Black Womens Obsession With Beyonce'S Real Hair & What It Means
Tina Knowles shows off Beyonce's hair and sparks a conversation about weave and natural hair.
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Oh natural natural, as Neil would say so I want to talk about the video you guys just saw of Tina Knowles doing the on says. -- hair - and most of you already know that Tina Knowles is Beyonce's mother, and I want to talk about the way black women are responding to this, and I just want to say, like a lot of other black women are saying, I thought it was so cute. Seeing Beyonce getting her hair done by her mom and her mom embarrassing her, and I just think we like these kind of videos from Beyonce, because they're really relatable and since they on say, is such a huge superstar. I think everybody likes to see these videos because it reminds everybody that yeah she's a superstar but she's, still a normal human being. She gets her hair done by her mom. She gets embarrassed by her mom, so it's just really relatable, but I want to address the conversation about her hair because black women are really obsessed with it and I don't know if you guys realize how it makes you look as black women, but I'm gon na. Let you know - and this isn't the first time this has happened - it happened a while back when her hairstylist his name is Neil Farina. He posted pictures of her natural hair and black women went in an uproar and they were saying he was lying and they were saying it was fake and her mom posted a picture proving it and when she posted her picture, they were still saying it was fake And her mom even posted a video of her getting her own hair done so y'all could kind of see where Beyonce got her hair from that's pretty much. Why she did it? Okay - and you know when I saw the pictures and her hairstylist said that it was real, I didn't need convincing like I just you know, I just knew it was real, it didn't, you know, and I just didn't think it was a big deal. You know it's like: Oh her real hair. She grew it out. It'S long she's been taking care of it good for her. It was just not a big deal to me, but, of course, black women we're making it a big deal and they're still making it a big deal before they were saying. Oh well, let's see her scalp. Let us see her style, you know to prove if it's real and that's fake - and you know the ponytail is a different texture than the hair in the back. We need to see a scalp, so in this video Tina Knowles, she showed the scalp to prove to her that yeah. My baby's hair is real. She'S, like you know, all natural. This is her hair and listen. I understand it's Beyonce she's a superstar. She is known for wearing a lot of weave, but we do this with every black woman or mixed woman who has long hair. Okay, it's not just Beyonce's hair black women are obsessed with long hair period, and you guys know I love long natural hair too. Don'T get me wrong, I have been natural for nine years now. My hair is long. I get the questions all the time. Oh girl, that's your real hair. I get that too. So, don't mistake! It I get it, but this particular situation to me is super cringy, because black women literally drag to Blue Ivy's type 4 hair, okay and they have been dragging that baby for her features in general. For years you drag Gabby Douglas and her kinky hair, and you know you drag black hair when it's not quote-unquote done enough. But here you are black women, oohing and ahhing over Beyonce's type 3 natural hair. When you've been giving her daughter hell for her type 4, natural hair and her black facial features for years, the optics are bad black women and it makes us look very, very self-hating because we cheer the loudest clearly for a certain hair texture, which is type 3 Hair - and this is exactly what happened with the natural hair movement and why type 3 hair is the face of the movement and the most popular, and that's because you go crazy over black women with type 3 hair or mixed women with type 3 hair. You know when y'all start her hair was fake. I saw a lot of comments accusing black women of being jealous because they were bald-headed and couldn't grow their hair. I saw a comment saying: oh, you know just because you can't grow your hair doesn't mean the odds they can't grow her hair right and now that black women have proof. Now that Tina Knowles has came through and showed everybody her scalp, because that's what you needed, that her hair was real. Now that she's done that the conversation has shifted to how she got the hair. And, oh, my god, her hair is so beautiful and I keep hearing a lot of people attribute her hair to her quote: unquote: good genes right, aka, her mixed-race heritage, let's just be honest on what it is here. As most of you know, her mother is mixed. She does identify, as Creole and Beyonce has also referenced her mixed heritage in her music. This is something they have been very vocal about, so I keep hearing. People say that that is the reason I'm seeing people say she has long hair because she's rich, which that's ridiculous, because there are many women who aren't rich and have long hair. I'M just thinking a lot of ridiculous comments and it's getting a little bit annoying I'll. Be honest: how in 2019, after this huge natural hair movement in countless photos, countless videos of black black women, regular black women, black women, who are not mixed right? Who have hair down the middle of their back and we're still going nuts over the length of Beyonce's hair? It'S a little annoying okay and it's I'm annoyed that this is a conversation when it's been proven that black women with all hair textures can grow their hair. There is no huge secret, you don't need to be mixed. You don't need nil Farina to do your hair or grow your hair. You don't need to take any special vitamins. You really don't black women. You can just take care of your hair and grow it. You can just leave it alone and grow your damn hair. It'S just it's really, not that deep anymore. There'S enough information out there to teach you and there are. There is proof and results showing you know black women with long hair. Kenya, Moore has long hair cash doll has long hair. That'S real, even Oprah has showed her long hair either there was, there was photo circulating around with her long hair Lela James I mean y'all can give me some more examples in the comment section. But there are, you know black women, regular black girls, with long hair all over the place. You know - and I look forward to the day where the newer generations of black girls grow up with all this hair and it just won't be a big deal. It'Ll just kind of be the norm because, like I said not too long ago on the community tab for those of you who follow the community tab, you saw it. But I said on there that I'm noticing that a lot of black mothers are not perming their daughter's hair they're, not putting a whole bunch of you know, stress on their daughter's hair, with the braids and they're really teaching them to care for and embrace their natural Hair and as a result, I'm seeing a lot of black girls with their hair down their backs. I mean these big huge, beautiful tight for afros, this beautiful big kinky hair. So I predict that when these women get older or when these girls get older, there will no longer be a conversation about black women was super along here. It will be a little bit more normalized and this is not to say that having long hair is everything or that we shouldn't celebrate short hair or teach our girls to celebrate their hair, no matter what length it is, but the way I see it is, you Know if we're wearing the weaves and we want the long hair instead of buying the long hair instead of trying to look like somebody else, then why not just grow your hair out? Why not just teach your girls how to care for and grow their own hair? Not everybody's gon na have long hair and everybody's gon na want long hair, but obviously it's achievable for a black women, whether it's loose natural hair, that's just out or whether it's locked up and that's another thing. We'Ve been wearing locks forever and we've been growing locks down our backs into our butts for years. So clearly black hair can grow and you don't have to lock it for it to grow. You just have to take care of it. So I'm looking forward to that because you know, despite of the natural hair movement, that's going on now and that's been going on for years, there are still too many black women who are, you know, ruining their real hair. You know not really interested in growing their real hair and they're still aspiring to have hair that we will never have, and we, you know, are still manipulating our hair to look like Beyonce's hair or we're wearing wigs and weaves without taking care of our hair. Underneath the Whigs and the weeds and as a result, we ruin our own hair or we stunt its growth. I remember Loni love came out earlier this month, showing her real hair and the catch was hiatus hair. As in hiatus from the weave you know, she's, like I'm, taking a break. You know we're on break right now, so I can let my hair breathe and you know you. I want to talk like all black women have this long flowing hair under the weave like Beyonce, but in most cases you know it looks like a lot of hair. You know it took me honest, let's just be honest, sometimes it doesn't even look as good as Loni loves, hair same first Sheryl Underwood when she took off her weave real short, you know, hair, that's really really short a little bit damaged. Looking you know not really full and healthy. Looking I mean it's not that these women can't grow their hair, long and full and healthy, or at least just be healthy, even if that's not long, it's not like they can't achieve that. It'S just that they aren't or want allowing it to get to that point. They weren't taking care of it and I just feel like if most black women have all this hair under the wheels like Beyonce like y'all, claim y'all do cuz. I see a lot of those comments too, like yeah. Well, we where we wigs and we but yeah we we have long hair under this weave. A lot of black women have long hair under their wigs yeah. I'M guessing that most of them. Don'T though, because if you did, you know you wouldn't be in such a shock when Beyonce shows her hair, her natural hair, and it's long, you know what I'm saying it's like your responses are kind of telling on you. You know because it's like you wouldn't be so you wouldn't be so surprised if most black women really had all this hair under the weave, and you see when usually when we we have the hair, you know that's really long and it looks like the week. We don't wear it, we don't wear a weave. We don't have to that's why Beyonce ain't wearing her her weave like she was before she all need to okay. So you know it's believable to women with long hair. It'S not a big deal like when I saw this. I was like okay. That doesn't surprise me plus. When you look at her childhood pictures. I was like yeah Beyonce. Has you know she's had long hair, you know in the past or whatever so it just. It wasn't a big deal, but I'm just saying that black women you tell on yourselves with the way that you respond. Okay, we ruin our hair so that we can mimic Beyonce's hair, let's be honest, and the irony is that all this time we've been ruining our here with the weave - and you know the blonde and the bleach to look like Beyonce she's been wrong. Her hair out this whole time, she's a girl, her hair out. You know so I'm just saying, ladies like get on it, you know get on it, so you won't have to you know envy. Somebody else is here: you can grow your hair like Beyonce's. You can be a regular black girl, you don't have to be rich, you don't have to have special genetics, you can do it. Trust me. I know. Okay and if y'all didn't know, y'all don't realize this. There are medical professionals who are getting rich off of our hair hate. Okay, it's not just the Asians selling. Here we cuz that's a problem, so that's a billion dollar industry, but it's also the dermatologist okay and the hair transplant surgeons, who are treating traction alopecia from your hair loss. Okay, I was looking at a natural hair tutorial. You know I get on YouTube. I look at natural hair tutorials. I'Ve been doing this for years way before I even came on here talking about colorism, that's just something that I do and you know how they start recommending other videos. Well somehow, I came across the youtuber who had traction alopecia and y'all. The thumbnail made me click the video, because this woman edges were just gone. Okay, anyway, I clicked the video I was listening to the video and she actually talked about this black woman talked about having a hair transplant and it cost her several thousand dollars. And when I went on the website it was literally all black women in the before and after section I mean photo after photo after photo, and then I went to the doctors on the website and they were all white white men and white women. So you guys this self-hate goes deep and it's sickening. Okay, our self hate is a business. It'S a business. It'S a it's a billion-dollar business from the Asians and their hair. We to the white people and their skin bleaching cream and their hair transplant they're, making billions off of our self-esteem, our low self esteem and ourselves hate, and it makes me sick to my stomach when I think about it and light-skinned women and mixed they're also making Money and funding their lifestyles and excelling in their careers from our self-hate, because many of us are obsessed with them in their features in their hair and y'all. Think I say this stuff out of hate and jealousy and insecurity, but what's more insecure than that, like we show how insecure we are every day me talking about colorism, doesn't it make us look any worse than we already do with these lace fronts? You know with these with the glue down baby hair, it's trying to mimic Beyonce, you know or mixed women hair. You know and wearing these two tight braids that give you traction alopecia. No, a black woman like me telling the truth isn't making you look bad. The unrealistic weave is making you look bad. Your responses to mixed women and their long hair is making you look bad. Okay, that's! What'S making you look worse more worse than anything and before anybody says that yes, non black women wear a weave. Okay, they [ __ ] up their [ __ ] too, with the extensions and the hair bleaching you know what's a blonde or whatever, but one it's like comparing apples to oranges. Their weave is usually more convincing. Let'S just be honest because it's usually their natural hair texture, ours is not. Okay, y'all can talk about how black women have different hair textures, but most American black women aren't wearing weed that matches their hair texture. Let'S be honest. This is why you wear the we. He don't look like yours, let's be honest here, let's be honest, you know. This is why I suggest wearing natural textured weave to add length it's more convincing. You know I don't I'm not completely anti weave. I just say you know be convincing with it like. Have people looking at it like whom is that her hair? You know, I just think it looks better. You know and listen. I don't want to say all of this without without context. I know why black women wear the weave. We do it to appeal to black men. Let'S just be honest: black men can say what they want to say. They talk [ __ ] about black women wearing we, but they also don't like the natural hair that most of us have. You know the kind of of natural that black men, one is usually type 3 hair. Chris Brown just released a song and he talks about wanting a black woman with nice hair or only wanting black women was nice hair. So we know what that probably means right. Black women with hair, like Beyonce's, just be itis right, which it isn't a crime for him, the one you know women with hair, like that. I think that's what his hair looks like, but the problem is: if quote-unquote nice hair means type 3 hair, then what does that mean for type 4 hair? That means it's not so nice hair right. So that's the type of [ __ ] that makes black woman want to attempt to get the nice hair right, the quote-unquote nice hair by way of wearing weave okay. So I understand why you do it? You do it to appeal to to two Negroes like that right, but look at who they're choosing black women. That'S what you got to look at. Most of them aren't choosing replicas. You know they aren't choosing pretenders. You know our black woman with this ridiculous weave. They'Re. Choosing women who have that hair, naturally for the most part or who wear weaves, that's convincing, okay. So it's time to stop trying to please them. You know where your texture wear it well, wear it immaculately! You know, and you will attract men who, like it. You know of all races, not just black men y'all need to stop trying to appeal to like the lowest of the lowest. You know these bums, you know with them without money because a lot of these men with money they're, not good men, they're, not you know and honestly, like I said in a previous videos, natural hair is [ __, ] boy repellent. For the most part, you will most likely inevitably attract better quality men with your natural hair. You just will okay you'll get a few subways, so don't get me wrong, but I'm just saying for the most part you know you'll attract a higher quality men or men who aren't colorist. You know or text restorer featuresthe with you know when you're wearing your natural hair, but all I'm saying is that y'all take it to the absolute extreme with these ridiculous leads. Okay, weave is cool but make it look convincing and also really take care of your hair. Underneath it okay, and to that, of course, you know I will leave links with tips in the comment section I always have to plug my girl, Kathy Howze, whose products I have been using faithfully during my nine-year natural hair journey. Her website is ultra black hair calm. I recommend getting the starter kit with the book included. I believe she still hasn't. I'M sure she still has it, but she gives a scientific hair girl information and it will change your life. It will change your life. I promise you so go to ultra black hair. Calm, if you know you're just starting on your natural hair journey, you want to grow your hair, long she's, the woman to go to in my opinion, so I will leave that link below and I'm gon na go ahead and wrap up this video. Please tell me what you think about all of this in the comment section and I will catch up with you in the next video
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Denise: Black women need to redirect this energy spent on hair and nails to taking better care of our minds and bodies. Thinking right, eating right and exercising.
Trip Bee: Why is it so hard to believe? She has the best products and hair stylists money can buy
YG EnterWAITment: I’m gonna say it.. being American seems stressful. Literally everything is an issue.
Rafael Reyes: There are women in Africa who have natural long hair, it's not a big deal. Short or long; black women are beautiful.
landryb: “Our self hate is a business”.. wow- lightbulb moment.
Stephanie: Honestly the “shock” for me is that her hair is so long and healthy looking WITH her hair COLOR. That BLONDE can do so much DAMAGE so the fact that it’s that long and thriving is quite IMPRESSIVE
Savannah M: It's really irritating to see us obsessed over hair. When we have bigger fish to fry in our community
Jessica H: Lets be obsessed with uplifting one another! How about that!
Blake J: Even white female stars all have extensions, wigs and weaves. Kardashian’s, Ariana grande, Taylor Swift, Katy perry, Miley Cyrus, etc. I don’t understand why no one bats an eyelash if a white woman posts a picture with long hair. But goes into an uproar when a black woman does the same thing.
The Tony Mama: “Our self hate is a business.” I totally agree with you!
Tye Johnson: Nobody talks about Solange’s hair like that, she was my inspo to go back natural
Its Me Mika: I truly wonder how others look at us for arguing about hair
X: I am so over this hair-obsession. Most black sisters I know who wear wigs and weaves all the time always be claiming they're "just protecting" their natural hair, but I never see them wearing it out. Ever. Meanwhile they'll be making snide remarks about my type 4A/B hair. They are obsessed with looking a particular way that is not Black, that is why they don't do braids, faux locs or any other protective style that actually looks like their own hair. It's sad. I wish they could see how beautiful they are naturally.
Motherhood Realness: A white woman has long hair and no one bats an eye,a black woman has long natural hair and everyone losses their minds! I just don’t get it♀️
Nurse Dom: I’m 30 and my mom still braids my hair for me! I love her
Em *: I was in beauty school and there was a girl who came in to get her hair straighten. She was a client from one of my instructors (who was a black woman and an amazing hairstylist) our instructor brought her into my class to show my class how to press a client with a LOT OF HAIR. This young client had hair down to her ass and her hair was thick as hell. It was gorgeous. She had a tighter curl than beyonce she told us it ran in her family. Her mom and grandmother all had crazy thick hair. She is was full black too and was just a high school student from small town in NY. I think she was just raised to embrace her natural hair as a young age from her mother and grandmother. Which was great because she grew up in a primarily white community but never felt pressure to not wear her hair natural because woman around her let her know how beautiful her natural hair was.
Daphne Carpenter: I'm mixed, a Mexican mom and white dad. My hair is wavy. I've always really loved natural black hair-- the texture, the poof, the curls in random places, the spongyness, the thickness, when its healthy its soooo gorgeous and really stands out. Black kinks and curls are the sacred spiral, the fibonacci. I cant speak for black culture, or pretend to understand the hair culture, but personally, I'm relieved and happy that the emerging natural hair movement is showing little girls to grow up with well deserved self love, and not hate, for themselves and their hair.
Samuel Duclosel: When you're mixed , it's not always visible. You can be dark and have type 4 hair and still be mixed.
Kloops Lo: I don’t understand why black women think that we (black women) can’t grow strong, healthy, and long hair. News Flash: WE CAN AND DO!
Highly Favored: It would have been nice to have been taught to embrace our natural hair back in the day. I'm glad that the young girls of today are encouraged to do so.
Egyptian Musk: I'm Ethiopian and my hair is down to my ass. Black women CAN grow long hair, you have to take care of it.
Serenade Of A Star: When I clicked on this, I thought we were obsessed with how cool it was Beyoncé was rocking natural hair. But apparently black women cannot quit tearing each other down. I have 4a/b hair that isn’t even that long, and I still get asked “iS iT rEaL?” Y’all need to mind your business.
ALLTHINGS71: I think the goal should be HEALTHY hair and not LONG hair. AND YES , GENETICS PLAYS A MAJOR ROLE!!!
ALICHIA HICKMAN: I am a black woman and I AM NOT OBSESSED with Beyonce's hair.
Andrea Ramirez: I had always admired black women’s hair. Weaves are fine but you cannot compare it to a natural Afro, it’s just so beautiful.
Rissah Stenson: Listen, I can't wait for my shoulder length type 4 hair to bloom and grow. I. CAN NOT. WAIT. It's healthy, gorgeous and shrinked beyond belief! Lol oh and I am mixed. So please, let's educate ourselves! Mixed doesn't equal looser curls!
Sandian BC: "Wear your texture, Wear it well, Wear it immaculately" i needed to hear this.
HeroOfThyme: More people need to get into hair care science. For future generations
Miyu Yamazato: Blue Ivy is such an adorable little girl, I was sad that North West was uplifted for her natural hair and Blue Ivy was being bashed and put down so early in life! That kinda disgusted me!
Kylie: I have over 20 inches of 4c hair..still wearing wigs everyday. Just because I’m wearing a wig doesn’t mean shit
shantesh white: I’ve been natural for eight years and my hair stretches past my bra strap. I have a friend who basically told me my hair type was ugly (4ab). I think my curls are amazing. I was sooooo happy when i first saw my curls pop. When i first straightened my hair, i thought i looked odd. I always thought “why didn’t i do this earlier?” I literally look 500x’s better with my natural and curly hair. When we see our own beauty for what it is we will begin to notice how odd we look with weave.
Dashea’Lynnez: It's frustrating that this is still a conversation. My hair is down my back and i'm black.
mikoda: Beyonce looks so good with the blonde/brownish blonde hair. She has the perfect skin tone for it! Blessed.
D: People don’t even realize that type 4 hair grows just as much as any other type. We just have shrinkage.
Aalizabeth Crown: I think when people say "GOOD HAIR" they mean "LONG HAIR" or "A LOT OF HAIR". I've never seen a man black or white hate on a head full of hair. Men see a full head of hair as healthy, sexy. Hair they can touch and play with is what they like. Its not always about silky straight or loose curls. THICK FULL HAIR is what they like. Full twist outs get a lot of love too! Don't be dismayed
KlickingKay ASMR: Exactly. We don’t value ourselves yet we want the rest of the work to think black is beautiful. ♀️
Taryn: I love how you addressed this topic in this video. I was so sad to see their reaction to Beyonce's real hair. It's so pathetic. The self-hate is real. Yes, be surprised that Beyonce low-key grew out her natural hair under all those wigs and weaves at dye jobs but don't be surprised that she has long hair. Like come on now, what is wrong with people?!
Bhaveeka Smith: IMO the long hair “disbelieve” is tied to skin color. Along with eye color. For example, had a co worker tell me “your sister’s eyes cannot be hazel/green” & they must be contact lenses. My sister has a dark complexion the co worker later explained. WTH. Same with our hair. Questions such as “is that your real (long) hair” are predicated on the fact (in their minds) that dark complexioned black Americans CANNOT have long hair. Whereas our light complexioned Cousins’s long hair was believable. This is the formula: light complexion + hair =long hair or dark complexion + hair = short hair. Either way it’s crazy.
Mehret Gebrezgiabher: I’m Eritrean and soft, long, curly, and black and sometimes brown hair are normal where I come from. Yes there are people with short hair too. I always thought it was so weird how in grade school people were very curious about my hair. They say things like you can’t be African because of your hair and features. They would ask to touch it, comb it, or even request I shake my hair ( like I’m here to entertain them). I just always think hair is hair, if you care for it and do it, it looks nice. But other times if I don’t do something to it the same day I wash it and wait until it gets dry than it will be challenging. Unless I do the wash and go to get curl look. I always thought it was genes first not a magic shampoo, second it’s how you take care of it. Deep conditioning treatment, natural oils, styling methods and wrapping with a silk wrap (which I’m bad about which is why I love silk pillow). If you notice how the men have better hair than the girls, really why does God waste such blessings on a guy hair? Because they don’t damage their hair with chemicals and heat like we do. So glad for this natural movement. I just think women always want what they don’t have. Ex. Long hair want to chop it off sometimes because it gets tiring and how fast I could get ready if I didn’t have to mess with my hair. Ladies with Short hair dream about long, thick, curly, and flowing hair. Straight to curly and vice verse, just a never ending cycle. Appreciate what you got, want to change it do research. I never thought about other people hair because I was busy with my hair. I swear it has a mood if it’s own. After watching Good Hair documentary with Chris Rock, I understand the seriousness and sensitivity with hair better and in my adult years for a second I thought about Asian or white people hair, now I can just go on YouTube.
hey: Scientists proved that Black hair has the best quality sebum out of all races. The problem is getting the sebum to travel down the hair shaft for hair growth.
SkinLikeCaramel: Your hair will grow when you let it NATURALLY do what it do. Clean scalp, moisturized scalp and hair strands... your hair will grow. Less is more when it comes to your hair... keep it simple and it will grow
Dude: Had to come back to this video to say THANK YOU, CHRISSIE. Honestly I'm this video, when I first watched it two months ago, I didn't want to hear some truths. I hated my hair texture and everything about it. Infact I already cut it to half an inch and I was looking for more wigs. But you inspired me to go on to look for products for my hair and start taking care of it. In essence, I started to like and embrace my own natural hair because of you so thank you so much! My hair is also growing at an amazing rate too!
Leila: The same women get mad when non black people say we have no hair/ugly hair/we can't grow our hair... Smh
atalia kgwale: Can I just say that I’m South African and it is to the best of my knowledge and belief that it all depends on dna when I was younger my hair was long but as I grew older my hair don’t grow no more my late mother was so beautiful and she rocked her short hair with pride I think we need to consider some of environmental and biological factors that can come into play
T R: I think it’s just cause it was Beyoncé, to be honest....nothing more. Since it’s always under speculation whether her hair was a wig, tracks, clip ins etc; the fact that Beyoncé is such a private person, the fact that ppl seen a video of her actual hair/scalp was surprising. ♀️ Beyoncé could show a candid video of anything and people would be so excited lol
lacelove love lace: This video hit every point!! I've been making same points with people for years on hair!! Any and every type of black hair can grow and grow long! If it's short,damaged, or unhealthy looking. My question and thought is "what have they done to their hair" It's never it just can't grow
Nicki_Minaj_is_the_queen_of_rap: “Our self hate is a business.” - Ms. Chrissie I’ll always remember this❤️
Ammar A: Honestly all of the negative comments about her hair is lowkey a sign self hate. It's not a cultural thing. A standard culture is healthy, a social construct that unites Human Beings. Now Hate can become a Culture but that's a topic for another day. Hair is Hair. If you grow it, great. If you buy, Great. Do what ya want
MARSmariah: High fiiiivvveee I been natural for 2 almost 3 years and it’s making its way down my back I love high bun styles. I don’t agree w many of your opinions or videos but this one is a HELL YES to me.
StayFaithful: I love and appreciate that you mention the truth about doctors making $$$ off of our self-hatred.
rizeuse: Chrissie you speak the truth !!! I really hope you get more views on this video....Im not natural but i truly believe if black women took better care of their hair our hair would grow down to our butts
Ilovesesshomaru sama: It’s bazaar that a black Women has to convince the world that our hair is long! I mean we are the only race that does that
Semien78: Love your video! Taking care of your hair is the key regardless of the texture. I've never had long hair as a child, so I thought because of my hair type, it was destine to be short until UBH. Mrs. Cathy's book and products changed my life twice, once when I was relaxed, and I grew my hair past bra strap, and then again when I went on my natural hair journey. Also, keep up the great work of colorism awareness.
Diosa Wintour: Can we talk about pressure from assimilation to try to achieve a texture that is nothing like our own and the fact that we haven't had affordable products dedicated to natural 4c hair and restoration of damage?? The issue started there
Nurtured - Channel: My hair has grown massively in 2 years... I can't wait to wear my own hair ... it's a lot of maintenance though... but I am fed up of wigs... Nutrition plays a major part also which black ppl neglect
Da Diva: Beyonce has been wearing single/partial braids (Destiny's Child days) and weaves since 1997, if not longer. I fully expect her hair to have grown out in *22 YEARS* of protective styling, which is basically what that was. 22 years is almost half her life. It's not rocket science here.
Kiki Garba: Okay but listen. I don't want hair that's convincing. I want neon green hair that you can see from a mile away without damaging my own hair. If I want to have a different hairstyle every week without doing anything to my actual does that make me self hating?
lI Unknown Il: The clip of her mom annoying her “momma that’s really annoying” “oh natural!” “Momma”
WLA68: Thank you for this video! Pure truth!!!We need to embrace ourselves, and our beautiful hair! Slave mentality runs deep about our hair! We need to be deprogrammed from the pathology of hating our hair and not believing or understanding our hair can grow or its beautiful! Let’s keep teaching!! THANK YOU!!!!
Audra Anderson: Thank you! So sick of people thinking that we can not grow hair!! Its crazy!
Lucky: I think the stunt of growth or inability to achieve long and healthy hair stems from our parents damaging our hair through perms, hot combs, traction alopecia, and straight up neglect. I feel if we were taught how to properly manage, treat, style and learn to love our hair (in all the different textures) we all would have a beautiful, full head of healthy long kinky but easily managed hair!
Amadeus Andrew: I’m soooooooooo glad you made this video. My sisters and I are of mixed races and my oldestsister is darker than the rest of us and she has some BEAUTIFUL dark black hair that is long and had really tight curls and it is a lot of other black girls will be the first to tell her she should get it straightened or pressed or micro’s cause it would look better. And she did a lot until she got out of college and I feel it grows sooooo much better, and I feel it is different from a lot of other black/mixed women here in San Diego
J: Let's not be obsessed with anything Including hair ; Let's try to keep a balance.
Ellen Vandyke: Thank you so much for posting this. I have learned so much! Much love and a big thank you for calling out the haters and telling it like it is!!
Hazel E: I honestly don't see what the issue is. I see nothing wrong with black women commenting on Beyonce's hair or REAL long hair on a black woman. Lets be real here long hair in the black community is still seen as super rare because most black women have never had hair longer than their collarbone, and often times have their hair hidden in weaves, braids, and wigs, and in often times wearing long hair lengths that they've never grown out their own scalps and wish they had. Most of the time when we see a black woman with long hair she is either a light skin mixed black girl with silky hair. Yes black woman can grow long hair without being mixed, we know that now. However its something that is still rarely seen. So when seen black women with a kinky texture with long hair we are in awe and amazement. We love to see it. Long hair is so pretty and the prettiest type of hair to me in my opinion. We obsess "If you want to call it an obsession" because seeing a black woman like us with kinky hair achieve long hair is inspiring and pretty.
Luna Love: It didn't even cross my mind to accuse it of being fake. I'm sick of some of us. I just thought "Wow her hair grows fast". Protective styling (smoothing it with conditioner or a light custard every other day, washing when there's product buildup or my scalp itches) is what grows my hair best.
ADOS Hebrewess: "Wear your texture and wear it well"---Chrissie
hey: People with 4C hair should try a Bring out your curl pattern movement. With everything Chris Brown has said, a lot of people clearly don't think their hair is good enough, but with this movement everyone can see how beautiful 4C hair is.
Jessica O’Brien: This is my first time seeing your videos and I just HAD to subscribe. As a mixed race girl I have “that good hair” and when I say what you say I’m usually dismissed as not understanding the hair type. I’ve been braiding my mom c4 hair sense I was 12. she has been growing her hair out for twelve years and has been teaching how to grow c4 hair. I know it possible and the hair is soooooo beautiful
BlkMama: When I was a little girl (in 70s and 80s), my father always told me that Black women's hair would grow if we stopped burning it off. Years later, I see women with 4b and 4c hair growing their hair long thanks to better options of products and awareness to be proud of our hair textures. My daughter has 4b hair and I don't chemically process it, nor do I straighten it often (she is 18 and her hair has been blown out and flat ironed 3 times in her life). Her hair past her shoulders but not quite to the middle of her back when curly and it is to her butt when we blew it out to get a trim. I kept her hair in three or four sections of large braids as a little girl and as a teen she has her hair in twists (no additional hair). She washes her hair once a week to one and a half weeks (depending on her scalp) and twists it up again. My other daughter does not have long hair. It breaks easier even though it is less coiled. I take her to get more frequent trims than her sister and it seems to be helping the breakage and her hair is growing again. Her hair won't hold a twist like her sister otherwise I would twist it up. We have to find what styles, products, and trimming needs work for our own hair, not our sister, not our mother, not a celebrity, but individual needs. I have always taught my children that there is no such thing as "good" or "bad" hair. Hair needs to be clean, healthy, and properly combed and styled to YOUR liking. Both of my daughters have bomb hair, different textures, different lengths, and different styles. My hair sucks because I don't ever have time to take care of it, much less style it. That's ok though lol I point out how interested/fascinated White people are with our hair as well as other features and teach them not to let anyone trick them into hating their features because that group or entity is most likely somewhere in a lab trying to imitate our God given beauty.
Buttercup: And let's be real you can have type 4 abcdg hair and your hair can still be hella long. Shrinkage is for real. ♀️
tyyahnna: i’ve never understood the whole “length” thing in the black community ... i never will
Nakeya Brown: I Love Black Hair!!! Especially the 4C texture! It's curly, it's versatile, and it's our heritage. And I love seeing other Black Women with natural hair. I will never be ashamed of my hair texture nor will I ever make anyone feel ashamed of their own hair texture. I will Rock my 4C in All it's Glory, Honey! I, sometimes, flat iron it, coil it, or two strand twist it. I even braid it, but I don't wear wigs. My hair is so thick my scalp sweats too much to wear a wig, and plus I want to keep my edges. I do my best to take care of my hair. I haven't had a relaxer in 18 years nor will I ever go back to using them. I will not allow society to dictate to me what beautiful hair is for me. Beautiful Hair is what each individual was born with, their Own God Given Hair. Let's stop hating and stereotyping good hair.
Babyy' Niquee: Mannnnnnn I Been Watching Your Videos Lately && Listening To What You're Saying In This Video Is You Saying Alot Of Things (In All Honesty) Us Women Are Afraid To Speak Up About Cause We Don't Wanna Face Our Own Insecurities Deep Within So We Suppress It By Filling That Void Within Us With Lowkey Jealousy, Self Hate etc. It's Sad. Btw Awesome Video
Val Grant: LOVE your platform. I know your experience says one thing but its NOT simple for everyone. It's not. But I'm not a hater. I agree for the most part. This is an age old black issue. Color and hair. None can save us or make us wealthy. I no longer shrink from my real hair. Thank you for your voice.
MistyMissTee: "OUR SELF-HATE IS A BUSINESS" ... This is the most PROFOUND statement (AMEN)!
PositiveElegance: New subscriber here! hiiii! Ive been binge watching your videos today and i must agree with you. The condition of BW unhealthy hair is from us not taking care of it and trying to make it look more european. I was also conditioned to think that my kinky hair wasnt as beautiful as a person of no color. I wish my mother wouldve never allowed me to perm it. She finally gave in when i was in the 9th grade and my hair was ruined every since. But ive been working on it for the past few years trying to get it back. Beyonce is beautiful and i love her hair. However ive seen numerous BW on YT and in my day to life who have absolutely gorgeous hair, naturally. We as BW need to love "self" from the inside out. What we eat and drink also has a huge effect on our hair, skin, nails and overall health that contributes to our beauty. Lets love self and stop being so concerned with other women.
9C oh 9C: Hearing Beyonce say ' mom that's embarrassing '.. Aaaahh she's humaaann!. So cute
I’m tired of these niggas: I’m loving all the 4c long, short and loc’d hair you showed in the video. I have 4b hair and it’s down to my bra strap. I always keep my hair in twists then wrap it into a bun or I leave it in neat plaits. I use Shea moisture JBCO shampoo and deep conditioner, Almond Jai butter by Camille rose or raw Shea butter as a cheaper alternative and oil mist. That’s it I don’t do wash n gos and I’m very minimal with gel use. I’ve been natural for 6 years now and it’s the healthiest it’s ever been
Va'tasha Powdrell: THE OBSESSION WITH BEYONCE IS SICKENING..
ya seen this: the way we as a collective are obsessed with hair is APPALLING.
•knf•: My insecurities when I was younger led me to cut my long waist length hair bc soooooo many people were questioning whether or not it was my hair, hasn't grown back quite like the way it did before and I regret it :(
robbie patrice: It’s saddest thing that we don’t love our hair. There are literally videos on YouTube of people trying to emulate tightly coiled curls. Our natural hair is very beautiful and it’s sad to see that most of us can’t see that. every black friend I’ve had I’ve tried to convince them to go natural.
Mia Lacheyy: I started growing my hair out recently and have fallen in love with my natural hair and I just want to care for it and love it and give it what I never gave when I was covering it up with wigs and weaves which happened to be very expensive btw I was buying $500 and $800 wigs the lowest was $300 like that wasn’t okay something had to change I knew that I could get my hair a certain way as far as length/health goes all because when I was younger my hair was flourishing so I knew it was a possibility to get it back to where it was if not better!!! Bottom line I got tired of hiding it and decided to actually grow my hair Into the form of my 26inch go to lacefront and I’m not there yet but I’m taking care of my shit tbh and I will get there soon I know I will
Finding Happily - Collette Gee: She’s been wearing protective styles for a long time. She had length long ago. Why people care about this is really on them. She’s amazing in her own right. And yes, she’s mixed. Perhaps, Black women are obsessed with long hair because of the same reasons we are obsessed with lots of things, programming slave mentality and low self esteems and rightly so. However does it end? The self hatred is real but when does it end. As a mother of three dark skinned Black daughters I am floored by the division amongst us. I pray we can unite — all Black women and that we can stop hating one another for our length of hair, who we love, or skin tones. I grew my hair, permed it and was judged. I got sick cut my hair and am wearing a protective style; I was judged. Do I care? No. Because I’m happy and that’s what matters most. Be happy in your own right
Minnie: My mom used to say black women cant grow their hair long when I was little. Proved her wrong. It’s to my bra strap now. I will never tell my baby that mess.
MusicallyFly: I was excited to see Beyonce's real hair because I thought she always wore wigs and weaves to avoid damaging it with styling. I didn't think I'd ever see Beyonce's real hair (long, short, or otherwise). I didn't realize she wore her natural hair out and managed to keep it long and healthy
Barb Desautels: Love this video, we need to love ourselves.
Runaway Shay: Ugh when I see traction alopecia it makes me feel so sad for those women.
Christina Ross: I find 4 type hair to be gorgeous and distinctive and uniquepeople need to learn to love themselves and stand out regardless of what society tries to tell you. Be different♀️
Beautiful Dreamer: Not everyone is going to achieve long hair. There are several factors that effect a person's hair growth. What people need to start doing now is to appreciate healthy hair at any length.
Isha Koroma: As a black girl I don’t like my hair long♀️ it’s annoying I cut my hair bc it’s irritating. I’ve never understood why people fetishise long hair as long as ur hair is healthy then is beautiful. Long or short
Gina Monroe: Thank you for this attention to this truth. It is soo so sad about our lack of self love and lack of self worth . I don't know but sometimes it seems like the only men interested in women that are not half white but full on chocolate/ kinky are non black men. Ironic
scarbjo: Thank you for your perspective! Definitely will be shopping for 4c textured bundles now!
Deja Serenity: I could never understand people's obsession or their disbelief. Many black women can have hair like that. People used to always call my hair fake when I got relaxers. As black women we all are different with different hair types. Some of us have thick hair, some have fine hair, some can grow it long, others may not be able to or struggle. But we are all human, beautiful, and its okay
Meisha G: "Self hate is a billion dollar business " was the sum of the whole video.
Bre: This has always been a thing with Black people. My hair has been long all my life relaxed and now natural and people don’t believe it’s your hair because the stereotypes say we can’t grow long healthy hair. Especially if you are dark skin‼️ I use to get held down and everyone scalp checking me which I still have nightmares about into adulthood.
wendy Harris: This is sad! I've started growing my hair natural without braids, weaves or any other assistant. You just need to leave your hair alone and it will grow. God bless your journey!
M A: "Natural Hair is fuckboy repellant" FELT THAT!