Black Women React To 90S Hair Products

Kyla Cymone: When I was younger my grandma dropped the hot comb down my back just imagine the pain

Litty Ty: When they burn you with the hot comb they be like “girl, it’s just the grease!! I barely touched your head” knowing good and well they just burned you‍♀️

nancy: The hot comb would touch my ear, I would scream and my mom be like “it ain’t even touch your ear”

lola r: i remember going to my friends house (she’s african) and seeing the hot comb on the stove and me being a little white girl thought it was some sorta torture device lmaooo

Chaya Cosby: Me:**born in 2003** Also me: **has had every single one of these products used on my hair**

mandygurl2341: *obligatory I’m white* Some of my best friends growing up were black, and I was always fascinated with their hair and my girl Tayona would get her hair done sometimes when I was over and I loved the way the products smelled and how intricate and detailed her braids looked. I have some very precious memories with my friends and she thought my mom was crazy and lazy because I would just have mine brushed and be out the door (we were 4 by the way.) I remember my mom was watching her for like a week and she attempted to do her hair and it was a hot mess and she was like “yeaaah, momma wouldn’t do me like this!”

Ranae Will: Who else remember that gel that make your hair super hard, but actually kept your hair laid down

Ms T: Old school hair products smelled alot better. Now everything smells like Coconuts

- IrisKnowsAll -: My mom still uses blue magic

Akira The Artist: Growing up as a black girl with a lot of THICC hair and being tinderheaded does not go together

Rodney Whitney: People always reminisce about the “good ‘ole days,” but I, as a black man, am super proud of how black natural hair has come for black women *and men.

Madison Eubanks: I can smell this whole video

vampcess: I wasn’t born in the 90s but my mom used literally all this stuff on my hair

Siobhan O'Connor: As a Black British girl, I used these products too. I'm surprised!

lullzeze: Me: pls don’t use it my hair is fine Mom: it’s already on the stove Me: Mom: Where are you going Me: Away from the pressing comb

lele thompson: My mama would always say "hold yo ears if you want em"

Rita From Papa Louie: Me: “Mama are you cooking something?” Mom: “No, I got the hot comb on th-“ Me: “AhHhHhHhHhHhH!”

Azuldreams: I remember looking in the mirror to see my mom had me looking like James Brown because she “bumped the ends”

Alize Bush: I’ve had every single product in this video. I remember getting relaxers and my mom would say let me know if it burns I’ll be like mom it’s burnin and she’d just slap more on top of the spot. I felt so betrayed ‍♀️

*Shimmer me Timbers*: And then you’d go to school expecting compliments but in stead you hear “omg is that your real hair?”

Keevin Roberts: My mom uses the pink oil moisturizer hair lotion to put my little sisters hair in a slick ponytail. We also use the blue magic. She also has a hot comb. So yeah I knew exactly what some of these things where .

Courtney W: Did anyone else mom threaten to let them walk out with their hair half done if they kept flinching from the hot comb? They burned us and then blamed it on the flinch! I Was traumatized that's why I jump.

abryannah james: i was born in '04, jus turned 15 yesterday (dec. 23) my mom still relaxes my hair. hehe, who gon' tell her im cutting it all off when i move away for college

LaKrisha Thomas: Love this video. Brought back sooo many memories. They should have added Jam, Kemi Oyl and African Pride Braid Spray.

Mary Watkins: Gladly left the hot comb and relaxer in my childhood. All this reminds me of why I big chopped at 18 years old and never looked back.

GothEvilButterfly91: I was terrified of the hot comb. My parents dropped me off at one of my dad's (he's African) relatives places to get my hair done and they had a hot comb on a gas stove. It literally looked like a weapon to me. It was never used on my hair, thank goodness.

GarriFree: one time i "stole" my grandma's pink lotion and took it home with me and she made me mail it back to her....hatin across the country

Pastel: I could smell and feel this whole video.

b6nni: did anyone else’s mom had a cup of water on the night stand and they would put the brush in there and brush you hair with it. i still do it to my hair!

kamarah rozzelle: I'm 13 and was born in 2006. My mom still uses everything except the relaxer and scary hot comb

Xinyi B: This video taught me some things and made me laugh. Great job!! And everyone looks beautiful! (I wasn't born in the 90s but recognized some products, which was fun! )

casanova moony: i can hear my mom now… “keep yah head still” “move yah ears” “hold this piece” “well it wouldn’t hurt if you kept your head the way i had it!” “did you even condition? because it don’t feel like you did”

canaryinacoalmine: I’m so glad the conversation has opened up around black hair. I’m a white woman with black friends and there were times when I did not understand what they had to go through. Now I feel much more educated and they didn’t have to personally talk me through what is an intimate process for many. Thank you.

Jeanicia Sparkles: I’ll never forget. When I was in elementary school I took that hot comb to school to show my friends what my mom was using on my hair. I don’t remember their reactions but I do remember when we went to recess I smashed that comb into the wooden bleachers making sure the “teeth” were dented. My mom never found out and I never told her to this day

shroomi: The fact that all of these of like a staple of y'alls culture at this point is so funny and awesome to me ❤

Melyssa Revilla: I love their haaaair! My mom has really kinky hair and I always wanted to have it like that. I achieved it by curling my hair with wooden sticks and a hair iron. I had a BEAUTIFUL lioness mane for like 5 minutes. Best 5 minutes of my life.

Tye White: I️ could smell this whole video Lmaoo. The fact that almost all black girls lived the same childhood never fails to amaze me. It’s almost like we grew up together.

ahoward: I just found this! I actually have straight blond hair, but I find that I like the creams, masks, and lotions that are made for hair types associated with an black woman's hair because they are more effective for me and are straight to the point. My roommate used to use her products on me and she swore by them and I was hooked!

Idek I’m a Potato: I’m not black but I love when girls do crochet braids they look so good

Unaltered Beauty: I was hoping they would show that TCB grease. I think that was the name. It was yellow and had softer texture than the Blue Magic. Definitely the bougie black girl grease.

vfg540: Brought back a lot of childhood memories especially the hot comb....I remember getting my hair pressed Saturday night for church Sunday in the kitchen lol

k khan: black women are so beautiful, their hair too.

Koya89: I use blue magic on my daughter hair lol it's crazy that it works so good on her hair compaired to those expensive moisturizer's I was buying lol

Laurenbear: lol i remember relaxing my hair when i was a bit younger and my hair would break by the time my hair grew, then i would have the *still thin* (somehow) dead and broken ends until they all flew away and i was at squad one with my hair length, ha. never again

shell thunder: Thank God us sisters can finally see our own beauty in our selves with natural hair.

Ladessa Marie: I've never had the straight comb used on me before, everything else was a staple in my house growing up (that damn pink oil moisturizer was the devil and so was the oil sheen) my great grandmother used the straightening comb a lot but that's as close as I got to it.

Christina C: "i wanna wear my hair straight so it can blow in the wind" TOO relatable

Rebecca 88: I love all the different hair colors and textures in this video; they are absolutely beautiful. ❤

Brie 🇺🇦: I always loved when my nieces hair was entirely natural. I'd wash it (she'd tell me off if I got anywhere near her with shampoo though I can still hear her saying "it's not time yet! __ more days! Just use conditioner!"), and after I'd wash it we'd dry it a bit and put in a bit of moisturizing product like a bit of coconut oil or something. She knew so much about it that's I'd never even think of. And when I DID try to style it she'd be sitting there looking in the mirror shaking her head going "mm mm mm" or "uh uh!". And "that's not how daddy does it! Just do what daddy does!". I'd lean over like "girl I got some berets and hairspray, and we're going to have to make it work!". I remember one instance we went swimming and went to change and go out to dinner. She looked at me like I was crazy and said "I've got to wash my hair with some moisturizer to get the chemicals out!". Like I didn't even think about how chlorine could damage hair and here's this five year old telling me off about it.

a totally random chick on the internet: i remember getting hot-combed for the first and last time. it touched my ear and my aunt said "girl, I didn't even touch you" and this one time I got my hair flat-ironed while It was kinda wet and it BURNED yet no one listened to me-

Bunny: It's nice to know I wasn't the only one terrified of the hot comb

Grace Reyes: BRUH I REMEMBER THAT HOT COMB ONE TIME MY MOM LEFT IT ON THE FLOOR TO LONG IT BURNED THROUGH THE FLOOR AND THAT MARK IS STILL THERE TODAY LMAOOOO

Raven Willis: I allow my my mother to use the hot comb if I want a straightener texture to my hair. I actually prefer it honestly.

Mills: Every black girl has some sort of trauma when it comes to hot combs, ESPECIALLY the one that you had to sit by the stove for

CinderStar: Everybody’s hair in this video looks so beautiful!

Noemi Esquivez: I’m latina and every time I saw the relaxer at the store I wanted it. The little girl on the packaging looked like it was fun.

Javinnia Rice: it's weird, it's been a while and I still remember the first time my mom whipped out the blue magic and the box of bobos, berrets and baubles, one time, she used the hot comb on my hair to do a silk press and actually, it wasn't even that bad, i stood still the whole time. I'm glad that there are more afro hair care products available for black girls and women in shops, but I gotta say imma stick with the blue magic and the just for me...cause it was a throwback for me.

Shawnee Tate: During the 90s as a child, I would always be TERRIFIED of my mom putting relaxer on my hair. The “Just for me” brand is what she’d always use. By the way, I still use Blue Magic grease today!

Danae Mitchell: I literally just got my hair pressed with a hot comb That 90s hair product is still relevant

Kiki: My mom used relaxers like all the time. She stopped after I chopped off all my hair and she realized how well it grew back in without damaging it with chemicals all the time. Me cutting myself bald helped me in the long run lol.

Samantha Sowell: As a little white girl with your typical white girl hair I was so jealous of the little black girls with all the little hairbows in all the different colors and neat braid patterns (even though I was a tomboy and wouldn't hold still long enough for my mom to do my hair in even one simple braid). But then when I got older I found out how hard it is for you guys to get your hair like that and how much time it takes and I asked a black lady I work with, "how do you get your kids to hold still?!" She was like *mimics smacking the kids on top of the head with the hairbrush* "they might cry a few times but after awhile they learn to hold still".......i bout fell down laughing I'm not even gonna lie. My mom bashed me on top of the head for hollering and moving while she was getting tangles out but dang! Y'all some survivors! LOL

AnanaSUPREME: The Just for Me relaxer didn't work at all on my hair so mom always took me to the Salón nearby that was run by some Dominican ladies to get my hair straight, despite the heavy amount of chemical that barely did anything and after a week the coils would return.

katy k: I can't express how happy it makes me, women that embraced their natural textures are looking back on these things for the savagery they really are and laughing.. Its like the future I never dared dream of as a child

G. Ward: Who else experienced PTSD from that walk down memory lane? ‍♀️

Jade Armanii: *When you weren't born in the 90s but some of these products were from your childhood*

UrMom DotCom: This is triggering lmfaoooo glad we've moved forward. The smell of the pink lotion and hairspray still haunts me. And I was one of those kids that tried the hot comb by themselves and burnt straight thru the front of my hair and made some unfortunate bangs lmaoooo

Noriah Allen: Their skin looks so clear

Genesis Kravitz: My mom used to slay my hair like the girls on the relaxer box. Relaxers were just life for me as a preteen/teen. I’m a young adult in my 20s and I’m natural and I’m SO glad for more insight and promotion of love for my natural hair. When I have kids, I’m definitely celebrating their natural hair by keeping it natural.....unless they rebuke it.....but they won’t lol

Cole Crystal: It would have been more fun to have their moms reacting

Joy'sCurls: That lusters pink oil was my hair product for _years_ . I hated the way it smelled, and it still felt oily after my hair was dry, but the finger curls were poppin!

Sara Weissensteiner: my mom still has that press comb and she sometimes makes my hair with it and always be like “dont move!!”

Anna Nass: I’m white, but I had crazy curly hair growing up, so my mom used Just For Me on my hair a couple times I remember that girl on the box, and begging her to buy it.

MISSV3R0N1CA: I'm not even going to lie, I used to used the pink can of oil sheen on my skin to tan during the summer. Lol It smells good and worked better that some tanning oils. #olivetoneproblems

Toyin Falade: Who else could relate because I could SMELL and FEEL that WHOLE video

SILKY MILKY: I'm going back to these because greae & relaxers is how my hair grew so fast

CD: 3:28 was sooo true i was so weak my mom got so sick of me jerking around bc i didn’t wanna get burned by the hot comb AND i was tender headed so days when she did my hair done were the worst not to mention doing hair took ALL DAY so it wasn’t no making plans or doing ANYTHING else

Timothy Ramey: My goodness! I'm 13 and my mom used most of these products on my hair up till about a year ago

Leah_Tae_Kpop: when my mom burned me with the iron she was like " i barely touched you"

rko32491: I still have the Ampro gel in my bathroom cabinet. I get a huge tub every 2 years or so lol idk it lasts forever. But let's be honest we all still have at least 1 of these products we still use today lol. My mom still uses the pink. I dont use the just for me relaxer but I still use their moisturizer lmao

Nia Belizaire: I never grew up in the nineties, but my mom used to use Blue Magic in my hair

lonnie499: Wait, I still use the gel. But this isn’t only the 90s, I was born in 2000 and blue magic, the relaxers or texturizers, the gel and the pink lotion was all apart of my childhood.

Diona Beck: I use ampro for twisting my dreads and blue magic for oiling my hair...been using all of these products since I was 5(2001)

Renee Estine: The women in the polka dots and nude shirt were STUNNING, skin care + hair routine please ??!!

Anna Ewing: I’m 13 today with very curly hair and this stuff is still the bomb. Especially the gel and the pink lotion

LadyFausta: Okay but all of these ladies are so beautiful and their hair is just so lovely! <3

Briyanna: Born in '95. got most of these products in my hair at one time or another except that hot comb which I am sooooo grateful for because I would have burns all over my head from that thing. lol

Holy Experience: I was 14 in '91, at turn of century, 24 a few months later! I tried Pink Lotion once, but my eczema hated it. At some point in my 20s, I began using Just For Me girls' relaxer. I am, at 43, now 15 months post relaxer as of next week or so, but not planning to do big chop, just let it be. I am not planning to relax again at this time, what influenced that decision was a lady on here who talks about the Lord she felt a spiritual conviction not to any longer relax and deal with her heart about her hair. But door is not closed for me to do relaxers again, but I am learning to appreciate my hair better, and can still find a way to make it really straight without relaxer, so.... Blue Magic, I used in late teens until I stopped using grease, maybe by 27? I was introduced to it by my fave uncle's late stepdaughter, who was 5.5 months elder than me. I was days from 19, visiting the South. She used it doing my hair, and used a curling iron you used on the stove. Never heard of that curling iron before. But, though I was 99.9% a straight haired type growing up, and at 30, 100% of the time, I did enjoy the experience. Sadly, she passed at 33 just before I turned 33, of heart attack. I wish she was still here to do my hair! . I only got the blue when I did, never the green. Yes, I share the horror of hot combs! But I bought myself a new modern hot comb, the one that does not burn you so easily, unless you make contact with skin. It is Red By Kiss Hot Comb. You can get it online or may have it at your local Bed Bath & Beyond! Prep your hair right, it works dynamite! Seems like many mother's forgotten what it was like growing up and hair getting done, so we suffer from that! Funny, my mother was the way she was, but the one time my niece was with me and her to my late grandma's funeral on maternal side, I volunteered myself to do her hair. She is Mexican on top of the three things my bro and I are, but her hair was hard to do. My mother told me to be careful, and I told her I have not forgotten what it was like getting my hair done growing up, or, I think that is how I responded. I just brushed it, was long back then. I did not used the other products mentioned.

Miranda Milner: I’m white, and I think black girls and their hair is just SLAYING. I don’t even understand why some people are racist about black skin when it’s so beautiful!

tiara cooks: I am 16 and when I was little blue magic, just for me relaxer, was my childhood. And my mom still owns that hot comb and puts it's on the stove. Ahh, nostalgia

Woah Its Summer Time!: Let's be honest, we all wanted to look like those girls on the perm boxes

Dominique: I was born in 2002 (i’m 16) and my mom used almost all of these items/products when i was in elementary and some of middle school. She especially used the hot comb and after she used that on my head a couple times i demanded to not get my hair straight again and shortly after, i went natural:) lol.

Sabrin 'A: Love how they all have their natural hair texture

S. A.: Somehow seeing all these black people comments makes me happy, it's heartwarming to read all their nostalgic stories of their childhood.... It's so amazing how all these things that's soo familiar with their childhood, for an asian like me is a new thing I just found out exists today....

Lani Luvv: It’s so funny how they said when they were little they wanted relaxer and with me I’m always telling my mom I don’t even want her to blow dry my natural hair

Chiki Noogit: I physically jumped when the hot comb came onto the screen. I still remember my mom greasing my hair up, and hearing it crackle as soon as it made contact with the comb But my hair looked good ngl

Deemememe: I had skills with the hot comb! People loved when I did their hair. Never burned them.

izayaoriharaisannoying: I’m getting chills already looking at that hot comb, the back of my neck and tips of my ears used to be SIZZLING trying to get those edges straight!

Milk Tea: I’m white and I remember one of my best childhood friends (who was black) showing me a hot comb burn she got when her mom was styling her hair just moments before she came outside to play (we were 10/11). It wasn’t severe, but I was horrified for her— it looked so painful. So glad going natural is getting more and popular with black women (and other women, to a lesser degree). Natural hair of any kind is beautiful when it’s taken care of properly.

Sades XOXO: I still use the luster pink lotion. That’s the first product I used for my natural hair. And I was born in 03’

elizabeth?: I’m still scared of that gold comb..