Sometimes, you just can’t tell if a baby is a boy or a girl — especially if the baby in question is bald-headed.
Mothers (and fathers) weary of people looking at their daughters and saying “He is so cute!” may have found a solution. This mother did:
Your first thought when seeing that picture is probably: Does that baby have on a wig?
Yes…and it’s not for Halloween. It’s a baby wig!
The mother says: “Its never too early for my baby to start looking glamorous like Beyonce” and “I wouldnt be caught dead without my lacefront, and my baby won’t either”.
If a mother only wants strangers to correctly guess her baby’s gender and isn’t interested in her two-month old being as “glamorous as Beyonce” then twelve-inch Yaki may seem excessive. For those mothers there is “Baby Bangs”. It’s a hairpiece with a headband attached that a parent can place on her daughter’s head and it gives the illusion that she has a lot of hair.
Recently, Tyra Banks talked about baby wigs on her show.
What do you think about baby wigs? How young is too young to start adding lacefront to your daughter’s hair? Is this an example of a culture obsessed with appearances or just a mother desperate for people to acknowledge her baby as a girl? Would you put a wig on your bald-headed baby? What about makeup, high heels or a purse? Is there anything wrong with making your daughter look ”as glamorous as Beyonce”?
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Lawd Jeezus, mental enslavement got us Negros totally insane. Black women feed a Billion$ industry TOTALLY ran by Asians. Mirror, mirror on the wall, which sistas will find the most bone-straight hair of them all – for my newborn baby?
Sista, if you cannot love yourself naturally, how in hell ya gonna successfully contribute to a relationship. Just maybe that why many sistas are (fill in the blank). How ironic: many sistas hate the white girls and brothas who date interracially, but it's the sistsas' who are desperately trying to look like that white girl: fake blond hair, blue contacts, etc….
And, as I said, yeah, some sistas have gone insane. You gotta stop drinking that bitter cool aid. Some women boarder child neglect to purchase several packages of hair.
Message to sistas: Your mama is/was not Pocahontas; but that doesn't mean you have bad hair. Begin to develop self-love for what your parents gene pool created. Love your hair – as is – please!
Also, if you think you got an ounce of social consciousness running through that smart brain – seriously consider an alternative hair style and STOP purchasing fake hair.
Finally, most men care less about hair. Men are simplistic: perfume, pumps and pu**y will do it every time.
sickening….
I don't care what women do with their hair. Hair to me is like an accessory. I like to have fun with it…. I'm probably one of the happiest people out there, but if weave makes me self-hating.. then I'm a happy self-hating sun of a gun. I'm not into wigs though. I think it stems from a childhood fear.
But what the hell!? Babies!? I didn't think it was real. I thought this was a joke! I was bald as a bat when I was a baby and you know what my mother did? She put on a headband with pretty lace and cute frillyness. Everyone knew I was a girl. Fake hair on bald babies is gross and just wrong. I'm still shocked. Lacefronts!? Baby Bangs! Please lawd take me now!
@JG*, I had patches when I was a baby. My mom said that she was happy when my hair grew to the point where she could put a bow in it. Honestly these wigs look horrible and the look on that baby's face says it all, "what on earth did I do to you?"
We start young with the beauty standards!
In all seriousness, this is horrible. There are enough little girls out there that don't love the skin they're in and starting the conditioning from infancy is just going to make it worse. The fact that there are women out there that can't walk out of the house with out some yaki attached to their head is a problem in itself.
I don't think anything is wrong with women wearing weave. I do think there is something wrong with a BABY wearing weave, bangs or any other hair additions. A mother's complex is her own, she shouldn't push that on her child. That's just trife.
And, for the record, even with the weave, that baby looks *nothing* like Beyonce.
@Alissa, I just lost it @ "And, for the record, even with the weave, that baby looks *nothing* like Beyonce." Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
I so thought that this was fake. I am shocked beyond belief. This hurts so much because we are teaching young girls to hate themselves at a young age. I had to go through all sorts of insecurities when I decided to go natural. I finally did it and I am happy that I did it. I finally got a chance to see my hair in its natural state and I love it. With that being said, I miss my permed hair from time to time and all the styles that with went it, so to solve that problem I am going to get a lace front and rock that for a little. Hair is just hair. It is not a necessity and it is not the determining factor in someone's beauty.
I'd rather see a baby in the Baby bangs (subtle) than a full blown 12 in weave. That poor baby look liked Cousin It from the Adams family
This girl is gonna hate her mother for this in 14 or 15 yrs…
So, I was drawn to this article because I recently got this picture in an e-mail and here are my thoughts – what truly bothers me about the black baby in the long wig – is that it is a grown man topless holding her. Passed beauty standards, I think this world is absolutely sick the way that we have a baby girl – with hair like a grown woman – being held by some shirtless man. I don’t know there is something about this image that absolutely gives me goosebumps and makes me want to take action… Maybe I have watched too many Law & Order SVU episodes, read too many cases of child abuse or researched GEM cases…but this picture is a real red flag. IT’S NOT OKAY.
Yeah posting her pics on the internet is probably a no, no. I would kick my parents butts if they did that! LOL.
One word…Trifling!
Ridiculous!!!
What the hell??? this is pure abuse, we gotta do something, are those people for real???
That gives me the idea to create an organization to protect our kids right.
Grown ups can put wigs where ever they want I don`t care but let a kid be a kid!
when is a woman real? i’m serious…i look at black women today and they have on a wig or a weave, fake eyelashes, makeup applied with a paintbrush, colored contacts, doorknocker earrings, blood red lipstick and the list goes on. I mean when do you finally see what’s underneath it all. what does a woman really look like and why buy into mainstream “whiteness?”