米歇爾-奧巴馬最新發型的照片火了。照片里，她一頭自來卷，戴著發帶，簡單扎了個低馬尾。米歇爾在做美國第一夫人期間一直是時尚風向標，但以前的發型要么大波浪要么拉直或小卷，難怪有網友說，“我等這張照片等了有三年。自來卷萬歲！”

A photo of Michelle Obama rockin’ her hair natural popped up on Twitter this week, unleashing lots of applause — and shrugs from people who don’t understand why anyone wants to talk about her hair.
本周，一張米歇爾?奧巴馬頂著一頭自來卷的照片出現在推特上, 引來了蜂擁而至的贊賞，但也有一些人對此感到不解，不知道為何會有人想要談論米歇爾的頭發。

The chatter started with this tweet.
爭議開始于這條推特。

這是一張我已經期待了快3年的照片。來吧，自來卷。
— gif sommelier (@meagnacarta) 2017.4.2

“That picture is recent!” Obama’s hair stylist, Johnny Wright, confirms to Refinery 29’s Khalea Underwood.
“這張照片是最近拍的！”奧巴馬的發型師約翰尼?賴特向Refinery 29潮流網站的安德伍德確認道。

“She just got back from vacation, I think, on Friday. I’m not sure if it was her going to the airport or coming back. But that is her, and it is recent.”
“我想，她周五剛度假回來。我不確定照片中她是在前往機場的路上還是在回家途中，但能確定的是，照片肯定是她本人，并且是最近拍的。”

Wright, who did not join FLOTUS on her getaway, said her hair was blown straight before she left.
賴特沒有陪同奧巴馬夫人去度假，但稱她的頭發在出發前是吹直了的。

“I guess she got in the water or something, and she didn’t feel like straightening it herself,” he said. “People want a more sexy answer, but that’s really what it is. I’m not with her.”
“我猜測，她可能進行水下活動之類的，之后又不想自己再去吹直。”他說，“大眾可能期盼得到一個更迷人的答案，但這就是事實。因為我沒有陪同，所以頭發才沒吹直。”

The photo was breaking news in style circles. People couldn’t easily recall the last time they saw Obama wearing her hair natural — or whether she ever had while she was in the White House.
這張照片在時尚界成為了爆炸性新聞。人們很難想起，上一次看到奧巴馬夫人頭發自來卷是什么時候的事了——又或者在白宮時她是否曾留過自來卷。

“Throughout the eight years of her husband’s presidency, Michelle Obama wore her hair relaxed, straightened and blown out as First Lady,” Elle magazine pointed out.
《世界時裝之苑》雜志指出，“在她丈夫出任總統的8年里，米歇爾?奧巴馬作為第一夫人，頭發總是拉直并吹得很蓬松。”

“We’ve seen her sport the pin-straight lob, the pulled-back updos and wavy tresses, but we’ve never seen her hair in its natural state.”
“我們看到過她拉直的長波波頭、后梳的盤發和波浪卷發的造型，但我們從未看到過她自來卷時的樣子。”

美國前總統奧巴馬與夫人米歇爾

Seeing her hair natural, Underwood argues, is important at a time when workplaces ban dreadlocks and black women are often mocked for their hair. She and others responded to the photo with discussions, many based on personal experiences, about why black women often feel they have to wear their hair a certain way to be respected.
安德伍德認為，如今職場禁止長發綹，黑人女性常因頭發而遭到嘲笑。在這種時刻，人們能看到奧巴馬夫人頭發自來卷的樣子是非常重要的。安德伍德和其他人對照片展開了討論，許多人都聯系自身經歷，探討為何黑人女性總覺得必須要將自己的頭發弄成特定的樣子，才能得到尊重。

Others, though, are angry that this conversation is even happening at all.
然而，其他一些人對甚至需要進行這場討論感到憤怒。

Wow @thismorning's US gossip guy talking about Michelle Obama's hair
哇@今天早上 美國的八卦愛好者談論起了米歇爾?奧巴馬的頭發

When will MSM learn to NOT comment on Black Women's hair
什么時候主流媒體才能學會不去評論黑人女性的頭發

— Sarah (@sazzy69) April 6, 2017
— 莎拉 (@sazzy69) 2017.4.6

After that photo surfaced, Danielle DeCourcey, a staff writer at ATTN:, did a Google image search of “unprofessional hair,” and most of the photos that popped up were of black women with natural hairstyles.
這張照片曝光后，ATTN:網站的特約撰稿人丹妮爾-德庫西用谷歌圖片搜索“不職業的發型”時，顯示出的圖片中，大多數都是自來卷的黑人女性。

When she Googled “professional hairstyles,” the overwhelming results were photos of white women with straight hair.
而當她使用谷歌搜索“職業發型”時，大多數的結果都是白人女性直發的圖片。

也有不少黑人女性在網上吐槽，因為自己的頭發曾遭到職場歧視。

“有人對我說，你的自來卷讓你看起來特別不專業、很有攻擊性。”

“老板：你的頭發未免太搶眼了吧！
我：……蘇珊還染了四種顏色呢。
老板：是的，但她沒梳爆炸頭啊！”

“I do think that a woman of her complexion, with her figure and her hair texture, has given a whole lot of other women a chance to look in the mirror and say ‘I am beautiful, too’ because I have somebody representing me,” Wright said.
賴特說：“我認為，像米歇爾?奧巴馬這樣膚色、身材和發質的女性能夠讓許多其他女性有機會去審視鏡子中的自己，并且說‘我也很漂亮’，因為她們擁有了自己的代言人。”

“Her husband was the leader of the US. She represented this country very well, and her platform was pure and from the heart. Having this conversation about her hair texture is totally justifiable.”
“米歇爾?奧巴馬的丈夫曾經是美國的領導者。她也曾是美國的優秀代言人，并且她的傳播平臺純粹、發自內心。因此，討論奧巴馬夫人頭發完全無可厚非。”

Wright said Obama’s hair has been natural the last seven years — “I stopped doing her relaxer the first year of the administration” — and she’s always embraced it.
賴特說，過去7年里，奧巴馬夫人的頭發都是自來卷的——“在白宮的第一年我就不再給她用順發劑了。”——而她總是對此欣然接受。

She simply preferred wearing it straight, he said, and that had nothing to do with her trying to avoid the curls, or criticism.
她只是更喜歡直發，他說道，但這完全不是因為她想要避免卷發，或者免受批評。

英文來源：雅虎新聞
翻譯：趙若嬋（中國日報網愛新聞iNews譯者）
編審：yaning