Episode 19: Tender Headed - On the Low! Scabs, Redness and Dandruff - Results of the Creamy Crack

Host: Lisa. E.

EPISODE SUMMARY

This podcast is dedicated to celebrating the journey of black women to embrace their natural hair, with our host, Lisa. E, aka Natural Born Sistah, who inspires black women to groom and confidently flaunt their natural hair. 

In this episode with Lisa E, Natural Hair Mentor and Enthusiast, talks about her experience with relaxing her hair and the results of it.  Although the results were not something she wanted, she continued getting the creamy crack every 4-6 weeks despite the scabbing, redness and dandruff she would attain as a result of continuous touch ups. 

Lisa E. also breaks down who discovered this hair invention and holds him accountable to a degree based on the negative effects it can cause to your bodies.  This inventor, Garrett Augustus Morgan created this hair game changing formula in the early 1900s for men and women who wanted to straighten their hair.  Not for reasons of manageability, but for society.  Now this game changer has negative effects on the black community and the only way to stop these negative effects, is to wear your hair natural. 

 Key points from this episode include;

• [02:15] Lisa E. introduces the topic of this episode.
• [02:27] Lisa E talks about how the relaxer would burn her scalp leaving scabs and redness.
• [02:42] Lisa E. tells why she would leave the relaxer on her head for at least an hour. 
• [03:15] Being tender headed was a way to not get your hair done the way you wanted..
• [04:05] We felt more groomed with relaxed hair  based on European standards.
• [04:33] Depending on unhealthy styling options because of the inability to groom our natural hair.
• [05:11] Picking scabs from my scalp felt normal.
• [05:58] Lisa E. breaks down the weirdest s^^t when it came to getting a weave back then.
• [08:40] Garret Augustus Morris is the inventor of the relaxer we call the creamy crack.
• [09:46] Relaxers' limited style flexibility due to its nature of just being straight.
• [11:43] Lisa E. talks about the effects the chemical relaxer had on our bodies, causing cancer.
• [14:35] Lisa E. breaks down what the CROWN ACT means. 

QUOTES

• "We were not enough the way we were naturally " 
• “I’ve seen T.W.A.’s with Relaxers”
• “You straighten your hair with relaxer just to curl it, when your own hair has its own natural curl game”

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www.kinkyinthekitchen. Hair

naturalbornsistah@gmail.com

Resource

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