{"id":1982,"date":"2017-07-25T23:43:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T23:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socamom.com\/w\/rainbow-box-braids-bold-and-bright-doesn-t-have-to-be-white\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T22:22:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T04:22:51","slug":"rainbow-box-braids-bold-and-bright-doesn-t-have-to-be-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socamom.com\/w\/rainbow-box-braids-bold-and-bright-doesn-t-have-to-be-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Box Braids – Bold and Bright"},"content":{"rendered":"

My daughter wanted hair like a magical pony.<\/strong> Rainbow Dash of My Little Pony to be exact.  I spent 18 hours of my life granting her wish. When it comes to hair, I have been about as conservative as they come. I was the first to judge a parent for allowing their child to dye their hair in the summer. It was mostly white boys with frosted tips that annoyed me the most. My inner Trini mom sucked her teeth and said, \u201cis white people ting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Rainbow<\/p>\n

There’s been a lot of chatter on social media about how black girls with colorful hair are “ghetto,” but when white girls do it, it is considered “trendy” or “creative.”<\/strong> Confession… colorful hair outside of entertainment, to me, until very recently, was “white people ting.”<\/p>\n

Over the years I have relaxed my thinking about kids and hair. My oldest son has had red, blue, and green hair, a monster high top blow out, a huge afro, cornrows – pretty much whatever he wanted.<\/p>\n

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With black and brown children being forced to grow up because society (of all races) sees them as adults so much sooner than white children, I have tried to let them hold on to their youth as long as possible.<\/p>\n

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So when Li\u2019l Bit asked me about rainbow hair, I said, \u201cwhy not?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

As soon as it was time to choose what color to start with, I asked her, \u201cso what do you think about doing the blue and purple around the hairline, so that it isn\u2019t so\u2026 colorful around your face?\u201d<\/p>\n

Then I said, \u201cok, green next\u2026\u201d still thinking that I wasn\u2019t ready for the really loud colors.<\/p>\n

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When we had to run out while it was unfinished she says, \u201cCan we move on to the other colors now? It looks crazy without the other colors.\u201d<\/p>\n

It looks crazy without the other colors? Steups.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDid your mom do your hair like this? Did your mom do your hair in rainbows?\u201d She asked the question, but I think she already knew.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe did something like that a couple of times, but I didn\u2019t really like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy not,\u201d she asked, flipping a blue braid out of her face.<\/p>\n

I decided to tell her why.<\/p>\n

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My mom wasn\u2019t known for creative hair styling. <\/strong> My hair was thick and tightly curled, and I was tender headed (for those who don\u2019t know what that means, getting my hair done was painful for me and whoever was tasked with doing it), so for a busy physician, 4 or 5 plaits and a bow was about as good as it got.<\/p>\n

She worked with a primarily black population in her practice, and the little girls would come into the office with these amazing, intricate hairstyles.<\/strong>  After the relaxer debacle of 1982, she got a lot of advice about how to get my hair to grow back and keep it healthy. She went out and bought a straightening pick, Vidal Sassoon blow-dryer with a comb, and a detangling comb and went to work on Sunday nights.<\/p>\n

She always said no to beads, and gave some excuse\u2026 choking hazard, noisy, could put your eye out\u2026<\/strong> anything to not have to figure out how to do so many small braids and thread beads on to them too.<\/p>\n

She worked her way up to more creative styles when people started to ask her why my hair was so\u2026 uneventful.<\/p>\n

One day, she got really creative.<\/strong> She blow dried it, parted it in one inch sections, put a tiny rubber band at the root, twisted the hair, put another rubber band in another color about two inches down the twist, and then repeated it until she reached the end. My hair was long, and I liked feeling it on my back. She was proud of herself, and I was proud of my hair.  When I think back on it, I see how hard it must have been to take the time to do all that, but she did it.<\/p>\n

I walked into school happy and feeling pretty.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take long for some little white boy to call me Medusa. We were studying mythology, and I was the only black girl in the school in Strom Thurmond\u2019s hometown. No one defended me, no one said they thought it was pretty, there were no other black girls with hair like mine that could shoot a nasty look or help me amplify my death stare.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t have the nerve to tell my mom that I got picked on for my hair that first day.<\/strong> I had already told her I liked it, she was happy, and it was going to be that way for at least a week, so there was no sense in complaining. <\/p>\n

The next week she didn\u2019t have time to do all that, so it was back in four puffy twists. Still too many for my liking, none of those white girls had more than two ponytails at a time. Either way, the Medusa name stuck.<\/p>\n

The next week she was up for putting in the rubber band twists again. I took a deep breath, and respectfully protested. She asked me why, and I told her about my Medusa moniker, and how mean the white boys were already. I didn\u2019t want to put any more blood in the water.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the parents love it. So many of them told me so.\u201d<\/p>\n

When she said that I knew that the twists were going back in whether I liked it or not. Her hair styling skills had been validated, and she intended to stay on that high. This time she did the sections in triangles instead of squares. It was beautiful, and I loved it. By the time I got to school that morning, I had already prepared myself for the snickers and stares, and the white children didn\u2019t disappoint. Once again I hated my hair.<\/p>\n

Eventually her business grew to the point that she didn\u2019t have time or energy to do all that to my hair, and I was thankful.<\/strong> She got so busy that she let me do my own hair eventually.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never really done anything out of the ordinary with my hair since.<\/p>\n

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Eden listened intently, but really didn\u2019t have anything to say after that. She just gave the \u201cglad that\u2019s not my life\u201d shrug.<\/p>\n

Once we got to yellow I asked her, \u201cdo you think you\u2019ll be self-conscious with these colors?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d she asked.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eden knows a lot of words and their meanings. She studies her vocabulary lessons from her brother\u2019s SAT prep book, how has she never learned that word?<\/p>\n

I realized just then that she was the perfect age for rainbow hair, and I had done something right. She actually could not understand that her feelings about her hair could be affected by someone else\u2019s feelings about her hair. Blue, green, and purple did not a rainbow make, and she wanted me to get to the \u201cgood stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou know, some people might not like it,\u201d I warned as I moved on to orange, further into the wee hours of the morning, and closer to finishing my very first box braids.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t have to like it,\u201d she replied. \u201cI like it. Besides, every amazing thing has haters.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTrue.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m determined not to be that hater. As long as her hair is age appropriate, culturally sensible (she ain\u2019t bout to be runnin round here with a blonde Elsa wig), and nothing in the styling or products could harm her, I\u2019ll help her achieve the look she is going for. This time, it was Rainbow Dash.<\/p>\n

So far she has been to two birthday parties, camp, and golf class \u2013 everybody loved her hair\u2026 not that she cared. She loves it, and to her, that\u2019s all that really matters.<\/p>\n

You can follow her at @brainsnbeats<\/a> on Instagram for all of her hair shenanigans\u2026<\/p>\n

Would you do this with your daughter\u2019s hair if she asked?<\/strong> Why or why not? What fun hairstyles have you tried on yourself or your kids for the summer or on vacation? Share in the comments \u2013 photos are welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My daughter wanted hair like a magical pony.<\/strong> Rainbow Dash of My Little Pony to be exact.\u00a0 I spent 18 hours of my life granting her wish. When it comes to hair, I have been about as conservative as they come. I was the first to judge a parent for allowing their child to dye their hair in the summer. It was mostly white boys with frosted tips that annoyed me the most. My inner Trini mom sucked her teeth and said, \u201cis white people ting.\u201d<\/p>\n

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