Zendaya is over 'Boxer Braids'

It looks like the 'boxer braids' trend is popping up again. This so called trend is not a trend, it's simply two braids or cornrows that black people wear as a hairstyle, this has been going on for many many many years. 

Singer and actress Zendaya is another celebrity who agrees with me and several other people out there that this is not a new trend. During an event for her #REALisBEAUTIFUL campaign, she explained that cornrows have been a part of the Black community since the beginning of time. She said to Clutch Magazine

"Braids are not new, black women have been wearing braids for a very long time. We've been using that as a protective style, as a hairstyle."

The new Covergirl also went on to explain how unfortunate it is that it took non-minority faces for the style to be recognized as a mainstream trend. For example, the Kardashians, Karli Kloss, Katy Perry and many more.

She said 

"Another problem is it became new and fresh and fun because it was on someone else other than a Black woman," "You know what I mean? So that is the frustration. That's where the [cultural] appropriate element comes into play."

On the New York Post they likened one of the first daughters, Sasha Obama who is a black young woman — to a slew of white figures like the Kardashians, Blake Lively, and Ronda Rousey, who they say recently popularized the trend. Unfortunately, this is not the truth nor the case.

In my opinion, I agree with Zendaya and go further on that, it does tend to happen that black culture 'trends' are celebrated within the black community but when someone outside the black community tries it somehow it's a new discovery but really it's not. 

What do you think of this 'Boxer Braids trend'? How would you like to spend £35 on a tutorial on how to get 'boxer braids' no cornrows not two braids on your head, no that's not right you don't need to.

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