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Why the Blond Hair?

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Philly-born and bred rapper Eve appeared on Good Morning America, Friday morning. The 28-year-old sometime actress sometime fashion designer performed her singles Ringtone and Give it to You off from her new album, Here I Am.

Dressed in a sleek pair of must-have-for-the-fall-black, wide-legged pants and a sleek white shirt, Eve lived up to her fashion reputation. She looked great. She looked at ease. She seemed to emit a lady-like persona. She was really classy.

Except for...

Her do: Platinum blond hair in a Farrah Fawcett flip.

Ugh!

I know many of you are going to refer to me as a hater, so I'm bracing myself. But I love the natural beauty of all women and it just kills me that still so many black women opt to rock platinum blond tresses. Those sisters born with blond hair, rock on! But those of us who dye our hair blond, what's the deal? I know it's a style choice, but it's one I never understood.

Somebody please explain.

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Just my own opinion, but natural beauty is what comes from a woman who feels beautiful and confident, and that's not about whether she puts chemicals on her hair. "Natural" is as natural does.

And I'm not usually one to like how black women look with blond hair but Eve's is fierce.

Anonymous:

She looks great!Sophisticated and sexy.

student-if-life:

Hmmm...natural is as natural does? That would seem to mean that if you do what is natural, you will be natural....but that's my opinion...
I think that black women really need to do a reality check when it comes to rockin' blond straight hair....what message are you sending to people, including your own people, esp. children our children. The scar of racism runs deep!

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