Curly hair underrepresented ?

I have always had straight hair for the record, though sadly now losing it!! Over the years I have had the Twink perms (two on one occasion because one wouldn't take!). That turned into a sort of wiggly frizz.

I also had a persistent hairdresser once who permed just the front bit to get the Princess Diana flick. It took almost two hours and when he brushed it out it just flopped down! (He didn't charge me!!) Then there was the Afro perm when I had to dip my head in water in the morning and let it drip dry because if I touched it the curls would disappear. It usually turned into a floppy wiggly mess by the afternoon anyway.

I still use sticky rollers on wet hair, drying for several hours, for a bit of body if I go somewhere special. This usually lasts for about an hour.

I can't understand why anyone would want to straighten their hair to make it hang like string. It doesn't suit most people anyway, especially when they are older! Hey ho, I suppose most of us want what we can't have!!

That's probably why my mum used to make me sleep wearing curlers.

I grew up with my mother saying ' a few curls do a lot for a plain face' and it is true and I often see such plain faces on TV when a few curls would have helped.

this should be 'not too curly'

Having been born with dead straight hair I had to suffer Tweeny Twink home perms (anyone remember these?) year after year, as my mum just wanted a daughter to have curls (there were four daughters all with straight hair). In all my school photos I have curls (permed!!). I would love natural curls, but to too curly. My daughters have a natural 'bend' in their hair which holds their styles very well but I have to sit for hours in heated rollers just to give a little volume!

Curly hair has not been fashionable since Shirley Temple! My Mum was forever telling me I would save a fortune because I wouldn't have to pay for expensive perms. Long straight hair has been fashionable since the sixties -remember Cathy McGowan? And it's still in fashion.
What are we curly girls to do?

Thanks Nellimoser for sharing the wonderful photo of your GreatGrandmother, and a wonderful representation of naturally curly hair for Gransnet.
Tv producers take a leaf out of GN book ?

Channel 4 obviously don't discriminate ( Kathy Newman)

(This photo was of my great grandmother. She died when my grandmother was about 12.)
That photograph took a lot of battering in my grandmothers rather chaotic possession over her 95 years.

I spent hours getting it into a reasonable condition.

Well Nadia Swalhi s job as a presenter doesn’t seem to have been hindered by her curly hair she’s a very busy bee on tv

My great grandmother . This should read " I look very much like her. "
She looks very much like me apart from the 1890s clothes in the photograph. The hair is hopelessly frizzy

BlueBelle, The Lady on breakfast Tv this morning was very happy because she no longer has to straighten her beautiful naturally long curly hair to do her on screen job, so going by what she said, she had up until now been required to do so.

Surely it goes by fashion All my girl grandkids straigten their beautiful curly hair When I was young I used to curl my straight straight hair
Surely there won’t be more curly headed people on tv until the fashion changes Simple as

Elegran

Brilliant Elegran, made me laugh

But scarcely It does seems to be going that way !

Should they have a quota for all who are under-represented? People who can't speak a word of English, convicted terrorists who are being prevented from performing on-camera suicide bombings by not being included, people who have nothing to say and would be unable to articulate it anyway - and how about all those who don't want to be on TV - they suffer grievously from not being represented on our screens, despite being a majority of the population.

It would seem so Teetime?

I am mega curly can I get a job as an actress now?

She just stated, that curly haired actors/actresses were underrepresented, how she came to that observation wasn’t clear.
I am not sure how a production team would work out a quota for a programme, what about bald men?

In attempts to be fair & representative, it seems like the best person for the job may not get it because not enough x y z people have been included, should a percentage of denture wearers also be include , Ohh perhaps there’s chance for me yet ?

I wrote "had it existed" but of course curls were not confined to antedeluvian pre-TV times. Some really frizzy perms erupted onto the screen at one time.

Morning TV has a lot of time to fill. Some items are definitely inconsequential padding.

We'll if they are going to get silly, I think women like me, who have lost all their hair, are completely under represented!

Once upon a time curls were fashionable, so everyone wanted them. If they were blest/cursed with smooth hair they tortured it to make it curl. Curls would then have been over represented on TV (had it existed) Now smooth heads are in fashion, so curls don't appear as often as straight hair.

If the complainer wishes to change that, she will have to change popular desires to look "with it".

My mother had really curly hair, which even though it was never amenable to management, was always cut into a a very chic short style that changed slightly constantly with fashion. It didn't stop her ending up Head Mistress of a prep school.

Are they a minority group then? what about ‘gingers’
Are they under represented too?
I shall be on the look out for curlyheads on tv now.

Underrepresented on television! What extraordinary things some people concern themselves with!
The dearth of curls presumably comes from the young and their obsession with very long hair.
I'm v curly and as a child longed for straight hair and long plaits, but am bewildered by the current craze. Is it influenced by the beauty industry's desire to create and sell more 'product'?
And AIBU to find the way they all constantly flick their hair around v irritating? (That happens on television too.)