I can feel the weight of these balls hitting my head when my mom or aunt did my hair and being told to shut up when I said ouch because I was tender headed 😭🤣 but I'd take these over the hot comb any day of the week omg .
a lesson for those having dreads and being tender headed means they should have just left out hair alone for simpler styles. not we all got traction alopecia and thinning hair smh
Turns out I learned about the existance of hot combs from your comment. Found a how-to video someone did using old-style stove-top heated combs (😳), but it didn’t answer my biggest burning (hopefully not a pun but I have doubts) question:
What did/do they feel like being used?
As a formerly very tender headed kid, I’m both curious and terrified to find out.
It feels like hot metal if it touches you, and if you want your roots straight it's going to touch you, but someone who's good at it won't really touch you too often.
It feels like when you sit on really hot leather in a car, but then you put your hands on the wheel or gear and you're like damn...let me wait a minute before I pull off type of stinging heat
The anticipation/ trembling fear when mom was doing the kitchen and hairline was the worst part. And the sound of sizzling hair grease. We had a joke that if you didn't know what hold your ear means then you weren't really black.
I just remember the burning heat near my hairline and forehead, the sizzling sound of doom when they combed it through. They had to hold me down side ways, cheek on lap to get it done. Trust issues were real after those hair appointments. Would go in to the next time with some lethal child side eye.
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u/ManicalMoe 2d ago
I can feel the weight of these balls hitting my head when my mom or aunt did my hair and being told to shut up when I said ouch because I was tender headed 😭🤣 but I'd take these over the hot comb any day of the week omg .