Facebook Group Leads Fight Against Community Destroying "Lace Front" Wigs
The famous "Lace Front Baby" is the poster child of this Facebook based "movement."
Finer Negrosity: Because when you clutch your pearls you could always clutch them harder.
In the fight for hair equality, a brave group of Facebook users have banded together to rally against the greatest scourge of our time -- fake hair. Namely, the "Lace Front" a style of fancy wigs that were once only found in the finest of Las Vegas revues and Broadway dressing rooms that have, thanks to the likes of Beyonce, become a hair fashion staple for women who tried wigs after the weave stole their edges.
Since all parts of black life are political, so is your hair. But this isn't necessarily about folks accusing you of getting that weave to look like your old blonde Mermaid Barbie from the 1990s.
This is about saving your yaki-covered soul.
Said the "protest" organizers:
This is in a effort to support all women who do hair! The government has you fooled if you think crime, drugs, gangs, or AIDS is the #1 cause for deaths in the black community... Its tacky ass lace fronts!!! Lets all take a stand to stop this plague that is causing so much grief on the streets of our black communities around the world!!!!
More than 3,000 folks have said they plan to join in the protest. And while it's debateable if that expensive wig you bought at the Korean-owned wig shop for Meemaw is causing your block to be on fire, murders and theft over hot hair is a serious problem in some parts of the country.
So, wig out appropriately. Make sure you aren't buying "Blood Yaki." Get your fake hair from a reputable source.
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Good to know some people got their priorities right...!
I am so sorry but "Lace Front Baby" is really freaking me out!!
OMG!!!! I can't stop laughing at "lacefront baby".
I'm glad you posted this. Lace wigs are the most fake looking and uncomfortable wig ever made! So many ladies in my neighborhood wear them, so I bought one just to fit in (I'd been on a weave strike for a year). I don't know how women wear those things! That glue on your scalp and that fake hairline...I felt like my head was suffocating. After two hours, I wanted to rip it off! It itches and should be burned....lol
I just can't take improperly executed wigs. If its not "John Travolta" status then its just wrong. Just saw a woman in the grocery store with a lacefront on that was loose in the front because she was sweating in the heat. She looked like she ran into a band of "wild in-juns", got scalped, lost it in the "pile" and just slapped a random chinese woman's scalp on her head.
Baby Jesus. Please, please, PLEASE tell me that picture is photo-shopped!!
Lace fronts are the work of the devil.
HOW IN THE WORLD did someone put that wig on an infant.....
Everyone wears wigs. Whites and Blacks wear wigs, so I don't understand why Black women are always singled out. I have long hair, but I have gone from braids to wigs/weaves, to natural just to change it up. Not that this matters, but allot of men get bored seeing their wife / longtime girlfriend in the same look year after year. My husband of over 10 years made a comment that it is like "being with a different woman every few months.," great for role playing too.LOL. Maybe too much info but it may help someone to keep the spice in their relationship, because many divorces and infidelity are caused by boredom and wanting "strange." I think the baby picture is funny as hell, but I am sure it is just a joke picture and no one took their baby outside like that except for Halloween. Stop being so uptight "Bag Ladies," and hatin' on the happy hair wearers, get a different look/ hair sometimes and you might get happy too.
OHHHHHH as usual The famous "Lace Front Baby" is the wind beneath my wings. I am closer to the sun and therefore browner because I soar so high. The famous "Lace Front Baby" is like one of those hair doll heads from back in the day.
Good. I'm tired of women going around looking like chewbacca.
. The only reason that we are made to feel self conscious is based on a non Black idea that we lack hair and are jealous of white females. I vew Black hair design as art, and art is where you make it. I view my head as a canvas, and my hair as the paint. Just call me the Faith Ringgold of Hair. :o)
Left out that i in view. Sorry for that.
WATU WAZURI, Use afro sheen!! It's not that black woman are singled out for wearing wigs, it's THIS particular brand of wigs looks HORRIBLE. And further, these children will be bald by the time they are 28!!
AND, there are women who have NO IDEA what their natural hair looks or feels like.
Afro Sheen ad from back in the day!!
I am a natural haired sista who wore lace fronts as a protective style for four months. No glue, no tape. I love them. I will never get a weave again. They are hot in the summer time, but other than that, they're great. You can switch up your style in a heart beat without damaging your hair with heat or chemicals. It's a win-win. Not sure why people get so up in arms about them.
i hear people saying they wear wigs to protect their hair. protect from what? if you constantly wearing it and never show your real hair any way why protect it. people wear them because they are to lazy to maintain there own hair.
Although everyone is entitled to their own opinion, why do people concern themselves with how others choose to wear their hair or anything else for that matter? Trust and believe there was a time when someone thought you could use a new look, but it's what YOU wanted to look like. Who are we to pass judgement on another on such a personal issue? It's like pads or tampons..lol. Besides a new look works wonders! After having longer hair I'm now enjoying my shorter cut but sometimes I want a ponytail or hair down to by bra strap for a minute so I make that change. I'm not faking anything so there's no shame in it. I'm liable to go from my natural bob to a longer bodywave to highlights in a month. I'm just having fun playing with the options available to me. We all have our own style. Stop blowing out each other's candle.