i mean as you can see i’m in no position to be arguing the finer points of these books with anyone! but also i am curious about the perm stuff. is it just bc it makes look like poodles?
Most perms are ridiculously destructive even to coarse Afrikan hair-- a white girl doing that to herself, ESPECIALLY with any kind of regularity, is a recipe for straight-up baldness by the time she’s thirty. Acid stripped, dry, and split-ended if she’s lucky.
My mom got perms every month or so for decades, so I’m not sure that’s true. Maybe they use different chemicals for natural hair?