5 "New” Hair Trends Stolen From Black People | Cultural Appropriation Vs Appreciation | Jojobee

Hey guys, John, so we're in a really interesting moment in time. Right now, black boys are being heard worldwide. I mean not that they haven't been before, but people care now yeah, that's a difference. Black voices are being heard around the world, and people are starting to actually care now. Former and justices that were swept on the rocker coming out a lot of issues to zoom, but people are being thrown right into limelight. You can't ignore it is there you have to deal with it, we're seeing past examples of things that have been stolen from the black community bankers. Land, music, styles, concepts, ideas. This includes hairstyles. By the way, I did my own passions with the first time you like to be honest, hairstyles that have been typically associated with black culture, have been very widely spoken about in the press before, in other words, cultural appropriation. The famous examples of this are number one: the Kardashians, the Jenner's, famously Marc Jacobs, did a runway show way out his white models wear bantu knots, but he called them something like mini buns or something silly like that. We had the black fishing scandal where a bunch of Scandinavian influences were trying to appear as if they were black or mixed-race, when in fact they were as white as can be to this day. Many of them have not apologized. Although give half-assed excuses, blah blah blah, we've had it all before and as good as it was to bring these issues to lie. I thought I'd bring other examples that some people might not be as familiar with, but I want to make it very clear that the examples I'm giving or hairstyles that black women have historically been shamed for or made fun of even to this day. Some of these examples back women are still shameful but anyway, and then, when these styles are now born on white women or men, they're now seen as cool or like more mainstream, and I'm also not saying that white people aren't allowed to wear these hairstyles or trends And I'm not necessarily saying that I'm offended you know to each his own like what you do in your personal life at home, whatever that's your business and frankly, I don't care too much, but it's the principle that many things in black culture that have been you Know basically rubbished and have had negative connotations associated with are now repackaged in another culture and made to see more cool and have even profited off some of these things, and before someone comes and says you know, black people also wear white Centex to let me let Me clear this up: let's dissect this for women, but never seen a white hairstyle that has been historically shameful or themes less attractive, that you then put on a black woman and they're, seen as cool or she's praised for it more than it would be on a White person I'll give a few examples: red hair, for example. I still don't understand to this day. Well, I had such a bad rap. I actually really liked the way red hair looks actually had a ginger lady tried to tell me once that that her experience in life is the is basically the same as mine or similar to mine, because we've both been oppressed. Let me know you even get off topic that just came to mind right now, so yeah. If a black woman was to not dye her hair ginger red, would she be praised for it you'll hear my voice look boy or have you seen the means the tweets about how aspect, especially if your dark skinned, if you were to dye your hair? That is anything lighter than brown. I mean nowadays, it's not it's like not such a big deal, but like definitely when I was growing up, it was like a joke for a dark-skinned black women to like, though their hair, all sorts of different colors. Your corner was cut all kinds of ghetto and well. Another example is hair extensions. Now every single race of women wears hair extensions, I'm not talking about like weaves or wigs, I'm talking about like hair extensions that actually match your hair type. So you'll see it with white women they'll their hair extensions blend in really well their hair, and it's meant to give the appearance of longer or fuller hair. Now, if a black woman wears that know be specific, now, hair extensions that are similar to her own hair type, I for some reason I don't know why this is, but I see more backlash for a black woman who wears hair extensions. That much is her own hair. Then if she was to strain her hair and then add a bit of weave and there's a for a Latina artist called a Marilyn agura, she makes a point of wearing her culture all over her soul. She has this massive afro, which she has said very publicly. Many is her hair, but it's also added extensions to give off a fuller look. I have never seen so much so much backlash for her wearing hair extensions that matches our own hair compared to when a woman say of her similar skin tone wearing straights weave. I don't I don't. I don't understand another example I can give, which is not actually something that's shameful or like unattractive on white girls, but just giving a parallel of it. On the white woman on a black woman is the messy bun messy bun is typically seen as like sexy, without trying to be sexy, but having a messy bun, a natural hair. Do you think people see that as sexy, you guys remember that scandal with H & M, where they had that cute little dark-skinned black girl and she had her hair in a messy bun. There was so much backlash, and this was from mostly black women, basically saying that why'd they have their hair like that. Why couldn't me brush my edges? Why can't they, like you, know, make it into a nice style just to find out that are the kids that they had? They had a little Asian girl, I believe, and a white girl. They both had messy buttons. That was the theme of the of the photo shoot was to have these kids how they liked the end of the day of the playing that has like a slightly messy are out of place. You know just being kids, basically thinking that HTM was trying to purposefully make this girl look bad, when in fact they were just going with messy hair. Look so there's something in our culture that says that our hair in its natural state is unattractive and messy anyway, we've got all the disclaimers out the way. If you stop a problem with the rest of the video, what could I say take up with your ancestors? What can I say, I'm gon na start with the funniest example, and I'm really not offended by this. I just found it hilarious when I stumbled across there. I don't know why this came up in my feed, but as soon as I saw her, I clicked on it. This is the trend of white boys relaxing their hair. Yes, relaxer, as in you know, dark and lovely, I don't know the brand's. To be honest, it's been so long since I've seen a black circuit, I've actually forgotten the brand names. So, of course, let me set the record straight Chemical straighteners, I'm not exclusive to the black community. There are such things as keratin treatments and other things like that. Can chemically straighten any type of hair, but relaxer that is HUGE on black hair is different to blacks, is used on white hair, obviously to straighten my type of hair 4c hair would take a completely different type of chemical treatment than to say straighten may be, like Type 2: it was kind of fascinating and it's like. Why do I find this fascinating and the video has millions of views? I don't know if many black women get millions of years with relaxing their hair, there's a very good reason why relaxers are kind of generally condemned in the black community right if you go through comments, section is actually quite funny about boy. Has gotten a lot of attention where I stand in relaxers generally? Is I personally don't use relaxed eye, and I never have? I don't look down another women hears of relaxers. To be honest, I've seen women who relaxed their hair that have very long, very healthy. Looking hair and I've seen natural women who have damaged unhealthy hair, so that's really a personal choice: I'm not going to judge someone if they want relax their hair. As for the white boys, relaxing my hair with, like all type of relaxes, I just say good luck. Cuz one thing about relaxers in my humble opinion, is: if it's not professionally done, you really choose to be very careful with it. There'S a lot of side effects, but right okay, so you know, I said that I'm not offended by any of these things and really doesn't bother me yeah. I lied it's less a sample actually like me who really annoyed me and I learned a lot of people. Actually, area person in the black community is very aware of the use of silk bonnet satin scarves, do-rags, all those sort of things or just the practice of wrapping your hair at nights. It'S been in in the black culture for decades centuries. It'S not a big deal. It'S how many jokes that I floated around of you know: girls auntie's, that walk around at their head scars outside and it's not seen as like a cool things, just something you do like it's just normal practice. The same we put on pajamas to go to bed. You wrap your hair at night, I'm not particularly offended by the jokes or the memes about head scarves. Anyone made fun of myself for accidentally walking into work with my headscarf on that's another story. It was a rough morning for those who don't know. We use headscarves to reduce the loss of moisture in our hair, as our hair is very prone to dryness, so we wrap our hair at night to preserve the moisture and basically keep our hairstyles looking as me as possible for as long as possible. So with my hair right now, when I go to bed always always always wrap my hair at night. In fact, I feel very uncomfortable sleeping on a bed pillow of like no nothing on my hair. It feels really weird so a couple of years ago there was this lady by the name of Sarah Marantz Lindenberg. I don't know if I pronounce her name properly, let Sarah Marantz Lindenberg. She came up with her own brand of silk bonnets. She basically claimed to have invented the silk bonnets, and it's not even that that got people angry, and that is enough to make anyone angry. But here's the thing not really this she claimed to have invented the silk bonnet. She was charged in 98 dollars. What 90 wants something you go down to? Anyone like all beauty, supply stores, parks, the beauty queens wearing on the world. You know where to go. You don't want to go to get these things $ 1.99 $ 2.99 399, if I'm feeling very pushy other, but the most I will spend money on for a silk scarf for a bunny is 5 pounds. 98. She got so much backlash. She was dragging it all over the world black Twitter collected her. The Breakfast Club collected her, so I'm black magazines came and collected her, but she had to shut down her Instagram. I think it was her Twitter. She profited everything and she came up with this lame. Ass statement, I read answer you night cap was developed because I was searching for a product that looked and performed exactly the way I wanted for my personal use. It was important for me that the product was produced locally in Canada and made from natural fabrics a small business grew quickly, but in the process I failed to connect it back to the broader historical context. We stand with those who are hurt and we respect and hear their voices we're committed to honoring the historical significance of hair wrapping, and this will not be part of our approach. What is with these, like dry unfeeling rubbish source statements? Apologies to the black community, this she wants mentioned by people. The apology was BS and I mean it wasn't even apology. It was just so it was just the way of addressing it and yet to this day, she's from the spinnin business charging a hundred dollars for something like that, you can buy it for two pounds at packs and in fact, there's been other white companies. That'Ll come up with their own assault scars, there's a company by the name of silk London or silky London. I don't know it's actually just such a mind-blowing thing to me like head roughing with all of those companies. Instagram page. It really is weird to see it. Like it's hard to explain the feeling, it's just it's just really weird to see this. She is charging about fifty pounds for this headscarf. Look. Anyone who is considering buying that, like I'm, not trying to take anyone's business or you know, get your coin and all that, but you really don't have to be spending fifty fifty to a hundred pounds on something they can get forty pounds the audacity. It'S a claim that you invented something that has been in our community for decades, though it does City she's, still gon na make her money she's still gon na parade her talk, but it's more power to her sorry say something spicy, oh that's hot! I saw this trend a few years ago and I thought was quite funny. A lot of people had a laugh of this and it was just something that happened and with me bun, but it's come back again. The art of gelling, your baby hairs, so baby hair styling, has been in the back 20 foot high we've been doing it for a while it's often been called ghetto, a warm professional. Personally, I don't judge oh my baby hairs, mainly because I don't have any. I don't think I would have baby hair smell's baby genetics. I went to an all-girls school where there was a large population of black girls and I'd always see each other on baby hairs. All the time never really saw white girls baby hairs until now. So it's now been noted that the French fashion house she won. She has started this trend in their fashion, show they just like slicked down baby hairs of their white models. Apparently people like Katy Perry, fka twigs how full exceeds at a time interesting. Okay, thank you. Very much just a side note about m'kay twigs. I followed her for a while she's been wearing baby hairs for time. That'S kind of her signature thing not to say she started it not at all. I think even she herself would say she did not start the baby hair thing, no, no darling and the people. I wrote these articles like what are you playing at what even some of the pictures like it doesn't look nice. It doesn't look nice. You clearly sees all these people dirt in the house. Did you been baby hairs? I think one publication decided to call it baby burn baby burn I'd like to think that most people know that this has. That was not a trend. It'S not new. In fact they live in this funny clip of Wendy Williams. She had a hair size on her show. He was trying to show hairstyles, you know afro inspired hairstyles and though the way the lady was struggling to lay down these babies, you can see. Wendy was so irritated by what she was trying to do. She had to button so one little trick. I love to show you guys and my husband's a dentist, so I get a lot of free to frozen, but look at this you guys just put a little bit of that edge gel a please know about the baby hair. I love get her baby hairs there. We go no, don't comb the back so really on something. That'S very well known as natural hair community, it's basically a different style of washing your hair. It'S called co-washing it's in the name, Co conditioner by Washington, with conditioner. For those who don't know. I heard it's very prone to breakage and dryness. I had doesn't get greasy very easily, let's see with maybe other races that you have to wash your hair very frequently with most black women. Our main focuses one job, moisture and warm moisture. This method basically was to ensure that our hair isn't stripped of our natural oils, which we needs to keep our hair, soft and moist, so that prevents breakage. So for a while, I used to use a specific products that was like a cleansing co wash so instead of using a shampoo every wash day I had, I would go between my shampoo and then a couple times using the co wash product. There was slightly cleansing, but it didn't strip away like all my natural oils, actually don't college anymore. It'S just that when I finished my co washing products, I just never bought them again, tomatoes that I mentioned. I probably all get back into quite washing, but what's funny is if you, google, co, wash the first like 10 videos are mostly from white women. I was seeing articles of this new trend of washing hair conditioner, as if we haven't doing this for a while. Personally, I don't get why like hair types that are above maybe type 3 would cry wash the whole point that curly hair is more prone to dryness straight. Your hair is more prone to agree to this, your hairs more prone to greasy nurse. Why would you apply it essentially more grease? I don't know a lot of black hair companies for a while we're stuck in cryo washing products for a long time, and you know slowly. I was starting to see more like mainstream white hair products that were having more co-washing products as well, and I thought this is interesting. The company lush, you know the comfort that has with the bath bombs and my smelling stuff they caught on to this trend as well. They actually came up with their own co, washing products. They did kind of explain that their products was mainly for afro kind of hair or curly hair, though fun fact, I actually used to work at lush and every products, but was slightly veered towards people of color. Always third of me tried. I think you should try this geremy. This might be good for you, but really I was like the parent person to try these things on, and so they could get like a first-hand experience with all kind of lush products. They encourage all their start to try them, but you know co-washing products as it was more catered towards their black customers. I was the one who had to try these things. I just have my own personal preference preference like the co washing product on my hair. I think it was called, but I find it quite useful, easier to wash my makeup brushes it's more by product, but I don't use it for dales intended for with other companies. I just finally tried to take credit for what co washing is I'm not really giving the context or the appropriate kind of props to where it actually comes from it's funny. I never thought I would see co washing products in like Tesco, but -- so anywhere like that, but like it's everywhere now. So this brings me to my final point that is related to hair washing and again it has to do with retaining moisture. But I don't tend to wash their hair as frequently I say it. Other races of women do because the curly coily structure of our hair is less prone to getting greases less prone to holding onto like dirt. I actually had to add oil and grease to our hair I'll, just break it down slightly, so it's straighter hair, your natural oil, from your scalp, like this eben. If your hair is straight, it's like a natural flow for the oil to like go down towards your hair strands. You'Ll notice that the ends of your hair are the driest, whereas of quailing hair. If it's like, spiraling around and running around, it's harder for the sebum to like get down to your hair strands, leading to war, dry, hair and more breakage, and because we wash our hair less frequently, we forever been ashamed for having dirty hair and now there's a New trend telling women well telling white women not to wash their hair as frequently if you follow like hair blogs or hair magazines. There was a big article about her, not washing her hair for about two weeks, and I was like the best decision she ever made for her hair, but it's a new trend now to not wash your hair as frequently. I don't have much to say about that. I just think, like the natural kind of science of hair kind of explains why we don't wash our hands frequently. I don't understand if your hair is like, naturally straight. Why wouldn't wash your hair frequently you know to each their own again. It can be a bit annoying to see things from our culture that then repackaged and pushed up to the masses as there someone else was responsible for the creation of some of these stars and trends, whereas you know it came from it came from somewhere else. Just give people their credit but, like I said in the beginning of this video there's many examples and many different sectors: industries of wear black concepts have been stolen and basically someone else are taking credit. I'D say with the relaxing one. I don't think any of these white guys are taking credit for relaxers like not at all. That'S not why I'm saying that that particular example. Do you get my point? Do you get it yeah, I'm gon na assume. You said yes, so yeah! That'S it for this video guys and give it a thumbs up if you enjoyed the video and subscribe subscribe, subscribe check out for the next video, it should be pretty interesting. I hope. Let me know your thoughts down below. 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