A few years ago some of those girls who were on perm/ relaxer boxes said that they had natural hair that was pressed out meaning they did not use the chemical in the box to achieve their hairstyle which is false advertising 😭
Thanks for commenting 🤎and I heard that too so basically my whole childhood was a lie lol 😂 and it’s definitely false advertising and proves we can achieve all those beautiful styles without added chemicals 🤎
Good take on this documentary! I always understood "good hair" to mean type 2C-3C Black hair, not straight hair. The term is only used in reference to Black hair, so straight hair was never a consideration. You wouldn't say a white or Asian person has "good hair" because straight is their default, so it's all "good". But a Black person like Chilli from TLC has "good hair" because it's clearly not type 4 hair. I think the "baby hair" look is ridiculous. It's been going on since the 70s. It tries to imitate the hairline of type 2-3 hair. It has nothing to do with the hair we had as babies. If that look doesn't happen naturally with water, it isn't the look for you. Chris Rock is the wrong messenger because he has distain for Black women (and people in general). His message to his girls is, "You're ok even if you don't have "good hair". Nothing about loving the hair they have. 🧐 22:22 Derek J is known for saying that as a stylist, the only thing he can do with natural hair is straighten it or put a weave in it. I bet he won a competition that judges who can best make Black hair look like type 1 hair. Keep up the good work! Your message is so important!
Thank you for watching 🤎 And I agree I thought “good hair” was considered loose curls as well and not straight hair before the documentary and I agree I’m not a fan of baby hairs…I actually did a video on it and got push back. I plan to do a part 2 soon and I didn’t know Derek J said those things wow smh 🤦🏾♀️and you’re right about Chris Rock message I feel we need a updated documentary 🤎
I saw “Good Hair” in the theater when it was released. My biggest problem was Chris Rock’s message and takeaway at the end. As we know, the impetus for creating the documentary was Chris Rock’s daughters’ complaints about their hair texture and their questions to their parents as to why their hair wasn’t straight or straighter. At the end of the film, Chris Rock reveals that he finally told his daughters, “It’s not what’s ON your head, it’s what IN your head that counts.” This, in my mind, echoes the “I Am Not My Hair” sentiment that is also the title of a popular India Arie song that became the mantra of many Black women. My problem with this ‘your hair doesn’t define you’ mindset is that it doesn’t encourage us to love and embrace our hair. It doesn’t address the racism, discrimination, historical ridicule, and disenfranchisement resulting from slavery and colonialism that taught us to hate our hair in the first place. It doesn’t enlighten us as to why we have felt and still feel we need perms, presses, weaves, and wigs to feel sexy, beautiful, pretty, presentable, and professional. Ultimately, of course our hair does not define us. Neither does our eye color, skin color, looks, weight, abilities, disabilities, or the car we drive. But is that really the point? ‘I am not my hair’ is dismissive and completely ignores the issues we’ve had with our hair for hundreds of years brought about by living in a racist society that doesn’t embrace us. We, in turn, have learned to not embrace our Afro-textured hair. As mentioned in this video, Chris Rock’s jokes about Black women’s hair didn’t help matters and only served to reinforce negative perceptions about Black hair. The segment where Chris runs his hands through Oprah Winfrey’s hair while she ‘proves’ to him, and the world, that her long, straightened hair is real, wasn’t very uplifting either. It reinforced the false perception that Oprah is one of the “unicorn” Black women who is able to grow her hair long. I would love to see more documentary and social media content addressing the historical relationship Black people have had with hair that focuses on healing and the evolution of our mindset when it comes to Afro-textured hair and how we think about it, wear it, and care for it. I do think the documentary definitely, albeit inadvertently, helped kickstart our most recent natural hair movement which began around 2009-2010, particularly the scene which gave us visual proof of the toxicity of relaxers and the damage they can do. I believe that was a wake-up call for many of us in the Black community. Nevertheless, statistics show that Black women are going back to relaxers in large numbers. And although the first natural hair movement of the 1960s and 1970s was superior to our most recent movement, in my opinion, even that didn’t last. By the late 1970s, Afro and natural hairstyles were rapidly being replaced by braid extensions, curly perms, relaxers, and silk presses, fueled by advertising and the entertainment industry. The hair weave wasn’t far behind. I appreciate @Coffee Cuties for keeping the natural hair conversation going. Our hair is an important and ongoing issue. The more we know and understand about ourselves and our history, the better. ❤
Thanks for this review. I enjoy your videos and appreciate the work that you are doing. A few critiques, the natural hair community had been around long before this movie came out I. 2009. I had my last relaxer in 2003 and there were lots of women around me who had been natural for years. I first joined the natural hair forums and groups online in 2008 but many girls had been there long before I arrived. Also, the term good hair in the Black community has always meant looser textured hair. This includes straight hair but mainly wavy and curly hair. The girls with 3B hair were considered having good hair. That was the hair type that many of us 80s babies coveted. Thankfully, i no longer think that way and am happy with my Type 4 hair.
Oh no! You can still make the commitment to not get a perm on your edges going forward….let me ask you only perm your edges and not the rest of your hair or is that a touch up?
I recently watched Half & Half as an adult . And the sister that wore her natural hair in a “wash n go” style was constantly made fun of and told she needs to comb her hair or put a perm to it. Mind you her hair was like 3C and fire asf . I’m not dense about it , but you are so right about “good hair” was considered wavy to straight . Definitely nothing curly or coily .
I heard that the Indian ceremony where they cut the hair off, is done when *nothing* goes right in a Hindus life. They take the hair and a priest figure would chant all the bad energy into the hair. But that's what I heard from this South African woman on Instagram.
Great info. I don't wear Indian hair. It is pretty and all but Afro hair is abundant and bouncy. I have heard stories like that as well. That's why some black with weaves act so crazy.
I recently watched Half & Half as an adult . And the sister that wore her natural hair in a “wash n go” style was constantly made fun of and told she needs to comb her hair or put a perm to it. Mind you her hair was like 3C and fire asf . I’m not dense about it , but you are so right about “good hair” was considered wavy to straight . Definitely nothing curly or coily .
I remember when that documentary came out, I haven't relaxed my hair ever since!
Oh wow! I’m happy the documentary had that type of influence on you 🤎🤎🤎
I saw that documentary when it first came out, and after seeing it, I never put anymore chemicals in my hair.
Thanks for commenting and that’s awesome 🤎Be sure to check out my full natural hair playlist and let me know what you think 🤎🤎🤎
A few years ago some of those girls who were on perm/ relaxer boxes said that they had natural hair that was pressed out meaning they did not use the chemical in the box to achieve their hairstyle which is false advertising 😭
Thanks for commenting 🤎and I heard that too so basically my whole childhood was a lie lol 😂 and it’s definitely false advertising and proves we can achieve all those beautiful styles without added chemicals 🤎
I wonder if we would win a collective lawsuit for this false advertising leading to health and scalp issues?
@@monicacreator3168 Good question! I’m going to post this on my community tab and see what feedback I get🤎
Good take on this documentary!
I always understood "good hair" to mean type 2C-3C Black hair, not straight hair. The term is only used in reference to Black hair, so straight hair was never a consideration. You wouldn't say a white or Asian person has "good hair" because straight is their default, so it's all "good". But a Black person like Chilli from TLC has "good hair" because it's clearly not type 4 hair.
I think the "baby hair" look is ridiculous. It's been going on since the 70s. It tries to imitate the hairline of type 2-3 hair. It has nothing to do with the hair we had as babies. If that look doesn't happen naturally with water, it isn't the look for you.
Chris Rock is the wrong messenger because he has distain for Black women (and people in general). His message to his girls is, "You're ok even if you don't have "good hair". Nothing about loving the hair they have. 🧐
22:22 Derek J is known for saying that as a stylist, the only thing he can do with natural hair is straighten it or put a weave in it. I bet he won a competition that judges who can best make Black hair look like type 1 hair.
Keep up the good work! Your message is so important!
Thank you for watching 🤎
And I agree I thought “good hair” was considered loose curls as well and not straight hair before the documentary and I agree I’m not a fan of baby hairs…I actually did a video on it and got push back. I plan to do a part 2 soon and I didn’t know Derek J said those things wow smh 🤦🏾♀️and you’re right about Chris Rock message I feel we need a updated documentary 🤎
I saw “Good Hair” in the theater when it was released. My biggest problem was Chris Rock’s message and takeaway at the end.
As we know, the impetus for creating the documentary was Chris Rock’s daughters’ complaints about their hair texture and their questions to their parents as to why their hair wasn’t straight or straighter. At the end of the film, Chris Rock reveals that he finally told his daughters, “It’s not what’s ON your head, it’s what IN your head that counts.”
This, in my mind, echoes the “I Am Not My Hair” sentiment that is also the title of a popular India Arie song that became the mantra of many Black women. My problem with this ‘your hair doesn’t define you’ mindset is that it doesn’t encourage us to love and embrace our hair. It doesn’t address the racism, discrimination, historical ridicule, and disenfranchisement resulting from slavery and colonialism that taught us to hate our hair in the first place. It doesn’t enlighten us as to why we have felt and still feel we need perms, presses, weaves, and wigs to feel sexy, beautiful, pretty, presentable, and professional.
Ultimately, of course our hair does not define us. Neither does our eye color, skin color, looks, weight, abilities, disabilities, or the car we drive. But is that really the point? ‘I am not my hair’ is dismissive and completely ignores the issues we’ve had with our hair for hundreds of years brought about by living in a racist society that doesn’t embrace us. We, in turn, have learned to not embrace our Afro-textured hair.
As mentioned in this video, Chris Rock’s jokes about Black women’s hair didn’t help matters and only served to reinforce negative perceptions about Black hair. The segment where Chris runs his hands through Oprah Winfrey’s hair while she ‘proves’ to him, and the world, that her long, straightened hair is real, wasn’t very uplifting either. It reinforced the false perception that Oprah is one of the “unicorn” Black women who is able to grow her hair long.
I would love to see more documentary and social media content addressing the historical relationship Black people have had with hair that focuses on healing and the evolution of our mindset when it comes to Afro-textured hair and how we think about it, wear it, and care for it.
I do think the documentary definitely, albeit inadvertently, helped kickstart our most recent natural hair movement which began around 2009-2010, particularly the scene which gave us visual proof of the toxicity of relaxers and the damage they can do. I believe that was a wake-up call for many of us in the Black community.
Nevertheless, statistics show that Black women are going back to relaxers in large numbers. And
although the first natural hair movement of the 1960s and 1970s was superior to our most recent movement, in my opinion, even that didn’t last. By the late 1970s, Afro and natural hairstyles were rapidly being replaced by braid extensions, curly perms, relaxers, and silk presses, fueled by advertising and the entertainment industry. The hair weave wasn’t far behind.
I appreciate @Coffee Cuties for keeping the natural hair conversation going. Our hair is an important and ongoing issue. The more we know and understand about ourselves and our history, the better. ❤
Thanks for this review. I enjoy your videos and appreciate the work that you are doing. A few critiques, the natural hair community had been around long before this movie came out I. 2009. I had my last relaxer in 2003 and there were lots of women around me who had been natural for years. I first joined the natural hair forums and groups online in 2008 but many girls had been there long before I arrived.
Also, the term good hair in the Black community has always meant looser textured hair. This includes straight hair but mainly wavy and curly hair. The girls with 3B hair were considered having good hair. That was the hair type that many of us 80s babies coveted. Thankfully, i no longer think that way and am happy with my Type 4 hair.
Got dammit…. I just permed my edges today and then I saw that perm clip 😢😮
Oh no! You can still make the commitment to not get a perm on your edges going forward….let me ask you only perm your edges and not the rest of your hair or is that a touch up?
@@CoffeeCuties777 just the edges for the baby hairs
@@jasminscarbrough2596 Oh okay gotta…you could always get one of those small straighteners and straighten them without the chemicals 🤎
I shaved my head 10 years ago, and my hair grew back a looser texture. But you might not want to do that...
I recently watched Half & Half as an adult . And the sister that wore her natural hair in a “wash n go” style was constantly made fun of and told she needs to comb her hair or put a perm to it. Mind you her hair was like 3C and fire asf . I’m not dense about it , but you are so right about “good hair” was considered wavy to straight . Definitely nothing curly or coily .
Thanks for commenting 🤎and I haven’t seen Half and Half in forever but wow I may have to watch that and do a review on that too🤎
I heard that the Indian ceremony where they cut the hair off, is done when *nothing* goes right in a Hindus life. They take the hair and a priest figure would chant all the bad energy into the hair. But that's what I heard from this South African woman on Instagram.
Thanks for commenting 🤎and omg 😳 wow that’s crazy if true…I’m not sure what all is going on but I just know I wouldn’t want that on my head🤎
Great info. I don't wear Indian hair. It is pretty and all but Afro hair is abundant and bouncy. I have heard stories like that as well. That's why some black with weaves act so crazy.
@@gmcmim1 I’ve heard people make the connection between women with weave acting crazy to the bad energy placed into them as well…that’s crazy if true🤎
@@CoffeeCuties777: Personally, I think it’s a lot of pagan, superstitious mumbo-jumbo.
Well, it didn't work for her daughter....she has relaxed hair now.
That’s unfortunate 🤦🏾♀️
I recently watched Half & Half as an adult . And the sister that wore her natural hair in a “wash n go” style was constantly made fun of and told she needs to comb her hair or put a perm to it. Mind you her hair was like 3C and fire asf . I’m not dense about it , but you are so right about “good hair” was considered wavy to straight . Definitely nothing curly or coily .