Lowkey, we have GOT to stop trying to make our hair fit into the box that is the curl chart. Today, we’re going on a full deep dive, working from the surface to the core, into why it should be tossed aside forever. Even the curl pattern chart’s surface level flaws are ginormous. To start, it just gives broad types of hair, categorizing into “straight, wavy, curly, and coily,” which we’ll get into later. This simplifies hair into just the way that it falls, discounting factors that matter just as much and even more. Porosity, density, local weather, etc. have huge effects on what your hair needs. Personally, I have to alter my hair routine whenever I get a haircut! Another problem is that it doesn’t offer any explanations for individuals with several different curl types. I was once told that I have a mixture between 4a and 4b, but it looks kind of like there’s some 3c when it’s wet and so on…what good does that do me? I don’t want to do something different to each individual curl; I do...
Lowkey, I’d like to talk about a lost art: mending. Why don’t we fix our clothes anymore? People used to value their clothes so highly, simply fixing little holes and tears in otherwise perfectly fine clothing. It’s especially cool because a lot of clothes were self made or bought locally. Throwing away clothes used to be completely unheard of: old clothes were incorporated into quilts, cut into rags, sewn into rugs, and used in all sorts of ways. Shoes were sewn back together, clothes were patched, what happened? Why don’t we value our clothes as much anymore? When our society moved from self-sufficiency to industry we also shifted from making the things that we need to buying the things that we need. We have been trained to consume, consume, consume. We consume our needs, consume our wants, consume things that we don’t even want but are so easy to get. Moreover, we consume without thinking about what happens to the things that we already have; there’s no thoug...