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    Default Nuh Uhhhh...Essence video, Why I love "my" hair

    Yes, I'm bored on a Friday night.


    So bored that I'm on Essence's blog where I came across a video entitled, "
    Shake Your Beauty: Why We Love Our Hair"

    Here's the link:



    http://www.essence.com/hair/shake_yo...e_our_hair.php



    Now, it said she was going to be interviewing black women in NYC streets and asking them why we love our hair. I expected to see a range of styles including both straight and natural hair. Did I see natural hair? No!


    But what is even more mind boggling, are the responses many of them gave.


    Watch and shake your head.

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    Thanks for that. It was enlightening. And that was a hot, mucky mess! That girl with the glasses kept saying "because it's natural!" There was nothing natural about her hair. None of these women had natural hair but "natural" and "versatile" kept coming up in their answers. Weave and perms are not natural. Somebody needs to school these girls and the beauty editor! I feel just as cheated now listening to this as I was when I got my first relaxer at 14 years old. But I guess that's the mentality that has been etched in our brains since were little about relaxers and how good they are for our hair. Ugh!!!

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    One of the sisters said that, her hair is natural and that she perms every two weeks!
    This is why I stopped reading and buying Essence a looooonnng time ago.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Intellexual View Post


    i like how we had to get through the first 3 people to get to someone without a weave or a wig or a pony
    Last edited by GalaxyGirl2010; 11-27-2010 at 07:36 AM.

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    I'm not really offended. The only off the wall thing I saw was the girl who said she relaxes every two weeks. Wow!

    But uh, with the chicks saying they are natural, even though they have a relaxer in their hair...before I went natural and got involved with the online hair world, I too considered my nonweaved up hair "natural." Natural hair as we know it did not exist in my little world so wearing your real hair with chemicals=your natural hair. I don't fault them, it is just ignorance and being misinformed.
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    They all kept saying what most naturally straight haired women can say...they can put weave in it, wear it curly, color it, add pieces...that entire piece made no sense, I'm like shaking my head the whole time.
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    This entire video was an embarrassment. Some of those women had hair that looked badly damaged. Especially the girl with the blond bangs! She said her hair is versatile and that it doesnt break off easily! She is terribly misinformed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Intellexual View Post
    :-)

    I think that the Essence vid was appealing to only a few types of AA hair(of course they coulda put on or two 'fros in the mix) but hey....what do you expect??

    Let's just all pray that one day that all the AA media will make some leaps n bounds.....
    "...we only got 86,400 seconds in a day to turn it all around or to throw it all away..." -DL

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    oh looord hair i go again.... (gets into Lewis Black mode)

    first of all... 2 statements: to all of the women!!!



    1. WHAT MOST OF YALL ARE WEARING IS NOT YOUR HAIR!!!!

    2. THAT IS NOT BLACK HAIR!!!!!!!!! ITS CALLED WEAVE!!!!!!
    To the first girl:

    IF YOUR HAIR IS SO VERSATILE....WHY DO YOU NEED TO CLIP THINGS IN IT TO DO STYLES!!!!
    NOW......TO THE THIRD GIRL WITH THE BARELY THERE EDGES SOILED IN GEL AND GOOP:

    YOUR HAIR IS NOT NATURAL SO STOP SAYING THAT IT IS!!!!!! IT IS A WEAVE....I CAN SEE THE TRACK ON YOUR HORRIBLE LACE FRONT. WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT NATURAL?! YOUR HAIRLINE DEFINITELY AINT!

    to THE NEXT GIRL AND THE LAST GIRL:

    YOU DO NOT LOVE YOUR HAIR BECAUSE U CAN PERM IT!!! YOU PERM YOUR HAIR BECAUSE YOU DO NOT YOUR HAIR!!! WHY ELSE WOULD U PUT A CHEMICAL THAT CAN MELT YOUR SKIN, ON YOUR HAIR...IT DEFINITELY AINT CUZ YOU LOVE IT THE WAY IT IS!



    ugh im sorry but i had to do this.....what a messs....what a messs. im exhausted at mess....Essence= epic stupid FA1L!!

    ooohhhhh mess mess mess mess mess mess mess mess mess mess mess mess mess........

    *****edited, post stretched the board.
    Last edited by Kathleen1; 11-27-2010 at 05:28 AM.
    http://images.meez.com/user/3/5/7/8/...ot_175x233.gif
    I'M BACK IN THE GAME BABY!!!

    Locking it up TSTs locked for 2 days HA!!!!! })

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