Black Girl/Women Hair Trends Over The Past 10 Years

Hey y'all, it's olivia and welcome to my youtube channel. Thank you so much for tuning in, i hope your day is going well. I hope you're doing great, and today i'm going to be talking about black women and our hair and our hair trends. This is a video i've been wanting to make for so long, and you know what, since 2020 is about to end, i said. Let me just give you all this one. Last video, the hair girlies that i've been watching for like years now, i've been watching some of these chicks since 2010 and just like hair youtube, and you know what's so funny, i can tell where people get like their hair ideas from just by like what hairstyle They walk in to work with, like i can tell who watches youtube. I can't tell who, like watches more so like instagram stuff i could just like i can tell i consist that, and that is just so cool to me like. If someone were to do some butterfly locks, i would know that they got that from somewhere on social media. If someone were to come in with some with like a slate bob, i know so i know someone whether it be them or their hairdressers. Someone got that from youtube somewhere, because we just we just that group. We just that group y'all, someone's gon na cop me there someone's gon na be like - is that sister locks in your hair? Yes, yes, and what about it? And what about it? You'Re in my business yeah don't do that. I have been locked for a year and a half now, but that doesn't mean i still don't watch my hair girlies. I still support them out here. Let'S get into it me and my sister were sitting there on my laptop and i was coming up with all the hairstyles and hair trends that we've seen and we were sitting there clocking each other. Like oh, do you did you remember this, or did you remember this? I was like no. I forgot about that completely. Oh, my gosh. It'S crazy! The amount of hair that we've been able to the amount of different type of styles that we've been able to do, and i could talk about over consumerism. But i'm not going to because when it comes to capitalism, you're going to have over consumerism everywhere. And no, no, i don't expect black women to look at capital like i'm, i'm sorry, we didn't create capitalism. So who cares? Who cares about over consumption? Who cares about all that? Like i, i i'm sorry yeah people can say we got to be environmentally friendly, but like when you're a black girl - and you literally out here just trying to survive in this world, there's so much. There are so only so many problems you can pick up at once and that's how i feel on that and whatever y'all come at me, because i don't care so like i said, the purpose of this video is just to really look at how hair for black Women has changed over the past 10 years and when i say that i'm looking at hair on youtube, the hair we see on youtube doesn't necessarily always translate to real life, like i feel like youtube, hair and real life hair, just two completely different things. But i don't think that's necessarily true for the younger girls. I feel like the younger girls like we are more so about like we'll see something on youtube and we are not afraid to try it. My mom might not be, but when they see us do it, you know they like to steal the style yeah. I don't know what that's about. Can anyone else tell me what that's about like black mops, why y'all try to play competition with your daughters, like my mom, be doing that and sometimes i'll be like i don't. Why am i competing with my mama like? Why am i competing with the woman who birthed me? I'M not. This is not a competition, so i don't know what that's about, but i will say, like i tend to see a lot of the trends show up in the younger girls who do their own hair or have their like sister. Do their hair or something? And i'm here for it, i'm all the way here for it. First, i would like to give a shout out to youtube. Although youtube can be quite quite - and i mean quite problematic, i think youtube. If nothing else has given black women the platform to learn how to take care of their hair, learn what products to use or what products they can use more so for their hair and like what styles to do, i feel like youtube in terms of black women. Hair has really set the trajectory. It has also given a lot of black women, the platform, the power being able to take capitalism in terms of owning a business back into their own hands becoming a brand so like as bad as youtube can be. We got ta like we got, ta applaud them, we got ta, give them a little something just a little something we just. We just do so from the 2010 to 2015 years on youtube. The black girlies were all kind of doing their own thing, like everyone was kind of doing their own thing. Some people had just big chopped. For the first time, some people were just going on natural hair journeys. Some people were just doing braids and showing how you could like style, your braids differently. I know i got into that like when i was in high school, like i really enjoyed like looking up different styles and styling, my hair in different ways. When i go to school, i don't know why i was that person, but i was that girl like there was no specific hairstyle. Every single person was doing like we all did the same basic for you know the sew-ins, the wigs for some people, the um braids, the micro braids, the locks that we just did those base. Those basic i'm using the word basic, those basic, regular hairstyles and we didn't think anything of it now. 2016. I don't know what happened 2016, but that 2016-2015 era, kids, who they did not just drop products in 2016, 2015.. I'M thinking that it was the influx of influencers all doing hair, and so then, once the influx of youtubers happened once the influx of influencers happened, cantu put itself back on the map. Carol'S daughters also put itself back on the map back around that time, and that was when everyone was starting to go natural. So even for me, that was the year that i had been natural for like two years at that point: transitioning under protective styles. That'S what i call it and then i was like i'm gon na wear my hair out, like i have this hair. Why am i not wearing it like? Why do i need to? I was on my rebellious phase and, like my mom was feeling my hair, my mom was feeling my hair like so it wasn't just it wasn't. Just the young girlies, like the young girlies, started to realize that they had some hair underneath all this protective styling that they could just play with, and then the mama saw how good it looks. So they wanted to get some too and so like. It was just a joyous time: cantu was picking up, the influences were picking up and it was like this virtuous cycle that started to happen. Like you had people starting to try new products, you had people starting to take care of their hair to actually wear it out and do different styles with it, and some people were going on actual practical journeys to show how their hair is grown or not. Just how their hair is grown but how they style their hair when it comes to natural hair um - and you saw a lot of the big youtubers that are here today, really just taking in their own natural hair, showing you how they cared for it, showing you What they did for it and those types of things - and i think one of the main reasons cantu did so well - was because it was relatively cheap. I think back in 2016, like a cannot a can a tub of that leave-in conditioner cost me only like six to eight bucks, and this was the time i had just got my car. Oh my god, i am telling myself. Oh my god. Okay, i had just gotten my car, so i could go to the little store. You know pick me up a little something, so i would pick up like these little tubs of cantu and start to do my hair. I was really feeling myself. Okay, everyone knows that time like when you ain't got no responsibility, but you got a car and you ain't got nothing better to do but take care of yourself. That'S all you got ta worry about. Oh my god. Those were the days y'all! Okay, like i said these, these products had already been here, but i think some of our biggest hair, youtubers and biggest hair influencers started to use them and we were like, oh okay, so we can use that too, especially like the foresty hair girlies. Personally, i didn't follow a lot of the loser girl women because, like i couldn't relate to like what i got ta look to them for, like they're, not gon na help me like my hair, doesn't do that. I was all i'm always a realist. I'M like i follow what looks like me. I follow what acts like me. I follow what i can relate to if i can't relate to mixed girl hair, i'm not gon na, follow it, and so that's just how i was so. I can't really speak to that. I can't i can't because i don't follow them, but i know that natural some some of those women had always had also been there, and they were also using cantu, but it was when i started to see the foresee girly hair girlies, with hair, like mine, use That hair, that i was like okay, i can use this hair, and that was like my confirmation that i could use this on. My hair now was cantu the best i don't know i don't it smelled good it smelled good like i never i didn't hate it. Like now, when i talk to women about hair, like a lot of them, will be like yeah cancer. Wasn'T that great and i'm like what i thought it does. I thought it did the trick like it worked for me, especially with combing out my braids and stuff and like combing out the knots i started. That'S when i started to use like leave-in conditioner to like wash my hair thoroughly. So after the 2015-2017 phase, women started to get really tired of the natural hair. We started to get like real. Like oh my hands like i don't work out my hands enough for this. We started to get a little bit more bored with the short hair. I'M not going to lie to you, i'm still with shorter hair back around that time. I liked longer hair because i was a thicker girl, so i felt like it kind of comforted softened. My features hid my back rolls like it just hit a lot of things about my body that i didn't like, and i think that was like one of the biggest reasons that i have i had have and still have sometimes um insecurities with my sister lives. So i personally completely understand why people started to say: yeah i'ma face themselves, so this is when you start to see the natural hair girlies start to do more protective styles. They start to do. Braids crochet was really big. Crochet was more so big back in the 2010-2015 era, but it came back and people changed it up with the 2017 to 2018 era. They did crochet a majority of the hair, but then your part would have um individuals, so you take the crochet hair and manipulate it for like one specific section and then the rest of the hair would look like that, and so that way you could do a Little quick look without it, taking you a lot of time, so then the hair style would actually take you like three to four to five hours, instead of like all day long, if you did it on your own, and so this 2017-2018-2019 era is where we saw An influx of wigs, not 2019., it was more so 2017 to 2018.. You saw an influx of wigs. This is where i bought the most amount of my wigs like this is where i was spending money. I was rolling money on some wigs. We started to see an influx, i'm talking all different types of hair vendors, aliexpress, hair, julia hair ali moda, hair lay moda hair. You you heard of vendors. You had never heard before why women did. This is because, first of all, you got paid by the hair companies you actually we gon na get into that. But yeah you got paid by the hair companies you got paid by youtube. You got youtube recognition. You got to get your name out there. You could start, you know, making a name for yourself, and people would get to see how this wig functions, how this wig looks if they were to make this hair into a wig, and so you had a lot of girlies doing that and then okay, so you Got the wig coming, you had people doing the u-part, wigs and then frontals came out of nowhere now, frontals frontal, i'm not going to hold your frontals is where y'all lost me front. Your girl cannot pull off a front toe okay. I cannot. I don't have baby hairs for one, and i know you technically don't need baby hairs, but i just couldn't pull off a frenzel. Okay, like i'm being honest with you like, i tried everything i could could not pull off a frontal could not lay it on my on my edges. I couldn't do it hot, even without the frontal i would be hot and then you add the frontal on there and i can't even glue it right and then they came out with all these glues and i'm just like my edges that whole wave missed me. I couldn't do it, i couldn't slay my wig with the frontal and then and then there's more. We got into hair, coloring y'all came with the hair color and then remember, remember when the girlies were coloring their hair, like dyeing their hair with water, like you could dye your hair unanimously like symmetrically with water like hot water dying. Oh, my god, it was a lot like we did a lot yo and i am here for it. I am not bashing y'all, oh and then queen hair, queen hair, i'm sorry y'all y'all, don't hate me. Queen hair was the best vendor out of all of these girlies. I don't know what y'all been told. It might not be as great as what it was, but back then the deep wave queen hair it was. It was like one of the more expensive ones, but you got your buck. There was this okay, you know what, and we also talked about the more money you were willing to spend on your bundles, the better they were supposed to look, but they all ended up. Really being the exact same, there was this hair vendor that i wanted so bad. I wanted yakky hair for the longest time and there was this particular hair vendor that i wanted, because it was like more so natural hair, and you know i like a natural, beat clearly sometimes whatever um, and it was like two hundred dollars flat for three bundles And i do four, you didn't need four with yaki here you don't for the further for the reference, so the wig phase went on for a while, but once we got to the 2018 more so the 2019 era, like really the 2019 era, the girls got tired. Again, the girls were like okay, come on next, what what else you got? Cuz like we tired we tired, okay, we're like we want to see something else. We want to do something else, insert the rubber band method. Here, i think, here's my theory and because we don't have any papers out here on this, i don't know, but if you use my idea, credit me. Thank you. I think that the rubber band method is one of the sole reasons why hair stylists, like black hair, stylist, black hair braiders black people, who do black hair, have increased their prices again, because what you see is with the rubber band method and with all these other Types of methods - girls can do their hair at home without having to go anywhere for anyone to do their hair for them, and that takes money out of regular everyday hairdressers, pockets, meaning that they have to increase their prices. But, like i think, a bonus for them is that now they don't have to take nearly as many clients, because they make the same amount of money with increasing their prices and then another thing some places will upscale charge you for having thick hair or like really Full hair, when it's like, how do you, how do you determine how do you determine that because um, like i don't know like to me, that's just kind of funny, because it's like my hair is just poofy right now, like anyone can have really thick hair, like Of course, like i'm black, what do you mean? I know some people tend to have finer hair. I get that but, like i just you're charging me you're up charging me for something that i can't help, and i know it takes out more time for them. It just feels weird because there's no particular way to measure that so it's like how do i know i have thicker hair than the next girls and you just not gaslighting me into paying you more. You know it's that kind of thing, and i'm not saying that. That'S a bad thing. You know, support black businesses but at some some degree like i just i don't like to feel like i'm getting gypped. No one does no one does i need there to be a definitive way that we can tell okay. I actually really do have a lot of hair density and y'all, not just talking out your asses, because y'all wan na make me pay for more stuff. You know with the rubber band method we got so many different looks, and not even just from the rubber band method, but being able to do the being able to attach hair. So, like the rubber band method, is a transition plate way to get into being able to do other hair? With the rubber band method, you were able to do passion twists. You were able to do jumbo twists. You were able to do jumbo twist. Goddess locks faux locs, actually technically, with a goddess twist. You don't have to use the rubber band method anymore, and i've found that people have been finding ways to do certain hairstyles like faux locs, you can do faux locs without even touching a rubber band butterfly locks. They'Re, so in right now everybody and they mama doing them and i'm just kind of like um, i kind of want them. I kind of want them, but, like i said, the rubber band method is probably one of the biggest reasons. A lot of women have hopped out of the hair steep. Then you have a lot more women willing to do their hair now than what they used to be. In the past. We used to be able to rely on hairdressers. Some people still do, especially with the panoramic. I think that enforced, that even more, if anything, you have a lot more people looking up how to do hair on their own because they want to look cute. They they tired. They want to do something and i think that's really it i love it. I love to see it, but it scares me. It scares me for the hairstyle girlies because at some point i'm waiting, i'm waiting for someone to say it's gon na cost them a thousand dollars to do some hair and i'm just gon na be like okay, the hair game, the hair thing. What you want to do with your hair is going to be more so about do i have the money or do i got the time, which one is it, which one am i more willing to deal with and like this? This thing is very prevalent in the lot community. When you go to do your hair, it's either you do it yourself, because you don't have the money or you get someone else to do, because you don't have the time there are indiscretions in there. Some people do their locks themselves because their lactation may not do it do things the way they want them to, and that's yeah, that's neither here nor there but um. They also have to have the time to do that. You know, like your lactation, may not do things you want the way you want them to, but you, like you, kind of got ta like do a little dancing dance. You got ta, be like um, okay, so like what about you, you still got ta. Have the time to do it so like time and money are two things that will play a factor now into whether or not people choose to get their hair done? Because i promise like what i was able to do and what someone else is able to do. For me like when i was doing braids on myself on my dang self, first of all, i gave myself a whole body spot and secondly, um i didn't have the time i did not have the time um. It would take me like a whole day and i'd have to like either not go to work or not go to class or skip class, don't skip class or do something to get my hair done within the amount of time or i just pay. Someone and i'll be done in like two hours. So it's really it's really that, like dance like what do you want to do? What? What are you willing to do now? You know with the panoramic you don't got ta, you kind of don't got a choice. It really depends on your hairdresser and what your hairdresser is doing, but for some people it's different and now with all of this, don't get it twisted. There have always been outliers in this whole situation. There have always been there's always been someone who's still doing them. Still doing the natural hair look still doing sewing still doing whatever there are still people who are still doing what they like to do. I'M talking about trends, i'm talking about what i see the majority of like youtubers, doing what i see the majority of people copying and posting pictures with on instagram, like what the girlies are enjoying right now and, to be honest, let's talk about it. The majority of the hair girlies have really slowed down with the hair videos um a lot of the women who started out doing the natural hair like the natural natural hair, like that, i'm gon na grow my hair to as long as it can. They have slowed down and said, i'm not even doing hair videos, because their hair is like your hair is being judged. Your hair is literally being judged by a whole lot of people and for some women it can be very, very personal, like sometimes your hair is a reflectant of your body. Um, your nails can be a reflectant of your body too, like if you stressed out sometimes you'd, be biting your nails. If you're stressed out, some people get alopecia and so those things play into it, and so, when you do this social media thing well, you have to have some type of detachment from whatever item it is or whatever object. It is you're showcasing whether it be your skin, your body or your hair like so, you have a lot of people more brushing branching out doing reactant videos, doing more talkative videos, doing videos that don't even have to do with hair they're exploring other hobbies. I think another reason for this is because they think the hair um hair youtube is like dying out. I don't think hair youtube is dying out. I think the people who've been on hair youtube for as long as they have been are a bit discouraged. I think that's what it is. I think they see that to be a natural hair person and to get to the levels that some of these girls have had. You have to have desirable features because some, for whatever reason, some people who will not have this hair, not i have a friend who was like feeding over this girl. She looked nothing like feeding and she does mainly hair videos, and i was like what like it. It doesn't make sense to me but like if it's good for you, it's good for you, and so they, and so they feel some sense of inadequacy. They feel like for the same amount of time or even longer. They should be further along and they're, not and people can't recognize those people for who they are and if you look at the numbers that way it'll get to you, but i think i think for those hair girlies. I think they have to be more focused about building a community like sometimes everything is not about money, and i think that is what i'm starting to see with the hair stuff, but, like they've made it about money, let me get back into my notes, because i'm Sitting here just ranting also, there has been a lace shortage this year. I don't know if y'all keep this, but i've been doing um headband wigs for a long time now, and i'm like what is this, i was looking like what what headbandwig oh like, if y'all don't got lace, just say that and let's move on, i don't know. I think headband wigs are cute for certain people, but they're trying to charge like a hundred and plus for them and i'm like um. We know the bundles don't cost that much much to make. You can make those cheaper they don't they don't cost that much anywho but yeah. I think i think the hair. I think that hair trends have had its time and pete and the influencers are starting to get tired, but i think they'll be back. If not them. I think a new surge of girls will be able to do something different better and i don't know what it is yet once i figure it out, i'ma let y'all know, but i don't know what it is yet another thing: the hair gimmicks, the amount of hair Gimmicks that they have put some of y'all through, i apologize profusely like okay, the rice, the rice, um water, stuff that people were doing the aloe vera gel like some of these, like they make sense. When you think about them, you think, okay, yeah. I could see how that could work, but rice, water, rice, okay, um, the blue magic, like they were doing some things that i'm just like this doesn't make sense to me like, but okay, okay, 17 different type of brushes that they done came out in the past. Like 10 years, i'm like okay, if y'all don't grab a brush and just sit down like i'm sorry that brush thing threw me out like i went, i didn't go off, but i was. I can't stop laughing every time i hear about a new brush. That'S supposed to make your curls pop feel like they're, trying to force ebay. I think they're, trying to forcely bait with those brushes like they're, trying to say, it'll make your curls pop, knowing that girls with 4c hair girls with the tightest curl. They don't have a definitive, like some parts of their hair might have definitive curls, but we don't have a definitive curl like i don't know who needs to hear this, but whatever brush you use, it's not gon na make your hair pop, like that, like it's. Just not, and so letting these people play you out here like they got the next brush for you, that's going to make your hair stand out. It'S not the way. It'S smooth, i'm sorry and then the edge control brushes baby. If your edges didn't slick down before they ain't going to slick down now you might have to perm your hair. I'M sorry you just might have to. I have 4c hair through and through the top brim of my hair is like the coarsest. I have never been able to slick down my baby hairs, i'm not going to try i'm not going to try. I just gave up like i'm, i'm jay chilling, i'm okay, you know the whole for the whole baby hairs thing. It clearly wasn't meant for women who it clearly wasn't meant for women who have hair texture like mine, and so i let it go. I let it go. I let it go. I guess it's fine, if you haven't had one of these products before, but sometimes i'm just like. Oh okay, okay, and so i saved these to say, i'm not saying these to bash the women who you know, promote these products or who involve themselves in capitalism, because everyone has to in some form or way like otherwise, you not eaten. I say this to just say: like look at how people who don't even like us who like when we go to our country, we go to their countries, they make fun of us and make us feel like animals market to us and make so much money off Of us like i just i'm sorry, i don't want to be that person, but like look at like it's weird, isn't it like i, i know i can't be the only one. It'S mad weird to me how, like a whole group of people who don't like you, can sit, there turn around and monopolize off of one big insecurity that a whole group of women have and make billions of dollars from it like it's. Just it's creepy to me and i'm not saying that's why i became natural or anything like i don't care like i'll sit here and probably buy bundles again. If i ever cut my locks off or whatever i probably won't, i'm just i'm just saying like it's not. I get it but like why them y'all like know why them like why them i'm not trying to throw out any hate speech whatever let's move on, but the women who we enjoy and whose faces we see in terms of the natural hair and hair black girl Hair community, they are the same faces that these hair companies will use to promote their products and they're, probably not being paid for their pictures being on these hair companies places. What i really want us to dismantle is those hair companies they're a part of a bigger problem, but like even that, even saying that they should, at least if they want to use one of the big faces on youtube that we know like. If we see her face on using something we can trust it, i need them to pay them for their faces, because y'all want to slander us any other time, but y'all making buku money off of us and y'all still can't pay us, but there were some youtubers Who had came out and talked about how they were promoting certain hair companies and the hair companies weren't, paying them full price or weren't, paying them what they needed to pay them for them to be able to create these videos? And it's just it goes to show like they make a hell of money, but they don't want to pay us if you don't take your mark ability and your marketing skills and your ability to influence and charge them with tags. Another thing i think we need to address while colorism is something that is still prevalent. I can personally say that just from like looking at the marketing and that the way hair companies have been marketing recently, the colorism issue has gone down quite a bit, at least with sam beauty. Um, sam beauty will use different colors of girls, um amazon kind of sounds a little iffy because they're not like a monolith either right. The colorism is a lot better than what it used to be, and i only mentioned the colorism simply because there was a time where, if i saw a mixed, chick or a light, skin chick do a hairstyle. I would have to wait until i saw like a dark skinned chick do the same hairstyle before i was like okay, i can do this hairstyle and okay, this kind of plays into texturism a little bit, and i know i know i'm showing i'm showing my bias Light skin girls are usually synonymous with hair, that is less coarse and their hair tends to be more malleable with gel. My hair is not valuable with gel, so that's what i'm saying, because a lot of some of the hairstyles will be real cute, but you have to use either you have to use a lot of gel or your hair has to be malleable, so you have to Like perimeter or something - and i don't do either like i can use - i not right now - obviously, but i could use gel, but then my hair would flake like real real bad, because the hairstyle wasn't meant for me. So i'd have to see if a dark-skinned chick would use it. Now in me saying this: it's also i i said this, but that kind of plays into texturism right, because some, some like skin chicks, do have coarser hair and do have 4c hair. So i don't mean it that way i just mean like if they had looser hair. That'S what i had to do and that's that, but we can also have a conversation about how, when a dark, skinned chick wears some hair - and it doesn't look right, her face - is not giving nearly as much grace as someone who has lighter lighter skin. The only reason lighter skin chicks are given more grace to have hairstyles that not that are not as neat or well kept is simply because they are tend. They tend to be associated with that messier. Hair that still looks defined still looks organized in some way and it just looks better on them, and so, when you carry that type of thinking down, you know the only way. A right black woman can look a right dark-skinned black woman can look, is, is me and so then find yourself really constricting. What look hairstyles you can wear and then you feel like nothing, looks right on you like. I know, y'all know what i'm talking like. If you've gone through this, i know you know what i mean but, like not, everyone will understand that so i'm gon na i'm gon na show my case. So those are my thoughts on the last the trends of hair youtube for the past couple of years. I want to tell i want you in the comments to tell me your favorite hairstyle, like what was the hairstyle. That was your go-to when you needed to do something real, quick, real cute for the girls and maybe something you even still do to this day and who taught it to you like, which, where did you learn it from it, doesn't have to even be from social Media, it can be from an actual person because that's like that's where these stem from these stem from people and then they put it on social media, they put it on the map and then everybody does it and then that's how we learn. That'S how we learn these different hairstyles. I would love to hear. Thank you guys so much for watching and i'll see you in my next video bye,