Braids on men / boy children

layla02 · (#1 (**permalink**))

Whats your view on this trend?

zaghawa · (#2 (**permalink**))

layla02 wrote:

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Whats your view on this trend?

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I don’t like it but to each his own I suppose… I like it short and clean cut.

Rastawoman · (#3 (**permalink**))

I don't really like a bal' head, my bro's had braids until there hair was long enough for locks and I think they looked sweet. I like locks but if I had to choose between a bal' head and braids it'll braids everytime.

Jolie Soie · (#4 (**permalink**))

I see cornrows as a little girls' hairstyle sincelittle girlswere the only ones wearing that style when I was a child. When my SO said he was thinking of getting his hair braided in cornrows, I was horrified and asked him to please not do that. It just doesn't lookin anyway, shape or form, manly to me.

Peacemaker · (#5 (**permalink**))

layla02 wrote:

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Whats your view on this trend?

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It's kinda of gay. On the plus side of it though I can instantly tellthatpeople with themare dumb.

YankeeJamaRican · (#6 (**permalink**))

Braids...under @ 8 years old, ok... after that... YUCK.

Dreadlocks are always niceone.gif

facetygal · (#7 (**permalink**))

I like braids on a guy, but only some can rock it right. Same with a skinhead, only some guys can rock it right. I think some guys have braids cos it draws attention from the girls, girls be like "can I braid ur hair"or "ohh he's got good quality hairI wanna have a baby with him". Overall I think it's cool, and guys with dreads is a double plus.

facetygal · (#8 (**permalink**))

Black_power wrote:

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hey facety you know me...you know what I use to draw attention from the ladies...

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Yes and it ain't ur skinhead :P

Miss Brighter Days · (#9 (**permalink**))

facetygal wrote:

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I think some guys have braids cos it draws attention from the girls, girls be like "can I braid ur hair"or "ohh he's got good quality hairI wanna have a baby with him".

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How old are these girls that think that way????

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Hmmm cane row on grown men - not my flavour, but if its done right, its ok i guess. I just like men with NO HAIR, or with afros - i don't mind that. But when a man has a more intricate hairstyle than me! I don't find it very attractive.

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LOL!

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in all seriousness, there are some men who really shouldn't be rocking canerows. Like the men in their 40's who are going bald! i'VE SEEN SOME BAD CASES - of canerowing around the bald patch. Just let it go!

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And canerow doesn't suit everyone, a lot of men don't seem to know that! and canerowing your hair into two bunches - is just for LITTLE GIRLS!!!!!!! I've seen some girly hair styles on men.

facetygal · (#10 (**permalink**))

These girls could be up in their 20s, and as immature as a shame. Thing is I like guys who stand out and are different so if some of them rock a girly hairstyle but still look good then more power to them

Miss Brighter Days · (#11 (**permalink**))

facety girl - girls in their 20's talking like that! ITS A DAMN SHAME. I would expect that from girls who are in their mid teens - at the very MOST!

One thing that attracts me to a man is his appearance of being masculine - if he has his hair all zigzaged and sticking up, in two pony tails like my eight year old neice. It will turn me off!

But i do understand what you mean about standing out

facetygal · (#12 (**permalink**))

Yeah thats y i said it's the immature 20 somethings that carry on like that. But in saying thatmy bredrin came to my house with his hair braided in a certain way and I was like "damn! You need to get ur hair done like that more often". And as he's lyin on my bed I'm there stroking his hair and playing with his plaits. So I guess I'm just as bad!

ChubbiChix · (#13 (**permalink**))

I used to love braides but once I seen puerto rican dudeswalking around with braids and everybody and they mother has it made me not like them anymore. Now I prefer low neat hair cut, dark ceaser, waves that sort of thing. Dreads is good when they nice and neat and pretty but no braids, there wack now like gold fronts.

Lovedaddy · (#14 (**permalink**))

Can't stand them. Too many connatations with thug culture and nowadays a visible effect of American Cultural Imperialism.

When I was a toddler I had them until about two, but then my Pops did the proper thing and cut them off. They look messy, unprofessional and symbolise more negative thinmgs nowadays than positive one.

On kids I can understand, but my sister came to me when her son was two to cut them off his head. Jamaican traditiona an all that...

Truthful time here: If two brothers came to me to be interviewed for a Job, the one with short hair will always get the nod as far as I'm concerned. It looks far more professional in a business context and I just question the need for a grown man to have them. To me they evoke low-aspiration, ghetto mentality and a victim of American Cultural Imperialism.

That's how I feel team...

the soul machine · (#15 (**permalink**))

aint nothing wrong with with a simple allback braids as long as it aint those zizag patterns, men who do these zizag patterns and who trim their facial hairs and side beardsinto perfect triangularshapes got alotta time on their hands in other words they aint men.

markey · (#16 (**permalink**))

What the hells wrong with black man wearing cornrows?cornrows, afro,dreadlocks,its all part of black culture.I have my hair in cornrows.It looks neat and clean.

HatHaruhotep · (#17 (**permalink**))

Im Hotep,

I think people should do what makes them feel good about their looks, so I wouldn't want any bans on braids. However, from a personal standpoint, I think braids on little boys is fine. Braids on men look ridiculous. There is nothing sadder than a man who doesn't want to grow up.

The only man who should wear braids is Stevie Wonder. And he earned them!!

LadyDay · (#18 (**permalink**))

canerows and braids on men is sexy....i love it. my sons hair wont be cut till he can speak or untill he decides he wants otherwise...plus its a natural hair style for both male and femal and there is nothing homo about it

An_Advanced_Spark · (#19 (**permalink**))

I love men with hair, beautiful fro, beautiful locs and beautiful canerow...
But having said that it doesn't suit ALL men.

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Me in a straight skin fade dude... some of the superblacks here would say thats the mark of a coconut but I say if you aint paying for my trim then mind ya buisness..

Really?

Le Moor · (#20 (**permalink**))

Lovedaddy wrote:

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Can't stand them. Too many connatations with thug culture and nowadays a visible effect of American Cultural Imperialism.

When I was a toddler I had them until about two, but then my Pops did the proper thing and cut them off. They look messy, unprofessional and symbolise more negative thinmgs nowadays than positive one.

On kids I can understand, but my sister came to me when her son was two to cut them off his head. Jamaican traditiona an all that...

Truthful time here: If two brothers came to me to be interviewed for a Job, the one with short hair will always get the nod as far as I'm concerned. It looks far more professional in a business context and I just question the need for a grown man to have them. To me they evoke low-aspiration, ghetto mentality and a victim of American Cultural Imperialism.

That's how I feel team...

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LD got to say i always throughly respect your veiws bro, but have to catogorically disagree with your thoughts here.

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Isnt it a conditioning to think of our hair in braids as unproffessional. Scruffy hair is scruffy hair and that may come in European or Afro. By the same token neat styles come in the format of cane row, braids and locks as well as Euro hair.

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Its our culture and we shouldnt be afraid to turn up at interviews with our god given styles.

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The look of Proffessionalism can sometimes be held in the eye of the beholder.

Miss Nellia · (#21 (**permalink**))

Melissa wrote:

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Personally there is nothing sexier for me than afro hair on a man.

Whether it be out in an afro, braids, conrows, dreads whatever i love it!

As long as it ain't no chemically processed shi* with an alice band in it.

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There is nothing more beautiful than black hair, brothers are best at showing off what our natural hair is like and what can be done with it, us woman could take a leaf out of their books with all the weaves, extensions, relaxers etc. We should be sporting fros and braids more too.
Thing I hate is this clean shaven skin head thing that alot of brothers llike to do, it is ok IF YOU HAVE THE RIGHT SHAPED HEAD FOR IT. Otherwise let the hair grow man.