African Beauty In 1948: Women Straightening Their Hair | Vintage Fashions

A c: I love that he says kinks and curl pattern. He doesn't sound degrading or anything really, which is really nice

Kimani2 Coppin State C: I love that he says "Nature will always come out on top".

Nine in the Afternoon: This is really cool to see they acknowledged black hair and not in a rude type of way. I remember getting my hair hot combed it was so awful! I couldn't imagine doing that on a regular basis.

Vanessa White: I think it is surprising that in 1948 they were talking about black hair care.

PRO NOIR: this is my first time in all my years ever seeing a hair tutorial for black women during this time! i wanna see more stuff like this about black people from back then. it’s so important to the culture.

kitty_amazing: "Curly or straight, nature comes out on top." Love that line, so true.

Alex C: The girl who's having her hair done was beautiful omg

Toi: Some people may never know the fear that a hot comb evokes. 2019, and I am still flinching.

Kara Danielle: "Secret oils" lol.. Wow this is amazing footage. I love that hairstyle at the end. That being said though, I'm glad more of us black women are more accepting of our kinky / natural hair these days. Her hair was beautiful before and after in my opinion.

Roxi Smith: I don't know her BUT That model is REALLY BEAUTIFUL and sweet smile. So does The Hairdresser is too!! :)

Ashleigh H: "But do they like it?, They're Women aren't they?" lmfao

Alexander Towery: Only in the UK would a video from this time actually show two beautiful black women doing natural hair. And using the proper term "Kinky" instead of "Nappy".

Gabrielle Johnson: the hot comb....my ears will never forget the heat.

Just a Little Lilac: "Do they like it? They're women aren't they?" Cracked me up.

Afrocentric Gypsy: This is basically a 1948 version of the silk press videos we watch today. The techniques have a lot of similarities.

TULIP: My mother did my hair exactly like this in the 90s! Yes it took forever. Yes there is a chance of the comb burning your ears:(

rosegoldbb: If the hair gets wet lol He didn’t say nothing wrong in this video

Kat Brax: This vlog brought back childhood memories of getting our hair washed and pressed on Saturday night for church on Sunday and easy styles during the week.

Life without Stress: He spoke in such eloquence. He compared how women with different hair types wanted the opposite of what their natural hair was without sounding too iffy.

tigereule: I find this refreshingly none racist for its time and age. it is: "another crazy thing women do" instead of " an exotic thing africans do" and women off all times and colorings do crazy things because they think they aren't pretty the way they are. lesson learnt :-D

Thicc N Buttery: "Do they like it? They're women, aren't they?" I fucking died LOL

Terry Westbrook-Lienert: She has a very healthy head of hair. I love it.

𝕄𝕣𝕤.𝔾𝕝𝕒𝕞💄💋: IM A HAIRSTYLIST LICENSED SINCE 2007 I LOVE WATCHING THESE OLD VIDEOS MY GRANDMOTHERS PROBABLY WORE THOSE STYLES

NEG LORAN: Wow seeing things like this is amazing. Her hair is so healthy and shiny.

Clarissa Explains It All: Really love the tone of this video, very refreshing to see this as an “alternate women’s beauty” video as opposed to “look at these different looking people doing different ‘unconventional’ things to their hair” like I would imagine a video from the 40s to do when talking about black beauty.

reina l: She is so beautiful. Seems women had such a classic/timeless look about them. I miss the no surgery/ no extreme makeup days :(

Keishia Fells: "Nature always seems to come out on top!!" Love it!! Beautiful model/client. Love the bantu knots as well. Very tongue and cheek video but also true.

cutiehaiti: This is hilarious who would've thought there was tutorials out there back then

feverspell: For anyone shocked at how long it took for the hairdresser to straighten her client's hair, I'm white and it takes me the same length of time to straighten *my* hair.  I have to blow dry it mostly straight first, then take the flat iron to individual sections afterward.  It's a complete pain in the ass, but my hair is so thick and wavy it would look awful if I didn't.

J.A. Whittler: If done correctly, there is not a thing wrong with getting your hair hot combed/ pressed. A person just needs to keep it conditioned and trimmed just like when they have a chemical relaxer in their hair. The heat(of the hot comb) needs to be tested be certained that it doesn't scorch or burn the hair. Generally, the hair comes out to be quite beautiful. Remember to use light oils or hairdressing pomades / oils to keep the hair from becoming greasy and with heavy build-up on the scalp and pores. You can achieve the same results as with a flat iron.

Abiforeva87: The description commentary was perfect and non-discriminatory. Like that a lot!

C G: I was genuinely surprised at the lack of racism in this clip for the time period then realized it's not from America so it makes sense.

I Want To Survive: What a beautiful girl in the chair. The beauty of 1940s women is so underrated and beautifully understated.

Crystal Fearn: Did he say.... "Do they like it? They're women aren't they" Soooo...no.. of course not! We can never be satisfied

Van W: I just had a flash of getting my hair straightened by Ms. Bea as she drank Jim Beam from a plastic cup!

MrsYummy YUMZ99DOAS FBA: _"A number of secret oils"_ that part took me out.

Sabiha Sungur: the model is really beautiful

iEatEmos: "But do they like it? They're women aren't they?" haha I love it.

karon Last: Such beautiful women & those hair styles were really artistic!

fallingnutria89 Fletcher: Different hair textures I know. But my mum used to iron her hair. With an actual iron.... she'd lie down with her hair on a board and get my aunty to iron it straight. Thank God technology has moved forward

Maranda with an A: I wish there was a full tutorial so I could try it on my hair ❤️

Chelsea Ne'Kole: "If the hair get's wet or steamed up it naturally un-straightens itself" the narrator sounds like he's shocked and fascinated about black hair as he's reading the paper

Shannon McCall: She could walk out of the salon with the look at 1:10 and walk right into Coachella now.

Ty Ty: We as black women came a long way with hair care

Jewel Jackson: Cast iron hot combs on the stove i still use mine and its 2020 especially when i want to break my hair bonds and get a tight flat braid under my wigs lol or a length check .. It wont ever go out of style.. Ladies we wont forget the Marcell pressing cream, the "secret cream" . This is beautiful and im happy to see a moments of black culture on our feed.

Apollonia Apollonia: This is how my mother did my hair and it laid right for a week, but I also suffer from PTSD to this day

Veronica: I just got a flashback of my childhood when I saw that straightening comb. And then when the I moved out of pain, I'd get a ,"It's just the grease melting." or "It's just the heat that made you jump."

Boo Spanyer Cassiopeia: when my mother was a girl this was the way it was done but do your hair anyway *you* like! curly, straight...anything goes~~^^ be your own beautiful creation & live out loud

theEarthChildx: “They born with a permanent wave, but do they like it? They’re women, aren’t they?” Hilarious

Tatrice Shipp: Black women have always been resourceful,talented and beautiful.

nicole watson: OMG!  The model's hair was so beautiful.  Both of my grandmothers were beauticians as young women and I remember the hot comb as a small child.  Our hair was a lot healthier in those days compared to now.

Sylvie W: Oh my brought back memories. Had my hair done like this as a child by my mother first(my mother had been taught by her hairdresser cousin), then later hairdressers who had been properly trained in the hotcomb technique. Hair would be so straight and silky and actually last a good while even in humid weather. In fact when chemical perms were so popular, I still was having my hair hotcombed and people thought it was permed because it held up so well. Just loved it and miss it now. Since chemical perms are extremely irritating too my scalp I wear my hair natural or I have to hotcomb my own hair now since very few beauticians do this anymore.

nieceypiecey100: Yup. Hated this process. Remember my mother use to say when she taught me, “you gotta use the back of the comb!” Lol glad to see she knew the tricks

Niler Taylor: Love this video...it truly explains what "we" have been going through for years, but this is what it takes. Thanks for sharing. Niler

Hannah DeForest: Beautiful model and stylist. And the hairdo looked lovely! What a nice video. Glad that some people were really positive about natural black curls back then!

TheVintageCurls: i agree. im a natural--been natural all my life---yet i have no problem with women perming/straightening their hair.

Jane Doe: Oh my goodness, the model is so beautiful and I’m loving that adorable hair style she’s sporting!

A M: I'm 50 years old, and I remember my grandmom twisting my hair up like this after she washed my hair and I was ready for bed. They're like little doughnut twists.

Caitlin Marie: I've tried permanent straightening twice and my curly hair always fights back lol. I need to learn to accept it

eyecandyzz: The smell of burned hair in the kitchen takes me back.

AquarianGoddess: So glad someone in the beauty salons had the bright idea to lean us back and wash our hair lol it’s like heaven every time I’m leaned back in one of those chairs ‍♀️

julia: I love this. The way they were educated in black hair and how they knew it would reverse back to kinks if the hair got moist lmao

Kay J: Loved how he talked about how long it takes and how we section our hair....what a nice video

Vixen Bow: I still use a hot comb to straighten my hair, cant get used to the flat iron. Still pin curl or bantu knot my hair for curls. Nice video brought me back to when my mom did hair back in the day. Positive video.

Eve Yitagesu: I like how he says 'here' haha "hayeree'

saycheeze4mi: My grandma was a beautician and grandad a barber. We stayed hooked up, weekly! I can still see her putting that blue grease on the back of her hand as she parted and straitened my locks.

Ravinder2220: Very interesting video on how they used to style hair back in the 1940s I'm a true ghd fan and it's changed the way I do my hair forever.

Dearbhla Ryan: They're from Britain so they're not African American and people in Britain don't really say African British!

echk0w9: This is really great. thanks for putting this up! I really appreciate it!

Cecilia Navarro: Le quedo precioso el peinado y sin tantos productos químicos.

Dee M.: So I'm latina and 12 years ago I was roommates with a friend who was a black woman. Our apartment had an electric stove and I remember the first time I saw a gold comb on the burner and just being so confused. I had never seen, or heard of a hot comb before. I was mesmerized by the process she would go through of straightening her hair with it.

Usagi Tsukino: I would love to see 1900s hair care this was amazing!

Bunny: The hairstyle she has at the end is beautiful!

Samantha Garrett: I had a friend in 3rd grade who had her hair straighten in the kitchen. Her mom had a hot comb, like the one in the video, on the stove over the flames and used Vaseline to "protect" her hair. 

Girl in Style: My natural hair (when it’s healthy lol) looks so much like the model in the video, length and all and I feel so seen right now

shannon 137: I think that this type of hair is way more beautiful left natural❤️ it's such a powerful and cool look!

Classiq Beautee ™✨: I loved these styles back then with the victory rolls,so classy & dignified

PrincessKLS: This is so fascinating and awesome to have this in the late 40s.

Momo Mon'amie: My mom raised me on the hot comb. As a tender-headed child with VERRRRY kinky hair, the hot comb was satan to me! I also used to get perms and had short hair and a large bald spot in the middle of my head by the time i was in the 8th grade. But i've been natural for about 5 years now and have healthy curly hair :D

Eryn De Los Reyes: That was my great grandmother model "press to straighten" and she laid my hair out. Nobody has since pressed my hair like that

ezpic2: Such versatile, BEAUTIFUL, hair! Simply luxurious!!

dani ceb: That is so cool! I always wondered what people used to straighten their hair back then

RandomNest: The hairstyle was absolutely beautiful. I would definitely rock that.

Nichole Israel: So glad we are starting to love our natural hair

Aime M.: This was satisfying to watch ‍♀️

Cass K: Can we take a second to appreciate how DROP DEAD GORGEOUS THAT HAIR MODEL IS!?

Lekendra Cannon: I hated the hot comb so much that I took over my hair as soon as I could and never used one again. I also stopped relaxing it. My mother and grandmother were pretty heartless in their comments in trying to make me go to the salon, I was also teased mercilessly. I had willpower of steel and still refused to go, even after being degraded by everyone. Even now, I won't straighten it. I get flack all of the time, but I'm still not doing it. I also refused to start contouring my nose when I started to wear makeup, lol.

Lovely Untamed: That girl's hair is so pretty and beautiful even when it's wild, And I say wild in a good spirited way! All our hair is basically the connection to the spirit world. I wish my hair was vibrant like this. I have to put so much stuff and style it jus to get it to bounce

Bunnylove314: What a beautiful style!

Thither Shook: I love having curly hair tbh, wouldn't damage it with heat ever . But this video was relaxing to watch

Mia Velloso: All vintage hairstyle are gorgeus. I love So classic.

B Peoples: This is such a lovely video, I hope you find more vintage tutorials regarding black people.

Angel A: This sure brings back memories of childhood

Stephanie: i thought it was funny how the narrator kind of made the comment about their hair already being curly and how most women wanted it so. he just seemed so confused lol xD

Ashauntae Harrison: first of all how did she curl it with a hit comb, and “If the hair gets really wet or steamed up, it un-straightens itself and back comes the kinks” is very very accurate

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Karen Murray: I experienced the pressing comb process when I was younger. Such memories.

Nirvana: I really wanted to see how the bottom is done looks so beautiful and satisfying!

Chiann Thomas: 2 hours? Child's play. It takes me three hours to straighten my hair!

Edel Ogolla: I thank God for modern products that allow us to grow this beautiful African Mane without destroying it with hot combs and perms. Oh man...coronavirus somehow got me here ‍♀️