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IT’S ANOTHER ME – MY SCARY BROWN DOLL

By Claire Worthington

My brown doll

One of my most treasured possessions is a baby doll. By modern standards she's not the prettiest of dolls, but she means a lot to me because I've had her since I was very small. My doll is made of hard, dark brown plastic, her straight hair is molded into her mainly bald head and for some reason her eyes are orange and they close noisily when you lie her on her back. My children think she's scary and one in particular regards her as the sort of thing more at home in a horror film than a … [Read more...] about IT’S ANOTHER ME – MY SCARY BROWN DOLL

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Tagged With: childhood toys, representation

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

By Claire Worthington Leave a Comment

October is Black History Month here in the United Kingdom and so far I have spent it all with my natural hair. It isn't a deliberate statement but the timing does seem to work. I still scowl at my reflection in the mirror first thing in the morning, but I'm OK with it. My hair looks the same as it did when I was eleven, but the main difference is that I now bother combing it properly and putting a bobble in it. As per usual there are people wanting to know when we'll be celebrating white … [Read more...] about BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Tagged With: Black History Month

SEEING DOUBLE. THE CURSE OF THE DOUBLE HAIRDO

By Claire Worthington

cartoon image with 2 hairdos

There are lots of ways to have hair extensions. Quite often my go to solution is to bury my natural hair under my shop bought hair. There are various methods, but the end result is that you only see my new (and allegedly improved) hair. This period of equilibrium exists for a brief time until eventually we witness the return of the original hair, peeking out from under the shop bought hair, giving rise to the dreaded Double Hair Do The good news is that for a while I'm the only person who … [Read more...] about SEEING DOUBLE. THE CURSE OF THE DOUBLE HAIRDO

Filed Under: Hair Moans Tagged With: afro, bad hair day, suburban afro

I SHOULD BE GORGEOUS BY NOW

By The Suburban Afro Leave a Comment

Suburban Afro Cartoon

I'm average looking. That's not a good thing or a bad thing, it's just a thing. Most people are average looking, it is quite unusual to meet people who are either truly beautiful or hideously ugly. The trick is to make the best of what you have. I looked my best when I was 25/26. I was young and slim. I was old enough to know what suited me and I was earning enough money to buy the clothes, products and hairdo's that flattered me most. I had my first management position and was driving around … [Read more...] about I SHOULD BE GORGEOUS BY NOW

Filed Under: Hair Moans Tagged With: fashion sense, suburban afro

THE DELAY ZONE – NOT GETTING YOUR HAIR DONE ON TIME

By The Suburban Afro Leave a Comment

Delay Zone Image

OK so today's D-Day. You've taken your fro to the hairdressers, your hair looks amazing and you've had the chat about when you need to do your roots / remove your extensions / redo whatever you just had done and you nod, smile and enthusiastically agree that you'll be back in four to six weeks or whatever the agreed timescale is. Then  you strut your way out of the salon looking amazing. Fast forward three months and you still haven't been back. The Delay Zone is the gap between when you … [Read more...] about THE DELAY ZONE – NOT GETTING YOUR HAIR DONE ON TIME

Filed Under: Hair Moans

NEW CLIENT SYNDROME – SALON CUSTOMER SERVICE

By The Suburban Afro

Injured Suburban Afro

I have very strong views on customer service, which almost certainly stems from spending several years as a customer service manager for a very large company, and means that whenever I come across poor customer service I notice. There are lots of ways that hair salons can display good customer service and over the years I've experienced both fantastic customer service and terrible customer service. The frustrating thing is that sometimes you get both ends of the spectrum from the same … [Read more...] about NEW CLIENT SYNDROME – SALON CUSTOMER SERVICE

Filed Under: Hair Moans Tagged With: afro, bad hair, customer service, hair horror stories

IN DISGUISE

By Claire Worthington Leave a Comment

For the next few days the site is going to look a little bit different. I built this site on WordPress and there have been a couple of updates which mean that the theme which controls how this website looks has changed - and not in a good way. It's the digital equivalent of dying your hair blonde and having it turn green! So until I finish rebuilding it, I'm going to have to go with something safe and plainish. Technically this shouldn't take very long but when you're self employed you … [Read more...] about IN DISGUISE

Filed Under: Digital and Development Tagged With: digital, web development, WordPress

WEB DEVELOPMENT STUFF

By The Suburban Afro Leave a Comment

Suburban Afro

As I hope I've made fairly clear, this blog isn't designed to offer you a host of life changing hair and beauty tips. I build websites for a living. I offer other digital services too, but the majority of the day job is building websites for people. I retrained as a mature student a few years ago and quickly discovered that learning web development is a process that never ends. You don't start with a list of things and when you've learnt them all you're done. The things on the list change and … [Read more...] about WEB DEVELOPMENT STUFF

Filed Under: Digital and Development Tagged With: digital, suburban afro, web development, WordPress

HAIRY HORROR STORIES

By The Suburban Afro Leave a Comment

Sad Suburban Afros

I was a child in the 1970s, so I grew up watching Charlie's Angels with icons like Farah Fawcett and her famous flick. There were also regular adverts for Harmony hairspray, which consisted of somebody with nice straight hair flicking their head about for no obvious reason.  As far as I was concerned nice hair meant long hair and definitely not a very short afro. When I was a little girl, visits to the hairdresser were essentially going to have my hair cut very very short. The only thing I hated … [Read more...] about HAIRY HORROR STORIES

Filed Under: Hair Moans Tagged With: bad hairdos, Freddy Krueger, hair horror stories, hair relaxer

BAD HAIR WEEK

By The Suburban Afro

Grumpy Suburban Afro

I'm currently having a bad hair week. Some people have bad hair days, but mine generally last at least a week. If there was a scale of how good my hair looks where a ten is how I look when I've just left the hairdressers, I'm currently around a two. Last week I was a three because I could still manage a fringe with the help of the straighteners, this week I've dropped to a two because I can just about get all my natural hair in a bobble but not even a pair of GHD's could get this sponge to … [Read more...] about BAD HAIR WEEK

Filed Under: Hair Moans Tagged With: afro, bad hair, bad hair day

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