Good Hair focuses on America but this hair thing goes on with black women WORLDWIDE. the weirdest thing i ever saw was my friend in Slovenia tying and sewing fake hair into the sparse head of hair of this (black) Brasilian girl we knew there. the Brasilian girl gets these long waist-length weaves that make her real hair fall out, but she is too vain to take a break from the weaves so she is now nearly bald. she has some vague plan to save up her money and get hair plugs, but until then she just about has to get the fake her glued to her hair in places. it was a horrific and saddening sight.

though to a much lesser degreee, i am also obsessesed with my hair. but at least it's my own real hair and nothing i need to buy in a pack and have attached. so i feel a little saner.