Selam Hiz’boche – I am back! Back yet again to bask in the glory that is Wondinet Haile and my inner workings.
Endete SenebetaceHulegn, I come here to the land of Bernoswoch to talk to you about a great concern.
The word update has been forgotten from the Amharic vocabulary. Ethio-ladies have been sporting the same hairstyle since 1996. Why just the other day I was sitting in my new Toyota Camry sipping on Starbucks Latte when I saw two girls walking on the side walk. Even though I didn’t have my contact lenses on and 50 yards away, the two silhouettes screamed Abesha Setoch.
If your hair is brown and curly, it’s time to update; if it takes you more than 20 minutes to dry your hair, it’s time to update. if your hair is wider than your shoulders, it’s about godamn time you update!
If no one wants to sit behind you at the movies, it’s time to update; if your shower drain gets clogged everytime you take a shower, it's time to update; if I can't give you a smooch on the cheek because your hair gets in the way, its about godamn fuken time you update!
Published by October 29th, 2006 in Advice and Social.
you know what wondinet F u because you dont know what you are talking about!
first of all, that hairstyle is really nice and it will never go out of style. second our hair is naturally like that and a lot of people really like it.
That is one of the main reason that notetioppian peoplle say that ethiopian girls are very beuatiful.
We dont need to perm our hair to make is striaght it cause our hair is very sexy.
yes i have my hair like that and its been like that since i was born way before 1996 and i’m gonna keep it like that because evverywhere i go all people give me compliments on it.
this just shows how much you know about woman, you are just angry that you cant get a girl with nice hair like that. tebeda
You know what its about godamn funken time someone brought this up. Going to the soccer festival is like going to big haired convention. you can’t tell them apart.
Wondata….Oh my GOD, wonde neh! Girlfriends, It’s time to update! Now I can’t look at another Abesha set with this crazy ass, played out, hair style without busting out laughing. Where are the medo’s in America, comb that crap out.
You know I’m gonna be tempted to say, It’s time to update. Thank you for the good laugh and telling it like it is. Even Hollywood has the “it’s time to update” fever and they’ve moved on. I think there should be a rap song about this…it should start with…comb, comb, comb it out. Expect a lot of hate mail for this one.
Yes its time you ladies get a comb in that hair of yours! What ever you want to call it,for me it’s a sign of laziness. you can plate it, or keep it trimmed if you want natural. And one other thing it does not look chic to all.sometimes it reminds me of yekosheshe yebet mewolwoya:)
So glad somebody else feels the way I do. You can spot most Abesha setoch a mile away …with their nappy afro. Even worse, most have stopped combing their little girls hair.
Konjit (?) honey, comb that shit out, please. The reason why SOME none-Ethiopian people (mostly Caucasians) say Ethiopian girls are very beautiful is because they are brainwashing you in making you believe that anyone who has Caucasian features is better looking than our Africa brothers and sisters who have negroid features. It’s the old must divide to rule mentality. Get over yourself.
dont you guys get it! this hairstyle is natural that is it.
being rasta dread lock never goes out of style cuz it au naturelle…
this hairstyle is here to stay. those of you might not understand cuz even if we comb it, it goes back to its natural way….
the problem is not a lack of MEDO but preference to stay natural….
If you going to tell me to perm my hair so its straight i’ll send you straight to hell
Sistas I have one thing to say….Blow dryers meet the “time you update Vato’s” I now pronounce you a combed hair. I think you have the SOS (stuck on stupid) syndrome. Change is good it shows growth.
woy gude fela eko Eszhi, celebrate life you are killing me eko… minalebet esplain slowly beqelelu englizegna … maybe they will understand
i have one more its time to update…
if i’m interupted while making love to you cuz your hiar gets stuck on something its about godamn time you update!…
how is my time to update joke…
Co-signing on the Fro fatigue especially at the soccer tournament. BeseMeab! and does everyone have to have highlights ? jeez!
On a related note,dont you think all abeshas need to update from Camrys , Accords and Sentras ? And how about not hanging out at Starbucks all day…? I say that calls for an update too. Go ahead push the envelope, Passatts and Civics are nice too.
HAHAHA, good comeback flornueva. homie, why are you hatin on the fro’s? i understand the standard blond/bronze highlight on every abesha girl, or the lip liner that seems to never go out of style? but the FRO? come on homie…take a look back at the seventies , they had all TYPES of FROS from nappy to silky. i rock my fro, hard and proud…and it’s BAAAAAAADDD, make you wish you had my hair. i always manage to change hairstyles, every season. you cant take away my silky and curly FRO. but its ok, maybe in your next lifetime. but yo, if you are hating on the ladies fro…i have to hate on my habesha brothers that like to pile up that curl activator. it’s no secret, we know…let that GO! i mean damn…also…cosigning wth flornueva…camrys and accord? i mean invest on a VW or a LEXUS or maybe a dodge. the lyrics to beyonce’s new song are so fittin to this topic..(eventhough i dont like it that much) wonde, let ME UPGRADE YOU!!
This post inspired me.. to send it to a friend who happens to rock the fro.. and thus just installed a little plugin that left you send each post to a freind…
the link is below where it says published by.. if you know someone with hair like that send the article to them.. so that they know that they need to update the hairstyle..
2006 Most Popular Hair Styles for BLACK Men and Women!
Every year hair styles change slightly as change marches on and since the only thing constant is change if you do not change with your hair styles you will find it difficult to win friends and influence people.
The television show; “The Waynn Brothers” was certainly a trendy set of haircuts for a while… wasn’t it? But this TV sitcom series is no longer in style and those haircuts are or “has been” styles. You do not wish to be caught rolled over in your SUV and dead on arrival with an old haircut style do you?
For Black females the FRO style is coming back in, especially as more Ethiopian women are working to grow that hair back and as they do, they will want to show it at ET Soccer Tournament, Why NOT? Who died and made you fashion police?? I can see that healthy hair indeed is SEXY!!! But believe it or not curly “AFRO” will be back in 2007, 2008, 2009 etc… and the young ET young models will be rocking it too. You can’t achieve this I am guessing by waking up with matted hair, four afro comb brushes and then sticking your finger in a light socket. So that is about as simple as the Bald look, not much preparation needed their; a very low maintenance look indeed.
Another look for men, which is already making its rounds is the “kick butt” short hair video action figure look. We will see much more of this in 2007.
M&W
What?!? Keep the Habesh-afro alive!
I used to blow dry my hair for work. I even managed to bring down the process to under an hour. But I had to do it at least twice a week (no, I don’t do shash wela , wrapping hair minamin – when i want to go to bed, I want to hit the sack, not a friggin’ mirror). To keep the story short, white hair style on my habesha head didn’t last too long.
It took a morning after a 15 hr work day where I either had the choice to go to work with ye’feres CHira yemesele straight hair, or to add an extra 10 min to my shower and walking in with wet, curly hair. Wet hair it was, and nobody complained! (If they had, I was ready with come back that would have gone something like , ‘Oh, my hair seems inappropriate? You see, this IS my hair but of course I would like to comply with acceptable hair styles. Hmm, how does a blond wig sound?’)
I like stepping into my shower without a shower cap.
I like the option to wash my hair any time of the day, multiple times a day.
I like that pple don’t think I’m south Indian anymore. “African, get it? No, real African, and no, parents weren’t railroad workers either. .”
Not last and not least : To all you ye’zinab ferTaCHoch I LOVE walking in the rain. Zinab yasadigal, abo – you’re arresting your development.
I say death to blow dryers, hot irons, hot combs and all those burning contraptions (ok – maybe 1ce every 6 months – for a special occasion if location sports low humidity).
Alebelezia, Afro Yiqdem!
Amen. Tobian!!! LOL
Big Upz to Bernos that allows us to express our opinions. Even more Salut! to Bernos cos we get to discuss anything from HAIR styles to Social norms. So pplu, chill out, this is a blog and not a political debate, anybody can say whatever they want and you can still keep your opinion and share it! Peace to Bernos
One more thing, Atta florNueva! for addressing the highlights…especially the blonde highlights…The blonde highlights often have this completely over-processed look that repels from a mile away…BesemeAB!
As for the curly hair….there is a big difference between a natural curl and a “tried so hard” curl…..the natural curl is sexy…the latter one keeps the rest of us trying so hard to forget after all those hair products have participated….effffff
I’m feeling the update energy, whoa! We should hold an online rally for update (aka: teshashalu, ateguatetu, atasaferu, atentabatebu, atenazezu, atebalegu)
Alem, how can I clean my floors peacefully without thinking of your comment “yekosheshe yebet mewolwoya?” Now I have a new phobia and you have scarred me for life. I think I’m gonna start using a sponge mop.
Isn’t there something in the law about indecent exposure? Slap on the hair cuffs…you are hereby sentenced to 10 days of solitary confinement with a room full of mirrors. Ahhhhhhh!
It’s so much fun being an Abesha. Imagine what all the AmeriCANs, MexiCANs, and AfriCANs are missing out on all because they CAN and know when it’s time to update. Halleluer!
Well I have mixed feeling about it's time to update… Really! We as Ethiopians have been the birth of "Afro" we were even example to African Americans to adopt our hair style to express their freedom right here in USA. Check this evidence that goes way back when Michael Jackson was Black!
Seriously since the beginning time… Preserve our Afro for life, and personally I celebrate to those who has the "Good Natural" hair to wear their Afro proudly!
We should recognize and be proud of our heritage!!! Holla, M&W
Well I don’t why the thumbnail didn’t post correctly, let me try again…
Good one Wondata….I did not know people felt so strongly about the AFO
Come on you guys, I am finding all this to be slanted. I see Ethio_women bashing, Ethio_girls school bashing, Ethio_women hairstyle bashing,…. Can anybody come up with something different as in talking about the short comings of Ethio men? As my son would say BORING!!!!
Hello,
I have a wonderful man; he has no shortcomings
the truth is …
*ahem*
some women’s “freeze” does look like an upside-down mop that just got rescued from the electric chair.
it’s the same thing with dudes who think shaving their beards into a chinstrap and dipping their hair in a vat of greasy mess is a shortcut to GQ.
it ain’t workin, folks.
toothpick; Do you comb your har with toohpick?
, Mamitu, what’s wrong with you? Didn’t you know this is a descussion forum?? If you don;t like it go FK your self!
Rebecca; Who cares about your wonderful men, this topic is about Afro! LOL
Nolawi; Always enjoyed your opinion, keep it coming!
Temelkatch; I agree with you BIG up BERNOS!!!
Malwai; Please tell people how to post pictures, apparently Marena’s thumbnail didn’t show up! Can you post it?
Thanks!
Arada
don’t you just wish there was a refresh button on the back of a girls neck…
THIS IS ONE TO EVERYONE!
DIDN’T YOU KNOW “AFRO” IS THE STARTING POINT FOR A DREADLOCK TRANSITION!
WHO WEARS IT BETTER THAN BOB MARLEY! HA,
MIDRE FOOLS! LOL
LONG LIVE AFRO!
ARADA
i feel sorry for the girl that is on the picture up there.. all these people are insulting her.. ha ha ha
hello arada, you would have to post the image that is hosted elsewhere by writing the html for it…
so i suggest just giving us the link…check back on dec first for the discussion press.. at which time you can upload images…
ps, i dont think this wondinet guys name is actually wondinet its a pen name…
plus i dont think he really drives a camry.. its for effect… also the starbucks thing… just clarifiying cuz i dont know if you guy missed the SARCASM!
but I don’t look good with straight hair, I duno what to do with it, any recomendation besideds the straight hair
M&W, I didn’t know Ethiopia gave birth to the fro. Where’s the poem…love your poems and I’ve been looking forward to it. The dude in the photo even has blonde highlights.
Munit, get your hair did in corn rolls or wear a do rag j/k
Chebrara! comes to mind.
Here we go again …The habesha insult …why can’t we talk about something wiht out personalising it and insulting each other .Understanding Habeshas is just beyound me .
oh please winta if this post was about immigration and or charity you probably wouldnt have participated….
Ok! Celebratelife: I got one for you… enjoy!
Look at his Afro?
When I was growing up,
all I ever heard from
my people was, “Look at his Afro?”
You see, my hair was thick, black,
long– all the way standing on my back.
And I guess to some black folks in US
I just didn’t look black.
So they would often ask,
“Are you part Indian,
or Spanish or Mix?”
My skin is tan,
a foreign color some say,
So it made it kind of hard to fit
in, in a comfortable way.
My hair has always been
a mystery to many,
for even now that I wear
AFRO like my uncle Haille,
I still hear you say,
you’ve got to quit this Afro
Your hair sure is long enough to reach Cairo
Just look it’s not fashionable the way
you have it grow.
so you can’t be cool,
And I say, “It’s because of the
history of our people;
my Mama is from the Northern Ethiopia Wolo,
her Mama was from the South Gurage and my
great-grandmama was Oromo.
So my hair reflects the history
of our unique WET DORO!!
I love my thick, curly, coarse AFRO hair.
I love the fact that
If I want my Afro big,
then I can grow it long,
without the help of a weave.
And even if my hair wouldn’t grow,
I don’t think I would wear a weave
and shame my race because
God would have made it long
in the first place.
So, I’m going to be quite honest,
as far as my hair goes,
it’ just the kind of hair
that happens to grow.
Do you blame me for my AFRO?
M&W
Arada, marena wottete,
I like your style, & i do live in springfield VA, can you send me your email address… maybe we could friends. maybe more … maybe friendly email flirtation in Amharigna…
Thanks
Mariye; Yene Konjo! I’m assuming you’re a girl? We thank you both for you Fikir!!! Arada is my left side Devil and M&W is my right side, so don’t be upset if we like to remain unanimous, so we can talk right here in the open.. Cool? We like the fact that you mentioned e-mail Amharigna.. We’re up for it, but we could have BUNA right here at Bernos Cafe.
Love,
Arada-Na, M&W
Hey Nolawi; I have the perfect topic for our next discussion….
Money Talks, But Does It Speak Amharic?
I found this while reading Nazret.com and there was funny comment by a visitor… “Tell mr BUSH to send million dallras to Merekato, people back home could make the money to speak fleunt Amharic whith few day it become master in Amharic even Tigria and guragega”
M&W
Marina wotete… would you like to contribute… you can remain anonymous and do so… set up a fake email account and then email info@ bernos dot org….
thanks
That sounds like a plan, and thank you for that suggestions, I wil set one up tomorrow… going for breakfast now!
Cio,
M&W
All I’m saying is, if you are sporting that nappy look, no need to go out and buy a Halloween custom…just put on a jumpsuit and voila…a scarecrow is born.
I feel sorry for the poor kids that will be coming to your door to get some candy!
this is also tru in Wedi Eri girls
Nolawi, Your reply to winta, right on! If it was boring she wouldn’t be here with a hater attitude. I’m sure the Ethio hair salon’s are getting flooded with appointment requests, Bernos should get a referral fee.
M&W, Thanks for the poem. You should be required to write one for each topic.
Whatever happened to Konjit? I was wondering when she was going to grace us with her eloquent bilingual style profanity.
Mamitu you want us to talk about Ethio men….why mess with perfection?
M&W, Arada, great poem indeed.
Winta ena Mamitu, you ppl don’t seem to have seen the memo on Free speech…it’s a blog, you don’t have to agree with the opinions and they are not personally attacking anyone, they’re just saying the general trend sucks!so chill out!
Adam, I say you and me come up with the refresh button and become millionaires, how about that!
One more thing for Winta, wintaye, please come up with a topic that is of great interest to you, don’t just complain, if you aint’ contributing….that might even be life’s little instructions #1 to you…j/k
Guys Relax ….it was just an honest comment .You made it sound like I am advocating for the crucifixation of Jesus .
Nolawi :-I have absolutly nothing against the topic .Infact I enjoyed it .But the way people are saying things made me comment like that. Have U seen how many ‘F’ words people are using ?.Let me tell you this ,the main reason Many Habesha blogs fed away is because People start insulting each other .Case in point -Ethioview.so the sooner you deal with that the better.By the way try me with the charity talks …
Marina:-Love that topic .I wonder If money speakes amharic though .
Rahwina :-I agree with you that ppl shouldn’t always agree with each other but say it in a nice way …Avoid all those defensivness.
Celebrate Life:-what were you sayign again ??? ha ha h a
I think most of the women who are complaining of the curly hair style or what ever are those who really can’t ware their hair like that because their hair won’t grow that long.
hey stupid, that was reeeealy stupid, tragic, dumb.
Hello Winta,
EthioView is not a blog, i think it is or was a discussion forum.. not a blog.
and about the charity, there is an article about aids orphans… how much did you donate?
to be honest, i am no one to censor anyone for a private or public platform thus i welcome your opinion but if i had a choice i would rather read the f U patientely than the comment you made about habeshas…
it sounds like the same negative belittlement you get about anything on anyone is doing or trying to do…
If you like participate if not, turn your head and walk away…
But forgive me, sometimes I am too blunt for my own good. please dont take my comments personally as I didnt take yours that way.
Thank you
Hello Nolawi
Sorry for commenting on the ‘angelic’ people of the Habesha ..So much for free speech .
My mistake on the ‘Ethioview ‘thing but still you know what I wanted to say .
Nothing personal here too .No offence taken .
lol this is to funny updating does not sound to bad once u think of it as just a little change some afros yes you can rock those but the ethiopian women in et sometimes really need to step up on the hair dos i cant stand that butter they put in their hair… anyway good blog its to hilarious
Nolawi, Blunt on my brother! Wham, bam, slamdunk! That’s why I love Bernos, you keep it real! Why is everything so darn personal these days? What’s up with that!
Some folk need to learn a little sometin….don’t cancel yourself out by hating hatred.
Rahwina, you’re just a winna with your words, I bow down to thee.
M&W just noticed your “money talks…” post. When I arrived from my vacation in Addis I was in DC and stopped at this restaurant and when the bill came I put 200 birr in the check holder. The waitress picked it up, walked away, came back and said “Yene emebet birr eko new yeseteshegn” I was like “ye Ethiopia restaurant adelem ende, endet birr atekebelum.” I busted out laughing cause she was too confused for me to carry on with the prank. My Birr couldn’t even sing the alphabets in the US and the dollar is bilingual in Addis…I guess it’s true when they say I’ll make a dollar out 15 cents.
THIS IS THE MOST INSULTING BLOG, i GUESS FREE SPEECH IN ALL THAT ,LISTEN MAN I think you got issue the last time I remember ethiopian women are not the busted one at least we got hair ,on the other hand 90 % of ethiopian men walk around with bald head looking plane landing strip why even bother with hair cut just shave the whole head .As far as the body goes pot belly looks like they are filled with kosso and the legs they look like they are walking around with thier arms so skiny ,so do not even go their off course there are some fine brothers 10 percent . peace out
Mennew, Mennew Hewet? Be-Dehna Neew… Missa Albelahim Endey? I guess you are still missing the subject line here…. This blog is about Afro, either you support it or you don’t, please stop the hate comments and don’t complain when I write you back with one!
Stay focus sista, I’m with you… Hummm, Maybe NOT~!
M&W
Hewet, Minew konjit! if you are considering whatever that was said as an insult, you are definately no better than us even in your standards when you are insulting us back. My momma always said, ” Kab Kefu Ze’gebrekas, Kefu Ze’mehereka yee’kefah”…that translates to..it’s better that a person does you wrong than teach you the evil. So girlie, if you don’t like what was said, that’s too bad but at least our attack was on the trend, yours was like a high-school-ish defensive backlash…chill out, it’s only hair style we’re talking about, it sure ain’t the end of the world. and for your information, when you exercise Free speech, you talk about concepts like updating hairstyles, while you might need some clarifications on the game rules the way you’re playing it now….who wants to enlist hewet in a Debating class and get a tax write-off as charity…..j/k lijit!
Efoy, wey about time you guys have made my week with your reply’s to Omorosa. Hewet, you were so descriptive in how the Ethio men look I’m sure everyone would love to know what gym you workout at. I don’t know maybe your boyfriend, who fits the description, pissed you off but that’s for you to deal with and for us not to know.
But to bring it home this is about the Abesha setoch hair, maybe you sport it or maybe not but lay off our Ethio men they aint done nothing to your skanky azz. If you don’t like your hair change it otherwise try to reply with some decency, I know it’s hard. Get it, got it, goodbye.
One more thing Hewet…bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleeeeeeeeep and that’s all I have to say about that. Sorry for all the profanity everyone but I had to make my point.
LOL!!! you are hilarious. please post more – and this is coming from a curly haired person.
i suppose the curly haired -person you are referring too is nolawi… unless you know wondinet… i doubt that… since only a pen name… eQerta aderegelishalehu!
nah, nolawi. I meant I’m saying he’s hilarious and this is coming from me, a curly-haired person. in other words I really enjoyed Wondata’s writing.
Nolawi: I’ll make sure you wont get interupted while making love to me , my hiar wont get stuck on something, got short hair !
Do I have a chance ??!!
WOW this subject is touching every habesha person….very interesting to see!
Hello Guys,
anyone knows why the ‘www.ethioview.com’ has been hacked by some Arab site?
Do you have similar problem?
Ronda,
I have no idea why? I didn’t know that until i read it here.
EthioQueen,
do you have the same Hacker-ifo. when you enter the site?
I thought, probably my Server.
Why should we should we burn our hair to look european we are abesha our hair is naturally curly, its like saying why dont caucasian people perm there her into an afro why do they keep it straight? Because they are white they have natural straight her they dont go through hassel of mekatel in a cask and then by a hot iron. Do you guys know how annoying it is to go to the hair dressers, you obviously dont. So shut the hell up, we can have an afro if we want to I can look like a afro ibd if I want to or have it straightt if I can be bothered to be burnt under a hot cask. The point of reply is dont dictate how to style out hair to me you sound like an Ethiopian woman hater.
I hate seeing Ethiopian men insulting their own women and others who are not Ethiopian having a dig about our appearance, get a life there is more to life than hair if we want to sport a curly afro we can if we want to, we are not gonna change our hairstyle just because a couple of bored people decide to tell us to stop having an afro.
Im Ethiopian and I dont always have an afro sometimes I leave it naturally afro and sometimes I straighten it, both styles suit me I do them whatever mood Im in, Im feeling GiGi’s afro hair on the cover of her GOLD & WAX album that is nice and you guys cant deny.
Atleast we dont have to go through the hassle of putting a weave on our hair just to have an afro, you will be suprised how much money black women all over the world spend on their hair what for? what a waste of money they could invest all the money they spend relaxing straightening on buying a house or start a business. Le man new ye me leftu? for a man? a real man will will love you the way you are and woulnt try and change you. I certaintly am not stupid to spend all my genzeb on HAIR!, hair is more beautiful when it is not over processed, abesha women dont be brainwashed by these fools telling us to be a processed hair dressers junkie like the women here in the west, we have more enough important things to worry about than to be slaves of our hair.
In the words of India ire
I AM NOT MY HAIR
Wey gud! Betam des tilalachu. Here I am praying and wishing God will give me my naturally beautiful, afro back because of years of relentless, stupid, insane (did I say stupid?)chemical processing that destroyed everything and has left me with strands of straight, “will not curl to save your life hair”, and these dudes are complaining about the natural beauty of habesha women? Dude, you’re nutts. True I agree that there is a tendancy to fall into this uniform with the streaks and what not, and I definately applaud women who change up their style here and now to break the norm, but by all means keep that shiiit natural. The fact of the matter is, the process of getting our hair straight is soooo time consuming, and an annoying process to say the least. Why should we have to fry our natural, God given hair to fit a “style” a “look”. Maybe these dudes talking smack about the natural are watching too much TV. Check your eyesight homie, real women do real things and one of those things includes keeping everything on our body “REAL”. So take it from a retired, burn it up, straighten it up, braid it up, weave it up (Yea I even tried that routine, even though most habesha girls wouldn’t admit it….im not most habesha girls)….etc etc. True beauty is born with you, and if you really have to go through a process of transformation to get admired, there’s a bigger problem than style. much love to ya, just expressin myself.
Sorry Ladies but i will agree with the men on this one.
When they said comb it to make it look better, most of u got defensive and said ” we can’t help it that’s how god made us”. i was also defensive in the past saying ” this is all I can do with my hair”. I was also like that for many years. My mom always said please do something with your hair. I would say leave me alone i am doing everything i can do. The truth was i have forgotten my hair existed and most of the time i wore a netela shash so that i don’t have to worry about combing or anything.
Even the Afro became to much to handle. So i thought how about a shash. After doing that for years it kept breaking and breaking. I assumed its normal but when i got sick and lost my appetite, most of it started to come out. That was my wake up call. I went to a natural hair salon and they had to put extension braids becasue my hair was completely gone. It’s been almost a year now my hair grew back. I learned u have to always comb it. I also got in the habit of doing so many styles. Before i never did anything to it. Now i do so many styles that i see in hair megazines. I can say say it has become a new habit that i once thought would be so hard or boring.
Girls, Girls, Girls, please its time to wake up and smell the coffee. A citicism can constructive not always an insult. Let me explain. First its wrong for us Habesha women to assume only chemically treated hair needs care. We say oh i am wearing afro so that i don’t have to worry about different styles or go to a salon. It’s a lie when we say our natural hair doesn’t need professional care. Just open up your yellow book and you will find so many Natural hair salons.
Often we blame our natural hair for our bad style choices. How can we continue to be in denial when we always see other Black women doing so much with their natural hair that is not even as nice as our hair. They never wear the same style for more than a month. but we’ve been on the same style for years. The second and last thing is Ladies please that ugly brown color is not pretty. Its time to seek professional help when choosing a color. There are so many other colors than that weird brown most habesha women wear.
Girls I say its time to make changes.
So there it is….make changes but keep that shiiit natural please. For the love of God, don’t pollute your hair with chemicals. Love your hair, treat your hair, style your hair and express your natural beauty in multiple ways.
what in god’s name! How come people copy other people’s nick. Come on now i think we all are smart enough to come up with our own nick, lets stop copy one another. I am tired of people taking my nick, damit! SOrry i know i am off topic!
Exactly what part of the picture on top looks natural? It looks like a good hiding place for a village of the lost tribe…the ‘time you update’ tribe that is. If you actually count the number of curls on that chicks head it will probably come out to 15 and they’re all sitting on top of this dehydrated, unfed, uncared for, neglected by the landscaper bush of a mess.
I wore my hair elnaturel for about 1 year and yes my hair was beautiful and I got a lot of compliments on it. But GUESS WHAT? I went to a beauty salon every two weeks to get deep conditioning treatments so that it looks well moisturized and soft to the touch. My hair is very curly but if I woke up every morning and just walked out the door the result is the picture up top.
Our hair needs TLC, give it what it deserves.
Would I wear it like that again? Heck no, when my life changes, so does my hair style, my clothing, my make up….get the picture? But you ladies got it all in reverse. That uncombed crap looks dangerous to even look at let alone touch with bare hands.
Mimi nice…nice…our ladies are a little bit lazy when it comes to hair.Even thought it’s in every culture but that’s their cover up for american dude’s.
Nestagnet – It is not an insult it is fact. You can see it yourself if you are around Eth. females they are just like a cookie cutter when it come to a hair style. I am not saying the man’s have the same weakness to when it comes to their hair and cloth…I don’t have to explain about their hair beacuse it either bold or small afro. Specially,habesha man, Would you pleas throw that leather jacket and lazy man shoe when you hit the airport. I am tired of seeing borcham habesha with a light blue shimizee and leather jacket.
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IM FEELIN THIS UPDATE THING EXCEPT!… I ALSO FEEL IT IS ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE THINGS THAT DISTINGUISHES US FROM ANY OTHER CULTURE. I GOTTA ADMIT THOUGH, THE BROWN HIGHLIGHTS AND OUTRAGEOUS FRO WITH A COUPLE OF CURLS GOT CANT BE THE ONLY THING US LADIES DO WITH THE HAIR NOW IS IT, CHANGE IS GOOD ONCE IN A WHILE, DEFINITELY!
Dayum,some of y’all are vicious. I don’t think her hair is ugly, I think it’s natural and definitely windblown. Sure, maybe she could condition it more and twirl the curls and gel them in the morning but I think the color is nice since it’s very close to my natural color. I am not Habesha and I know that Habesha family think red hair is ugly. Since I had this color hair as a child, I am okay with this girl’s. Sure, I can understand, that to an African, red hair might mean sickness. To mixed peoples over her with European blood, well, red hair comes kinda naturally. What’s wrong with a natural hairstyle? What if there were no curls and she wore it puffy/cornrowed like a countryside Tigrigna? Hair was created by G-d, all differently, and equally all beautiful, even kinks and buckshots (lol!).
Afar Afro natural and beautiful Ethiopians
hey ppls why dont u just get a life…u kno all ethiopians are ethiopians and beutiful in there own way so so say change and shit….if u dont like the curly style then dont look at it..nobody asked u to so ya get a life…leave our ethio beauty alone…… as far as i am concered every one has ther own style and keep it up…dont change ppl wants u too…change couse u want to and feel like it…peace ma ethio homies
Looks like I’m the only white american on this thread. So I’ll give an outsider’s view. Women’s hairstyles change over time. The big hair look was popular in the USA for black women for decades but now you don’t see it so much any more. For awhile American black women cut their hair short so it was short and knappy. Now more and more of american black women are letting their hair grow — and then straightening their hair. I don’t think that looks so good on west african women. However, they are straightening their hair at the same time as women of every other race around the world — are straightening their hair. So it may be a world wide female style thing. East African women that I’ve seen in New York and Washington have finer hair than coarse haired west african women. So that hair –imho–would likely respond better to straightening than the hair of west africans. Traditional East African guys will want their women to have the traditional look. Less traditional east african guys won’t mind their women with straight hair so much.
Looks like I’m the only white american on this thread. So I’ll give an outsider’s view. Women’s hairstyles change over time. The big hair look was popular in the USA for black women for decades but now you don’t see it so much any more. For awhile American black women cut their hair short so it was short and knappy. Now more and more of american black women are letting their hair grow — and then straightening their hair. I don’t think that looks so good on west african women. However, they are straightening their hair at the same time as women of every other race around the world — are straightening their hair. So it may be a world wide female style thing. East African women that I’ve seen in New York and Washington have finer hair than coarse haired west african women. So that hair –imho–would likely respond better to straightening than the hair of west africans. Traditional East African guys will want their women to have the traditional look. Less traditional east african guys may like the “modern” look that women with straight hair want to convey.
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