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In reply to the discussion: Can I get a "Bravo!" for Ms. Oprah Winfrey? [View all]BainsBane
(54,162 posts)who even in recent years have had trouble finding a stylist who did't insist I straighten my hair. When it's long, like now, it takes on the look of a half grown out perm. Curly Irish hair, however, isn't an Afro and doesn't carry the same racial meaning. I happen to think natural hair is beautiful, but really it's none of my business to pass judgement on how black women want to wear their hair.
I don't think I've ever seen those cast irons in real life, only in movies. I'm trying to remember if my friend's mom used one of those on her, but I thought it was a clothes iron. I think it was one of those old clothing irons you heat up on the fire. I suppose it was possible it was another kind of iron but I took it as a clothes iron because that was my frame of reference. This was the late 60s, so it was a very long time ago.