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In the Defense of Hair

9 Aug

I don’t think I was the only one who cried when the camera panned over to show Gabby Douglas’ mother, Natalie Hawks, celebrating her daughters win. This moment of celebration was short lived before critics started nagging on Douglas’ hair. Now Hawks, being a good mom, is out there defending her daughter. And she makes a lot of good points.

1. Douglas has been living with a white family in Iowa. And you can guess how many black hair salons there are in Iowa. The answer is none. Hawks said, “I don’t think people realize sometimes that she doesn’t live with me. She lives with a white host family and they don’t know anything about taking care of her hair. And there’s no black salons in their area [in Iowa] – not one. We had to work really hard to find a stylist to come and do her hair.”

2. Gymnastics is tough on hair, any hair. I mean as a girl I can tell you ponytails are not your hairs friend. Hawks said, “It’s really been African American women that have come out and attacked her. They don’t know about gymnastics. She has to keep her hair in a ponytail 28-30 hours a week. In gymnastics you’re tumbling around on your hair. You’re falling backwards on it. You’re doing “timers” and your hair is constantly snagging on the mat, and for our hair that’s very detrimental. You’re going into foam pits – and any hair stylist will tell you that foam on African American hair is destructive. It breaks the hair horribly.”

3. Hawks got Douglas’ hair done before the Olympics. She got a stylist to come do it. Hawks said, “What is funny is I had someone come do her hair before the Olympics. We put all this effort into getting her hair done and they still didn’t like it!”

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Hot Olympian of the Day: Ryan Lochte

25 Jun

To get you pumped for the summer Olympics we will be picking a hot Olympian to profile every day. Because nothing should make you more excited about the Olympics than some eye candy. As the first in this series I’ll be profiling swimmer Ryan Lochte. Lotche just advanced in first place to the 400-meter individual medley with a time of 4 minutes, 10.66 seconds. This beat swimmer and Subway enthusiast Michael Phelps by about 4 seconds.

Reasons to love the Lochtenator:

1. He recently traded in his long curls for a sleek hair cut. Just google him you will see what a difference a hair cut can make towards hotness.

2. He is much hotter than Phelps. Men’s Health named him the Hottest Summer Body of 2012.

3. This Olympics Lochte is looking to win 5 gold medals. We all know there is nothing sexier than gold to a woman. Lochte already has 3 gold medals.

4. One of his favorite movies is the “Notebook.” Don’t worry he also likes more manly films like “Half Baked.”

5. He has a tattoo of the Olympic rings on the inside of his right bicep.

-M

 

But She Was So Adorable

4 Jun

Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson is retiring at the ripe old age of 20. In 2008 Johnson won 4 medals in Beijing including one gold for the balance beam. Then she took a hiatus from gymnast to focus on being a celebrity. She won the show “Dancing with the Stars.” Johnson was inspired to compete again after a skiing accident blew out her knee. Although she recovered some Johnson has decided to retire because her knee injury is just too serious.That’s a serious bummer. I’m sure they will miss her smile in London this summer.

-M