The Man Who Triggered The Natural Hair Community World-Wide With One Video!

Hello, everyone and welcome back to dynamic touch. I'M musu and today we're going to be discussing another thing that has literally rocked the natural hair community online. That is so without further ado. Please, like comment and subscribe, and let's get into this video on tick, tock. There'S a lot of natural hair commentary, advice, trends, businesses and etc. Basically, tik tok has become the new youtube just with shorter videos. So that's where all the natural hair brand sponsors went when it comes to content created for natural hair, it is normally separated from mainstream hair care, so basically, black hair care is a niche that is mostly recommended to other black people on tick tock. This is usually standard across all social media platforms. The world of black hair care is normally isolated from mainstream forms of hair care floating like a lone naval ship across the vast sea of social media content, independent and unaccompanied. Until something causes the world of black hair care to intersect with the likes of mainstream hair care, in this case, it's a male hair stylist by the name of james, a also known as the life of hair on instagram youtube, facebook and tick tock. Although james is new to tick tock, he is no social media newbie on youtube alone. He has a mask of following of over 85 000 followers. He also specializes in hair education teaching those who want to level up his hair skills in his online academy, the life of hair academy. Now that we know a little bit about james. Let'S talk about the bum that he unexpectedly set off across natural hair, tick tock, going further down the rabbit hole of natural hair care online did james know what he was getting himself into. Well, let's take a look at his commentary to find out me thinking. My hair was healthy because of how it looked in its natural state. I think it's pretty obvious. What'S happened here, this poor girl's gone to the hair salon had her hair blow-dried straight, and the hairdressers told her that all this flicky hair and these thin ends are because her hair is damaged. But i can absolutely assure you that anybody with 3b 3c, 4a, 4b or 4c, their hair texture, will be thinner towards the ends and your hair is naturally weaker. So do not take any advice from anybody that tells you that those flicky bits are all breakage and that your hair is completely damaged because the reality is everybody's hair grows at different rates because of a growth cycle process called allergen, tetragen, calogen and each hair is In a different phase, one's rest, one's grow one fall out if they were all in the same place. We'D go bald and we'd grow all our hair back over and over again, that's not how it works. So please be aware that not everything you get told by a hairdresser is the facts. Sad, but true. One of the main reasons for this is because a lot of hairdressers are misinformed by education that has been passed down from generation to generation of hairdressers. That is not necessarily scientifically fact or proven. This is down to corporate hairdressing companies as well. So please be aware that you need to do your own homework, and this is for you hairdressers out there too, just because somebody told you in a classroom once something doesn't mean it's right. It'S like anything you see in the news, do your own homework and make sure that what somebody is telling you is facts, so here are some of the opinions that people who saw the video left. So i'm just gon na leave them here on the screen and you guys can play them back and watch now that we have watched the video. Let'S take a comprehensive look at what is being discussed in the first part of the video james states, hair. That is 3b, 3c, 4a, 4b and or 4c is a naturally thinner at the ends and is weaker. The first thing i would like to say is that we really need to abolish the hair typing system like i've often referenced in other videos. The hair typing system was never meant to be used by the masses. It was only meant to be used within the context of andre walker's personal hair care brand, so he can match products that he formulated with his brand to individuals who wish to purchase from him. Okay, now that we've gotten that out of the way, let's continue so in this portion, james makes two claims that hair on the tighter kinky coily spectrum will naturally have thinner ends and two that these hair types tend to be weaker. So the first point i would like to make is that all hair will be thinner towards the ends. No matter the hair type. There are varying degrees of this, but natural hair will always taper off and be thinner at the bottom. Thin ends does not always equate to split ends. I know i know it's hard to believe, but it's true. For instance, jossa who owns this channel has talked a lot about this in her previous videos, definitely check it out. You can also see this in her personal hair care. Here is a video of what her hair looked like six months ago. A lot of people were telling her that she needed a trim immediately in order to help her hair grow, when in fact, her hair strands were perfectly fine. You can see this in her length retention and how thick her hair has gotten in her most recent video. Her thin ends were not damaged, split or broken; they were just thin. Western hair care teaches that thin hair is ugly and that it must be fixed right away. They instill fear and shame in you by telling you that if you have thin ends that it must be split or damaged and if left on your whole head of hair will be ruined, although this might be the case for some people. It'S not the case for every head of hair that a hair, stylist or a person might encounter undamaged. Unsplit thin ends with no single strand. Knots can naturally be phased out with better hair care techniques, growth and time. Remember. A blunt cut with layers is the bbl of the hair care industry. It'S a mainstream popular technique used to make hair appear, fuller, which is really useful for women who have naturally thin hair, but down the line. It can cause all sorts of problems, including an increase in single strand knots, which, just like bbl's will force you to have to go see a specialist for frequent maintenance, so just to have a well-rounded view on this topic. Here is another tick talker expressing her opinions on this topic. This poor girl's gone to the hair salon and the hairdresser's told her that all this flicky hair and these thin ends are because her hair is damaged. I'M gon na come and talk about this because personally, like i've been screaming this for the longest of time, i think it's incredibly absurd that we determine the health of curly coily hair by straightening it that to me, is oxymoronic like. Why do we have to straighten it and put it through that heat and stress just to see where to cut and to see what bits are dead or whatever even cutting your hair without straightening? I just feel like the natural hair community has sold us. These lies that you have to do it way more often than you do. Every month, every week, like anyhow just be trigger happy with the scissors and be cutting your hair with the rate our hair grows. I don't understand why we're told to cut it so much for around me. I just think it's one of those things where there's not enough research into black health. Like you know, with skin care diseases, they have, they don't know how to diagnose or like recognize some skincare diseases on black people, because there's not enough research into what certain diseases look like on black people. I think it's the same thing with hair. The research hasn't actually been done, and so we're adopting all these values and things that just don't actually benefit in our hair. The way we we're sold to think that it is like me like: where did these narratives come from? I don't know, maybe i'm just ranting personally, i've always hated it. When people told me that i needed to cut my hair to keep it healthy, like cut it regularly, i'm just like. No, i don't it's nice to see uh like a hair professional talking about it, but yeah. That'S just my two pants, like i studied before james also stated that natural hair is weaker, and this is where james and i part ways natural hair is not weaker. We just have a hair care system based on western ideals that tells us that our hair is weaker. Just the other day, i burnt a piece of my shed hair just to see what the hair singeing method would do to kinky coily hair. Now the hair singing method has been something used since back in the day to get rid of split ends during older times, but now it's still used in places like brazil in the philippines, but it's an updated version. I was always curious to see what the hair singeing method would do for kinky, coily, hair and here is that same bundle just as strong and just as lively as the day i burnt it. Hear that hear that no breakage, my sister and i were literally in shock, how was it that i burnt some of my hair and my curls were still there when we were washing the curls, the curls were still lively. In fact, the curls were more defined if natural hair was weak. How would this be possible? A day later after posting, the original video james came out with his rebuttal, and this is what he said. I made a video yesterday and in that video i mentioned that this type of hair was weaker because of the nature of the hair. Now there's lots of people in the comments section saying that i'm talking nonsense, but i've got some scientific facts for you here. So stay tuned, so credit where credit is due. These studies were done by these people and there are many many of these studies on the internet. If you want to go and look for them yourselves, so you can then debunk all the myths that you believe thermoscopy represents a useful technique in the evaluation of several dermatologic disorders. This method has also been used for the diagnosis and follow-up of hair and scalp disorders. Hair dermoscopy known as treachoscopy enables the visualization and analysis of the scalp hair, follicle distribution and hair shafts. To date, little has been published regarding dermoscopy findings of hair disorders in patients of african descent. Although many diseases affect all hair types, the distinct properties of the hair and scalp in patients of african descent weren't further investigation into the unique trichoscopic patterns on this population. Global population forecasts from the u.s central intelligence agency indicate that of the 1.5 billion people that the world is predicted to gain by 2020 16 will be from africa four. In light of this, and taking into account the current and predicted changes in global demographics, it is essential for clinicians to be familiar with hair and scalp disorders of people of african descent, hair and scalp disorders are a significant problem in african descent women. One of the reasons is that african hair is more fragile, has less tensile strength and reaches its breaking point earlier than the hair of other racial groups. So for me, if you're a hairdresser, you should be able to do all hair types, but at the bare minimum you should know about all hair types. It is up to you to educate yourself. So if you're interested in all types of hair content, then give this channel a follow in this video, he referenced an article. So, let's take a look, the article begins by introducing claims that it plans to later on back up with evidence in the paper. Although many diseases affect all hair types, the distinct properties of the hair and scalp in patients of african descent warrant further investigation into the unique trichoscopic patterns on this population. The article begins by admitting that studies of the hair and scalp of african descendants is limited due to lack of investigation and or studies. The last point made in the introduction stated: one of the reasons is that african hair is more fragile and has less tensile strength and reaches its breaking point earlier than the hair on other racial groups. This statement came with two sources linked adjacent to this claim, so i clicked on them - and this is what i found the first article by the title. Current research on ethnic hair was published by the journal of american academy of dermatology june 1st 2003. collected qualitative and quantitative data about the morphology structure, geometry, water, swelling and mechanical properties of hair, fibers from subjects of different ethnic origin, x-ray analysis, cross-sectional measurements, tensile strength and Water swelling were performed on samples of hair collected from caucasian asian and african subjects. The summary goes on to state no differences in the intimate structures of fibers were observed. Among these three types of hair, whereas geometry, mechanical properties and water swelling differed according to ethnic origin. In addition, the behavior of hair fiber under mechanical stress was visualized with environmental scanning electron microscopy. The rest of the article must be paid for so we're going to stop here. The next article reference is titled apparent. Fragility of african hair is unrelated to the cysteine rich protein distribution, a cytochemical electron microscopic study. This article was published in april of 2005 as part of the book experimental dermatology volume. 14 issue 4.. In this study, the scientists used tensile force to measure the strength of hair. I do not think it is correct to measure natural hair by tensile force. When we look at how strong kinky coily hair types are, we look at its ability to recoil, not tensile strength, strong natural hair, recoils? Think about this. Let'S say a group of scientists from west africa was determining how strong hair of all different races were, and they decided to measure this using recoil. If you were to assess all the hair types on the globe, straight hair would be seen as the weakest, since it has little to no recoil. It'S like comparing apples to oranges. James also supported this point with his previous claims to how hair on the kinky coily spectrum tends to have thinner ends. By saying that healthy natural hair should be judged by the amount of recoil it has in its natural state. Not once you have blow-dried it and transformed it into another state of hair. Another point i would like to make is: i wonder if the tensile strength was measured on individual strands or a group of hair, because we all know natural hair is strongest when it's grouped together. This is why our hair can tolerate braids weaves wigs when applied correctly. Of course, these are all styles that other hair types traditionally cannot tolerate very well. If this was not the case, why is it that when a lot of people have caucasian hair, their hair will fall out when they get singles or they get individual braids? Another thing i would like to know about this study is the quality of hair used for this study. Was the hair used for this study collected from black women who neglected their hair, or was it collected from black women who really took care of their hair and their hair was an optimal strength? Seeing as this was published in 2005, i can speculate that it might be the latter. Natural hair is not a monolith, it also varies in texture. We have fine, medium and quartz. I wonder what was the texture of the kinky curly hair used as a sample, and was this hair sample tested against its caucasian and asian equivalent? If this was not done, this would mean that this study is very limited anyways. I do not plan to pay 50 to find out, i'm just listing out some of the things that might be variables to this topic. If you purchase it and find out, let me know also. I would like you to know that, at the end of the abstract of this article it states. This study is the first formal comparison of the cysteine rich proteins in the various racial groups and shows that there is no abnormality in their distinction in black african hair. Shafts compared to other ethnic groups, therefore, the excessive structural damage observed in african hair shafts is consistent with physical trauma resulting from grooming, rather than an inherent weakness due to any structural abnormalities once again debunking that natural hair is weaker than other hair types, it turns out That all it is, is mechanical damage from bad choice in hair tools, bad decisions with hair, styling and bad hair care techniques. Two paragraphs in and i already found that this study was extremely limited, so i stopped there if you plan to check out the whole article. Let me know down below it'll be linked in the description box. As for me, when i see a lot of questionable variables early in a paper, that's enough for me to look at it with a little bit of side eye as you can see from our hair. Singing experiment here on our channel natural hair really does act in surprising ways. I think that society has put limitations on what natural hair is and what it isn't, and every time i'm shocked at what natural hair can do. These things are often not studied in western society, so here on our channel, we talk about black women hair. We find value in black women hair, so any experiment that we can fund or do here it'll be on our channel because that's what's important to us. That'S! What'S important to our viewers and that's what's important to many black women right, we we hold our hair up to a high standard, so it's worth the investigation. In the meantime, there has been some breakthroughs for hair as a whole. Just look at so many of the bond rebuilding products. That'S on the market. That'S a breakthrough! For every hair type. Can white people make comments about kinky, coily, hair style, kinky, coily, hair and study kinky coily hair with the rise of laws in the united states, making it illegal to not know how to do basic skills on kinky, coily, hair? More and more white people are going to be trained and become interested in the kinky coily hair care world natural hair care is becoming more acceptable, more mainstream and, most importantly, more accessible. What does that mean? It means that there's a lot of money to be made by corporations just joking. This also means that more and more non-black people will enter the world of black hair care. That'S the future. This means that we need to leave room for open discussions and debates. If you have to check someone just make sure to check them nicely with class and with grace recently james posted a video on the split ender pro and i chimed into the discussion, i knew from years of utilizing the split ender pro that it works. So well, it works so well on kinky, coily hair. When you know how to do it correctly and jossle is the one who came up with that method. She'S, so creative, her creativity when it comes to hair care tools and just hair in general is definitely god. Given so definitely check out that video, because i've seen so many times online people say oh, this is not for black hair, it can't help black people, but when i tell you it has one of the tools that has helped her retain length and get to her Waistline goals: y'all y'all, better, go watch that video it's an awesome tool, and this is not sponsored. One of the reasons why i really like the split ender pro is that it puts the power of hair care into the hands of the consumer and at the waiting room nhp. That'S what we're all about. We want people to seek hair independence. How many times have you walked into a salon and they're like oh, your hair's too long? We can't handle that or your hair's, too kinky. We can't handle that, of course, that's not everyone, but nine times out of ten. That'S always the case for black women. So anyways, the split in a pro is one of the tools that helps black women to achieve hair independence, because you will not need to go in to have trims or to have someone trim your hair. So, with my knowledge of what the split ender pro could be and what it can do for black women and kinky coily hair, i was able to debunk what he stated respectfully, of course. So here's a little side note. Although non-black people are coming into the world of hair care, in no way should the western government try to control and regulate the way black people have done natural hair for years. This is an infringement on our personal rights and our culture. Recently in the united states there has been an increased push for licensing or the professionalization of natural hair care. This is a money grab and an attempt of gatekeeping traditions of hair. That has been a part of many black communities for decades. Yes, there is benefits to western hair care, but traditional hair care should remain free and unregulated. If we allow these regulations to be passed, we will be making a grave mistake if you would like a full video on this topic. Let me know so you guys. What do you think about this topic? What do you think about what i said in the video? Was there anything you agree with? Was there anything you disagree with? Let me know down below if you have any recommendations for any experiments that you want me to do or any video topics you would like me to cover just put them down below i'll, also check them out as well. Thank you guys. So much and i'll see you guys later on dynamic touch. It'S like i'm losing my mind and