Is curly hair back in style?

bobby · April 2015

I heard a very refreshing comment today and I'm interested in your thoughts. While I was working today, a black woman with a gorgeous head of shoulder length curls. She was standing right next to me. I could not resist. I said, "I really love your hair." She gushed right back,"Aw well, thank you." I went on to give my usual explanation, "Since I have curly hair, I like to spread the love to those that have it as well." She replied, "You either love it or hate it." I added that my turning point came when I reached my mid-30s seeing other guys lose theirs. She then added, "Curly hair is back in style."

I have no way to quantify it but if so I'm honored to be part of it. Do you find it to be "back in style?"

CurlyMan82 · April 2015

bobby wrote: »

I heard a very refreshing comment today and I'm interested in your thoughts. While I was working today, a black woman with a gorgeous head of shoulder length curls. She was standing right next to me. I could not resist. I said, "I really love your hair." She gushed right back,"Aw well, thank you." I went on to give my usual explanation, "Since I have curly hair, I like to spread the love to those that have it as well." She replied, "You either love it or hate it." I added that my turning point came when I reached my mid-30s seeing other guys lose theirs. She then added, "Curly hair is back in style."

I have no way to quantify it but if so I'm honored to be part of it. Do you find it to be "back in style?"

She was probably trying to just shoot the breeze with you, meaning she wanted to say something to promote curls without meaning anything else by it, or she menat the natural hair movement.

If I had to really analyze that statement, I'd disagree. There has never been a better time for curly hair until now. Places of employment have really started to ditch their oppressive policies regarding looks and hair. There are more products now than ever before and there's more information out there than before about how to care for curly hair.

BotticelliBrit · April 2015

roggerbinny wrote: »

The curly hair are really so nice to look if it proper maintained by the person. The natural curly hair is so nice to look, but it difficult to maintain it. The soft and silky hair is easy to maintain, It is easy to wash and comb the hair. But the curly hair is too difficult to wash and maintain.

I don't think curly hair is too difficult to wash and maintain and at all. Once you know what you're doing, it's simple. There's a learning curve, sure, but once you get that down it's easy. Takes me less time to do my hair than it does my straight friends, who always blow-dry and straighten their hair after washing and in the mornings on second-day hair. Plus straight folks tend to wash their hair more often.

sixelamy · April 2015

According to my hairdresser, curly hair is in style.

I don't think it's as in style as it could be, but I do think more people are embracing it than they were 10 years ago.

BotticelliBrit · April 2015

^^ Agreed!

I don't necessarily think it's about being in style, but more about people just deciding to embrace their natural hair. I think in some way or another, curly hair has always been stylish. But now people are starting to see natural curls as pretty too, instead of just those done with a curling iron.

jeepcurlygurl · April 2015

I don't know if curly hair is in style, but I do know that more and more people nowadays really rock their curly hair and portray so much confidence that I think others notice it more than they used to.

bobby · April 2015

I think it is back in style with Africian American women (or women of color, whatever term we attach). I see more such women rocking their natural hair than white women. Not that it is good or bad nut just an observation of what I see. I guess everything goes in fads. In the 80s, it was all about perms. Twenty years later, it was all about straightening. That said, glad to see more rocking their curls. Count me in on that bandwaggon.

anonymous_150263 · April 2015

I would ve had the best hair in the 80's... all the teasing and fluffing and hair spray, but I would've just been able to brush and go... *sigh

chupie · April 2015

I think there has never been more product and styling help availability at least.

Curlybee1 · May 2015

... And the number of curly & wavy styling tools is crazy now. I'm not sure curly hair is as stylish now as it was in say 1988-1994 (my high school & early college days!).

adthomas · June 2015

I think perhaps by "in style" she meant the reemergence of the natural hair movement which was also big back in the 70s. That's why some people are calling so many black women wearing their hair in its natural state a "fad", Therefore, ignoring the fact that there have always been black women who have worn there hair in its natural state. And ignoring that some of us who weren't always natural did so before recent years.