#black rapunzel

[bipoc-aesthetics]

[fluffy-dream-galaxy]

[konnei]

All done!

What do you think? How’d I do?

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Commissions are Open!

[ladolcee]

Quickly colored sketch without a background cause I’m lazy and why can’t we have black Rapunzel

[hale-of-stiles-heart]

POC Princess Aesthetics

10. Rapunzel

And I'll re-read the books, if I have time to spare I'll paint the wall some more, I'm sure there's room somewhere And then I'll brush and brush and brush and brush my hair Stuck in the same place I've always been And I'll keep wondering, and wondering, and wondering, and wondering When will my life begin?

Tomorrow night, the lights will appear Just like they do on my birthday each year What is it like out there where they glow? Now that I'm older, mother might just let me go

[braveblackbutterfly]

I just realized something

If I'm going to make an audio recording of me reading my Rapunzel poem and then upload it to a video with a picture on it, I need an actual picture of Rapunzel.

But I don't want to use a traditional picture of Rapunzel or the Disney version because my Rapunzel is kinda sorta (but also not really) me, and I'm a black (demi)woman.

So I would like to commission an artist to draw me a black Rapunzel. She doesn't have to look like me. She just has to be black with a long braid.

I know there are already some artwork of black Rapunzel, but I don't want to steal anybody's work.

If you're interested, please message me and we can discuss ideas/price/etc.

Here's the link to my poem:

Rapunzel, Rapunzel They say. Let down your hair They say. And I never do. Why should I? They don’t know me And I don’t know them. I don’t

[yasbxxgie]

The World's Longest Locs Held By Asha Zulu Mandela, ‘The Black Rapunzel’

Asha Zulu Mandela has a loc(k) on a world record

The 50-year-old Atlanta resident has earned the name “the Black Rapunzel” because she holds the Guinness World Record for “World’s Longest Dreadlocks,” which she has owned since 2008.

Her dread[loc]s were officially measured to be 19 feet, 6 inches long, but an unofficial measurement found one of the strands measured a whopping 55 feet, 7 inches.

Mandela first started growing her lovely locks 25 years ago, after she moved from Trinidad-Tobago to New York and decided to have a more “natural” hairstyle.

“When I first started, it was more of a spiritual journey — It wasn’t anything to do with a fad or style in fashion,” Mandela said according to the International Business Times. “After 25 years of growth, my hair has really become part of me and I feel that if I ever cut my hair I’d really be taking away my life.”

But greatness like this isn’t easy: She washes the dread[loc]s once a week, using up to six bottles of shampoo at a time. Then it takes two days for the locks to dry — and they weigh 25 pounds when wet.

She says the extra weight of her hair makes her doctors very concerned.

“The doctors seem to think I have a curvature of my spine and that it’s the length and the weight of my hair that’s making me curve,” she said, according to the Mirror. “Some have said my neck has collapsed at the back and that I need to be careful because I could start having spasms in my spine and probably be paralyzed.”

That problem is mitigated, she says, by the effect her locks have on the men in her life.

“My hair has never caused a problem with intimacy. I think it adds a little spice on top,” she said.

A spokeswoman for Guinness World Records says the company retired the “World’s Longest Dreadlocks” record in 2009, and will no longer be monitoring attempts at the feat.

“The reason for this is that it’s impossible to measure the authenticity of the locks due to expert methods employed in the attachment of hair extensions or re-attachment of broken off dreadlocks,” the spokeswoman told The Huffington Post. “Effectively, the dreadlock can become an extension and therefore impossible to adjudicate accurately.”

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[janzandre]

Holy shit I actually drew sth again!! (lmao i did the punzie and tinker bell in my philosophy class)