Keep your hands, OUT of my hair!

Now, okay, now sometimes, certain people can get away with this pet peeve of mine. I guess it all depends on your energy. However, IF I have asked you before, not to touch my hair, or I give you a stank face when you do OR you don’t know me. Do not touch my hair.

It’s like any other touch. Its not welcome unless its invited. How do you know its invited? If my body language says so, example,  I move toward you or give you the hand gesture to go ahead. If I literally invite you, “go ahead, you can touch it if you want” Or if you ask me and I say, yes, you can touch my hair. Besides those, keep your hands to yourself.

And EVEN if  you some how missed that it was intrusive, rude, invasive, WHAT about the texture of my hair would give you the idea that running your fingers through it would be acceptable!? NO! It’s really a bit weird and even worse if its wet…WHY would you even desire to touch it?

“Is your hair wet!? OMG *reaches to touch*” *gets smacked* “YES, it is.” Why would that make you want to touch it? Then your hands will be wet, and possibly sticky or whatever depending on what products are in my hair AND the fact that you still want to touch it, says to me that your hygiene may not be the best…. Regardless, I do not want your hands in my wet hair!!! It feels like a magnet for all the germs in your hand that I will now be carrying atop my hair like the whos in whoviille on a speck of dust on my big afro dandelion.

So basically, don’t touch. My big natural hair does not mean that it is an open invitation to touch it. Or make rude comments either. Yes my hair is big, yes I did do my hair today, yes I am black, thank you for letting me know that it looks like I stuck my finger in a light socket,  No that does not make personal space an exception when it comes to touching. Why would it?!