Word: curls
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...thread on Yahoo! Answers asks, "How come no Disney Princess has curly hair?" YouTube led us to Princess Giselle, as portrayed by Amy Adams in Disney's half-animated Enchanted, but my daughter roundly dismissed Adams' gorgeously coiled tresses because the princess she plays has barely a hint of curl whenever she inhabits her cartoon self. My daughter's takeaway: in the fantasy realm that is Disney's raison d'être, straight hair is the stuff of dreams. (See the top 10 Disney controversies...
...although I'd expressly planned not to take her to see the new Disney movie, I've switched course. My daughter is curious about the curl factor: How much is there? And is it more on the wavy side or full-blown curly? The trailer offers little insight. Perhaps that's intentional. What I'm more interested in is that the film's website describes Tiana as a "smart, tough and determined" waitress from New Orleans who "can hold down three jobs and still have time to dream." That sounds like a princess I could curl up with...
...then began beasting out curl after curl and yelling ‘Ya! You think the Vermont Coach can do this!? No way the Vermont coach can do this!’ There is no doubt that the Vermont coach could not due [sic] as many reps curling 135 pounds as the man I saw before me. Problem was, Coach Fitz let this macho, you-are-only-as-good-as-how-much-weight-you-can-throw-around mentality drive his whole approach to training athletes...
...eighteen students have signed up to learn to curl. Mechenbier is the only one in the club with experience, but he says he is confident that people will learn quickly...
This could have been read as a lighthearted exchange about beauty and style. But it actually reflects a serious and clamorous debate. A growing community on sites like Nappturality.com urges black women to reject curl-relaxing methods, calling them "taking the easy road" and "conforming" to white aesthetics. Meanwhile, talk-show host Tyra Banks just announced via Twitter that she will abandon her weave and don "no fake hair at all!" for her show's season premiere. Mixed in with the supportive response to the former supermodel's decision was skepticism about whether she could be attractive with what...