The Rise And Fall Of Instagram Hair Stylists | Camryn Elyse

They don't want, you have to do any extra work. They don't want to have to put any extra effort forward. They want to get as much money as possible with as little effort as possible. You have the talent to do the hair, but you don't have the personal skills or the personable skills to be able to deal with customers in the way they deserve to be dealed with and treated with, and that is with respect want. They don't necessarily want the satisfaction of being able to provide services for people they want to be able to fund this wannabe lifestyle. They know they're going to be able to find a client that is willing to pay that, whether they are being scammed or not, hey guys. What is up it is Cam, welcome or welcome back to my channel foreign. So in today's video we are going to be talking about how Instagram stylists have ruined natural hair, and so in this video I really kind of want to get into like the rise of Instagram hair stylist and how that parallels with the rise of the natural hair Movement and how that parallels with the increase and influx of popularity of social media, because I feel like these things - are all sort of intertwined and connected with each other and they're, basically causing like one another's downfall, especially whenever it comes to natural hair. So before we get into this video, if you have not already make sure you go ahead and subscribe to this Channel and click the notification Bell, so you never miss another one of my uploads. You can also subscribe to my second channel. That is my beauty and Lifestyle Channel, and if you want to keep it looking outside of YouTube, you can follow me on all my social media. Everything will be on the screen and Link down below without further Ado, let's get into it. So I feel like I do this in every video, but I want to start this video off by prefacing that I don't want to go and drag Instagram hairstyles because I feel like there is a special place for or people that want to have their own businesses And start their own businesses, especially when it comes to the black community and especially when it comes to black women, and for me personally, I really really really love to see the rise of black women starting their own businesses and whether that means they're in hair. Any other form of Cosmetology or in like esthetician things, I'm here for it all, because I feel like at the end of the day, there has been such like a lack of entrepreneurial ventures in the black community whenever it comes to like hair and barber and stuff. Like that, I feel like that has very very deep roots in the black community and it's always been sort of this place where people go to not only get transformed to clean themselves up to boost their self-esteem. You know just to get pretty to get nice fresh. All that stuff, the hair salon, the barbershop and the black community is so deeply rooted and has always been a very important and integral part of who we are as a people, especially considering the stylist to customer relationship, but also, I think, because of social media and Because of the rise of like the natural natural hair movement and the fact that people just want to learn how to do more things as it pertains to black hair like we're not just doing relaxers anymore, we're not just doing pressing curls anymore, like we're not just Doing roller sets anymore, there is a place in a lane for everyone, and, as people are trying to figure out where their place in their Lane is they're, also simultaneously trying to figure out how to run a business and how to run a business properly. And with that is obviously going to come, hiccups, it's going to have Peaks and valleys and a lot of people. It doesn't come naturally to them so they're having to learn and or it may not necessarily be the industry for them or the career for them. But because of how they're, seeing other people being able to create successful lives and being able to gain a certain popularity off of doing these things, it's almost like, oh well, I know how to braid or lay a wig or do whatever. So let me just start a business, and lo and behold, your personality doesn't work well with being a business owner being an entrepreneur having your own Salon or your own styling Suite or whatever the case may be, and that is why we're seeing a lot of the Issues that we are seeing with the these Instagram stylists and people just becoming completely turned off with wanting to deal with them, because it has become ridiculous, and so I want to get into all of that today before we get fully into it. I do want to give a special shout out to Natural girl wigs. I want to thank them for sponsoring this video natural girl. 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So much natural girl, wigs and yeah, let's get into the rest of the video, so to start everything off, I want to kind of go back to what I was saying in the introduction of this video of how I want this to sort of be a critique Of how the influx of young black women starting and creating these hair businesses has created a culture of bad customer services and consistent quality of work and overall frequent negative customer experiences. These hairstyles out here are frustrating, and I know a lot of you guys can relate because in the last video event session that I kind of had about a hair stylist, a lot of people were saying they've had similar experiences. I even have girlfriends cousins, family members that just have trash experiences with hair stylists, even random, strangers I'll see on social media honestly, just that industry. I don't want to generalize, because I think I think I haven't experienced them really, but I think there's a selective handful of professional, timely considerate. Just nice good, Positive, Vibes, hair stylist, I don't know who they are, they are but fingers crossed. I do want to believe in my heart and soul that there are a select few and that this is not the masses, but I will say is the majority. I just believe that, because I've just heard too many horror stories, experiences and it's frustrating because you spend so much time like your hair - is a form of an investment and when the person that you're giving this money to as you're investing in yourself, when you don't Get that service and that quality that you you're paying good money. It'S just the experience is just very frustrating because, like I was saying before, it is incredibly important for members of the black community and especially black women, to be able to break into these entrepreneurial roles. Because that representation is needed - and I feel like there should be more - there should be more. There should be more and I'm never going to knock anyone that wants to start their own business or is going to put themselves out there and put out an investment on their sales and investment on their Community. I would never ever knock that because I think it is important it is needed and it is like detrimental. But my question is: how does it benefit if people aren't truly trying trying to have a business that properly serves their consumer base and their community, and could this rise in social media and Instagram hairstylist be of similar detriment to like the regular, regular people who decide To go, get their hair done as much as it could possibly be of a detriment to the Instagram stylist and the people trying to start and run these businesses, and so what I kind of want to get into. First is kind of the context of hair whenever it comes to black women in the black community, because I feel like for black women hair holds a lot of weight. I feel like a lot of us, have come from a place, especially growing up where we didn't even realize that we could grow long hair. We did not realize that our hair could grow past our shoulders. We didn't realize that black women black people could have long healthy, incredible hair because I feel like it was fed to us for a very, very long time, all of the negative factors of our hair, such as things like it's ugly. It'S nappy, it's unkept, it's unprofessional! It'S difficult to manage it's dirty, etc, etc, etc. Like I think for us with this idea of hair, we hold so many deep root into it, because it has been something that has been traumatic for us. It has been something that has been incredibly hard for us to get around and to learn like we went through periods of time where we had to completely assimilate periods of time where we weren't even allowed to show our hair and, like all of this is a Part of black history: it's a part of the transatlantic slave trade. It'S a part of the Jim Crow era. It'S a part of like the introduction of the relaxer in order to have us further assimilate into stereotypical neurocentric beauty standards, especially here in the U.S. So for us, it's really really important, it's something that is a big deal and I feel like once. We started this whole natural hair era. A lot of black women were really wanting to go on this journey with their hair, where they learned to take care of their hair. They learn to love their hair, they learn to style their hair and ultimately, they learn to grow their hair because, like I was saying before, like a lot of us didn't even know or didn't even realize that black girls, especially in the Type 4 category, could grow Long hair, like we were put under the impression for so long that the only black people that could grow long hair is if they were by racial or if they had a good hair type. And by that I mean like in the type threes. But like the truth, is anyone can grow hair like one thing that my mom used to tell me as a child, because my mom has always had long hair. I have always looked up to her whenever it has come to natural hair, because my entire life, she has had long curly natural hair. One thing that she's always told me is that, as long as you're alive, your hair is going to grow, and so I think a lot of us are figuring out that it's not about our hair, not growing. It'S about us not realizing that the health of our hair plays a large factor into its growth and that, in order for us to see results, we're going to have to learn how to retain the lens. And that's like the big, that's the big idea, and so once we realize this, we sort of started taking matters into our own hands. But I think that once we begin to entrust someone else with our hair, that's when it becomes an even bigger deal and especially because hair holds so much weight. If you are going to put that trust into someone else to do your hair and they mess it up, it is quite traumatizing like as a black girl. It is quite traumatizing. I can't tell you how many bad hair days I have had, where it's literally lying anxiety inducing like I'm about to have a mental breakdown crying screaming throwing up in the corner, because my hair is not coming out right or it's not what I thought it was Going to be, and like I'm rushing it's last minute like there's, there's no other option like it's really. This is a big deal. I think this is a big deal for black women, more so than any other group of people like. I can't put my hair up in a messy bun when I'm having a bad hair day like a messy bun is going to take me at least half an hour, and I don't have that type of time. So whenever it comes to us and our hair like it, is that deep and I've had people ask me why I place so much emphasis into the way that my hair looks and why I care so much about the way that it looks all the time. And that's because it is that deep for us, because for so long we have been judged very harshly. Very critically. We have been discriminated against because of our hair, and so it's important for us to make sure that things are in place and that things are done and I feel like once. People start to realize that black women are not only their hair. But it's only an extension of them and that we should be able to wear it. How we want to wear it. I think things will get better in that regard, but I think until then it's going to continue to be a big deal, and that is part of the reason why I feel like a lot of people are upset with Instagram stylist, because it's literally like you are Playing with, in a lot of cases, the way of people's self-esteem like, I can't tell you how many Tick Tock videos I have watched of girls getting in the car crying crying after having a poor experience with an Instagram stylist, because it didn't come out the way That they wanted it to or because it was completely terrible quality of work and they spent so much money like it's a big deal and that it's that deep and that this is something that has affected a lot of people. And so I want to start with the ridiculous pricing, because this is probably one of the hottest topics whenever it comes to Instagram, stylist or just the rise in stylist on social media in general is why are these people charging so much people are talking about paying A thousand dollars for some butt length: small knotless box, braids. What on Earth has possessed you to think you can charge that much for a set of Nautilus box braids. I just have one question for you: people is the IRS aware of the fact that you guys are charging a thousand dollars for braids quickly, yes or no, because y'all keep playing around and we can let them know. We'Ve lost the plot. You people have lost your Everlasting Minds, one month's rent for some braids that are gon na last three business seconds. It'S time to start fighting back these IG stylists. Some of them need to be made into examples, is the only way we're gon na start ringing. The IRS keep playing these prices are audacious, considering half of y'all don't even have a hair license, the authorities will be informed, Jeffrey Bezos could be my sugar daddy and I still would not pay eleven hundred dollars or knotless braids y'all are not charging to make an Honest living anymore, you guys are charging to be generator. The fun of y'all's crab legs and trips to Miami is enough. Why y'all trying to make engineer salaries off braids on top of the fact that a lot of the times, if your quality of work is not worth that amount of money? What makes you believe that you have the right to charge this price? Knowing that a lot of the times, unless you are within a certain tax bracket, people are not going to be able to afford it, and I get it the people that are able to afford it like kudos to them, like you have that clientele, but I think, With the critique in price that is very, very largely popular now, a lot of people are starting to try and go back to the roots they're going back to the aunties they're going back to the African braiders, there have been so many instances where people are like It would be cheaper for me to fly over to Africa, get my hair braided knotless, whatever color. I want down to my freaking ankles before I stay in the states and pay someone, because people are trying to charge an arm and a leg for braids for Wig installs for locks for all different types of protective styles, one thousand one hundred dollars for braids in America so crazy that you're better off taking a flight to Jamaica for under six hundred dollars, you still get a vacation, so you get a vacation and your braids. This girl got her braids for forty dollars. This girl got hers for 35.. Max I'm seeing is a hundred dollars and you get a vacation on top of it. So let's say like your Airbnb you're there for like four days. Your Airbnb is like four hundred dollars, vacation plus the braids themselves, and so not only are people starting to go back to the roots like and by the roots I mean the motherland. I mean Africa. People are literally flying over there just to get their hair braided and, if they're not flying all the way over to Africa to get their hair braided because they know not only are they going to get consistent results, they're going to get their money's worth and the Stuff is going to last because these people actually know what they're doing and have the technique to be able to do the work properly and do the work properly and quickly. On top of that, if they're not flying over to Africa, they're going back to the African braiders, where they're charging more reasonable prices and if all else fails, people are just going and learning how to do the job junk themselves so that they don't have to pay Anybody any money or go anywhere to get their hair done for some people. That is more worth it than going and spending a whole ban going and spending a whole month's worth of rent on trying to make sure they look good or trying to make sure they have their hair done, because I think, especially whenever it comes to this whole Entrepreneurship thing and starting your own business, especially when you're not working out of a salon like you can set whatever price you want and who's going to fight about it. If you don't like it, you could go somewhere else, and I feel like that's the attitude that a lot of these stylists take up and the attitude that a lot of them have whenever it comes to the price, because, especially with social media, they know they're going To be able to find a client that is willing to pay that, whether they are being scammed or not, but I think, on the other side of it, a lot of these stylists are using the rebuttal that obviously these Styles take time. These styles are wear and tear on your body. Of course you want to be paid for your time. You want to be paid for your product, you want to be paid for the wear and tear that it puts on your body, and I think that is a valid opinion. But I feel like once you get to the point of no return where you're literally charging people arm and a leg for braids that probably aren't going to stay in for more than six weeks. Shouldn'T stay in for more than six weeks. Because, let's talk about how protective styles no longer are protective and are actually damaging if you're leaving them in past a certain point when you're using something here we're not going to get into that conversation today. But let me just say when you're paying that much money for a style - that's probably not even going to last, then that is where it kind of starts to become a little bit ridiculous. And I think this is the problem that a lot of people are starting to have, which is why, like I said, they're going back to the roots and if they're not going back to the African braiding shops or going straight to Africa or learning how to do It themselves they are finding stylists that are charging reasonable prices and they're sticking with them, and so I feel like at this point. Everybody knows about the rules and regulations that these Instagram stylists tend to have whenever it comes to running their business. I'M not exactly sure who started the trend of having like this page long website full of rules before you can even book, and it's almost like the same thing when you're trying to purchase something and before you can purchase it. You have to agree to the terms and conditions, and it's not going to let you move forward unless you agree and it's like freaking 30 pages worth of terms and agreements, and you just click agree. So you can go ahead and buy your stuff because who's about to read that it's it's giving the same Vibes as that I don't ever want to hear anybody complain about me wearing a bonnet outside the house, because do you see how much these braiders are charging? This lady's prices go from 780 to one thousand dollars and it does not include a wash does not include detangling. You have to come with your hair, already blown out and straightened out for small medium knotless braids that are thigh length. They are a thousand dollars, but for knee length it's an extra 300 last time. I checked your thighs and your knees are not that far from each other. Why is it an extra 300 even for a wig install? I know it's hot, so it's not even wig and stall season, but the fact that these hair stylists want you to come with a brand new wig. Every time just tells me they don't know how to do hair. If I can install my used Wig by myself, there's no reason why why you shouldn't be able to do that, like you missing out on money, nobody is going to buy a brand new wig every time. Now you can't even get your hair done. If you have a blunt cut or your hair is trimmed like just say you don't know how to do. Hair y'all already get away with the fact that y'all don't wash hair. Even though, when you got your license, you were taught that, for the most part, you are required to wash hair before you start, and now we doing this, Shorty really said. If you don't have edges, your appointment is canceled. What, if you have alopecia this lady is charging damn near 750 dollars for small butt length, knotless braids and she won't even comb your hair. If the comb won't go through your hair, she's canceling, your appointment, it makes no sense to me like y'all, really must not want to make any money like I get it, you want to live a life of comfort, but not at my expense. Oh yeah, not too much, I'm gon na be wearing this Bonnet for a little minute, and so there was a point in time where I guess people decided that it made a lot of sense and it was necessary to have a full page length and tiny little Tech website of rules and regulations before booking in order for I guess their customer or clientele to know what to expect going into the service and going into the experience. And I think a lot of people have an issue with it because, like I was saying before, because these people are running their own businesses and not kind of necessarily linked to a salon, they are able to come up with whatever and there's no regulation. There'S no standard, there's no code, a lot of the times you're, seeing things like. Oh, you must come wash blow dried and sometimes even pressed if this particular stylist does not know how to work with conciered hair textures, and this is more specifically pointing towards. Like 4C I've seen many videos on the internet where stylists are saying. Basically, if your hair is not pressed out, dang near they're not going to be able to service you and they're going to turn you away and keep your deposit and charge you a late fee, it's ridiculous and with the deposit situations, the late fee situations late fee Situations that don't even apply the other way around if the particular stylist does not start your appointment on time is, is absolutely ludicrous and there are people justifying these rules and regulations with weak and poor arguments, because I think it's unreasonable to expect not to be treated Professionally and at least with Grace, I feel like whenever it comes to the styling industry and the beauty industry like it is a very, very personable and very vulnerable situation where, like you're, entrusting your whole head, your whole head of hair in someone else's hands and you're Bonding you're forming a relationship, a connection with this person that is doing your hair. The fact that overall there just is no Grace whenever it comes to these people trying to do your hair, like they're, literally just trying to get their money, and that is it and the more ways they can charge you, the better, like people, are charging for hair Density nowadays, people are charging for hair length. Nowadays, people are charging if you show up five minutes late to your appointment and if you show up 10 minutes late to your appointment, they're just going to cancel your appointment all together and keep your deposit. And it's these things that don't apply the other way around if it's and inconvenience to the customer themselves, I.E if you're starting their appointment late or if you cancel their appointment the day of or five minutes before 15 minutes before with no notice like people are keeping Deposits canceling appointments and keeping deposits and refusing to give out refunds, and so I think, a lot of the times with these very very struggles and regulations. People are not happy because it's like how are you going to say that all of these things are required of me, yet if it were the other way around, you would not require these things of yourself, and on top of that, there is no Grace or leniency Dealing with me as a person as a human as someone that also has a life where things come up and things happen and we're supposed to be forming this connection, this bond from me as your client to you as my hair, stylist a lot of the times It just doesn't make any sense, and I think that's why a lot of people are upset, and so I want to touch on poor customer service really quick, because I feel like this is like one of the main arguments. All of these arguments are main arguments, but the poor customer service I feel like, is what gags people the most, because it's almost like. How are you going to start a business? How are you going to go into the service industry and be unwilling to Serve the People that come requesting a service from you? It'S almost like it doesn't make sense, it doesn't make any sense. Actually, as someone who is a licensed cosmetologist in two separate states, I completely understand why clients are over these new age hair stylists and why they are fed up with you guys. Both y'all are full of like these new age. Girls really be smoking first off y'all. Be having rules that sound like a crackhead themselves, so many rules and requirements and I'm like you're charging upwards of 250, 300 plus dollars and you don't even wash or blow dry your client's hair. They got ta come wash them blow dry, so they don't have to service themselves and you learn in school, which I know a lot of didn't go. But you learn in cosmetology school that is so important to wash your clients hair yourself, because a lot of people either physically cannot properly wash their hair or they just genuinely don't know how to properly wash their hair. So y'all doing these surfaces on dirty ass, hair and then to top it off the attitude the customer service, the whole experience then you're doing it out of your crib, which there's nothing wrong with doing out in your crib. I know a lot of girls who do hair out of their crib and they are fine. The issue is you're charging prices that you would be. That would make a lot more sense. If you have blue front to pay, you don't have no boo front to pay. You don't work in a salon, sis, why are you charging these prices and you don't wash your hair and you don't blow dry there? You couldn't even cut their. They needed their a real haircut. They end just broke all the way. Half up they hold the whole shaft, just up, don't know about their real hair or anything. These modern hair, stylists have gotten hair stylists, have gotten lazy as but also expensive. How are you charging more? You lazy. As like you are lazy. You cannot be mad at clients for calling you out and then, when people call it out, it's like oh y'all just need to go to somebody. Y'All can afford it's, not the price, it's the principal. What are what what are the girl he's paying for? What are they paying for? What are they paying for the hair, not included? They don't have to work and they got your crib man. Smoking got ta, be got ta, be drugs. I feel, like everyone knows about the classic. Hey bootex, like that is just the epitome of like the day, is about to go bad because this person is about to cancel my appointment 15 minutes before I walk out the door, and I feel like a lot of the times. There is no consideration for the actual client themselves when you are inconveniencing them and, like I was saying in the section before it's like you're charging people, convenience fees, but when you inconvenience them as a stylist, there is no remorse first and second, and there is no Finance reimbursement for the inconvenience that you've caused like there have been multiple stories where people will get up early in the morning drive an hour drive two hours to go to this place, to get their hair done. They get outside and they're waiting for five minutes. 10 minutes 20 minutes, 30 minutes 40 minutes. Lo and behold, the stylist canceled their appointment didn't say anything and is not coming and will not refund the deposit or will not give them their money back for the service that they have been charged for and, like. I said before a lot of the times: it's no remorse and it's almost like people just do things whenever they feel like it and if they don't feel like it, they're not going to do it and they're not worrying about whether or not they're inconveniencing you. But, of course, if you inconvenience them, you're going to have to run them a check, you're going to have to pay them some money, and I think that this whole, hey, boo, Tech situation, is something that a lot of us joke about, even though in the moment It'S actually incredibly frustrating and a lot of people like shed tears have full mental breakdowns in their car like are shaking crying with anger and rage because of how inconveniencing it is and how it feels like this person that you're trying to book with that. You are trying to get a service from literally does not care about you. The only thing they care about is your money, and if you don't have money to offer them, then you can kick rocks and buy a lot, and that brings me to my very next point about kitchen stylist, like I mentioned multiple multiple times in this video. A lot of people are not basing these businesses out of salons anymore. They are either renting out Studios or you're straight up, going to go to their house and be in their kitchen and they're going to be doing your hair, not in a necessarily professional establishment. A lot of the times they have to do this because they either don't have a license or don't have a certification like I was saying before you have to come wash and blow dried and sometimes press depending on whether or not the stylist feels like they can Work on your particular hair texture, and a lot of that is because people that are not licensed or certified cannot legally wash hair technically whatever, and also they don't want to have to do any extra work. They don't want to have to put any extra effort forward. They want to get as much money as possible with as little effort as possible and granted. It does take a long time to do certain hairstyles, whether that be braids locks twist any other sort of protective style and even laying wigs like these things do take time. But like I was saying before, since they don't work out of salons, they set standards themselves and they only have to maintain these standards for themselves and there are no rules and regulations on what they can and can't do, because at the end of the day, it Is their business and, like I said before, if you don't like it, you can kick rocks. So it's this notion that if you don't like it, you can go somewhere else and I definitely do think it's unfair to blame the customer because I feel like if you are portraying a certain Vibe and aesthetic with your work on like your social media pages and That'S the reason why people want to book with you because they see your work and they see that you have nice work yet when they get to your kitchen or they get to your Suite or whatever. And it's a completely different story like you: have a nasty attitude you're, not treating them the respect and you're not providing the quality of work that is similar to what is posted in your portfolio a lot of the times. People don't really know what to do and they feel like, even though you are working out of your house or you're working out of a suite. If your work good, they're willing to work with you. But if they roll up and it's a completely different story. Not only is that negatively impacting your future consumer base, but people don't really care about their future consumer base because, like I was saying before, with the rise of social media, every client is replaceable and you can get clients like this, like this, like this, like this, Like this, and even if someone does not return to you or they decide not to come back to you, it literally doesn't matter because by people seeing your work on social media and thinking that you can deliver something that you really can't or if you don't feel Like it you're not going to, they almost get tricked into booking with you and you give them a less than quality experience, and so that brings me to my next point, because social media has become so popular and stylists on social media have become so popular. Like you have the people that lay wigs like arrogant, Tay, you have the people that do amazing braids, like dope Pana and with the rise of YouTube, tutorials and Tick Tock and people just being able to go on the internet search up and learn whatever it is. They want to learn - and you see these really a popular really successful, braiders and wig stylist being able to come up and work with celebrities being able to come up and make like a killing make a really good living off of styling and doing hair people have Started to pee that you can live a certain lifestyle once you reach a certain level of success within the industry and because of that people are pushing to get a seat at the table and while I feel like there is a spot for everybody, there is a Seat for everybody everybody can eat. There is enough money in the pool for everybody to get a piece. I do think that the industry is not for everyone and just because you may be talented in a particular area just because you can break just because you can lay a wig just because you can do a bomb sewing or whatever the case may be. Customer service is not for everyone providing a service for people is not for everyone, and I think, because of the way that social media makes it look, people believe that they can do something that they can't or that they are gifted in ways that they aren't, and It'S creating a lot of these businesses that people are having negative experiences with, because it's almost like you have the talent to do the hair, but you don't have the personal skills or the personable skills to be able to deal with customers in the way they deserve. To be dealed with and treated with, and that is with respect, and so like I was saying, because the natural hair movement has increased popularity with lack people's more specifically black women, wanting to learn how to do their hair, take care of their hair style, their hair. There has been a rise in influx and spike in protective styles like braids locks, wigs and especially with wigs, considering the new and improved lace options, and so there are many people who have learned to specialize in certain areas. In certain Styles, like there are people that only do braids, there are people that only do faux Locs. There are people that only lay wigs, and these are the things that they're good at people. That only do sew-ins only do so presses, and these are the things that they are good at. This is what they stick to, and this is where a majority of their consumer base comes from and because so many people have access to be able to learn how to do these Styles. There is an influx and an increase of people wanting to go ahead and start these businesses, because they want to be able to go, live the life that they feel like they can achieve by being in the hair industry like some of the top stylist, and so Because there are so many Instagram stylists that have been able to get famous, go viral and become very popular for their work. They have been able to start living a lifestyle similar to popular or successful influencers celebrities and people within that realm, and I think that is what a lot of these girls want. They don't necessarily want the satisfaction of being able to provide services for people and good services at that for people they want to be able to live this lifestyle. They want to be able to fund this wannabe lifestyle and that kind of goes into what I was saying in my most recent video about sort of this idea of seeing this facade or seeing this snapshot of a perfect life on social media and then wanting that Aspiring to have that and then trying to do or copy the same exact steps that someone else has done in order to get there when you don't even necessarily know the full and true story, because again, social media is fake and people only post highlight reels people Only post the ups and the Peaks, and not necessarily the low moments and The Valleys of things where you're, seeing than being able to buy bags, you're, seeing them being able to buy luxury cars, designer clothes, designer shoes and all these other things and you're. Thinking that, oh, if they can do this just by braiding or just by laying wigs or just by doing hair, then I can too, especially considering that I can go on platforms like YouTube or Tick Tock and learn how to do it practice it for a little While build up a little bit of a clientele base and then begin charging them crazy prices and not providing the quality of work, that is up to par with some of these famous or celebrity Instagram hair stylists, and it doesn't work like that. Well, I feel like truly think that these particular lifestyles are more attainable than what they actually are and because these people aren't necessarily showing every single thing that they had to do. In order to be able to live this lifestyle and come to a place where they're able to fund this lifestyle, a lot of people don't actually know everything that goes into it and so they're blindly thinking that they can just do hair and be able to live. The same way, and that's not the case - and I feel like that - really separates the stylist that want to be stylish because it's something that they love doing versus The Stylist that becomes stylist and want to be stylist in order to get a quick buck. In order to come up fund a lifestyle similar to the ones that they see all over social media, and so I feel like at this point - black women feel like they only have two options. You can either find a stylist that you love, that does great work that has great customer service. That just is the full package and you stick with them. You'Re loyal to them don't go anywhere else, because you probably will be disappointed or you can learn how to do whatever it is that you want to do yourself so that you don't necessarily have to rely on someone else to do it for you. So I feel like a lot of black women particularly are fed up because they feel like it definitely should not be this hard to find a good quality stylist, especially to get a service done as basic as your hair and then on top of that, a lot Of them are fed up because they can't figure out how to manage their own hair properly, but they also can't find somebody that they trust to do it. And so all of this is sparking a new frustration with natural hair with the natural hair movement and so you're, seeing a lot of people going back to relaxers and you're, seeing also a lot of people if they're not going back to relaxers, then they're transitioning over Into locks so yeah, I feel like at the end of the day, the sort of idea of Instagram, hair stylist ruining natural hair is a very, very interesting topic because of the factors that it plays into the rise and fall of the natural hair movement, and also Because of how it plays into this idea of black women starting to pursue more entrepreneurial career paths, and it being placed largely into that beauty, industry and a lot of us feel like we can rely on people that look like us and that people that look like Us won't do us wrong because they know what it's like to be done wrong, but I feel like a lot of the times. That is not the case, and people are extremely disappointed. People are extremely frustrated. People are extremely upset because they feel like they're, not getting treated the way that they deserve to be treated, especially when they're going and spending their hard-earned money paying for a service so yeah. That is it for this video. If you enjoyed it, make sure you go ahead and give it a thumbs up also again special. Thank you special shout out to Natural girl, wigs for sponsoring this video. If you guys want to get natural, textured, hair extensions, natural girl, wigs is the place to go. I freaking love their extension, like I was saying before I have them in my hair right now. I'Ve been wearing them literally, since I got them because I can't get enough if you guys want to get money off of your order, go ahead and look at the screen for all the codes and check the description box for all the links. All the information you'll be there, and I will also put the details of the specific hair that I have down there as well. 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