The Selling of "Good Hair"

These photos all over the media of so called natural "good hair" are getting frustrating...

Look at this woman. Undoubtedly she’s beautiful. But to highlight and suggest that this woman represents the “true textures” of the majority of black women who wear natural hair is utterly laughable and has me "SMDH".

I tried to look at it from a company's marketing standpoint, just to play devil’s advocate a bit, and it got me to wondering…are they showing these images so insecure naturals might “chase the dragon” to buy product after product in hopes they might achieve this texture? Or are they trying to lean towards more what society thinks the standard of beauty is ( the lighter and stofter the skin the lighter and softer the hair??) mm hmm

I got this idea from just reading comments from other readers on blogs etc.. and one mentioned on a natural hair blogger with looser curls that gets a lot of notes from her subscribers who wish on falling stars and angels that they can do some sort of regimen, take some sort of butter or gel that will magically make their tight coils loosen like hers a 3a loose curl girl like these pics.

I suppose if you sell an “ideal” to a group of people and somehow convince them that if they use your product they will become some sort of 3a goddess, then I guess you have a hit on your hands.

It’s crazy, though.