The Natural Hair Revolution "Beauty Lies" part2

[godschildyes]

WOW! Love this beautiful video! The man with the dreads is LOVELY!

[thefashiondesigngirl]

ur so pretty without all that hair!

[midnitedawn]

your beautiful! and no thats not obnoxious.. how? SO many women are starting to grasp their true beings. I love natural hair. I've always wore my hair natural but I'm supporting the movement :)

[divajc]

Is it easier to dislike your true self than to find a reasonable solution in moisturizing treatments?

[real7060]

IN ORDER FOR BLACKWOMEN TO GO NATURAL HAS TO BE A MOVEMENT. REMEMBER THEIR ARE A LOT OF BRAINWASHED BLACKMEN OUT THERE.SO YOU NEED TO ADDRESS THE SITUATION IN UNISON.

[iamsillywarm]

excellent!

[hotties3v3n]

woah iwish i could get away with a fade lol.seriously you pulled it off big time.

[rebuke8791]

Damn is that all Black Females think about is there Nappy Ass Hair. We already know Men perfer women with long straight hair because it looks better.

[real7060]

@rebuke8791 SPEAK FOR YOURSELF I PREFER NATURAL IM A 60'S BABY IM STILL HOOKED ON WOMEN WITH AFRO'S.

[Deseb2]

thank you again for doing this video. Everything that you ahve expressed and spoke about in thsi film is how I feel. I don't want my children to feel like this. I want them to love themselves that way God made them.

[TreykaGirl]

I'm jealous! Had my hair like yours for 5 years the first time, 2 years the second time. I loved it! My hair is natural now for the first time since I was 10, and I love it too ... but I miss the convenient and simple beauty of just not having any hair. You look fabulous!

[Aulelia27]

Narrator is STUNNING! esp at 6:40

[Tellylove12]

You look great with your shaved head. It's a very hard issue to cover as it is a very broad subject. I like that I knew right away it was Canadian. I recognized some faces. I think that with my family coming from the caribbean and seeing people with natural hair[locs and sucht] made it easier to accept all types of beauty. I was not affected the same way by that european standard of beauty. I feel that the media has influenced many in the caribbean to the point of no return.. to their roots

[jamaicanqueen0x]

HOLY CRAP you look so gorgeous with your hair short...i'm sure you did as well before but it legit took my breath away

[jamaicanqueen0x]

HOLY CRAP you are so gorgeous with short hair. im sure you were before but it legit took my breath away

[yootopian]

I think this is a great piece you have here! I've been natural for about two months now and transitioned for 7 months. I think that you've made a very good point here at the end. I like you agree that it should be a movement. Women in the 70's also wore their hair natural by wearing fro's....the thing with that is that for many it was a "style" a fad. I ask where was the deep rooted meaning behind it all? Many naturals often just tell people to go natural. I ask that you UNDERSTAND what it means

[curvybody2]

you are beautiful ma...I am soo happy for you. I am transitioning to natural but will prolly cut it eventually

[epifanny]

nice video.

you look pretty with a fade.

[delectiscent]

I loved that she Big Chopped. i loved my curly hair, I loved figuring out how to do my curly hair, I hope you had fun on your hair journey too.

With natural hair becoming more fashionable I kind of would like to see an update on the new hair movement.

[pollyannacowgurl]

i will join ur movement!

[uwantmetoo1u]

where is part 3? I really wanna see it!

[uwantmetoo1u]

gosh she (the main narrator) is SO freaking beautiful...

[ChelleyFresh01]

im glad she cut her hair.. and she looks AMAZING!!!

[CurlyLBJ]

Excellent video! I remember all of the emotions that led up to me going natural... I was so frustrated with relaxing my hair! So expensive, my hair didn't respond well, but it was what I was supposed to do... right? Finally, I told my hairdresser to cut it all off. It has been freeing. You look beautiful with very short hair. I'm looking forward to seeing more videos by you. Thank you.

[VerbyQ]

thank you for doing this video for it educated me even more on the reasons why we as black women dont see ourselves as beautiful when indeed from birth WE ARE... iPray more of us will see that we in our natural state ARE BEAUTiFUL. GOD BLESS &thanks again for the video :D

[ifama]

I know exactly how this Sister feels. when I shaved my hair off, I felt so free but what was more amazing was the REACTION from others when I did it. I wear wigs AND my own hair. I love my hair, still I like to look different. I don't wear the same clothes everyday, so with the choices I have, why should I wear the same hair style. When you know who you are, you can look how you want.

[Gatambwa]

Hi. Am moved by your decision, as an African woman myself am on the process of transition but I won't look good on bald like you. But I swore I would never relax my daughter's hair until she is old enough to decide on herself. Black is beauty, no one could tell me differently. Keep it up sis.

[Gabbihealth]

nooooo is there part 3?!?! i love it!

[forevertrue06]

"If u got a big big tree"

u are part of a movement, now keep it moving

[dadamdada23]

yes love the hair n the vids i would love to start a movement as well its what i tak aboujt the most here at home i cant hep it i would love to see more naturals walking the streets and in clubs, on videos and tv shows and movies than wut we see now of relaxed or pressed n weaved up heads. our ancestors fought so hard for us to have, and to be who we are as a black people, n alot of us are letting go of our ancestry in a sense, just accept who u are and how the DIVINE created us so DIVINE. yes

[Coran27]

I loved your video and I love your hair! I've recently gone back to wearing my hair natural after wearing it straight for 13 years, and like you said, I feel like myself again. Are you from the caribbean? I thought I detected an accent?xx

[TheSmallaxx]

lol, my parents are indeed from the Caribbean and im from Toronto where there are many many ppls of the Caribbean, come visit us for Caribana;)

Thank you for your comment!

[riverblackrainfall]

You look beautiful with ur bald head...as a fellow bald headed black women. I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND WHY U DID IT BCOS I CAN IDENTIFY WITH ALOT OF UR VIEWS.

[TheSmallaxx]

Thank you kindly, It was one of the biggest decisions I made b/c it was also a conscience choice to re-evaluate my own perception of beauty...New revolution UNITE lol!

[killwhitey88d]

yes variations, but black americans are not African immigrants , and we have our own set of conditioning and brainwashing that although may be similar to the African experience is still completely different. Point taken about yourself but i still feel a gold mine was missed by not getting enough comments from the heart of the community thats really destroyed. I dont know if you made this, but i really enjoyed it and want to see part 3 but cant find it. This does needs more views though.

[TheSmallaxx]

Thank you, I appreciate that. I wrote and directed it and I am working on a part 3 right now. This is such a massive issue with so many issues attached. But the next part will be addressing the aspect of self acceptance and the effects that these issues have had a broader conscience.

[killwhitey88d]

Well i cant wait, ill have to subscribe, we need more people just like you doing something instead of sitting and complaining. I look forward to your future endeavors; you make me want to make films now. do you still have your short hair? More power to you and all the luck my beautiful sister.

[mcamurray]

well actually, slavery and colonization by white ppl existed in most places where that black ppl live today. with that said, black pll in england, africa, the caribbean, and the US all have basically the same standards of beauty and issues w/ self image and it is kind of ridiculous to say that she should interview black americans as though they are the only ones w/ this mentality.

also to ppl in the video are clearly caribbean and not african.

[killwhitey88d]

yeh thats obvious, and why would you not, they are the heart of the problem, and they are the reason why koreans run every black beauty supply store, as a journalist why skip the larger parts of a good story? All im saying is the part when they asked the africans what hair did they like , it made more sense to ask someone who was born into the conditioning than someone with direct cultural roots. Africans do not think the same as Af americans in the states.

[mcamurray]

well my point was most blacks all over the world are born into the same conditioning. from what i hear, the colorism and hair issue in africa is just as bad if not worse in africa, so the mindset is gonna be the same regardless. granted, it would have been much better if she could get the perspective of ALL types of black ppl, but i'm sue time and money wont permit she to do that. so she used the ppl that are available (most of which happen to be CARIBBEAN).

[TheSmallaxx]

I also agree that te conditioning of self hatred has been passed down in our communites in the Americas and the Caribbean.

I also feel that it is counter productive to seperate these issues by culture. Of course their are cultural differences b/w black Americans,Canadians,Caribbeans­, Africans,Europeans etc

BUT

[TheSmallaxx]

at the end of the day, we cannot take our skin off. Unfortunatly, sun kissed ppl may be treated alike (discriminated against) regardless of cultural background, education, faith or view point. More important than changing the minds of a small minded few, we must change how we see ourselves. I think the most powerful way is in parenting

[mcamurray]

i know you weren't trying to be rude and just wanted to help make her documentary better, i just don't think the experiences of black americans are any more important than other blacks of the world b/c slavery (which i assume is the reason the conditioning took place) took places in places other than the US.

it just kinda bothers me that ppl seem to think that black americans struggled any more than other blacks, as though slavery didn't exist anywhere else.

[killwhitey88d]

your right I thought it was a great piece of work, but i never said black americans were better, I said as many perspectives as possible, and america, hey if it wasnt for them it's possible this specific story would not exist or be drastically different. Struggle more? it's all the same . Kidnapping, slave trade, genocide, jim crow, prison pop , 400 years of struggle is nothing compared to everyone else? come on. struggle? then 4 get bout blacks... chinese, S.amer, japs, jews, indians.

[TheSmallaxx]

Thank you for your comments. This is a loaded subject and this film only skims the surface of the issues within the contexts of the effects of colonialism. I also agree the we all must verse ourselves on the struggles of those African slaves displaced all over the world. But also, perhaps we should take it a step further and also understand struggles of indentured workers from China and India brought to replace African slaves when slavery was abolished.

[TheSmallaxx]

This is one of my first films, this was a hard issue to tackle so my goal was to try to do it through my point of view in order to have a narrow..er focus

Comments like these are invaluable to me and my future films, honest constructive comments will help me to better my craft. Thank you!

[killwhitey88d]

can you talk to black americans and not all these africans

[TheSmallaxx]

killwhitey88d, black Americans are African by decent. There are variations of the "black experince" but our skin has been kissed by the sun nonetheless...

Im actually Canadian and my parents Caribbean.

Same issues