2dugged:
Some hair styles are just not it,especially this dread that seems to be the new crase in town

This is the problem.... any hairstyle that is suitable to our hair... is like taboo...as in dreads is bad but perm is good....for op..crew low cut is good... that's more like the White boys... keep your hair short.. so the nappiness won't show!...that's how your father and so many others see it! In this century.... that's over.... look at the Black celebrities... sportsmen etc.... see any of them in Jerry Curls?...they be making a statement by rocking Black hairstyles. You should dreads tell him you're going natural!... but fisrt just make sure you have another place to stay!

EvangelistNdudi:
how will you feel if you get to know that your son hiss at you in his mind?

i will be glad to know my child respects me enough to caution himself/herself around me

queenitee:
My lips?

yes your lip

Originalsly:
This is the problem.... any hairstyle that is suitable to our hair... is like taboo...as in dreads is bad but perm is good....for op..crew low cut is good... that's more like the White boys... keep your hair short.. so the nappiness won't show!...that's how your father and so many others see it! In this century.... that's over.... look at the Black celebrities... sportsmen etc.... see any of them in Jerry Curls?...they be making a statement by rocking Black hairstyles. You should dreads tell him you're going natural!... but fisrt just make sure you have another place to stay!

don't get me wrong, I am not against some kind of hair styles o,some people have this kind of strong face,plus you now go and be carrying dread, scattered on your head like fowl yansh, you sag ontop, with your strong face, and worse still you come dark ontop, my friend you just confirmed your self to be a suspected cultist,short hair with spotting waves won't hurt, infact I like the first and second pic up there

firstclassmumu:
yes your lip

Do you have a problem with it?

One of the best things i feel you can do for yourself is to struggle for independence. Just move out of your house

almarthins:


Ah! Huh u sure say na lower u lower am? By the what's ur neighbourhood like ? If too many sanctimonious self righteous rags plenty for there be sure your hairstyle will branded rebellious.

na dem full the area

zicoraads:

No, it doesn't. It's just the way our society here has been 'programmed' to think. I have very responsible and hardworking men who keep afros and all. These are guys who have wives and kids. Guys who are absolutely intelligent. So, no, I totally disagree.

It's everywhere across the world.. Have you ever wondered why anytime a crime is committed somewhere and the police arrives at the scene, the first set of people they will pack are those on tattoos and ridiculous hair cuts before considering packing a gentle looking man on low cut on suit

Don't let your sentiment cloud your reasoning from making sound judgment

makydebbie:
Something like......

i had a stomach ache laughing. are you a comedian?

Well, I think people accentuate whatever valuables they have. Tennis players insure their hands, footballers pamper their feet, bodybuilders spend time and treasure on their bodies. Now if there is nothing visually outstanding, expensive and well cultured the natural assumption will be that it resides on the inside, either in the brain or in the heart which leaves a lot to be expected.

So they assume rightly or wrongly, that..... that is all you have to offer, that is what you are about, that is where your time and treasure is expended and it kinda.... insufficient except if you are going to be a model or a world class hair dresser....

Just like when you see the fairer sex, ladies overdoing it. The natural assumption is that, that is their best foot forward and there probably isn't more to offer. People always put their best foot forward. Give them a break. They don't want you forming glass ceilings over your life.

swtcharissa:
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U for hiss out...make he dash u slap when go send goose pimples for ur body anytime u remember am...lol

swtcharissa:
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U for hiss out...make he dash u slap when go send goose pimples for ur body anytime u remember am...lol

tosyne2much:
It's everywhere across the world.. Have you ever wondered why anytime a crime is committed somewhere and the police arrives at the scene, the first set of people they will pack are those with dreadlocks and ridiculous hair cuts before considering packing a gentle looking man on low cut

Don't let your sentiment cloud your reasoning from making sound judgment

Which police? Nigerian police I guess No, I'm not talking because you think I'm somehow trying to defend my friends. The best graduating student of my faculty, the year before mine, was an afro spotting dude. If the policeman is arresting an afro spotting dude, then it's either the company he is keeping or the way of dressing.

I can't imagine my friend in a suit, and your friend who is on low cut...a crime is committed and mine would be picked, while yours is dressed in jeans and shirt. E no go happen!

Check my profile youll see what I posted some months ago regarding this same issue and my hairstyle..

https://www.nairaland.com/3034407/why-blacks-criticised-over-hairstyle

Here's a picture of me attending the West African Architecture Festival in Portharcourt with my dreads and the organisation i work for dont even look at those things instead theyre after what you can offer..

Still rocking the hairstyle right now and its already grown into a pony tail and I'm packing it already.. I'm glad I didnt cut it initially due to pressure from the society..

Dont mind our parents, they were victims of our neanderthal past. They believe that designing or keeping long hair is abomination and speaks badly of your upbringing. Even some parents will think you have 'joined bad gang'. That a woman can not barb her hair except for culturally approved occasions. It is a reminder of our neanderthal past.

But now that we are 'exposed' to civilization, why are the parents' mindset still hooked to the neanderthal past ? ..The Answer is DNA, what my village people call 'blood'. Dem go say, e dey for blood.

Meanwhile, can I attribute our assumption that whoever isnt clean shaved or cleanly barbed is broke or unkept ? Huh ? If you reason this way, then truly, your grandkids will create a thread on nairaland with title "Why Do Nigerian Adults See Having "bushy Hair" as being broke and unkept?)

May God Bless its Creator.

Those old folks are jealous cos they are already bald

shukudi:
. Hope d day ur choice of hair style land u in SARS trouble, u will not need ur parent's help, since u disobey them full time.

SARS trouble my ass...even army no fit tell me shit...because am wearing a particular hairstyle doesn't make me irresponsible...you just need to know your right

queenitee:
Do you have a problem with it?

yes

Lastbender:
i will be glad to know my child respects me enough to caution himself/herself around me

ok

zicoraads:

Which police? Nigerian police I guess No, I'm not talking because you think I'm somehow trying to defend my friends. The best graduating student of my faculty, the year before mine, was an afro spotting dude. If the policeman is arresting an afro spotting dude, then it's either the company he is keeping or the way of dressing.

I can't imagine my friend in a suit, and your friend who is on low cut...a crime is committed and mine would be picked, while yours is dressed in jeans and shirt. E no go happen!

I no wan argue with you.. The truth is that appearance shows the manner in any part of the world, so stop deceiving yourself

Why do people people try to get the best of haircut when going for job interviews or to the embassy to apply for visa? To look decent shey?

This is to tell you how these like things count

I remembered when I was in school, I spent 3 semesters without traveling home and all those while I didn't cut my hair. when I finally got home, my mum started crying. she thought I had joined the bad gangs. i tried to let her understand but to no avail. I ended up with stone cold just to please her.




the most important thing is to keep your patents happy until they leave for the hereafter

Stevolarlah:
I don't know what there problem really is, I came home the other day with beards, and everybody was like "what are you turning to"

why not wear haircut that truly represents ur person? Are you a celebrity? Any haircut you cannot wear to meet the vice chancellor of your university or president or beta still an employer is not urs. Take it off. Certain haircuts make us look irresponsible. I wear afro any day any time.

Abeg no carry one crazy hair go ur lecturer front ooo. Or else u go

adioolayi:
Don't worry man... keep on with any hair style you "comfortable" with and doesn't suit the norm of your environment... the day SARS pick you on the street without any offense... just because of your haircut.. your eye go clear

This is Nigeria, factor in your environment in your look and dress sense to avoid sad tale.

true talk

factorial1:
Not only do my mum hate abnormal haircut, but also 'afro'. I see nothing wrong in afro as long as you trim and treat it regularly.

I don't come home at times because of that... I look good more on afro (normal afro), but she doesn't seem to understand. She always think keeping hair is tantamount to irresponsibility and hooliganism.


Besides, I dislike abnormal haircut too... the likes of those posted by the OP.

maybe your afro is too much, try reducing it. I wear afro too and people often call me Prof and Rev based on my look in afro and my lenses. Afro represents maturity any day.

brostheo:
All my life it has been old school,my father hated anything style.Its either completely full or low cut or better still skin. um already used to it tho

nice afro, but urs plenty OOO. This was my undergraduate style. Now I wear moderate afro

Cutting it low is less expensive because you won't go back to the salon until after 3 weeks but if you anyhow you will visit the salon in less than a week. How parents they tink of money and besides we are Nigerians and even if your parents don't talk about the hair your pastor, Revd and even your parents friends will. Some will even tell their children not to mingle with you again. lol

Why do naive Nigeria youths see having irresponsible haircut as nice and cute.

FILEBE:


Ghandi has died, Malcom x, lutherking. You only mentioned M.j. yeah. Lil wayne too

Perhaps

tosyne2much:
I no wan argue with you.. The truth is that appearance shows the manner in any part of them world, so stop deceiving yourself

Why do people people try to get the best of haircut when going to the embassy to apply for visa? To look decent shey?

Sigh...this boy! Stop shifting goal posts. I'm giving you practical examples and you are here telling me about embassy applications. More often than not, people are judged based on their manner of dressing, not hair cuts. I am trying to imagine Abiola or Ken (friends of mine) removing their afro because they are going for an embassy interview . Guys whose suits alone are in thousands of naira.

Or, Uti or Ehiz.

You need a clique upgrade my friend

zicoraads:

Sigh...this boy! Stop shifting goal posts. I'm giving you practical examples and you are here telling me about embassy applications. More often than not, people are judged based on their manner of dressing, not hair cuts. I am trying to imagine Abiola or Ken (friends of mine) removing their afro because they are going for an embassy interview . Guys whose suits alone are in thousands of naira.

Or, Uti or Ehiz.

You need a clique upgrade my friend

I need a clique upgrade? What's that supposed to mean?

Alryt then, you win

We all carried stupid haircuts when we were younger and we were so certain that we looked pretty fly.

It was only when we attained adulthood and got married that we truly understood how stupid we looked. I guess with time you'll realise how stupid those haircuts really look.

I don't know any other hair cut except low cut