How many AA women you know are MBL or WL
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aribell
formerly nicola.kirwan
Now that's a good point. Not too many of them exist in my world, either. Two of my white girlfriends with hair that long have really been growing it out for years. One is about MBL from a pixie cut 6 years ago, w/o any major cuts in between. The other regularly grows her hair long for locks of love but told me straight out that it takes her about 3 years because her hair only grows 4 inches per year.
Retention, retention, retention.
SmilingElephant
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aa9746
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Now that you mention it, everyone at my job has APL or shorter hair except one WL AA woman.
Sha76
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I only know one from my former job. she had hair past her butt almost to her knees. Not biracial or anything. She was from the bahamas. Beautiful lady. But she told me that she has always had long hair but it was not relaxed until her adulthood. She almost never wore it down. It kind of got in the way
Raine054
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Her hair was in its natural state, pulled back into pony tail that is segmented by rubber bands along it.
It wasn't blow dried (I asked). She was only 16 years old you could tell it was shrunken since the her hair made her head look 2 times larger than it was. It was also very coiled and looked rough from a distance...but of course it was amazing!
She was explaining to me that her dad never allowed her to get a relaxer and her mom was very good at taking care of her hair. Coconut oil especially...I got to touch it and it was amazing...just amazing. ..
CurlyMoo
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Why do you think there are so many ladies with long hair in the DR as opposed to to US? Do you know if it's their natural hair or weave? What are their practices?
Firstborn2
Stop frontin, you know me!
I know of one and it's my 15yr old cousin, she was actually TBL up until last year when her mother let her take over her own hair care, now she is MBL because of breakage.
CurlyMoo
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Black (non-mixed) Cubans have the same problems. Short, dry, relaxed and broken off.
laurend
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It's very interesting. They don't have weaves. You can see a lot of women there who are jet black and have 3a hair. I guess it's the Tanio indian mixture in their history. There is a large number of people with 3 range hair, much more than the black people in the U.S. There are hundreds like our Dominican member gissell78.
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CurlyMoo
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My cousin, she cuts it back to MBL every month, and lets it grow longer every once in a while before she cuts it back to MBL the worst part about her is she literally does EVERYTHING wrong and still has long flowy pretty hair I be likeyou got it sooooo good.
Cotton head scarf @ night goes to really cheap domonican salon where they use super high heat o her hair and barely DC her hair they're scissor-happy.....yet and still her hair is beautiful.....there are just some black folk that dont have to try*shrugs*
I think it's time to weave check your cousin. 
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CurlyMoo
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Very interesting, it could also be the Spanish blood too. But if that were the case they would not be jet black. So I think you are correct it's most likely the Tanio Indian considering that they are a darker skin you would see the physical traits other than in the hair texture.
ETA: Ok just re-read my statement. There indeed can be some "jet black" people with white blood in them. I must have been half sleep or something.
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CurlyMoo
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OMG the Indian girls are taking hair tricks from us! This tickles me.
This is the first thread on Indus Ladies.com. I've been a member for a while, but I don't check it.
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Can you link to that thread I want to see the responses?
That just goes to show you that "we" are not the only ones in this thread......
CurlyMoo
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Well in the US, light skin=mixed race, but that's not necessarily so in the real world of genetics. People have very set ideas of what a mixed person is supposed to look like methinks. It's perfectly possible to be quite dark and be mixed. Many Black American Indians are, but most people don't recognize them as being such cuz the US had it's one drop rule, which is absent in Latin cultures.
Brazil is a place where this is very common. Plenty of people there have dark skin and hair textures/lengths many in the US don't associate w/ each other. I wish there were more posters from Brazil here.
I just corrected my post because we have quite a few dark skinned Americans that have a Black/White mixture.
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