Hypocrisy ?? Black Women Wearing Weave
I have an issue because i feel like black women have been brainwashed into only accepting the european ideal standard of beauty of what beauty is yeah, the long straight head, long straight hair right now. You know we can't have anything to ourselves that we can call our own, because they're got all tanning booths now they're trying to get brown they're putting injections in their lips they're putting injections in their behinds and we we were ridiculed. No. I know with that. For years, yeah, hey guys welcome back to my channel. This is pretty much a part two to the video white influencers in blackface, i'm a part two or spin-off. If you will um, i just want to bring some clarity on my stance because i noticed a lot of people were confused. I don't know why, but they were a bit confused um. So i'm gon na talk about tanning creams versus bleaching creams in this video. I'M gon na talk about um why women black women, specifically certain black women in certain cultures, bleach, wear blonde wigs as people like to say: that's always the the rebuttal? Oh, but what about yeah black girls that wear blonde wigs? That'S always the rebuttal! Always that's the only thing they could come back with y'all wear blonde wigs. Okay! So we'll talk about that in this video um, i posted the question on my twitter. Why is tanning socially accepted and bleaching? Isn'T? No one was yet to answer that question. One person said because tanning is natural, so we'll talk about that as well. So let's talk about weaves and bleaching um, but a lot of people who use the rebuttal of oh but y'all, wear weave y'all, don't know the history behind it, which is why i'll say that and honestly you sound dumb and that's your response in my comment section. I'M like okay dummy ignorant has no knowledge. Let me stop, but for real, because you as an adult you as an adult like i know, teenagers that know this kids that know this. I knew this as a kid actually. I was taught this as a kid, so i don't understand how you as an adult, would use that as a rebuttal. So i'm not going to go into depth depth um about this topic, because it is very deep and we'll be here like for the rest of the year. Just talking about weaves, when i know you ain't got time for that. I got time for that. But long story short, google, the word assimilation society was not built for black people. Black people were seen as property. Black people were seen as slaves worthless pieces of nothing. So society was not built for black people to live and to thrive. Our ancestors had to fight for that that wasn't a a birth given right in this country. That was something that had to be fought for and even once slavery ended. Please don't forget, there was still segregation, so there was always this. You do not fit into society. You do not belong a part of this society and though there were many that fought the power and that were rebellious, there were many that chose to assimilate to feed their families to get jobs and google. The word assimilation you think black women woke up one day and said: oh yeah, let me buy a perm. No black women had to do what they had to do to feed their children, to buy homes, to save money to be financially stable, black women had to assimilate. We had to become a part of the society that never saw us as people, but please please let us not forget the natural hair movement and black women, just learning to take care of their natural hair, learning to love their natural hair and a part of the Learning process is also protecting our hair because we have texture in our hair. Our hair is more susceptible to breakage, so we cannot wear our hair out every single day. Y'All swear our hair can grow. It'S not that it can't grow. We have to retain the length we have to find other ways to retain our length, because if we don't protect our ends, our ends will break off. Then y'all call us and please for the love of god. Let'S stop acting like only black women wear weaves and wigs. Let'S, let's just stop it come on. Now all women from across the board of all races, wear wigs, wear, weaves clip-ons a ponytail come on now and it's not always for longer hair. Sometimes it's for shorter hair. Sometimes you want to do a color. You don't want to damage your hair, so you'll put a color, a color wig on color weaving. Why y'all always pointing the finger at us? Oh well, yeah, where we says who don't? Who don't? But the history of why we started wearing it is different from why you started wearing it heavy heavy baby, heavy heavy. Now i want to talk about tanning versus bleaching. I wrote this question on my twitter, then posted it to my instagram. Can someone tell me why tanning is more socially accepted than bleaching the most answers? I'Ve gotten was: oh because tanning is natural. Listen, i don't care what y'all say to make yourself feel better at night pumping foam pumping black foam onto a glove and smearing it on your body is not natural spraying yourself is not natural sitting in a heated bed tanning bed that that i'm sorry, that's not Natural what the sun does to you or the lack of sun, does to you. Yes, that's natural. The lack of sun for some people will cause them to be lighter. Exposure of sun will cause you to be darker. That is natural. I personally believe that a pale woman buying products to make her skin darker hating her pale skin. Oh, i'm so pale what's wrong with being pale like that's what i would really say to someone that was just like, oh my god, i'm so pale, but in the white community when people say, oh, my god, i'm so pale. The answer is girl, like. Let me recommend this good tanning cream so that you can be dark, but if a black girl said i dang, i don't you know, i hate saying things like this, but i really want this job and i just feel like they only hire white girls. I don't know i just don't see any women of color on staff. I hope you know. I really hope i could get this job. No one's gon na say girl. Just you know, bleach your skin try to get real light as possible, find the blondest wig. You can find and put on and good luck. Good luck on your interview. No, you got ta go as you baby. You got ta walk in there with that black skin and you just got ta hope and pray that your resume will speak for itself, that you could sell it and get that job. But if we were to be honest with y'all a lot of times in a lot of positions we feel like because we are dark, we won't get certain opportunities. So for you to wear darkness, it's not fair. It'S not fair that you could put on blackness and succeed and i can live in blackness and struggle and honestly, everyone loves to throw around the racist word. These tanning companies are racist. Are you kidding me? Are y'all reading these labels like seriously the directions? Oh, those are the directions: listen to rap music and you'll, be black! That'S that's literally what it says put on blackface and listen to black music and you'll, be a black girl without having to live a black girl struggle, though oh best of both worlds. No, we ain't doing that, but the same way, bleaching creams, have horrible side effects. So do these tanning creams these tanning procedures, these gummies these shots. These are all toxic, they're, very toxic, like above everything above just y'all, trying to be black, like think about your health. So i know that tanning is a part of your culture, and i know that you see it as normal, because everyone does it i'm here to tell you it's not normal and when you're smearing on creams that make you shades that you will never naturally be. That is blackface you're, putting on blackness as if it's a costume, you're wearing it, as if it's the outfit choice, if it as if it's the look of the day. My look of the day is uh caramel. I'M gon na be caramel black today and buy up all the caramel shades in sephora. They want black music, but not from black artists. They want black fashion, but not from black designers. Let that sink in they'll take blackness from anybody, but a black person think about that.
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AcuteLittleFish: “It’s not fair that you can put on blackness and succeed, while I LIVE in blackness and struggle” HIT HOME. Say it louder for the people in the tanning beds!!!!!!
Your left acrylic pinky nail: "It's not fair that you can put on blackness and succeed and I can live in blackness and struggle" --Eloho 2018
Isatu: Finally, someone addressing tanning the same way the whole world addressed bleaching. Ppl will demonise anything a black person does but exalt it when a white person does the same thing. It always frustrates me when ppl demonise black women for bleach but do not hold white women by the same standards when it comes to tanning
Farah Bakkali: That’s what got me about the black fishing scandal. There was a Hispanic girl( non Afro) who was like ‘I can tan like this naturally’ but she literally COULD NOT! Her ‘tAN’ was darker than some actual black women and in none of her past pictures was she that dark ever. Idc what ethnicity you are IF YOU ARE NOT BLACK- DO NOT FAKE TAN TO A LEVEL YOU CANT NATURALLY REACH!!!
megan meganm: Blonde hair is not exclusive to European genetics nor is blue eyes.
C G: Facts they always say "but black girls always wear blonde wigs". The fact that that is their only comeback to justify their imitation of our beauty is so wack.
Hayley Marie: I felt this, I used to be called disgusting from my an ex friend of mine because I was pale.. she pointed out my obvious dark circles and discoloration. As a result, I'd heavily bronze my face (this was like freshman year) and literally do anything to stop looking so pale. Eventually, I just learned to work with it and love it because it's me. I encourage everyone to love the skin they were born with, it's really a beautiful thing.
Brandie Gray: My family tells me I’m too pale and I look like Casper and stuff all the time. The reason being pale is not a good thing is only because we look sick and almost dead and you can see our veins, acne, dark circles and all our imperfections so easily. I don’t tan or fake tan in any way but when I go on vacation I look healthier and all those imperfections I have barely show with the slightest tan. You guys are blessed with such beautiful skin tbh and our people resent that. (Once again I’m speaking for others not myself)
Miller: Speaking of appropriation.... Elvis was inpsired by black jazz artists, just sayin'.
Chanté Lombard: I don’t mind being pale. I love my pale skin but when I get cold my veins peek through then I look purple and I don’t like the look of it so I use tanning lotion but never go darker than what I would be naturally from the sun..
Mara Barajas: I’m liking your passion on these videos, and not only opening my eyes, but also how much I’ve learned from all the work you put into it
saima yp: you should start a podcast! You're speaking facts and facts only
Monjay Williams: Now when a white girl wanna argue with me I’ll refer her to this video bc I AM TIYAAAD
Official Bintu: PREACH people are always saying I have no hair cause I wear weave most of the time at school. But I have 4b hair and full head of hair that is very hard to take care of on a daily basis. Some people just don’t understand that our taking care of our hair is like a job cause we have to do a lot to keep it protected and healthy.
Keeping Up With Lex: I’m tryna tell people.. I’ve been saying this for years! Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato can peak number 1 in every single genre including predominantly black genres and keke Wyatt or HER can’t even get number one in their own genre. However, these white artists can jump from genre to genre and continue to get number one. Why? A lot of the times, it’s our communities just “inviting people to the bbq”! Like attention BLACK COMMUNITY! You don’t have to claim a non black person as black just because they date a few black guys/girls or sing like they went through something.
hotties3v3n: ‘We were ridiculed for that for years’ that’s an understatement. Try centuries!!!
Makenna Nugent: The reason why people don't want to be pale, like me is because my pale skin doesnt make me look healthy. I look sickly most days. (I do have chronic illnesses but they don't affect my skin tone). A glowing tan is a sign of good health, by having some warmth to the skin. I look like a cold corpse sometimes, when I do get a little sun people think I look great. But overall I've been told I'm ugly and sick because of my skin, or made fun of for living in Texas and being as pale as a woman in Ireland. My mom makes fun of me for it, because she tans so easily from the sun. Even Though people don't consider my natural skin tone beautiful, I accept it and avoid tanning, because sun damage could really mess me up. I don't want to imitate the skin other women have been persecuted for having. I just wish the world would accept people in their natural state. Black women shouldn't feel the pressure to change their natural features, and I shouldnt need to tan to be beautiful and healthy. The world needs to accept everyones natural beauty. (I apologize if my comment isn't coherent. I moved my dorm furniture back to how it was when I moved in, and moved all my furniture out. Finals and moving out soon has me very very stressed, I'm kinda just sitting in my bed avoiding studying, and watching you and Thee Mademoiselle's videos.) Thank you for being my fav unicorn and bringing me some calm during stressful times. I love learning things from you.
megan meganm: Funny thing is I’m naturally light and used to bleach and I kid you not the lighter I got the nicer people were
Hope Wiley: "...double coat it, leave it on for as long as you want and *play rap music all evening long* till you're brown like chocolate cake." I feel like they thought this was okay because they don't expect black people to pick up this container and read it. They must've thought it was a secret. Smh.
Dark&pretty likeBriaMiles &Lupita: If tanning is a part of their culture, that's just sad. Imagine your only culture being trying to look like another race...
Katrina U.: I honestly did not know the reason behind why black women started wearing weaves and wigs in America. I can't imagine what it would be like to walk in your shoes. I am sorry. Truth is, you are beautiful. There is a reason, as I have said they are holding you all down as black women. Your light. KEEP SHINING. ❤ (sorry for trolling your vids today but I have some time off and am catching up)
Gabrielle Ivie: Ever notice how those body builders Put on that really dark tan spray to make their muscles more defined like black men’s muscles to have a better chance at winning the competitions that’s something that has never been talked about before but it’s very real they basically use our skin to win ✊
Aimee Auguste: Thank you for bringing this conversation into the *~beauty influencer~* discourse! This is crucial if the industry truly wants to become inclusive.
Lost Shadow: Black women with natural hair: "It's too short, it's not long enough, your hair is ugly and nappy, you'd be prettier with 3c," blah blah blah Black women with weave: '"Why don't you wear your natural hair more?, you're a self hater, you don't like your own hair, you're not proud of your blackness," blah blah blah Black women are judged regardless of if we wear weaves or not, so it's no one's goddamn business about what we chose to do with our hair, thank you very much.
GutsyJasmin: I'm a very light skinned white woman with natural blonde hair and blue eyes in Germany. German winters are pretty dark which can make you depressed. So last winter I decided to go to this tanning salon to get some light, NOT to get tan. I wanted to use the lowest strength tanning bed for only 10 minutes because if it's any longer I will get a sunburn. So I went to this place and the woman working there acted like she had never seen a light skinned white woman before. It was very clear that she thought my skin tone was ugly. She just kept staring at me repeating that I was VERY light skinned in such a way that I knew she didn't like it. I felt completely out of place. I'm not saying that this is the same thing as racism, because obviously it isn't and I don't get systematically disadvantaged because of how I look. It's just an example of how some white people seem to hate their own natural skin tone and think it's fine to make themselves look darker. This whole "tan skin is beautiful, white skin is ugly" whilst being racist against black people is very common in Germany. Btw I did use the tanning bed for ten minutes and as expected did not get a tan.
Ambrince Anlyn Baartman: Elohi I'm a light skinned South African lady and ever since I started watching your channel you opened my eyes to so many things I literally went and gone research black history and life suddenly became clear I love you woman I really do I love you for the fact that you opened my eyes to so many important things. I'm no longer wearing blonde wigs and weaves I'm embracing my natural hair coz I'm light skin but go 4A hair and my hair is light brown and I grow up thinking my hair is ugly. But I'm so glad I came across your channel. I have a daughter and she got 4C hair and I love her hair I do and I will never relax her hair like my family relaxes my hair as a kid
Flipflops_with_socks_on: Relaxed or natural, life is too damn short to be bored with your hair. I love this video because you are absolutely right that most women had no choice but to conform to move vertically within companies. I'm 32 and worked for some large fortune 500 companies seeing women older than me complaining about not being able to wear their natural hair. Just sickening but I be damned if I put a ruler on the back of my shirt because "they" say we cant grow our hair and "they" say were baldheaded . If you want length or health or whatever, dont let your life slip away literally watching your hair grow. Please do it because YOU want to sis....fuck "they".
Laoch: White person driving an expensive car = damn they must work so hard, love that car. They must make some good money, they are so successful. Black person driving an expensive car = call the police I think that car has been stolen. White person sits in Starbucks without ordering = Sir/Madam can I get you anything? Black person sits in Starbucks without ordering = Sir/Madam you have to leave. White person wears tan = oh my god you have such a nice colour, did you just get back from vacation. Black person with natural dark skin = you're too dark, maybe you should try lightening your skin tone.
Conscious Goddess: PLEASE MAKE MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS. educate our people
c v: Let's have love and respect for eachother regardless of our skin color.
Linda F: And that’s why we need to stop trying to assimilate!... we need to embrace our own and support each other... then we won’t feel we need to care about what “they” think about our “bald heads!” Make your own opportunities, darn it!!!
Giahanna Bridges: My friend and I were just talking about you and this topic. Thank you for speaking on this topic. You are appreciated
poorlittledarkbxy: YOU BETTA SCHPEAK ON IT SIS
soul of hearts: The sad thing is that I can hear the pain in your voice Eloho -- it's absolutely heartbreaking
Genesis McGee: Slathering loads of chemical filled sunscreen on your skin and baking in the sun is natural? Ok
T.K. Sweeney: Personally, I don’t care about weave, I been there, I’m done with that...I’m like, “that’s YO’ HEAD.” We all grown, DO YO’ THANG. What I WISH/HOPE for is the taking care of their scalp because that’s YOUR BRAINS protection. Those skin bleach chemicals and tanning beds/chemicals are unhealthy. But again, that’s YO’ skin. I’m just like, “Do you boo-boo’s!” ♀️
cheshirecateyes: We have to understand something significant here, particularly, in the "keep your standards high and your tan dark" instructions and tagline for this product that it speaks to their deep understanding that wherever "dark" is, the old standards will be eradicated and replaced with the DARK standards that are higher than their once held high standards. For instance, let's take basketball, what happened once Kareem Abdul Jabbar, W. Chamberlain and M. Jordan, etc., started playing, the same thing for baseball, Jackie Robinson, etc., the same for tennis, golf, the Winter and Summer Olympics, etc. Then there are the Bessie Coleman's Benjamin Banneker's, Percy Julian, PH.D's, and the list goes. The rules of the games change when we show up and show out. Is it any wonder then that taglines such as these are relevant? I'm certain they didn't mean to put it out there like that ...that there is something inherently unique about darkness that causes it to excel against all odds. Less, we forget, galaxies are formed from black holes,. That is power, plain and there isn't anything simple about it either. You see when they want to misappropriate our natural attributes, everything about it is pleasing, but on/in the originals it is to be discounted and tarnished. All I have to say to them is this, jealousy looks ugly on you.
Alaa Elsheikh: Such an eye-opener. Honestly, I didn't even notice the issue until I watched this video
Channel Fiend: Segregation & non-assimilation was cool until they saw that we could live & thrive separately, and until it came to realization that they need us more than we need them. Black women need to stop doing what white women do. No more weave, makeup and whatever else they consider socially acceptable. We need to do us, appreciate our brown skin & keep it moving. And if there is no door for you to enter, create your own opportunities.
Shailens22: Black women wearing straight haired wigs telling you that you cant have dreadlocks, what an irony
deactivated: white girls get a tan and all of a sudden they’re sayin they’re half brazillian
The Hamster Army!: *Assimilation and constantly being told the way they look is ugly, and maybe they just don't have time to do or learn how to do their hair.*
Michelle Zuze: SPEAKING STRAIGHT FACTS SIS
SayItLoud: Everytime I've gone to the Black beauty supply stores here in San Antonio, I ALWAYS see plenty of blonde, white women buying long, blonde extensions. Hispanic women do too. It's not just us.
Kay Bee: This is everything I've been teaching my daughter. Thank you for this video.
Marian Kushigbor: We ain't stupid that tan is too dark... I'm black but your tann Makes you darker than me... How???? How????
Briana Thomas: This was so deep sis!! Blessings to you for dropping the wisdom
Chinwe: I'M SO HAPPY YOU MENTIONED THE TANNING VS BLEACHING THING. I said it's the same thing under another video and got backlash for it
Daney Foster: i wear weave and perms cause my hair is too much to deal with and i don't have time to deal with it . plus i love to swim. i think it's so unfair when people say that we straighten our hair and perm our hair because of white beauty standards, please, jut cause you want to have straight or curly hair doesn't mean you want to be like another race, so we can't have straight hair without trying to "be white"
Daniel Higgins: Yes, this is what it's come to. As the darker half of an interracial relationship, I love my white woman. She may not have a big ass, or juicy thighs, or caramel skin, but she doesn't run around with someone else's hair on her head, and she "knows" who she is. Besides, I'm more impressed by what she has "in" her head as opposed to what's "on" it. I work second shift, and have yet to come home at 11:30 p.m. and not found a hot meal waiting on the stove for me. Clean uniforms every week, and even though I boughtour washing machine and dryer years ago, I've never had to touch either one of them because she cares enough about me to keep my clothes clean. Knowledge of self, ladies. When it comes to who you truly are, dump the weave, and just believe. In yourself.
RuVonne Hills: I wish everyone would accept that what I find beautiful may differ than yours. And just because I wear my hair natural one day I may wear a weave the next. It is my choice of how I want to wear my hair and I don't owe anyone an explanation because I am a grown woman and I can do whatever I want. And Just a side note, black women are not the only ones who get our hair processed or weaved. Its just more popular to drag us for it.
Maudia: Modern society = Living breathing Oxymoron system
Alisha K: This is very eye opening, I’ve always felt uncomfortable around people who wear fake tan too dark because as a woman of colour I feel like they are trying to be me for a day without the racial abuse I get or the slurs people calling me like “paki” bc I’m Pakistani, yk I’m mixed race and I have white aunties and she hates being pale but imagine the privilege it comes w saying that “I hate being pale” like I hate being dark sometimes. Like Im brown and I feel like a lot of people don’t understand where I’m coming from bc they think I’m attacking white people, when I’m not, false tan isn’t natural, it’s black face. It’s people being racist without realising it because it’s ingrained into our society that dark is okay if you’re white but if you’re of colour it’s not okay to be dark. But white people dont see that because they don’t live through the European standard of beauty as a poc, it doesn’t affect them so they don’t bring it up. I’m british Pakistani and people come into school w their fake tan very dark, it’s confusing because they can pick their colour and keep their privilege but I can’t? Yk I wish everyone could love their bodies but until white society realised they’re oppressing poc, especially black people, we won’t get anywhere. Black people are the most oppressed and white people are not owning up to their wrong doing. Like even in the south Asian community, they oppress black people, in Pakistan and India they promote bleaching creams bc of the European standard of beauty which has been left there from the British raj. This has been very long and I got a bit sidetracked but I hope you get what I mean. I 100% agree w you.
Emilia Atim: Wow!! I can only imagine what black people go through abroad. Love from Nigeria!!
Farah A.Santiago: I pray that everyone who comes across this comment develops a relationship with God and accepts Jesus Christ into their life ,who died on the cross so that we could be made righteous .❤️
Ismaila M. Vivienne: Such a soothing voice and it’s about topics that really matter and affect me in my day to day life glad I found this channel #1love♥️
Marsha Manoatl: EVERYONE NEEDS TO WATCH THIS POST YOUR VIDS ON TWITTER
Christine: This has really opened my eyes. Thank you! Amazing video xxx
Christa Clemons: Your accent is everything
Angel grey: The “bleaching cream” swatches took me out
Ugo O: I love what you are doing Eloho. Keep it up!
Cici Bee: This needs to be a topic on grapevine and you should be there to give your opinion
Raya Frost-Davis: You got a point with the tanning thing I never thought about it tbh
Lakisha Arrington: Lol they call them extensions but we know it’s weave periodt
Rae Akinbo: Well it's honestly gonna work against them in the future because all these products they use to tan as well as the sun's UV rays are seriously not good for the skin and leads to aging badly and other skin problems. Embrace your natural skin tone. The most important thing, like having healthy hair, is having healthy skin
Leah Flanagan: Bleaching damages the skin so does artificial tanning im proud to be pale i love my skin and i hope darker skin woman and man will be comfterable aswell! We live in a fucked up society
Ed The Bank: This speaks volumes but they will never care that our skin isn't a fashion or why our women do with they do
Marsha Ann: Bleaching creams...tans/bronzers.. That's like the new perm/relaxer Why can't everyone just love who they are and show respect to everyone else who don't look like them?
Rusnė Balytaitė: Interesting video. I totally understand what you say. I just want to say few things. I am from small Europe country. We are not used to black people specially older people. I was one of the few people in my entire country who happens to have black friend when I was a child and I still don't know anything what you going throw because situation in my country is different and we don't have many people of color here. I started watching videos of this topic because I am so interested in understanding why people are so crazy about skin color. I watched a lot of these videos also because when I was a kid I did wear single braids (it was my favorite hair style) and did not know that black people couldn't wear these hairstyles to work. It is so crazy for me because we used to wear braids like french braids to school and NOBODY would tell it is inappropriate. Also about tanning. Honestly white pale people can tan pretty dark naturally. So I wouldn't say it is always black-fishing... I have friends that tan so easily and dark that I honestly would think they are mixed or smth. but they are not and they don't use spray tans and other things, because in my country it is not popular, it is because of the sun in summer. I am not one of them but also my skin color change a lot in summer. Hope you understand what I mean. You are beautiful lady I like your videos good luck with it :)
lala love: They've always wanted to be black highkey but when it really comes down to it with everything that's going on in the world towards black people they're ghost they ain't about that life all of a sudden but 150% they've wanted the features, the body, the melanin, the hair for years! #FACTS
Caprice Love: You reallllyyyy hit the nail on the head with this one!
Tawana Taylor: Knowledge is power,tell it!!!✊
Margaret Freeman: This weave thing has to come to an end, that has to be unhealthy for the wearer, and why would the commentator say that black women cannot always wear their hair out that is madness, it's the hair a person was born with rock it with pride, because it's who you are....
Karen: I’ve always found white people tanning disturbing. When I scroll through Instagram half of my friends are 10 shades darker than their previous photo. Everyone is always complaining about being too pale whilst some of them still are racist as fuck. Same thing with freckles (not as serious tho) I have freckles and I have been teased because of it and now it’s trendy and everyone draws them on, but when they’re out of trend again you know that they can just wipe them of. I can’t and it’s the first thing people see when they look at me and ask “why do you have dots on your face” I can’t even imagine how hard it must be to be black in this society, just know that you’re beautiful
Mimi: True Blacks can't be separate because everybody is jealous
Evolution: We will go "natural" if they also go natural And by that I mean no more makeup, body shave, exercising or diets. They should be the change they wanna see.
Veronica 484: Weave isn't a problem as long as it's your hair texture. Anyone can have straight, long, or curly hair. Hair is not a culture.
Jahanna Booker: But the difference is that other women wear hair textures that match their own when wearing extensions. We wear textures that are not ours. I think that’s more so what the issue is at hand. Why don’t we buy 4c hair to put in our head as a weave?
Lisa J: Late to your AMAZING and inspiring channel...but "WOW".... and brilliant analysis...keep up the phenomenal content
Ethereal Crepes: “Tanning is natural” so Is vilolago “Y’all wear wigs/weaves” so did the forefathers.. look on ya “cash” that you praise
Tionna Johnson: The reason why they always bring us up is because we're the main ones buying weave and its part of our culture ( braids )
Loving Life’s Every Moment: Regarding the weaves, there are mummies of black women found with weaves
Peter McIver: No one has been able to answer your tanning vs bleaching question - well here's the answer: most people laugh at the people who use tanning creams/salons (I know your didn't mention salons, i just added that one) they think they're stupid. Bleaching? Only black people find it socially unacceptable - white people either don't know or don't care. White people don't care what black people do to themselves or others. "People" (you didn't specify) only say well black people wear wigs (not just blonde ones) when they criticise white women wearing braids etc. Otherwise nobody cares what you do with your hair
K Ridgeway: Dear lord, I'm of southern European and Irish stalk. My mother scared me to death about skin cancer as she was very pale and got skin cancer. I don't lay in the sun and I wear sun screen. I get very tan just from gardening and being in the pool. I have naturally brown hair that sun bleaches and is also very curly ( I straighten it for 50 minutes with blow dryer roughly 3 times a week). Maybe I should get a parisol, and God forbid I leave my hair unstraightened because I could get accused of appropriating someone else's culture!
soraya .e: Tanning is socially acceptable because it was seen as a status symbol for the rich for example " look I got a tan from Australia" I have so much money I can travel.. as for bleaching it was seen as to be fair to fit in to the ruling class. Which has a negative connotation behind it.
Tracie: i have a question, when you say that we don't know the history behind weaves. but don't you think in 2018 you don't have to wear a weave, because people are more accepting
Crystal Thomas: Every argument I get into I just need to drop your link
Loclioness2k: I feel so pale in my winter shade but the difference of being black is i can tan 6 shades in one day with some oil on and everything lmaoo i have less melanin obviously since i do get this pale in the winter yet it still protects me cuz i dont burn
mscardioqueen: How is tanning natural when it changes the molecules of the skin making that person susceptible to skin cancer and 1st to 3rd degree burns? WHAT??????
Spooky Action: Having a dark tan started in the twenties or the thirties. It represented aristocrats who had the money to travels a lot. So it was the social status.
Simmy tan: Now they're using eco gel to do their baby hairs. I remember it was called ghetto. Seems like blks folks and myself and I are definitely a trend when is convenient...
d c: i think when they say that tanning is natural, what they r saying is most of us get darker over time with the tanning under the sun. i am a middle-aged black male and i am darker now than when i was a child
MrSenses33: At least the other cultures, when they wear weaves it's their own peoples hair! Becky wearing another Becky's hair. But it's still their own texture, just longer for etc. The same can not be said for black women wearing weaves.
OFFWHEAT: “Tanning is natural” getting lighter is natural too, if my dark skin doesn’t hit the sun for a long time I get lighter. Tanning or bleaching neither is good but why is one accepted and one ridiculed?
Deja Johnson: I believe bleaching is not being seen as natural because of culture shifts. I once saw a video of a dark skin woman in a hijab and she literally packed on white powder and foundation. This was so unnatural it looked like she was a character. I had to remind myself of when I read Memoirs of a Geisha, and how you were seen more prestigious when you carried yourself in the ways of a geisha. It’s the same thing. Black women can pile on as much makeup as they want, and when they take it off they are themselves. Once you start bleaching you will never look like yourself again. Yes, tanning is terrible to, but that mess can die down and go away. That’s why people til this day don’t get how hard it is to be a black being in society. We have to wear our skin with confidence because our being is a statement. Mix kids have a choice on what their statement is until they have a black child, and have to unlearn what they were told from their parents. Everything is an unlearning and learning situation. It takes time to grow into a better you. When I went natural at the age of 14. Yes 14!!! I started seeing more beauty in my body, and my character because I was no longer looking at someone who was not me.
TwT: The tanning I'm aware of in my town is like sun kiss tan where it makes you look like you've got a natural tan ?? I didn't know they was tanning as dark as black In a can ? , also bleaching is dangerous for the skin and natural tanning in long hours and if done daily can cause skin damage /cancer they are both damaging and that's why I'm a pale as potato because I'm afraid of the sun and chemicals .
Halos and Horns 8: Fam this is open on levels, too light is a problem, but still more acceptable than being to dark. Both are not okay.
Lucy All: We have been harassed for years about our hair! Feel the same as slavery. We never control any of the things they assume is Beautiful about themselves. A Doctor said to me once he wished little black girls could not wear beads in their hair. Because his little girl cries and do not understand why she cannot wear beads in her hair. Really! The solution is to stop African Americans from adoring their hair. So sick of these ratchet people.
Daphne Dowell: Everyone need to be how they was born to be. Look into the mirror until u are comfortable being u.
Mario Sims: as a black man, i clicked on this video to learn about some specific black women culture from a sister. but your tone and vibe was so defensive towards people who have obviously come at you that it took away my focus on trying to learn the information given. And I understand that your experiences drive the way your message is conveyed. but calling people who could have randomly picked this video dumb less than halfway through is not much incentive to keep watching get the core information later in the video. i know your content and how you get down, but that's not really useful to the cause for people who don't know and are trying to figure out without namecalling.