Medium Hair Don't Care: Share the Love

I have a bone to pick with the natural hair community. Our natural hair is glorious in all shapes, textures, colors, and lengths. Yes, lengths. I am tired of the long natural hair worship. Enough already with the grow your hair to the floor challenges. We're so glad that people can grow their hair long but it seems as though the waist length worship has made people go coo coo for cocoa puffs. No, seriously it has to stop. People are standing on their heads, massaging onion juice into their scalps, and taking horse pills just to grow their hair to new lengths. It's as though the long hair obsession has made people forget how fun and unique our hair is at different lengths.

Now granted I've had my eyes glazed over in awe of big, fluffy puffs type of admiration too. I've watched YouTube on end wishing my hair would grow already so I could stop stalking all the natural hair guru channels. I have purchased special shampoos, creams, vitamins, and oils to help me grow my hair to new lengths-all in pursuit of that extra long natural hair. Well, this tomfoolery stops right here, right now. Ladies, it's time to throw our hands in the air and say, medium hair, don't care. We can hype up medium hair and start a new movement--medium hair worship. Want to know how to do it? Here's how:

1.Flood the internet with medium hair, don't care tweets, Facebook posts, and Youtube vids. Let people know that we say it loud, we're medium haired and proud. Post pics of lovely medium fros, wash n gos and other awesome hair styles. Yes, we can do it! Start posting now.

Enjoying my medium length hair!

2. Complain more about how your medium hair is so hard to care for that you take so long to do it. Now this is important. You see, waist length naturals need to know that it's not the size of the hair ball, it's the length of the detangling session. Our tangles and knots are just as cringe worthy as the waist and hip length naturals. Perhaps even moreso, because we have to be careful not lose the length we already have. They can lose a few hairballs the size of a spider and not suffer, but if we do it, it is a major issue for sure!

3. Connect with transitioning naturals and let them know that medium hair don't care is for them too. After all, they will reach medium hair before they grow beyond lengths, so why not come over to the medium length side. We will establish a community of love, nurturing, and hair acceptance.

So, long hair naturals, no offense but we can't relate to you when you're fluffing your gigantic fro, separating your long hair into twists, and tossing your mane around. Yes, we know that you were our length years ago, but we don't care. Some of us have years to get to that length and so, rather than worship or hate you, we chose to carve out our own niche in the natural hair community. We are medium length naturals and we are proud.