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Not many topics get black women in the United States as emotional as when they discuss their hair. They spend hours at a time talking about their hair, their friends hair, people they saw on the street's hair and, of course, celebrity hair. As a man I will surely admit that a nice head of hair on a woman can be a real turn on.
Someone once ask Patti Labelle "Is that your hair?". She said something like "What do you mean is this my hair? Of course its my hair, I have the receipt!"
As a child I remember seeing magazines about black hair. There were even some named 'Black Hair' or 'Your Black Hair' or 'Black Hair Today' and I used to think this is a subject that must be very endearing to lots of people because it seems like they these magazines took up half of the space on the magazine racks. And all of the women on every hair magazine were photographed from the neck up only to get their hair to be seen better I would guess.
I remember Soul Train back in the 70's where Don Cornelius would always say "Soul Train is brought to you by Ultra Sheen...Afro Sheen...and Ultra Sheen Cosmetics a few times during the show. They would say this so often and I would watch almost every week that it seemed the products became a part of the show to a point just like the Soul Train Scramble board where they told the participants the answer instead of letting them figure our what music group name was scrambled among the letters. I never did understand why they did that and it is so obvious to me now that it looks embarrasing. I do not remember if I knew they told the couple what the answer to the Scramble Board was when I was a young viewer. I saw some old shows on YouTube and when you look at things as an adult you look with different eyes I guess.
Fred wanted tv lamont wanted convertible - lamont says we are going to take a ride in a convertible so Janet can let the air blow through her hair and fred says why don't you just tell her to take off her wig and hold it out the window!
I do not know if this is a true story. I heard it back in the late 80's. Larry Blackmon, leader of super R and B group Cameo was a barber in Harlem as a young man before he became famous. One day he was cutting someones hair and one of his songs came on the radio in the shop. He figured he had made it to the big time and decided he was done with being a barber. He quit on the spor and left the guy sitting in the chair with a very unfinished haircut. Word Up!