36.6% relaxer drop in sales over a 5 year period! Me and my 2 daughter's are all natural now and we do NOT miss relaxers. We're never relaxing our hair again and we're all 4b/4c.
I would love to see our local tv anchors wear their hair natural, one girl wears a curly wig and the other wears her hair straight, I'm a minister and my hair is 4c and I rock it. I do get strange looks even in church but it's ok.
I'm a minister as well and yes some congregatins look at me side says for my 4b hair. But God gave me 4b hair so He must like it and I'm gonna rock it and Glorify Him while doing it. My prayer is that they see the beauty in natural hair, embrace what God gave and enjoy it. God is so good. Preach on my 4c hair sister, preach on.
" YEAH" for the 4c Ladies and I am always rocking my Afro. I get compliments from people saying that they wished that they could see more Melanin women wearing a Fro.
A trend is something that is happening or has happened. Many African Americans still wear their natural hair, so the trend continues, but not to the same magnitude as it used to. It's not really a 'fad' that black people style their hair naturally.
Thanks ..i guess I'm informed because I was one of those naturals who moved on to perms because we stopped wearing our beautiful afros. I graduated with my in 1972!!!
Umm.. we can’t divorce the issue of colorism and texture. First of all, every member of the panel is fair in complexion. The juxtaposition of adjacency to whiteness and the ability to rock Afrocentric styles is not lost on most naturals who see and experience a disparity in treatment. It isn’t a coincidence that Tracy Ellis Ross’s big hair is received differently than Viola Davis’s. It is hard when even as we try to have conversations about the reality of natural hair the people included in the conversation are those with privilege.
Debra Alleyne exactly what I thought. Biracial hair does not depict BLACK hair because the texture and growth are totally different. Biracial hair predominantly grows faster, and is softer than a pure black person. When black men want us to be ‘natural’ they mean biracial Alicia Keys natural not the more Lupita natural.
@dove in tha sky no biracials mixed with black are not black nor white they are MIXED. Let go of this outdated 19th century white supremacists one drop rule. Biracial people are not a good example as to what the ideal African or those of the African diaspora is. I don't care if your African American who is mixed with 73% African and 27% European, if both of your maternal and paternal parents are black then you are also black. If one of your maternal or paternal parent are white and the other is black you are mixed period. There is no blurring the lines between the two.
Well they don't have ALL hair types up there BUT how do u know if mami with the braids isn't 4c? Her hair is in Braids so u can't really say 4c isn't up there.
@@ticheri16 the only person with loose hair texture is the host. The girl with the braids we cant tell and the braid out chick is type 4 to me cause I'm type 4 and that's how my braid outs look. And the girl with short hair on the end looks like 4a wash n go type hair. To me I dont see type 3 being represented.
This movement has to reach Brazil eventually. Every girl I've met straightens their hair every day here, and most people here are a mix of Native, African and European. It isn't healthy, physically or mentally....
I think it's slowly getting there ^^, my mom's side of the family is Brazilian and my aunt is natural, her daughter is too and they look so beautiful with their natural hair, I love seeing them like that! Also Brazil literally has the perfect climate for curly hair as it's a very humid country
@@MrEvldreamr dude the problem with Brazil and South America in general is they don't just hate blackness; they all want to be WHITE. From the ones with the straightest hair textures and lightest skin to the kinkiest and darkest. They only let the most European looking ones on TV. It's sad...
@@iateyursandwiches i know..... and it's all traceable to it's slave days thats the sad part...... this is how bad the atlatic slave trade still permeates thru south/central american culture
It’s crazy because listening to this video it makes me feel like our natural hair is like a foreign object. Growing up in the late 60s and 70s wearing our natural hair was so normal and very easy to take care of. I’m really shocked at how now and days our natural hair has become made difficult to manage amongst our queens and unacceptable to the professional world. Going to work or school we rocked our natural hair with pride because that’s really all we knew didn’t have a choice unless you talked your parents or yourself into ither going to the shop for a relaxer or buying a box one. It was a choice not a movement or a trend. I went back natural 6 years ago simply because I just got tired of going to the shop and wanted to go back to when life and my hair was easy. Y’all this is not a trend or a movement!! It’s our doggone God given Crown we have embraced it and it is definitely wanted on my head period.
4 years later and this video is STILL so on point! Thank you for shining a bright light on the absolute BEAUTY that is natural hair. I'm so here for all of this!!! 😍👏🏾
Kashaka Bedeau Not true. I don’t know where you are but I don’t live in America and this movement is starting to pick up where I live too. Even when I was in Africa, I was seeing people silk pressing their hair, relaxing their hair and wearing weaves and wigs.
Just skipping over Whoopie Goldberg huh? SMH okay. I don't need or care if a white girl "understands" MY hair. I just need them to understand that you do NOT have the right, ESP if IDK you, to put your hands in my hair WITHOUT permission & that my saying "No. Don't touch my hair" actually IS MY right. That's it.
@Naomi Madan thats mainly due to a lack of representation and hatred that was embedded through generations. Just because they are in predominantly black countries does not mean their media platform is not degrading their beauty as well. They have not yet learned how to embrace their hair, skin, uniqueness, etc.. Hopefully the movement will make its way down though
I’m not natural yet, I’m still wearing box braids, but I really want to be natural when I get older. My daughters will also be natural (if I have any daughters)
I think these panels/ table talks; as influential as they are need to have more darker skinned woman in the them, the visibility of lighter skinned woman or a brown skinned woman has never been a problem or issue but the view points and perspectives of dark skinned woman are needed and appreciated. These conversations seem to mostly be held with woman on the lighter side (mixed ethnicity) who border on a 3c/4a loser curl pattern. Where are the girls with the tight dense short Afros like the Violas and the lupitas ?
Y’all skipping Trina McGee Davis who was a love interest to Shawn on Boy Meets World. She was my first time seeing black natural hair from her first episode to her last wore natural hair weave and braids. She was the first with type 4 hair.
My upbringing was truly messed up, but I'm so glad I never got this programming to dislike myself because of other people's opinions. I tried relaxers, didn't like the breakage and let them go. Hated straightening my hair and having it not last, let it go. Never felt the need to be represented on tv because I mostly read books. I truly can't understand this desperation for superficial validation, nor why people can't just be themselves. Whatever you've got you might as well love it like it's the best thing on earth for you. Be grateful you're unique. Black people do way too much to validate white supremacy. Why glorify people who have so few options? What's so great about straight or wavy hair? If it's not curly, it's not worth it. The 4s really, really need to work on that. Just because you don't see another person on screen who has your hair type doesn't mean you're less valued. They don't even know you. The most important thing is how you feel about yourself.
That Black Panther red carpet was amazing. We have always had very futuristic styles throughout our history. What's old or in is new to the"mainstream". It's time for us to shine
Um where are the dark skinned sisters? The 4C sisters. It's one thing to talk ABOUT them and their hair ie Cicely Tyson...but it would be much more authentic to include them in the conversation. Let them speak for themselves.
When I was growing up in the US I think natural hair was seen as for children. Most girls at my elementary were natural but most at my junior high weren’t. Now Natural hair is pretty common for women in my area of the US. But Almost all the negative comments I have heard about natural hair came from black women.
We still have to learn to love truly and embrace fully our full natural beauty..the greatest hatred is self hatred.. your own eyes can't embrace you...
This was interesting b/c as a black woman I never thought about Black Panther for the hairstyles shown. I went natural in 2012 & back then I didn't know what a big chop was I just got a buzz cut & went from there.
🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾 where my guyanese at? Btw... she's not wrong..only now the natural hair movement has made its way here.... straightening hair was more manageable for our parents and was looked at as coming of age thing.....when i was younger i was natural and when i turned 13 getting my hair relaxed was a big thing for kids to prepare for secondary school... after i grew up and realize the affect of chenicals on my hair i did the big chop and went natural...
Please stop bringing the Mixed race hair or the not-so-curly hair.....those are already been accepted by media! Where is the kinkiest hair?? Those are the ones needed to be promoted!!!!
if Afro-textured hair was the norm worldwide there would be no large population of black women obsessively intent on straightening their hair... Eurocentric beauty standards are real & ubiquitous (whether you're consciously aware of them or not) ... love your natural self.
The funny thing is we have been wearing our natural hair in Nigeria from time immemorial but now, social media has helped with more/better styles, techniques and tools. We can't even use hair typing system here because we have more people that has up to 4/5 hair types on their head like myself!
@@5pctLowBattery who is our? are you speaking for an entire people? Last time I checked all people have different kind of textures. My reference was to curls in television
it's not only a matter of putting them in front of the camera by the people behind the camera. There is that. But there are a huuuuuuuge amount of girl that wear their hair braided under a straight wig ALL YEAR LONG. Even in our communities we don't see them that much (girls that are 4c) how would people not educated enough understand the complexity of our hair. I think we have to be coherent between how we act and what we preach. you cannot complain about not seeing black girls with real 4c hair when the majority wear straight wigs! we have to love ourselves first and stop thinking that straight hair is better
The more things change the more they stay the same. Natural hair was big in the 60-70s. At that time you were either natural ( meaning afro kinky) or not ( meaning hot combed). Actually the afro was initially called The Natural. At that time many beauty salons went out of business due to the decrease in number of women coming in for press and curls. Relaxers were few and far between. Today the 'natural' definition has been expanded to include those who heat straighten their hair. So I say this ...the number of "naturals" is NOT at an all time high if you use the current definition of natural. Prior to around the 80s a higher percentage (than today) of women would be considered natural because at least 95% wore either an afro or hot combed pressed hair.
Thank you for doing the same thing TV does.. talk about dark skinned 4C sisters... but no representation...what you couldnt find one...no shade just an observations
No mention of Esther Rolle? I love that you address the topic, but omitting Ms. Rolle is a major oversight (or "omission"??). And the story is only half told in Hollywood and major media. Dark skinned, tightly coiled haired women are still not given equal representation. It's cafe au lait and wavy or curly that's en vogue right now. We still have a ways to go.
I'm a white girl with very very curly hair i definitely don't understand the "black experience"... however back in school I always felt the pressure to straighten my hair even now for a job interview i feel the need to relax it.... at my current workplace I still get comments: people say things like why are you wearing your hair like that?
Its a movement thats taken off twice now in Black America and has its roots among the Black American community but yall got everybody up here BUT Black Americans/African Americans. And they're all light skin. Yall missed the mark on this one.
The sad part is when people say let's have a dialogue with others about it, why do we need their acceptance? We should have stepped out cells for ourselves and not worry about what others think and boom out our own businesses. The bottom line all of us need to set ourselves for Who We Are and walk tall and confident. Who cares what others think? let them sneak and watch our videos as we celebrate ourselves as beautiful black women with all these hair types. Peace
Cleopatra Jones (Actress Tamara Dobson) also epic in showing the beauty of the Tall Amazon woman rocking her Afro powerfully. We have to vote with our money and stop supporting shows and images that don't resonate our varied beauty. I've seen several recommendations just on Netflix in general where I see a cast that I can't relate to anyone, so NOPE! DENIED access. They keep giving us if any mostly black males but the black female especially in her natural glory, usually or seldom seen without relaxed style, a weave, or wig. Same with games, I'm also a gamer and one of the game's I enjoyed because of its diversity still pathetically lacks a strong black female rocking her Afro, and thick coiled or kinky locks. But yes theres 3 males so I stopped spending my money on this game and will not support others that cant represent us and our hair. If more did this we could change the narrative drastically. Once they see our money drying up and not lining their pockets. Omg sorry all I wanted to say was Tamara Dobson, when you were speaking of some of our Iconic women or representation.
There is not one 4c hair there, and they're talking about us without inviting us to this conversation. Oh tge irony. Also no women with locs, because sheamoisture don't cater for us. Im watching one more to see a 4c hair and or locs dicussion with us 4c loc'd sista's.
Yeah... This just brings forth that stereotype with light skin VS dark skin BS. I'm a bit disappointed they didn't have one 4c or dark skinned person on that panel. They shouldn't talk diversity and not be diverse themselves. I think showing the variety of natural hair with blk women would be super helpful for viewers. Dark skin woman with type 2 hair, a light skin women with type 4 hair etc.
@GeminII _ agreed. the first and last are definitely in the 4type category. first has braids so its not obvious and last has coils using gel/other styling products to manipulate texture of her 4 type hair
I don’t think most white or nonblack people care about our hair texture. A lot of them just think our skin, hair and features our inferior to them regardless. It’s the black men and women with internalised hate that perpetuate this discrimination. It’s the hate among us that is the problem🤷🏽♀️
Can we add some loc'd women to the conversation next time. I feel like we are the most underrepresented within the natural community online and on tv. I feel like we get ignored most of the time.
36.6% relaxer drop in sales over a 5 year period! Me and my 2 daughter's are all natural now and we do NOT miss relaxers. We're never relaxing our hair again and we're all 4b/4c.
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I love that you are in the natural hair journey with your daughters.
Me toooo
And by 2025, relaxers will become nearly extinct
Tell me why creme of nature started making a relaxer brand now though🤔 i see it all the time at Rite Aid.
I would love to see our local tv anchors wear their hair natural, one girl wears a curly wig and the other wears her hair straight, I'm a minister and my hair is 4c and I rock it. I do get strange looks even in church but it's ok.
Cheryl 21 we love a religious sister, rock your hair. People will be people you be you
im not even religious and i would come to your church with my 4c hair in support
I'm a minister as well and yes some congregatins look at me side says for my 4b hair. But God gave me 4b hair so He must like it and I'm gonna rock it and Glorify Him while doing it. My prayer is that they see the beauty in natural hair, embrace what God gave and enjoy it. God is so good. Preach on my 4c hair sister, preach on.
can someone explain what 4c means for a lost brown girl?
" YEAH" for the 4c Ladies and I am always rocking my Afro. I get compliments from people saying that they wished that they could see more Melanin women wearing a Fro.
Yaaaasssss! Talk about the need for 4s. I love the realness and truth.
There were many people, especially African Americans. wore their natural hair in the 19070s , but for some reason that trend declined after the 1970s.
Right. That's because it is a trend. Nothing stays the same.
A trend is something that is happening or has happened. Many African Americans still wear their natural hair, so the trend continues, but not to the same magnitude as it used to. It's not really a 'fad' that black people style their hair naturally.
Yes, afro sheen was the product of the seventies. Angela Davis okay!
Harsh regulations against black hair came to be. Not because it ended as a "trend"
Thanks ..i guess I'm informed because I was one of those naturals who moved on to perms because we stopped wearing our beautiful afros. I graduated with my in 1972!!!
Btw London UK tv anchor, Charlene White has 4c natural hair and she is beautiful. She went natural last year. Sooo proud!, dark skinned like me too.
She just gave birth.
Good! YESSSS!
All 4 of these ladies are gorgeous!
Umm.. we can’t divorce the issue of colorism and texture. First of all, every member of the panel is fair in complexion. The juxtaposition of adjacency to whiteness and the ability to rock Afrocentric styles is not lost on most naturals who see and experience a disparity in treatment. It isn’t a coincidence that Tracy Ellis Ross’s big hair is received differently than Viola Davis’s. It is hard when even as we try to have conversations about the reality of natural hair the people included in the conversation are those with privilege.
Debra Alleyne exactly what I thought. Biracial hair does not depict BLACK hair because the texture and growth are totally different. Biracial hair predominantly grows faster, and is softer than a pure black person. When black men want us to be ‘natural’ they mean biracial Alicia Keys natural not the more Lupita natural.
@dove in tha sky no biracials mixed with black are not black nor white they are MIXED. Let go of this outdated 19th century white supremacists one drop rule. Biracial people are not a good example as to what the ideal African or those of the African diaspora is. I don't care if your African American who is mixed with 73% African and 27% European, if both of your maternal and paternal parents are black then you are also black. If one of your maternal or paternal parent are white and the other is black you are mixed period. There is no blurring the lines between the two.
Thankyou..your honor..she rests her case...so eloquent....i dont have emojis..but if i did...10xblack fisted afro picks...yasssss
@@getrudeobbayi can y'all stop generalizing people please? Thanks.
MsBe
I love the girl with the braids style, clothes, mannerisms, hair, all of it.
Where are the 4C ladies?!? This episode is not representative of everyone .
Well they don't have ALL hair types up there BUT how do u know if mami with the braids isn't 4c? Her hair is in Braids so u can't really say 4c isn't up there.
I only see type 4 hair textures. Girl with the braid out could be 4c we just cant tell because of the hairstyle.
@@Mskeyboogie9 you mean type 3
@@ticheri16 the only person with loose hair texture is the host. The girl with the braids we cant tell and the braid out chick is type 4 to me cause I'm type 4 and that's how my braid outs look. And the girl with short hair on the end looks like 4a wash n go type hair. To me I dont see type 3 being represented.
sharisse is 4c
I'd like to see and hear from a dark skinned 4c sister added to these shows.
4c hair is beautiful hair 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😍😍😍😍
Correction. African hair is beautiful. I'm puzzled- why the rage on 4 hair?
@@R_bird117 Because it's beautiful
This movement has to reach Brazil eventually. Every girl I've met straightens their hair every day here, and most people here are a mix of Native, African and European. It isn't healthy, physically or mentally....
I think it's slowly getting there ^^, my mom's side of the family is Brazilian and my aunt is natural, her daughter is too and they look so beautiful with their natural hair, I love seeing them like that! Also Brazil literally has the perfect climate for curly hair as it's a very humid country
But Brazil's problem is that they don't like being black. Just like how DR is the same way, theyre colorist af.
@@MrEvldreamr dude the problem with Brazil and South America in general is they don't just hate blackness; they all want to be WHITE. From the ones with the straightest hair textures and lightest skin to the kinkiest and darkest. They only let the most European looking ones on TV. It's sad...
@@iateyursandwiches i know..... and it's all traceable to it's slave days thats the sad part...... this is how bad the atlatic slave trade still permeates thru south/central american culture
It’s crazy because listening to this video it makes me feel like our natural hair is like a foreign object. Growing up in the late 60s and 70s wearing our natural hair was so normal and very easy to take care of. I’m really shocked at how now and days our natural hair has become made difficult to manage amongst our queens and unacceptable to the professional world. Going to work or school we rocked our natural hair with pride because that’s really all we knew didn’t have a choice unless you talked your parents or yourself into ither going to the shop for a relaxer or buying a box one. It was a choice not a movement or a trend. I went back natural 6 years ago simply because I just got tired of going to the shop and wanted to go back to when life and my hair was easy. Y’all this is not a trend or a movement!! It’s our doggone God given Crown we have embraced it and it is definitely wanted on my head period.
I love how its being featured more on TV!
1:30 *Where my Trinis at?!?* 😭🇹🇹🇹🇹🎉
Rochelle Ballah 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹😘
"Sweet T&T, is my country, and I want you to know that I lo-ove you"
Elizabeth Richards i love you too fam ❤️😂
Rochelle Ballah 🖐🏾🖐🏾
Right here 🇹🇹
YES! I LOVE THIS BECAUSE OUR 4C GIRLS DON'T GET THE RECOGNITION THEY DESERVE AND NATURAL HAIR IS JUST AMAZING IN GENERAL.
Natural is beautiful
4 years later and this video is STILL so on point! Thank you for shining a bright light on the absolute BEAUTY that is natural hair. I'm so here for all of this!!! 😍👏🏾
I’ve been wearing my hair natural before it became a “thing”
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Kashaka Bedeau Not true. I don’t know where you are but I don’t live in America and this movement is starting to pick up where I live too. Even when I was in Africa, I was seeing people silk pressing their hair, relaxing their hair and wearing weaves and wigs.
Amani Fields and aren't you glad it's now a 'thing'?
definetely need to talk more about the dark skin 4s
I far prefer the look of natural hair as opposed to relaxed hair I just think it is a lot prettier.
Just skipping over Whoopie Goldberg huh? SMH okay. I don't need or care if a white girl "understands" MY hair. I just need them to understand that you do NOT have the right, ESP if IDK you, to put your hands in my hair WITHOUT permission & that my saying "No. Don't touch my hair" actually IS MY right. That's it.
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True
@1000 Subscribers With No Videos try to spread love, not hate
@Amor Ankh not if you dont want them to, tell them you dont like it ESPECIALLY if you put alot of work into maintaining it
@Naomi Madan thats mainly due to a lack of representation and hatred that was embedded through generations. Just because they are in predominantly black countries does not mean their media platform is not degrading their beauty as well. They have not yet learned how to embrace their hair, skin, uniqueness, etc.. Hopefully the movement will make its way down though
I didn’t see a 4c hair can you add that next time please
They covered all hair textures... still not satisfied. Love yourself regardless of what other people do. Represent yourself.
I love these conversations! Keep them coming.
Yvette Fulton Me too. 🖐🏽
I’m not natural yet, I’m still wearing box braids, but I really want to be natural when I get older. My daughters will also be natural (if I have any daughters)
I think these panels/ table talks; as influential as they are need to have more darker skinned woman in the them, the visibility of lighter skinned woman or a brown skinned woman has never been a problem or issue but the view points and perspectives of dark skinned woman are needed and appreciated. These conversations seem to mostly be held with woman on the lighter side (mixed ethnicity) who border on a 3c/4a loser curl pattern. Where are the girls with the tight dense short Afros like the Violas and the lupitas ?
Natural Light skin hair* should be the title
Y’all skipping Trina McGee Davis who was a love interest to Shawn on Boy Meets World. She was my first time seeing black natural hair from her first episode to her last wore natural hair weave and braids. She was the first with type 4 hair.
I'm gonna check that out. Thanks.
YESSSS!!!!! Her braids and twists.
why are they so beautiful? my jaw dropped
My upbringing was truly messed up, but I'm so glad I never got this programming to dislike myself because of other people's opinions. I tried relaxers, didn't like the breakage and let them go. Hated straightening my hair and having it not last, let it go. Never felt the need to be represented on tv because I mostly read books.
I truly can't understand this desperation for superficial validation, nor why people can't just be themselves. Whatever you've got you might as well love it like it's the best thing on earth for you. Be grateful you're unique.
Black people do way too much to validate white supremacy. Why glorify people who have so few options? What's so great about straight or wavy hair? If it's not curly, it's not worth it. The 4s really, really need to work on that. Just because you don't see another person on screen who has your hair type doesn't mean you're less valued. They don't even know you. The most important thing is how you feel about yourself.
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That Black Panther red carpet was amazing. We have always had very futuristic styles throughout our history. What's old or in is new to the"mainstream". It's time for us to shine
Um where are the dark skinned sisters? The 4C sisters. It's one thing to talk ABOUT them and their hair ie Cicely Tyson...but it would be much more authentic to include them in the conversation. Let them speak for themselves.
Well people talk about colorism and light skin but there are no light skins in on it so that's kind of hypocritical in the same sense.
That's because light-skinned people are NOT on the receiving end of colorism. So it isn't hypocritical when only dark-skinned people talk about it 😐
When I was growing up in the US I think natural hair was seen as for children. Most girls at my elementary were natural but most at my junior high weren’t. Now Natural hair is pretty common for women in my area of the US. But Almost all the negative comments I have heard about natural hair came from black women.
We still have to learn to love truly and embrace fully our full natural beauty..the greatest hatred is self hatred.. your own eyes can't embrace you...
It is amazing to see hair that look like my on tv
wish there were dark skins and people with 4c hair there but loved the video
1:19 😱 I’m from Guyana too
Towana Semple My Moms maiden name is Bobb-Semple and we’re Guyanese too ✊🏾
Viola Davis looks good at 4:27.
That colour on McKenzie though. Love!
This was interesting b/c as a black woman I never thought about Black Panther for the hairstyles shown. I went natural in 2012 & back then I didn't know what a big chop was I just got a buzz cut & went from there.
How do you guys have this discussion and not bring up Tempest Bledsoe and her fro on the Cosby Show. Also, Whoopi Goldberg and her Locs. 🤷🏽♀️
🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾 where my guyanese at? Btw... she's not wrong..only now the natural hair movement has made its way here.... straightening hair was more manageable for our parents and was looked at as coming of age thing.....when i was younger i was natural and when i turned 13 getting my hair relaxed was a big thing for kids to prepare for secondary school... after i grew up and realize the affect of chenicals on my hair i did the big chop and went natural...
1:20 yes my fellow sister big up Guyana!!!
Girls from the islandddddd !!1
Black Power and Black Beauty
who else is from trinidad?? because i am like if your from the caribbean
I love their hair it looks fab!!😊❤✊
15 haters thumb-down this informative, video.👍
Haters' can kick-rocks!
Every single woman on here is absolutely stunning!!
these videos always inspire me to ROCK my natural CURLS!!
I use to wear a sew in to work because I didn’t want to deal with my fro but I have save so much money not wearing straight weave
That is because yara and tracee are both mixed we accept mixed hair not monoracial black hair
This is a great video!
Please stop bringing the Mixed race hair or the not-so-curly hair.....those are already been accepted by media!
Where is the kinkiest hair?? Those are the ones needed to be promoted!!!!
if Afro-textured hair was the norm worldwide there would be no large population of black women obsessively intent on straightening their hair... Eurocentric beauty standards are real & ubiquitous (whether you're consciously aware of them or not) ... love your natural self.
The funny thing is we have been wearing our natural hair in Nigeria from time immemorial but now, social media has helped with more/better styles, techniques and tools.
We can't even use hair typing system here because we have more people that has up to 4/5 hair types on their head like myself!
@Amor Ankh thanks my darling. I just go with my hair porosity and what it needs onetime at a go
Natural hair rocks lets go natural african woman 🇳🇦🇳🇦
man, those braids are awesomeee
You're all beautiful. ♥
Guyanaaaaaa🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
My family is from Guyana
Y'all please don't forget Rachel true. She wore all that curly hair in the craft
@@5pctLowBattery who is our? are you speaking for an entire people? Last time I checked all people have different kind of textures. My reference was to curls in television
@Melanin Queen yes I watched those shows as well but she was also in the movie the Craft, cb4, and also half baked
Whoopi goldberg ,and NIKKI GIOVANNI
Very well said ladies!
I love this.💕
it's not only a matter of putting them in front of the camera by the people behind the camera. There is that. But there are a huuuuuuuge amount of girl that wear their hair braided under a straight wig ALL YEAR LONG. Even in our communities we don't see them that much (girls that are 4c) how would people not educated enough understand the complexity of our hair. I think we have to be coherent between how we act and what we preach. you cannot complain about not seeing black girls with real 4c hair when the majority wear straight wigs! we have to love ourselves first and stop thinking that straight hair is better
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the caribbean tek over !!!! woi woi big up yuhself
Great interview
Queens please use this pandemic to TAKEOVER the black hair care industry. There’s no reason that non blacks are multi millionaires off of our hair.
The Asians 😮
Great convo!
This is my third time being natural because I’ve struggled with my hair texture
Wish that I had 4c hair, it’s beautiful
1:30 yassss all my trinis big up to you!1!1!
Big up 🇬🇾 GT
Rep Guyana 🇬🇾🇬🇾
I don’t understand how curls and fros can be a problem at work. Unbelievable
The more things change the more they stay the same. Natural hair was big in the 60-70s. At that time you were either natural ( meaning afro kinky) or not ( meaning hot combed). Actually the afro was initially called The Natural. At that time many beauty salons went out of business due to the decrease in number of women coming in for press and curls. Relaxers were few and far between.
Today the 'natural' definition has been expanded to include those who heat straighten their hair.
So I say this ...the number of "naturals" is NOT at an all time high if you use the current definition of natural. Prior to around the 80s a higher percentage (than today) of women would be considered natural because at least 95% wore either an afro or hot combed pressed hair.
Thank you for doing the same thing TV does.. talk about dark skinned 4C sisters... but no representation...what you couldnt find one...no shade just an observations
No mention of Esther Rolle? I love that you address the topic, but omitting Ms. Rolle is a major oversight (or "omission"??). And the story is only half told in Hollywood and major media. Dark skinned, tightly coiled haired women are still not given equal representation. It's cafe au lait and wavy or curly that's en vogue right now. We still have a ways to go.
*Kenzie Kenz!*
I'm a white girl with very very curly hair i definitely don't understand the "black experience"... however back in school I always felt the pressure to straighten my hair even now for a job interview i feel the need to relax it.... at my current workplace I still get comments: people say things like why are you wearing your hair like that?
Its a movement thats taken off twice now in Black America and has its roots among the Black American community but yall got everybody up here BUT Black Americans/African Americans. And they're all light skin. Yall missed the mark on this one.
Ok question, why say natural hair versus unprocessed hair? Everyone's hair is natural until you process it.
GUYANA YASS
The sad part is when people say let's have a dialogue with others about it, why do we need their acceptance? We should have stepped out cells for ourselves and not worry about what others think and boom out our own businesses. The bottom line all of us need to set ourselves for Who We Are and walk tall and confident. Who cares what others think? let them sneak and watch our videos as we celebrate ourselves as beautiful black women with all these hair types. Peace
Cleopatra Jones (Actress Tamara Dobson) also epic in showing the beauty of the Tall Amazon woman rocking her Afro powerfully. We have to vote with our money and stop supporting shows and images that don't resonate our varied beauty. I've seen several recommendations just on Netflix in general where I see a cast that I can't relate to anyone, so NOPE! DENIED access. They keep giving us if any mostly black males but the black female especially in her natural glory, usually or seldom seen without relaxed style, a weave, or wig. Same with games, I'm also a gamer and one of the game's I enjoyed because of its diversity still pathetically lacks a strong black female rocking her Afro, and thick coiled or kinky locks. But yes theres 3 males so I stopped spending my money on this game and will not support others that cant represent us and our hair. If more did this we could change the narrative drastically. Once they see our money drying up and not lining their pockets. Omg sorry all I wanted to say was Tamara Dobson, when you were speaking of some of our Iconic women or representation.
Daughters of the Dust brought natural out!
Why aren't there ANY dark-skin ladies represented on this panel? WHY!?
yes my Guyanese and trini sisters
I heard Guyana 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
There is not one 4c hair there, and they're talking about us without inviting us to this conversation. Oh tge irony. Also no women with locs, because sheamoisture don't cater for us. Im watching one more to see a 4c hair and or locs dicussion with us 4c loc'd sista's.
solfamilyj I agree that shea moisture is side eye worthy but I mean the girl in braids might
There are videos in this series that also has women with 4C hair on the panel. But I'm also not a Shea Moisture fan, either.
There is also other curl types missing but no-one else is complaining 🤔
Yeah... This just brings forth that stereotype with light skin VS dark skin BS. I'm a bit disappointed they didn't have one 4c or dark skinned person on that panel. They shouldn't talk diversity and not be diverse themselves. I think showing the variety of natural hair with blk women would be super helpful for viewers. Dark skin woman with type 2 hair, a light skin women with type 4 hair etc.
@GeminII _ agreed. the first and last are definitely in the 4type category. first has braids so its not obvious and last has coils using gel/other styling products to manipulate texture of her 4 type hair
Where are the brown skin sisters 🤔 miss opportunity
There are European women who have hair like Tracy E. Ross I see them everyday
My Question to the last statement when she say we are getting there. What is the goal.
What is the benefit of informing White people about Black hair?
Just wanted to say I am a white girl here on my series of TH-cam videos and podcasts just educating myself🙋🏼♀️ hi
I don’t think most white or nonblack people care about our hair texture. A lot of them just think our skin, hair and features our inferior to them regardless. It’s the black men and women with internalised hate that perpetuate this discrimination. It’s the hate among us that is the problem🤷🏽♀️
Can we add some loc'd women to the conversation next time. I feel like we are the most underrepresented within the natural community online and on tv. I feel like we get ignored most of the time.
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Then you need to come to new York kinkky hair is every were
Can we do a love fest learning about each other and our different? Like we are able to touch different types?
update on? learn about differences and touch different hair types. sorry