| Good Hair: For Colored Girls Who've Considered Weaves When the Chemicals Became Too Ruff |  | Author: Lonnice Brittenum Bonner
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  68 reviews
Sales Rank: 624,944
Media: Paperback
Pages: 112
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.3
ISBN: 0517881519
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.72408996073
EAN: 9780517881514
ASIN: 0517881519
Publication Date: May 17, 1994
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Product Description
Good Hair is more than a guide to having good hair without relying on harsh treatments and chemicals; it is a funny, folksy, personal, and very wise reflection on the powerful role that hair can play in creating a positive self-image. 33 black-and-white photographs.
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 Save your money, nothing new January 5, 2009
Itsnevertoolate (uk)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
After reading the reviews i got excited and ordered this book, There is no substance in this book. Just kept going on about hair drama growing up, rambling on about nothing. Most of the information that she gave is in the black hair magazines from decades ago. Save your money there is seriously nothing new and just about hair drama.
Very disappointed!
 A Great Start October 18, 2008
Jenita Bliss Griffin (Miami/San Francisco)
Bonner's book was where I started on the journey to a more natural style. She's got some great suggestions as far as how to detangle, what kinds of products to use, and fun styles for texturized hair. TEXTURIZED: find a different guide if you intend to go all natural. A virtue of Good Hair that I really appreciated were the anecdotes that I can relate to as a young woman who left home and left 18 years of braids - which my mama maintained - behind and had no idea how to care for my hair. I needed to hear that the hair God gave me will be beautiful if I'll respect it and to see beautiful examples of African hair AND have someone tell me how to make those looks happen. So she's a proponent of texturing which isn't 100% natural. The woman has some good kitchen table advice for those of us who are embarking on the journey to beautiful balck hair.
 A glorious start to the embrace of my own natural hair July 8, 2008
Assata A. Knox (Summit, NJ USA)
Before reading this book, I felt that I could only wear my hair in two ways: permed and broken. Mrs. Brittenum Bonner shows you how to wear your hair naturally without sacrificing beauty and style. I've wet set my hair now using braids and twists, and come close to the pictures she has in her book--although at one point, my Zorro style looked nothing like hers or how it was supposed to (I discovered then that I needed to make my sections smaller if I wanted the hair to curl at all, much less look similar to the picture).
But aside from being an instruction manual, her anecdotes were what kept me reading the book. She is a natural-born comedienne, drawing on the experiences we all have as not only black women, but as women, period.
Straight up - no chaser! October 1, 2007
R. L. Carson (Winston-Salem, North Carolina USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Lonnice is an excellent writer. The book is funny and down to earth while being honest and straight forward. Lonnice kept me laughing with stories from her own experiences from the straightening comb to the jheri curl. She provides tips on shampooing, conditioning, as well as daily maintenance. I would have liked to have seen newer twist styles but you can buy "Let's Talk Hair" by Pamela Ferrell or "Texured Tresses" by Diane Da Costa, which are both great for that.
Good for starters September 21, 2006
T. Springfield (Alabama)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is great book for starters. Even though she advocates texturizers, it is a good alternative. I recommend it to anyone considering wearing their hair in its natural texture. THe styles and car instruction that she recommends can be done on texturized and natural hair so the texturizers is not really a big deal.
Great starter book!!
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