White and box braids?

[Estavino]

I have 3B curly hair and i've just had enough of it. Usually I shove it in a bun a day after it's been washed as it's just a nightmare to try to mane especially if i'm in a rush.

I've been considering box braids for years and now my hairdresser is offering it as a service I'm really considering it. However one thing holding me back is cultural appropriation/people thinking i'm trying to be something else. I'm caucasian, mid twenties and live quite rurally (worried it will look like i'm trying to make a statement but in reality i'm doing it for convenience.)

How can you appropriate a hairstyle?

Is relaxed hair appropriated from caucasian culture?

I've genuinely never understood this part of the whole 'cultural appropriation' thing. Fair enough, for things with cultural or religious meaning but a hairstyle? Really?

It can look really good (no matter what race you are) depending on your face shape and bone structure. Plus it can be extremely useful as a way of controlling unruly hair, which I'm guessing from your OP is what you're looking for?

As I mentioned earlier, I've known many people who've had braids, of several races and both sexes. If it's what you want, go for it. If it's not for you, then no worries, you'll find out. It's not permanent. If it works for you, great! If it doesn't, what have you lost? Nothing really. As you were.

Don't. It's appropriative and looks ridiculous on white people.

It really is not. The OP has explained it is something that would suit her busy lifestyle and something she has mulled over for a while. There is nothing there remotely appropriative and she clearly has no intention (far from it of causing any offence.

Any woman has the right to do whatever they please with their hair, be it braid, plait, crimp, weave, relax etc

Your statement regarding white people is ridiculous, offensive and quite wrong condepetie.

What suits some may not suit one, different styles for different folks.