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- Feb 25, 2024
For years and I mean YEARS people have told me they just don't believe that they do this with things like grease, lard and butter but it's true. I ran into an African street tout in Kabukicho (a problem in of itself) that told me his wife was from some tribe and rubs butter in her hair and he rips people off for butter money. I looked it up after and found a documentary that since faded into obscurity. For the last hour or two I've been trying to track it down and I found the clip I was looking for.I remember a Haitian girl telling me how her and her mamie put "grease" in their hair while we were just chilling in the middle school lunch line. To this day idk if she was talking about legit fat grease, skin oils, or some weird hair product. She has the nerve to be uppity about it with me too, no wonder these "people" reek
Essentially, like eating dirt this is something that has been handed down from Africa to modern Seesnin' Americans and is something some of them do. Some tribes use butter as a body spread and the Himba in particular mix it with powder/dirt to make a hair moisturizer/protector/style and it's abhorrent looking. It's funny because they don't bother using their butter for food. Instead their most common dish is sour milk and maize soup, as well as boiled flour mixed with salt and oil. That and whatever they buy from the store I guess.