Okay y'all, confession time...

[Number23]

Who here had a jheri curl back in the day?

Or still does???

The Jheri Curl kings here plus I love, LOVE this song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOy0Se_28rg

I know I'm not normally this silly but it's been a looong week and it is finally the weekend!!!!!!! The fact that it is 9:53 am and I've already picked out the bottle of red wine I'm drinking tonight should say it all...

[firedupdem]

1. LOL!!

No, I didn't have a jheri curl...but I understand you bottle of red wine feeling. It's only my first week working and I can't wait for the weekend!

[Number23]

2. C'mon firedup, you can tell your old buddy 23...

I can see you cruising Detroit in your Cadillac with your bottle of activator and afro pick in the passenger seat next to you. Winking at the boys at the bus stop... :)

I never had a jheri curl either but my grandmother did. :scared: My grandmother, the prissiest Southern woman in the world had a curl for like 6 years in the early 80s. I still can't look at the photos.

[Fire1]

3. Nope, not I. Had a pretty big 'fro though. Couldn't stand that

jheri curl juice!

[Number23]

4. It always cracked me up. Back in the day, there was always that one person with a curl

but who would DENY it saying that they just had naturally "good hair." :rofl: I was a little kid back then and it was still all I could not to laugh in their faces.

I had the 'fro too when I was about 5. Then I when I turned 8 I had the braids girl, with beads! My hair was almost to my waist at that age and I remember slapping people, walls and doors with them damn things every time I turned my head. :)

[Fire1]

6. I think the braids and beads are so cute on the little ones and

they all love to swing those braids and just grin!! Some things never change.:hi:

[jmm]

5. Any discussion of Jheri curls make me want to sing this-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktl6L3ZwvL4

Thankfully I was in kindergarten when Full Force released that song and the look went out of style soon afterwards so I never considered that look :D.

[Number23]

7. Oh Lord, the Soul Glo ads were simply priceless

What was worse?? The five pounds of grease flying off of those people's heads every time they moved or that woman's horrible singing voice??? The scene where Daryl's family came to visit and left big, greasy stains all over Cleo's couch was too funny because it was TOO TRUE.

And don't think that just because the 80's are loooong gone, that the jheri curl has gone out of style, jmm. I'm willing to bet that somewhere right now, someone is reaching for their bottle of activator to "freshen up their curls" a bit. :scared: :scared:

[jmm]

8. I still know of guys that use S-Curl so I'm sure

there are still some people with jheri curls too. At my last job I supervised a guy who used it. Of course he insisted he didn't need it because he had Indian in him but nobody was fooled and most of us called him S-Curl. One time when he arrived for his shift I asked him to relieve another staff member since I needed her to do something else. He said ok but 20 minutes later when I saw her doing what I wanted him to I had to go look for him. When I walked by one of the bathrooms he had the door wide open. I watched him lick his finger, rub his eyebrows, then fix his hair while blowing kisses to himself in the mirror. After laughing I told him to quit trying to be pretty and get to work.

[Number23]

9. Oh no, the S-Curl! The bastard stepchild of the jheri curl

For those who wanted the "texturization" of the jheri curl but not the commitment. :eyes:

And girl your friend sounds like a straight trip. :) I actually dated a guy once who had an S curl. Like your pitiful sounding friend, he always would let loose with the "oh no, I have good hair. This just moisturizes it" crap. He even called it his "juice and berries" for his hair, as in when the crazy barber asked Akeem what he had in his hair in Coming to America.

You know the more I think about it, I think Coming to America actually killed the jheri curl.

[HopeOverFear]

10. Not me, I used the hot comb

[Number23]

11. For some, the hot comb was just the gateway to the jheri curl.

People that didn't want to commit to a relaxer jumped ship straight for the jheri curl. I don't understand it either.

But I do remember the damnable hot comb. My ears and neck still burn every time I think about it. I remember the sizzle as it went through my head... horrible memories. :scared: