I love this. I read it a few weeks ago and I have been meaning to post it here … Barbie’s getting an afro for Christmas! A natural hair group in Georgia will give out 40 Barbie dolls with afro textured hair to little girls in the community.
One of the group members, Candace McBridge discovered an online demo on how to develop natural looking hair for dolls with items like pipe cleaners and boiling water.
Jennifer Henderson, a member of the natural hair group and mother of a 2-year-old girl, told the Ledger-Enquirer: “We wanted to show the girls that basically, it’s okay the way God made you.”
This reminds me of a two things … the Dark Girls Documentary and another post Black Children and Self Image including the Girl Like me documentary.
When I had my son, one of the first things his father wanted to do was get him the best products for his hair. We both wanted to find products that would work well for African American Children, but we wanted to make sure to use natural products, gentle enough for babies that worked well for those with Natural Black Hair. I was clues less of course, beyond using ‘baby oil’ or ‘just for me’ products, I was lost. Of course in my housek, when we get stuck we go searching online so I quickly learned that ‘baby oil’ was a bad idea. It dries out the hair (so the hubby was right about NOT using).
