My non-Black mommy friends think of nappy as any type of hair that is not immediately identifable as Caucasian. If pregnant with a boy, many of them breath a sigh of relief saying, “Thank goodness it’s a boy, I can just cut his hair short and run a brush over it. I don’t know what I would do with a girl’s hair.”
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No, not THAT N-word. The other N-word — nappy. I’ve been often asked why I chose to call this site ‘Nappy‘ Kitchen. Why not ‘natural kitchen’ or ‘napptural kitchen’ or something of a similar favor.
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I’ll be working on updating the appearance of this blog this week. Please bear with me.

– Nappy Kitchen

This hair blog is about “using a little *humor* to encourage moms to embrace their daughter’s wonderfully nappy, napptural, natural hair”. Let me direct your attention to the Comment Posting Guidelines. If you have not already, please take this time to become familiar with them.

– Nappy Kitchen

Growing up, we were told that dandruff was a sign of hair growth and therefore a good thing. Allowing your scalp to develop a buildup of dandruff, or having ‘growing’ dandruff was suppose to actually make your hair grow, too.
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