lot of women are choosing to go natural is because  

they don't want society to dictate to them what's acceptable. But at the  

same time, we should be careful not to let the pendulum swing the other  

way. We should all be free to choose what we prefer and if that's to  

process your own hair, then so be it.

Nicole, ?, Female, Jamaica

#NaturalHair #Relaxer

#SocialPressure

Hair Story: I refuse to relax my hair to conform to their standard of beauty

So I always loved my natural hair but my maternal family didn’t as it wasn’t straight or jet black like theirs as our family is of a mixed ethnic background. For years they teased me about it and kept telling me I’ll never be beautiful as my hair was nappy. Years later I relaxed, well my mother did, she didn’t know how to cope with my “nappy” hair and despite it all, I still didn’t feel proud about it. I felt as it I was betraying myself by keeping it relaxed. So here I am natural again still getting side glances from from my family because of my hair but I don’t care as I’m proud of my blackness and I refuse to relax my hair to conform to their standard of beauty.

K., 23, Female, Jamaica

#SocialPressureFamily #StandardOfBeauty

#NaturalHair #Pride