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natty a blog about my hair and my health
Ever the Girl Scout, I wear my heavily-badged sash proudly, earning merits as an eighties baby; fourth-generation kitchen gadget junkie; resident chef; felt and hot glue lover; African American mom and wife; Christian (I come in peace); urban suburbanite; doll maker; play food player; reduce, reuse, recycler--and PDF sewing pattern designer. In the real world I've worked as a children's library coordinator and toddler Montessori teacher.
The Handmade Project is a personal challenge to kick consumerism and give self-sufficiency a chance. There will be many successes, a few botched-up plans, and a whole lotta creations going on. Why don't you join me on this scouting trip--you pack the gorp and I'll bring the homemade marshmallows.
In Austin, a stay-at-home mom raises her family as natural as the suburbs allow. Sewing and crafting, this craftster challenges a store-bought nation and searches for handmade alternatives. Dabbling in making ethnic cloth dolls, dollhouse making, soap making, easy recipes that taste better than the restaurants, she entertains her preschooler with handmade Montessori-inspired activities and the art of domesticity.
This is a niche forum that caters to all the nappies whose hair would never be mistaken for “good” hair. It’s not wavy nappy or curly nappy. It’s just plain ‘ole nappy hair. We’re most likely to think or be told that we were too nappy to go natural. We’re the ones who at some point in our lives have felt that we had the nappiest hair on earth and wished we had “good” hair.
The most defining characteristic of tightly, coiled kinky strands of product-free cNapp hair is that it has no defined curl or wave pattern when wet or dry. In other words, when shampooed, you'd never wonder how to define your curls or cute little communitylets after your hair dries because you don’t have any to begin with. Instead, our coils all take their own route and when our nappy hair is loose, freshly washed and product free it takes on the appearance of a thick fluffy, cottony, cloud of naps; Hence the term cNapp.
To find out more about cNapp hair texture, you can visit my blog Nappturology 101 where you can view examples and visit albums of other folks with cNapp hair.
Questions? Contact NappyMe at NappymeHappyme@aol.com.
napptural blogs A community for blogs that are primarily devoted to women of color that wear their hair in its natural or "napptural" state* and like to blog about it. Fros, textured (not texturized) do's, locs, etc., welcome. *sans chemicals and texturizers **JULY 2009: Note to those who would like to become members of this ring. You must have the site code and include the ringsurf code (meaning the link back to ringsurf) in order for ringsurf checks to keep you in the member category.
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