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As unique individuals of a similar species, we are all born with
qualities that distinctively distinguish us from one another.
There are many congenital factors which contribute to our
originality such as culture, customs, environment, and genetics.
With that being said, our physical characteristics contribute to
painting the world in its beautiful colors, adding texture and
zest to what would otherwise be a bland, featureless world. Skin
tones can range in color from pink, yellow, olive, golden,
bronze, to many different shades of brown. Hair color varies in
shades of blond, brown, red, silver, and black; sometimes all of
these colors can even be found on one single head.

The windows to our souls are also tinted in an array of colors
that can fall between blue, green, brown and gray. In addition to
these colorful features, our skin and hair are again broken down
into different types. Some of us are very pleased with the
intricate combination that we were born with, while others are
not; instead, choosing to embrace society's standards. As many
of us know, today's world consists of plastic surgery, color
contact lenses, skin bleachers, nail tips, perms, hair
extensions, weaves, and everything else that can be altered in
order to sketch a smile on the face of what our mind considers to
be beautiful. Let us take a look at the definition of beautiful.
beau·ti·ful adj.

1. Having qualities that delight the senses, especially the sense
of sight.

Does this definition insinuate that unless you are naturally born
with qualities that delight society's sense of sight, you must
modify your appearance in order to be accepted as beautiful? It
is appalling to even imagine this to be true; but by just taking
a look around us, how could we say it is not? It may seem as if
certain cultures target particular fixations; again, this may be
due to certain genetic make-ups in which society has labeled as
less than acceptable. Of course all ethnicities tamper with all
available altering options, it is observed that while more
Caucasian groups desire plastic surgery, more African Americans
lean towards wanting straighter hair, but both desperately go
through equally drastic measures to attain self satisfaction.

As many of us know, for the longest time in today's world,
straight hair has been the norm. With an exception of the 70's,
many African- Americans did not know how to appreciate natural
pattern and beauty of their hair. Even children who have never
had a complex and appreciated their hair was taught that straight
hair was "good hair" and that hair that was not straighten was
"nappy" and "unkempt". For years now, we have depended on the
straightening comb and chemical processing to get the hair to
"be good" or "be tamed" so that it could be easier to comb
and manage. The cold reality of managing "good hair" is that
people pay to have it damaged. What person in their right mind
would pay for that, right? Well, that is just the thing...they
obviously aren't in their right mind. Whatever happened to our
Higher Being and appreciating the way He created us? People in
their right mind would think about how special He created each of
us, down to the hair that grows from our scalps.

Despite its texture and pattern, it is healthy hair; no different
than the person's hair that grows from their scalp straight. Do
they go through the dreadful process of paying someone to make
their hair "good"? Straight does not make hair good. What makes
it good is that it's healthy and it's yours. If the whole
process is thought about long and hard enough, questions of self
worth and acceptance should undoubtedly surface. What then makes
African-American hair bad? Is it fear that someone caught wearing
their naturally textured hair will be seen as bad or shameful? As
more and more African-Americans have been embracing their natural
hair, what they find is not nappy, kinky, or even coarse hair. It
actually has a beautiful, medium to fine texture ranging from
millions of medium to small curls. They eventually discover that
the "kinky" or "nappy" hair that they thought they had, came
from trying so hard to make their hair something it was not.

It is sad how many people resort to doing things solely to fit
into the norm. Whether it is your hair, nose, breasts, stomach or
thighs you want to change; just as a person can discover their
hair is naturally beautiful, you can soon discover that
everything about you is naturally beautiful and does not need
changing. True beauty is ONLY defined through the eyes of the
beholder. Once you learn to recognize your beauty naturally, so
will everyone else. Beauty is always there, but it takes wisdom
to truly embrace.

About the Author

Siobhan Gamble is a writer for EarthFrisk.com , a social
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