Seriously, as a stick straight natural blonde, I covet this.

Hair. Stick straight nautral blonde hair.

Whatever. She looks fierce.

So that's what she's been hiding under those turbans all these years?

She'd look a lot better without the Harry Potter glasses though.

AHHHHH, Evil Twin! Damn you and damn my suddenly slow internet connection. I now have no witty comment to make about her hair/turbans :(

guys, have you all gone mad. the hair looks horrible! she is in desperate need of a hair cut. to call that beautiful is setting the bar pretty low.

Sorry, jill.

PS That is a magnificent afro. Miss J. ain't got shit on Badu.

it looks good on her but the urkle glasses have got to go.

I think it'd be funny if, after Cord giving her kudos for going au natural, we found out that it's really a wig she got at iParty.

I just shudder to think of what's going on with the carpet if these are how the drapes are looking.

Stick some glasses on a poodle…..there you go!

That 'fro deserves a medal.

My lord, is that an IZOD on her sweater?

Is this the new preppy look. I dont think I can work that out.

i wonder how long it took her to grow that fro.

1. She's wearing a wig. She wore it on Dave Chappelle's Block Party movie thing and tore it off.
2. Are those just frames without lenses?

Melissa you are a big buzz killer.

It's not fair to accuse a black woman who chemically straightens her hair is claiming her heritage is not beautiful. A lot of white celebrities wear lipstick which gives an illusion of plumper lips and nobody says they are trying to be black. (The tanning is overused.)
Big hair used to be in for all races. I actually like her hair, but one of my friends has an afro and she gets stares all the time. (And Badu has had ridiculous comments made about her hair on other blogs.) Also, big lips were not always in because of that theory you posted stating they imitate engorged labia. My grandmother had extremely thin lips and in the past (in Iran) that was a sought-after trait. (My uncle and mother were constantly teased for having thick lips.) You could also claim that women who wax their legs are trying to be Asian. The general dislike of profusely hairy women is, again, not the result of evolution. In Thailand, my classmates would try and encourage hair growth on their arms and embraced pubic hair. It goes on forever and ever… The beauty trends now are still exclusive, but are not meant to be race-exclusive.
Not to say Badu's indifference to that bullshit is not laudable. But only accusing black women of being ashamed of their race when they want to have a type of apperance that gets them more appreciative looks at a bar is, well… another reason things are still harder for blacks. (C'mon, you know most guys don't find afros sexually appealing. Super sad, but fucking true.)

Sorry :(

forgiven.

i wish i could have a fro but cord would yell at me because i'm white and it's not sutiable for my race.

It just looks so damned fun! I remember when I was little, by first best friend Cindy, who was black, had her mother do her hair in three ponytails. Two to one side, one on the other. Anyhow, she would then split the pony tails in two and twist them and tie thick yarn (like an inch in diameter) into bows at the end. I was SO jealous and wanted her hair so bad. Mine wouldn't stay twisted. Hell, I am still jealous. I would like a little Jill Scott fro with a pretty flower. So cute!

Sidenote: Cindy and I would also play Madonna and Cindy Lauper. I was Cindy and she was Madonna (odd right, but I liked Lauper's hair and she liked Madonna's gloves). We wouldn't do anything special - just call eachother by the different names.

I admit I am not turned on AT ALL. It reminds me of this kid in my class, Ronnie. He was actually a red head but had let himself go, "natural". I don't know what it's called when your a red head? One day he got sent home and we all had to take home notes with a warning against lice.

He came back to school with his head shaved. So now I forever have a fear of any kind of fro. Unless it's on Miss J. I know he'd never let anything climb in there unless it had a Prada Label. I don't find it sexy on anybody.

I do agree with il on the lips thing. I have pouffy lips and was called all kinds of names because of them. that and because I hit puberty a little early. But now everybody wants them and someone even asked me who my doctor was. So now everyone thinks they are fake, great. I can't win.

ok, are there lenses in those glasses? Are we sure she has not hopped on the Britney crazy train?

I would be so pissed to sit behind her in a movie theatre.

Oh yeah, and that too. But at least its removable and she can put it on the seat next to her.

Yeah, you can win. After being directed to your blog by james_boston, your hotness has been outed. Too late, bitch. No more complaining about your appearance allowed. Especially the "it sucks to be too good to be true" shit.
PS
Yeah, they are. So she is wearing a wig, glasses sans lenses, and Lacoste. (Blech!)

Didn't JLo allegedly get her lips thinned (around the time of her second nose job) so she would look, I don't know, more "Hollywooody"? Anyone else hear that?

Although it could be the makeup.

its a wig

Eryka does NOT have this hair Y'all. I promise you. Girl SHAVES HER HEAD, just like Tyra, and wears wigs. THIS AFRO IS A DAMN WIG, I SWEAR. Didn't anyone see Dave Chappelle's "Block Party"? Badu performs and the wind blows off her wig (which she just then rips off her head and goes "natural" which means her scraggely thin pulled back hair is exposed). That movie only came out a few years ago, I don't think it would even be possible to grow an afro of this size and magnitude in that amount of time. I'm a big Badu fan, and she even sings about her hair on a song saying "my hair ain't never hung down to my shoulders, and it might now grow, you never know". Real Badu fans know whats up, but we love her just the same. It takes more balls to rock a WIG of an afro than it does to rock an actual afro. Fo shizzle. (yes, I sometimes think I'm black).

Don't mind the hair but the glasses has gots ta go.

And juju… I feel for you and your pouffy lips. I got made fun of constantly (by the girls) for being a DD cup at 13. I was "popular" but really got tired of having boys asking my chest for a date.

Great, now the paparrazzi will find me. If they have any trouble they can look at any starbucks along 635 South. That's SOUTH. It doesn't help because Denise still thinks I'm fat.

Izod sweater and lenseless glasses are telltale signs someone needs an intervention.

I hadn't heard that but maybe she had Michael Jacksons make up person. He should have stuck with the shading around the nose. Now he's just got a nub where his nose used to be.

My ex had OCD that took a huge turn for the worse a few years ago, and he couldn't stop obsessing over my "porn star lips". They're not even that big. Totally normal lip-sized. Enjoy re-arranging your living room and washing your hands, jerk.

Ok, Holla gets to slide because she made me pee my pants a little. But thanks to the latecomers on the 411. Melissa beat you to it.

I'm going to obsess about Janice's lips now too.

As long as I don't chronically wake up to you staring at them and poking the air around them, that's cool, juju.

HA! I knew I was on to something! I don't know if melissa saw my post about how funny it would be if it was a wig or not but she has pleased me none the less.

I concede, but I'm still the bigger Badu fan I'm sure so my rant was still much needed.

"Tyrone" is after all MY karaoke song, yo. You can't eff with that.

Ok, I will give you your #1 fan status. At least you are trying to defend someone cool. Not like some Perez, Wentz, or, Aiken fan. When will they learn?

Shit, Janice. Now it's not any fun. I wanted to air poke you and say, "I'm not touching you". Fun ruiner.

Holla: Mine is (when I can find is) "Groove is in the Heart" - I now know what else I will look for. Mwaaa haaa haa. For real, that is the best song to make stank face to.

I have to confess I once air guitar'ed to, Stairway to Heaven. THE SHAME! It was just that once and I wasn't sober. DON'T JUDGE ME!

No dice, juju. The last man who tried that lost his finger. True story.

"Groove is in the Heart" is, also, the best karaoke song ever.

What's a finger. I have 9 more.

So we've established that she is, in fact, "covering it up." So now we can look at Tyra AND Erykah.

I fucken LOVE it & would do it in a heartbeat if I was negro, HOWEVS, it is impractical: my bro got in a car accident backing out with a similar wig on for a halloween costume. True story. Couldn't see shit!

I don't think my people have a natural hair do. I could bedazzle my hair with feathers. Oh wait. I could go with a fruit basket on my head.

Ok eeks, thats fuckin funny.

Yes, it's a wig people…but i don't care what she wears, looks like or says…her music is classic…timeless…and just as gorgeous as she is…you betta believe her new album will bring the heat…go Badu!!

OMG, news alert, it's a friggin wig. I wish I'd had heard that before.

If it's a wig all the better. That means I can actually have that hair. The first thing I'm going to do is make me some afro puffs. My friend Kenya wears them all the time and I've always been jealous because they're so incredibly cute. My dreams have come true! This is the best hair related day I've had since I was 10 years old and two girls at summer camp cornrowed my hair for me. I had always wished I could have cornrows, too. Granted, I looked like a complete dumbass, but it was still a dream come true.

Wow. Well, it doesn't look so bad. I don't mind the natural look every now and then. Everyone should check out my upcoming show with my fabulous friends!! It premieres January 28th. Check out my website! http://www.myspace.com/dylanlovejd or http://www.lovejd.tv

That's what my hair looks like when I encounter severe humidity.

The pic reminds me of me in the 70's….the hair that is…..I don't think I was black way back then…..

preach on! sure weaves are fun, but nothing is better than the real thing!

negro, please. that is NOT her real hair.

it's just not.

i agree that it's not necessarily fair to accuse black women who straighten their hair of not claiming their heritage or trying to be white. that said, i know that when i begged my mom (who is a white jew… i'm adopted) to let me relax my hair and she said no, i was so mad. i wanted pretty straight hair like the white girls. in college it was all cornrows (with extensions) because i wanted long hair, but my hair just would never get long enough because it would always break… because of the chemicals. duh.

then finally in 1996, i went to a hair cuttery in dupont circle in d.c. and said "cut this shit off." trying to deal with relaxed hair in humidity, being afraid to go swimming without a blowdryer and hot comb in my purse was just too fucking much.

i have had short hair for 12 years and am never going back. in fact, i just shaved my head to a 1/2 inch on monday because the little mini fro i was rocking was a pain in the ass to comb. plus, nothing worse than leaning back on a couch and standing up with down's syndrome head. (all flat in the back.)

i agree that not a lot of men find afros, or black women with natural hair attractive, (and tyra and beyonce have convinced many that weaves are the way to go. blech.) luckily my man, who is as white as tom cruise is gay, thinks i'm hot. corky hair and all.

*steps off her soapbox*

stopthemadness, go you! I think black women with natural hair look awesome. It annoys me that short hair is considered less feminine, but then again, forced ideas of what being a woman should entail bother me in general. I say people comfortable enough in their own skin to follow their own beat are far more attractive, regardless of how they wear their hair.

you realize of course that is a wig

YES, ITS A WIG. WE GET IT!

Oh Mylanta, some people are repetitive. Wig wig wig. Wig this, wig that.

wigga, please!

I've never worn a wig. But who really cares? It's all about image. I should bleach my hair within an inch of it's life. Roll it in hot curlers… and then it would be acceptable?

That's a wig. If you've seen Dave Chapelle's Block Party, she takes it on and off.

do you think that she has the same set of hair down under? how bout her armpits? eeeekkkk

i hate a black folk's hair.

Why is is wig or weave okay if it looks "natural"? It's still fake! A lot of sisters are sporting these afro weave wigs and extensions and passing for real.