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Why do most black celebrities wear weaves?
I know other celebrities of other ethnicities do it too, but black celebrities do it the most. It's so rare that when Viola Davis wore her natural hair to the Oscars, it was greeted with much surprise. Isn't that ridiculous? I'm black myself, with 4c hair, and am starting to leave it in it's natural state, after wearing braids with extensions my whole life, because I've just realized how stupid it is to hide my real hair under this plastic; pretending my hair is something it isn't.
I mean. celebrities can afford the best hairstylists to always have interesting hairstyles with their natural hair. It's just sad that natural hair is often seen as a "trend" or w/e, or just representing the Civil Rights Era, when it's not. I just think if celebrities were to accept and love who they truly were it would be a great inspiration to many other black girls, to embrace their hair. Cause hiding it under weaves and extensions is honestly just a form of self hate, as it's an effort to try and conform to European beauty standards. Not that it's wrong for someone to look like the European beauty standard, I just think that everyone should embrace the beauty they were blessed with, since beauty encompasses many looks - it's not just having (artificially) straight hair.
But since celebrities aren't doing anything to change this notion, it's sticking. I mean, even perms are sketchy, because of all the damage they do to hair. It's not healthy. All this just for a facade. It's just sad
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You hit upon the right answer I think. Conforming to common beauty standards. What it really comes down to is that celebrities do not generally take many stands on principle.
I mean, think about it. Celebrities are who they are because they embrace the status quo, and generally do a lot to appeal to the mass consensus of what a person should be or look like. When Beonce is being touted as the most beautiful woman in the world it's not hard to notice that she is very light skinned for a black woman and has what I guess you might consider to be traditionally white hair.
Society generally goes against the idea of "embracing the beauty you were born with" no matter who you are. Especially if you're a woman. In addition to being more than occasionally racist it's also pretty sexist, as you can look very european but not conform without air brushing and dieting and make up and so on.
Welcome to the world we have created, where beauty is something to be created and refined rather than appreciated in it's natural state. This goes for just about everyone, but black women suffer more for it because the fact is that white sensibilities largely determine what is advertised as beautiful and attractive.
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