The Natural Hair Movement Failed

It'S the natural hair for me, natural hair, for me: do you see me out here embracing my beauty dry? Well, not my hair. Just did a bad guys. The natural hair movement is over, it failed turns out. It was all a scam, it did nothing for us at all. We are no better today than we were 10 years ago. It only capitalized on our low self-esteem by selling us all these products. We don't even need, so we are officially over natural hair problem with that argument. Natural hair is not a movement, it was never a movement, it was always education, maybe the girls that are over. It are jumping off the bandwagon because it was only a trend to them for the rest of us. The community seems smaller, maybe because we have all the education we need and don't need to watch hours and hours of content anymore. That'S certainly the case for me. So in this video I'm going to show four ways that natural hair education has not failed us, but helped us and helped our hair to flourish way. Number one is that it destroyed myths. It destroyed all kinds of myths of what we believe foresee here was able to do. I have seen tightly coiled hair reach lengths that are always thought we just weren't able to reach. That'S not meant for us. Our hair stops at a certain point. How long did we go believing that 4C hair doesn't grow past your ears? It doesn't grow past. Your shoulder shoulder length is, as long as you can go, Miss were only created to keep your self-esteem low and to keep you believing you're, always beneath another race of woman, because hair is a woman's crown and Glory. So the fact that we have destroyed that myth and black women no longer believe that, because we've seen what 4C hair can do, there's nothing. You can tell me anymore that my hair can't do this or my hair can't do that. Oh, I know exactly what my hair can do, which brings me to number two which is basic: hair science: I've always Associated science with hair color or hair relaxers, but there's a science to natural hair as well, who knew about hair porosity before the natural hair community, Because I didn't we'll know about stretching your hair versus shrinking your hair, properly detangling, we understand now that wet hair is a little bit more elasticy than dry hair. It'S more manageable, but it's also a lot more fragile, we've gotten to experiment with our hair. So much and try different formulas and get our hair down to a science. I know exactly what my hair needs to do in order for it to remain its healthiest when my hair is not doing well, I I know what I'm doing wrong foreign, but because I've gotten my hair down to a science through so much trial and error. I know what my hair likes. I know what my hair doesn't like. I know what my hair needs and I know what my hair doesn't need, which brings me to my third Point: child hair care, young black girls - are not relaxing anywhere near as much as we did when we were coming up. Foreign children is going to get this education so much earlier than we have they're going to have the opportunity to appreciate their natural hair from a very young age from a much younger age, you're going to learn how to properly work with it you're going to learn How to properly maintain they're not going to grow up believing that their hair isn't meant to be long and their hair isn't meant to grow and their hair only grows to their ears, and that's it you're not growing up with all them lies in their head and All those mints in their head, thank you and it's not that they can't relax their hair if they want to, but they're gon na learn how to work with their natural hair first - and this brings me to my last point, which is confidence with the big chop, Because guess what sometimes we make mistakes? Sometimes we do something we do a little too much. We try to diet and fry it and got severe heat damage, and it's just not working anymore. We don't have the fear of cutting our hair. We can chop it off with all the confidence in the world, knowing that it's going to grow back foreign, if you make a hair mistake and you try coloring your hair dying, your hair and all your hair falls out, not that we want all our hair to Fall out, nobody wants their hair to fall out. Okay, but it happens. It happened to me. I I did a little too much one time and I had to chop everything off. I had the big chocolate we have seen our favorite natural hair, YouTubers, grow, inches and inches and inches and have to chop it all off and start all over again we're we're imperfect. We make mistakes, it's not the end of the world to make a hair mistake when and this this used to be my greatest fear with my hair, but it's not the end of the world to make a terrible hair mistake and have to cut it off and Try again, foreign and to see them start from the very beginning. They grow it back with no problem and look how it flourishes. Look how it comes back. This was barely a year after she did the big job foreign. So sometimes we got ta cut all the damage off and try again there's always this big deal about Naturals that go back to relaxers as if that means something like they failed or something. It doesn't mean anything if, if you are relaxing your hair again after five years, natural or three years, natural or whatever, you're relaxing your hair, because you have a preference for straight hair or you don't feel like doing your natural hair, you're. Relaxing your hair. Out of Simply a desire of wanting to wear a straight, not because you have zero idea of what to do with it like how we used to do like how we used to have to go to the store and buy a relaxer just to make our hair A little bit more imaginable because we didn't have a clue. There should not be one black woman that is relaxing her hair out of zero ideas: zero clue, zero education, complete ignorance of what to do with your natural hair. If you're still relaxing, because you're clueless about your natural hair, that's on you! You can wear it straight. If you want to wear it straight, I've seen relaxed hair reach floor length. I'Ve seen natural hair flourish to the floor all the way down to the floor, so we're not relaxing our hair anymore out of ignorance, we're not relaxing our hair out of no education. No idea not a clue, that's not why we're relaxing our hair today. So if you go back to a relaxer it, it means nothing other than you just want your hair straight. There'S nothing wrong with that. The natural hair education was for black women to do what they want to do with their hair. Black women can do whatever they want to do with their hair. There'S no rules to this just like. If you want to dye your hair blonde, you can dye your hair blonde and it doesn't mean anything. This girl does not look like she's self-hating to me in any way shape or form. The color looks great on her. It really complements her skin. I always say short: hair is very feminine and very attractive as well, and you can do whatever you want now. You know how to properly color your hair and properly maintain the color in your hair. You know how to properly correct the ph and all of that, like we have so much information. Now, it's not it's not anymore self-hating to dye your hair blonde than it is to dye your hair, pink, pink, isn't exactly my color, but I like to see black women trying something without worrying about. Oh my! What if my hair falls out? Nobody wants their hair to fall out, but it's not like it's the end of the world. We can experiment a lot more Carefree. Tell me: is it self-hating to glue locks to your forehead? I don't know this. Does this count as self-hating and trying to be something you're, not because um I've never seen this technique before I didn't know people did this, but I'm Gon na Leave This to the man I'm gon na. Let the men handle this, because you know they have a problem with anything we do to beautify ourselves or to just play around with color or play around with texture or play around with anything. Everything is a self-hating big giant deal and that looks like a giant lie on his head, but imma leave that to the men for the rest of us. We have all the information, all the resources, all the products, all of the techniques. We have everything we need and we just don't need hours and hours of this kind of content anymore. We watch it, you know from time to time, but honestly class is dismissed, we got it now. We have it now. We know what we know. What to do, and we know how to do it - the movement is an over class - is over