Growing up with Black Hair- Hair Journal Workshop #1

[g1gglez1]

relaxers damaged my hair so i grew it out. i have been wearing locs for 3 yrs now and i luv it. i meet women when i'm out that want to go natural but r afraid to do it. i encourage them to try it, i did it and my hair is beautiful

[Lorrnae]

I love the honesty. It made me think about our history and our hair.

[apreelle75]

Hi , my name is Aprille R. I love your videos and tutorials. You inspired me to go natural. I have been natural for 6 months on first of April. I have been natural until I was forteen. My hair took a long time to grow out of its natural state. I would get perms and it would still be curly. I did not know the value of natural hair time I started watching you and another youtuber. My hair has not been this healthy in June 2003. I want to retain more length. Any tips

[skinlikehoney]

My mother put my first relaxer in my hair when I was 5 years old. Up until February of 2009 I had remained with it, then as I started study more of my culture and my people and really learn the associations that a relaxer had in society I decided to transition from it. I haven't recieved any negative comments really as far as my transition stands thus far, and I happy that I made the decision to go natural and embrace the gift god gave to me before I destroy it.

[ReviveUK]

Great vid...ur openess and honesty is refreshing and bonding! I relate to a lot of what you say and the push/pull of the acceptance and rejection of our own hair...thank goodness we know the truth of our beauty deep down, so that we can sow positive seeds to the younger ones

[AngelMicheleMUA]

Also I've done the whole natural thing on many occasions & I no that it requires more maintenance & upkeep than relaxed hair. What is so wrong with modern conveniences that we as Black people have developed to simplify our lives? I don't like the idea that I'm trying 2 b something that I not by the texture of my hair. I was black long before I even had hair follicles & nothing will ever change that. BLACK people need 2 wakeup &realize that u r not defined by hair &skintone but by character.

[AngelMicheleMUA]

I will say I don't get the whole thing about hair & I've found that more negative comments have come from my own race (African American/Black). I've never had a problem growning my hair but when I would cut it short I would get called bald headed by my own kind...self hate. White people ask questions out of ignorance which doesn't bother me, black people make comments out of hate - self hate - which annoys me.

[Kendraah]

I always had relaxers my first relaxer was at 8 years old. I kept relaxing my hair though out high school and when i attended college. Then my hair started falling out so I said I am going to love what I was born with I did the big chop July 2008 in Okinawa Japan.

While overseas the Japanese people loved me for my hair and kept complimented me saying it was so beautiful and soft, I even saw some Japanese woman and men with curly perm Afros. I got bad mouthed when I came back to the U.S. :(

[NaturalVirgoan]

Love this!! I have been natural since February 2006. Growing up I had a perm (@ age 11) but my mother was heavy handed and I was tender headed so a perm was the easy way out. In college I got perms because I didn't want the added stares at a predominantly white school. Now, I work in a corporate environment and have struggled with hair alternatives. I now learning to just style my hair by the way I feel in the morning (curly or straight) and if they stare I smile.

[TekoaG]

I remember in college, walking across the crowded mall at UMCP, predominantly white school with thousands of students, when 2 black males passed by. One of them looked at me and proceeded to attack me with an onslaught of verbal abuse about my the nappy, kinky texture of my hair. I had never been so hurt and humiliated in my life. The white students either looked confused or laughed. I laughed too, but when I got to my dorm room, I cried.

[lilallnatural1]

This video came right on time!! I am going to share this with my niece who wears her hair natural in high school and she is so pretty with natural hair to her back and her friends (relaxer) always telling her how her hair would look if it was relaxed. Great Video:)

[IMINTOMAKEUPNOW]

Thank you for sharing your experience! I still struggle with the straight hair vs. natural hair thing. I work in a corporate environment, and out of hundreds of people, I am the only natural sista, I get some stares, but rarley ever any comments. I'm trying to present natural hair as the norm but it's difficult when you are the only one......but I'll keep trying!

[BerlinHairBaby]

thanks so much for sharing this.

[jazdj04]

I am so sick of this disease amongst blacks, it's so tiring. Last time I checked God knew how to make a human being, thick, tightly coiled hair is not a disease. All blacks on earth have curly hair, from very loose to very tight. It is what it is. For all the blacks who can't deal with that, sounds like a personal problem.

[danae417]

i love this vid i still struggle with my hair when my hair is natural i feel ugly but when i wear my hair super relaxed it also looks ugly i just want to look pretty i feel like if i wear my hair natural people are

goin to think i look unkempt or not presentable

i think that i look pretty when my hair is relaxed

[4ULordSDG]

CONt.. hairstyle that combined three different hairstyles on different parts of my head that happened once, I also had someone cut my hair without asking me. Becoming natural really challenged me. It has been a decade since I have been to a stylist. I am still dealing with it. Also with men black men not all of them have been conditioned to like straight hair. But as a natural I get compliments. Honestly I never received many of them (about hair)to begin so getting them now is nice.

[4ULordSDG]

Love the vid! Growing up I begged to get a relaxer to fit in. And once I got the perm my hair broke out badly in the nape of my neck. I became very insecure about my from junir high to college. It just never looked "right". Then stylists are an entire other issue. I could never get a stylist to fix my hair exactly like I wanted it. And I'm not talking about something complicated but a simple cut, roller set wrap. Really simple and when I would ask for this I would leave the salon with some CON't

[danae417]

why would u say sumthin like that

[Fsbren13]

Oh, I Mean A She So Beautiful Black Woman.

I Love Sexy And Healthy Hair!

She Is So Good!