The Hair has it

Hair is a big part of everybody's life, especially women. Women spend major money on looking beautiful, whether she snips her hair to a pixie style or colors it red-women want to look beautiful an express themselves.

Beauty, as some people say, are in the eye of the beholder. I love the idea of changing hairstyle based on feeling, but I must say that some women do take it to the extreme--like the very large hairstyle. I use to label those larger, tacky hair sculptures as ghetto creations from someones nightmare! You can usually find ghetto creations in the deep south at most black hair salons or at hair shows in predominantly black areas. But don't assume that all black salons create ghetto creations or that all black women want these creations.

But who thought these styles were "cool" and made popular?

You might find it surprising that the start of these hair creation date back to the 1700s in France! The ghetto hair creations we know now were known as the pouf. The pouf was made out of wire, cloth, gauze, horsehair, fake hair and the lady's hair constructed on a scaffold. These poufs went from three-foot high creations to skimming the top of door frame. The poufs became so big that ladies could not get into their carriages and even their own bedchambers.

The pouf came in two varieties- Pouf au sentiment and Pouf a la circonstance.

The pout au sentiment was a hair design to celebrate a feeling the women had like if she felt like a star, the hair would depict the a shooting star in the "night" sky. However the Pouf a la Circonstance depicts an event--so if a lady was going to a boat show, she would fashion her hair as an actual boat,like a clipper ship. It makes that helicopter style seem insignificant.

But who brought the pouf to be a popular hair style? Who else but the most loved and hated Queen of all France-Maria Antoinette!!

So these tacky, hair sculptures were not just thought up by a black stylist-but by a rich,French women with time and lots of money!

So blame her for the ghetto creations that are sculptedto the heads of some of these black women.

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