Nappy, Kinky, Coily, Highly Textured Hair

Well, you've decided.

You prefer the term 'kinky' to describe our hair with a little over one-third of you voting for 'kinky'. Highly textured came in a close second at 28%. Coily hair was your least favorite.

I was surprised that 'Nappy' came in at only 12% since it seems so popular these days. Websites like Nappturality and slogans like "Happy to be Nappy" can be found all over the web.

Confidentially, I have never particularly cared for all the 'nappy' rage. Anyone in marketing who has had to brand a product knows that it is much harder to 'spin' a word with a negative connotation positive than it is to 'brand' a new term!

I prefer tightly coiled, highly textured hair. The phrase is too long to ever become popular, but there you have it - my favorite.

Dr. Welsing, an old professor of ours and author of The Isis Papers, is fond of the term 'helix hair,' reminiscent of DNA. I find the term 'helix hair' very layered in meaning since Afrika gave birth to human kind and human civilization!

Hotep

(Read a more recent post about 'texturizers' here)