I'M Done Making Natural Hair Content!!! No More Natural Hair Tutorials!!! (Not Clickbait)

I'Ve literally already filmed this video. This is my second time from this video because the first time it did not work out. So now i'm trying again. Hopefully this video works right and i can get my words out correctly. Lord jesus, hey i'm b crew wan na be here before we get into the video. I do want to say that this video is not clickbait. I know you guys have read the title and it is not clickbait but make sure you guys have those post notifications turned on and make sure you guys are following me on instagram at m1x banks. I hope you guys are living a new intro outro and a new banner that i have so. Yes, we're just going to go ahead and jump in because i know y'all read that title like what the heck mona what is going on? What'S the tea what's going on, so we're gon na get into it we're gon na get into it so um? I do have my notebook here because i did not oh, i haven't thrown away. I have my notebook here because i do not want to forget the things that i want to talk about in this video. I'M going to try to hit every point, and hopefully i don't miss anything, but in the event that i do um, maybe i'll do another. Video to like clarify or just meet me in the comments, so yes, it is true. The title is true. I am not going to be doing any more natural hair tutorials here on my channel, so we're going to go ahead and i'm going to dive in and give you guys those reasons why i'm going to give you some background on. Why? Because i do a part of me, i was like. Let me address the elephant room, but a part of me was like i really don't want to, but i'm like. No, you owe that to your supporters, because a lot of you guys have been working with me since the beginning, and i really really do appreciate it. If you guys do not know back in 2020 at the end of 2020 going into 2021, i had the c word and if you don't know what i'm talking about, i did do a video on it, but the video was got a lot of negativity. So i ended up taking a video down for my channel because i just could not deal with the fact that people were being so nasty and negative, but whatever that's neither here nor there. So the video is now gone, but i do still have the videos following that about my hair and if you are unaware - or you have been watching me in a long time, my hair suffered a major hair loss from having the c word. So i will definitely link those videos in the description box below so you can catch yourself up and then come back here. So you can understand the context of this video so catch yourself up on those videos. So, yes, i suffered a major hearing loss and i started you know to regrow my hair back out and it was growing and weird and then i ended up doing another chop, and i also documented that here on my channel, so that video will also be in The description box below, if you've not seen it, make sure you go ahead and check it out, so that was very, very stressful. Honestly, honestly, you guys - and it was just very hard to deal with me - losing all my hair. If i can be completely honest and transparent, it was very hard um. It still has been hard um, so yeah. That was like really really rough, because i it was so unexpected, like i wasn't expecting it. You guys know. I'Ve cut my hair a million times here on this channel, and that was out of my control. Usually, when i come out here, i have control over it, but that was out of my control, so that was just like really really rough and it took a toll on me honestly, like it really did that like really, it was just a lot like. It was a lot and now that my hair is growing back in, i do not want to manipulate my hair anymore in the way that i have been manipulating my hair in the past. Now with me doing natural hair content here on my channel. It is a lot of manipulation um. When i would do my tutorials, i would try to give my hair breaks, so i would like film my content a certain way that way i would get a break, but right now my hair is just not in that the condition to manipulate it consistently. Every other day, because i actually would like to have a head for the hair - and i just recently cut the nape of my hair off. I didn't document it, but i did cut the nape of my hair off because it just was not growing and right. My hair is changing, it's really different now and i'm literally relearning my hair completely all over again and it has been rough um. So the best thing for me right now is to not manipulate my hair, and i'm not going to do that, because i actually would like to have a hair full of hair. The last time i feel like my hair was like super super healthy healthy was before i was even on youtube, and that was like back in 20 2013-ish. So yes, and as you guys know, i have been doing youtube since i was 23.. If you guys did not know, i am now 30, so i've been doing youtube for a very, very long time and i've been doing the same content for a very very long time. And that brings me to my next reason as to why i will not be doing natural hair content anymore, but don't get your pennies all in a bunch. I'M not saying like anymore as in never um, but yeah we'll get into that. But i am tired of doing that. Content. I'Ve been on this platform for seven years. I'Ve been doing the same content for seven years and i am literally tired of doing it and that's just really me being completely honest. I feel like my identity has been lost in the hair tutorials, and my personality took a back seat to me. Doing natural hair, tutorials and also my true purpose, took a back seat to doing it. Natural hair is not my passion. Doing hair is not my passion, it is something you know that happened. You know um. This channel literally took a life of its own, and i just want to say before i dive any further that i am so thankful for all of you guys that have supported the contents and have rockered me for all of these years. I cannot thank you guys enough for rocking with me, i'm so proud of myself all of the accomplishments that i've accomplished, while doing being a natural hair creator, as far as being featured in so many magazines. Essence, buzzfeed and a slur of other magazines that i have been featured in. It has been an amazing journey, but i definitely have had a lot of highs and i've had a lot of blows. You guys my youtube journey has been really rough. To be completely honest, it's been a roller coaster and i just feel like it is time for me to pivot my content, because i am sick of just my whole existence being about natural hair, my identity, my personality, and i know what my purpose is, and i Know why i am here and what i'm supposed to be doing and natural hair is not purpose here on earth, and i know what you guys are thinking ramona. If it's not your purpose, then why did you do it for so long? At the time when i decided to make natural hair content here on my channel, i saw a need in the community. I feel like type 4. Natural hair was not being represented in the way that it should have been, and i wanted brown girls, girls that looked like me to be able to embrace their hair and feel you know feel like their hair. Was you guys here, i'm speaking to you guys feel like your hair was being appreciated? I i saw a need for, like the community needed help. It really did when i came on the scene back in 2013.. I'Ve been on here a long time. I have videos that are no longer on here that i had in the very beginning, but i saw a need and i wanted to be a help i feel like. I definitely fulfill my need whether my content gets pushed the way that it should. Whether i get the risk that the respect that i deserve, whether i get the credit that i'm deserving that i deserve a lot of you guys always comment and say money. You deserve more subscribers. You deserve your work to be seen more and i i can't agree anymore. I agree wholeheartedly. I see my influence out here in the natural hair community. I see my tutorials being duplicated, i've seen my work being stolen and the credit not being given but, like i said, i still see the influence that i put here on this in this community and i'm very proud of that. Even though, like i said, i did not get the credit that i deserve, but it is what it is and i am ready to pivot my content and i'm ready, and i am time it is time for a change and change is good if you're not changing. If you're, not elevating, then what the heck is going on seven years is a long time to be doing the same content consistently and honestly, you guys i'm not happy with solely just doing natural hair content here on my channel, so i know what you guys are Thinking well, mona, you do hair reviews, you do great reviews and things like that. Are you going to continue to do your weight reviews and the answer is yes, because that currently reflects me in my life right now. Natural hair doesn't reflect to me currently in my life. I don't wear my natural hair out day to day. This is the first time i've had my natural hair, and this is a piece. So this is the first time i've had my hair out in a really really long time. Um, i don't wear my hair out consistently. I wear a lot of wigs and turbans because i am trying to protect my hair. My hair needs to break. It does not need to be out or manipulated consistently um. You know i love buns and puffs like that, so i still will do those tutorials here on my channel when i feel like it um or when i want to do it um. I will definitely still do my protective styles on here. Y'All know how i do my twist and all of that, so don't get your pennies in a bunch. I'M not going to be doing natural hair content in the way that i've done it in the past. As consistent as i've done it in the past - and i hope you guys can understand that, if you guys cannot understand that, i respect it, you guys aren't going to stick around for my new content that i'm going to be putting out. I can understand that too, but i hope you do stick around, but i'm just at a point in my life, where me doing natural hair consistently is not a reflection of my real life and i do wear wigs and, like i said, i'm gon na get my Coin regardless, i made my coin and i recently gotten back into synthetic wigs if you've been watching me from the beginning, you know that i always love synthetic wigs and i've been getting back into them and i've really been enjoying them and having fun with them. So yeah, you definitely still will see hair from me. It just will not look the same, and i felt like i needed to come on here and say this because i haven't done a natural hair tutorial in over a year and when i mean natural hair tutorial, i mean literally not adding any weave or anything literally Just styling my hair, because, in my opinion, when i add weave i just like that's like a hair tutorial, i don't necessarily feel like that's just a natural hair tutorial and i haven't done one of those in over a year like i said before, because my heart Is just not there anymore, i still love. My natural hair will always love my natural hair. As the years gone. Y'All will see me rock my natural hair, but i'm just not in a place to put out that kind of content. I'M not happy with putting out that content and i find myself forcing myself to actually try to do that. Contact content over the last two years, even before my hair fell out. Um i've been struggling with this because i was like well. I don't know how to bring this to my audience. I know they come here for the natural hair, but i'm not really happy with doing this content, but i also need to go viral because, as a content creator, you need to go viral because you want to your audience is still watching and it just got to The point where i just was becoming very very unhappy with even content creating and i love creating content. I love it, i enjoy it. I'Ve always had a camera even before i was on youtube and we'll get into that like as we go on, but i'm not leaving youtube. This is not me saying goodbye to youtube. I'M going to post consistently on youtube. Like i said, it's just going to be different and i have some new flavor and some new content and some new things that i want to do, and i want you guys to see who i am i feel like. Y'All. Don'T really know me because y'all know me, but y'all don't really know i'm gon na, be, i feel so disconnected from my audience. I just i just feel like y'all. Don'T really know me not to say that i haven't been myself on my platform because i have, but honestly you guys, i really haven't, because i haven't been able to let my true personality shine through, because when you're teaching a hair tutorial, you can't really be yourself. You can but it's kind of hard to be yourself and show your personality for me at least while you're teaching - and i just want to be myself - and i don't want to force content. I want my content to be free flowing and i don't want my identity. I don't want to be known as a hair girl like when people speak, speak of me or when i meet new people. All everyone knows about me is that i'm just this hair girl, when i have other things that i'm really really good at, and i have other things that i'm way more passionate about in life, and that is just me being transparent and honest, and i hope you Guys can understand that and respect them, not a cosmetologist, never claim to be don't want to be, one will never be one um like i said i just saw a need for it and i wanted to help, and i did that and now it is time for Me to pivot my content into something else. I just feel like. I lost myself with the tutorials like i want y'all to see the quirky side of me, the funny side of me to joke inside of me the serious side of me, the handling business side of me. I won't try to see mona b, for who i want to be really truly is and not not. What i feel like everybody wants me to be, because you guys have seen me and only see me only one way on this platform and that's why, to my future content creators, so those you guys that want to create content, make sure you guys do everything in The beginning do not box yourself in how i ended up getting boxed in because you kind of you start like in the beginning of my channel. I tried to do everything, but as a content creator, when you see those numbers like everybody, was gravitating more to my natural hair content. So, of course, i'm going to continue to do that natural hair content, but then who i am suffered behind it and, like i said i don't want to be known as the natural hair girl. That is not. I don't want to be known for hair um. That is not what i want to be known, for i want to be known for being an artist. I am an artist i'm into fashion, if you guys do not know i'm really into fashion. That is what i went to college for when i was in school. I went to school for fashion design. That is my true passion: i've loved fashion, since i was a little girl, and that is really where my heart is truly at, and i would like to pursue that and i'm going to pursue that whether it is accepted or not. I want to be me i'm into a lot of things: lifestyle. You know i have a dog, i'm a dog mom and i'm really into my dog i'm into lifestyle, i'm into soul-searching, i'm into self-love and caring for myself and things of that nature. That is really where my heart is currently, that is where i'm at you guys, i'm 30 change over time and i'm just not in a natural hair state of mind. I haven't, i don't care about natural hair products in a way that i did seven years ago. I don't even really buy new products anymore. I don't care to review new products. I haven't seen me, do a product haul in literally years, because i don't care to be honest and honestly, like i said, my hair has changed so much. I don't even know what the heck is going on with my hair, so it's like i'm gon na get on here and try to help you out with your hair, but i don't even know what the heck is going on with my hair, like i said when People meet me, everyone always just wants to talk about hearing this, like i understand that y'all mean well when y'all message me and y'all want to talk about here, but it's just like. I want to talk about something else, and i know what you're thinking well like it seems like that's what you want to talk about, because that's what you put out so i totally understand i totally get it, but i just don't want to talk about hair 24. 7., we are more than our hair. I am more than my hair. I feel like it's black women. We put so much of our identity in our hair and i love my hair one thing about the two things i'm sure i'm going to always say my hair. I'M always look good, because that's who i am my identity does not lie in my hair and your identity does not lie in your hair as well, and i want to talk about our soul matters as black women. Our mental health matters as black women. Our health matters as black women, and not just our hair, and of course i will always you know uplift, you guys when it comes to your hair, and i want to talk about natural hair when i want to talk about it, not when i feel like i Have to talk about it and i'm not saying i will never talk about it, because that is what this channel was built on. So, of course i will talk about it, but i want it to be free-flowing. I want to talk about it when i want to talk about it, i don't want it to be forced, and i find myself i find myself forcing myself to talk about it. If that makes sense, still will do them from time to time. When i feel like it, when i feel like it as my hair grows back and stuff like that, and i feel like doing the natural hairs, that's probably doing if i do not feel like doing one, i'm not gon na do it and i hope y'all can Understand that and respect it - and i hope you guys stick around for the new content. Like i said, if you don't, i understand i'm thankful for the support that you guys have given me over the years, but this is something that i had to get off my chest. I feel so good getting off of my chest. I feel like this was like a burden honestly weighing on me, because i want to be my authentic self. I really want to be want to be, and i'm going to be that i am today, i'm so proud of myself. You guys i've come a long way with who i am today like, and i'm going to talk about that with you guys. I have a lot to share. I have a lot to talk about and i just want to pivot my content and change my content, because change is good. So all in all, i will be changing my content. You guys every now and again we'll still get some natural hair content. It just will not be in the way that you have gotten it from me in the past. I'M like i said, i'm really into wigs, because that's what i've been wearing to protect my hair, it's time for y'all to see another side of me. It'S time to embark on a new journey and show who want to be truly is and the things that i actually really truly want to accomplish here and the things that i want to accomplish on my time here on earth and i think that's okay, there's nothing Wrong with that, i know some of y'all may not understand it. I know some of y'all may be disappointed, but i can't fake the funk and i'm never going to fake the funky. If y'all know me for y'all know me, i'm gon na keep it real and 100 and i feel like i did what needed to be done for the natural hair community, and now i'm ready to do what mona needs to do for myself. This is so freeing. I just i just feel so different and i just want to focus on that and yeah like i'm in a new space, a different space and i've been in a new space for a while. I just was so afraid of the changing and bringing this to you guys. It'S not making me happy and i need to be happy with the content that i'm actually doing, because i'm literally forcing myself to do that, content and - and that's not okay. So i wanted to come and address the elephant in the room. Hopefully i didn't leave anything out, so you guys have a lot to look forward to with me. I am pivoting my content, so we're gon na be tapping into more commentary. I know you guys used to enjoy when i used to sit here and talk to you guys and do live talks and stuff like that. So i'm gon na be bringing that back. I'M going to be doing more lifestyle content vlogs! I still will incorporate hair. I'M still going to do makeup here and there and things like that. I want to do more vlogs. I have a lot in store for this year. You guys a lot is going to be changing in my life this year, so i'll. Hopefully you guys stay tuned. So y'all can see all the changes i have some surprises and some stuff. That'S probably going to be like shocking that i probably didn't expect from this. I'M going to be expect from me, but yes, be on the lookout, make sure i had on post notification along because you do not want to miss anything that i'm going to be dropping this upcoming year. Because there are a lot of changes that are going to be happening and it's good and i'm excited you guys. This is the most excited. I'Ve been about content, creating okay, like i'm, so excited yeah. My content needs to reflect where i'm at in life. Like i said with my hair, i've been wearing a lot of wigs, i've been enjoying it. It'S been fun, y'all been seeing me play in color and i've been having a lot of fun playing in color, and i will always love my natural hair. I don't want you to take that, let's, oh my god, she doesn't love her natural hair. No, i love my natural hair. I love my crown. This is over 10 years in the making i've been natural, it'll be 11 years in april. You guys, i didn't even tell y'all that but yeah it'd be 11 years, so this past april may 10 years of me being natural. I love my crown. My hair will stay natural and remain natural. I just have to get my hair back in a good space. You guys and manipulating it and running my fingers through it every other day. It'S not gon na help it. Okay, it's just not gon na help it. So you guys have a lot to look forward to and i'm about to get this show on the world. You guys i'm about to start back talking, i feel like i lost my voice. I feel like i i haven't talked on this channel in so long. I'M like what the heck, so i'm gon na have a video talking about how i lost my voice. I literally did i stopped talking that is so not like me, but i have gone through a lot in the last two years. You guys with my health i've gone through so much. It has been so hard and so trying and i've had a lot of days where i've been crying and it's just been crazy, but i'm really proud of my platform, i'm proud of where it went 15 million views wow. If you would have told me this, when i was younger that i would be here, i wouldn't have believed you, i'm proud of it, and i just want to say thank you to my ogs my day ones, those of you that came along the journey later on. I want to say thank you guys for rocking and riding with me. Those videos will always be up for you guys to go ahead and reference, but it's like i'm more than my hair um and i want to be addressed that way. I don't want to be just seen as the hair girl, no like i'm an artist um, and i would like that to be seen and respected, and when i do talk about hair, i want to do it because it's something that i want to do not because I feel like i have to do it and i hope you guys can understand it and respect my decision and i don't want any negativity on this video. If you decide to be negative in my comments, i will be deleting you and blocking you, and that would just be that, but i know my og's. I know a lot of y'all y'all watch because y'all really just like me and who i am - and i appreciate that i know a lot of y'all - do not care what i post. I know y'all still gon na rock and i'm telling you i got a lot in store. It'S gon na be good. I know i haven't been as transparent in the past, but i have a lot that i want to share coming up and i'm going to start talking to you guys more and sharing more because i have a lot to share and i want to share that with Y'All, i really really want to share that with you. I feel so good. Oh, i feel like just so much has been lifted off of me by getting this off of my chest, because i needed to get this off my chest. This has been weighing on me for so long like y'all cannot yeah, i don't even know so yes be on the lookout for all the new things that i have in store. I'M excited to show you guys more of my fashion. I really love fashion um follow my instagram, that's where i post my outfit. I am a fashion girl. I always love fashion like if y'all seen my closet y'all would be like. Oh my gosh, that's where i want to put my focus at and other things like. I said self-care self-love, that is where my head is at. That'S where my heart is at currently soul-searching and things of that nature. It will always be a part of who i am because here is a part of me. It'S just not all of me. You know what i mean and yeah, so hopefully this video was conveyed properly. I'M not filming this video again, it's my second time filming this video and i think i had a bit of a bit of anxiety trying to film it. That'S why i didn't work out the first time. Oh, and i want to also add if y'all want to know what it's like being a natural hair creator on youtube and stuff like that. If y'all want me to do a video about that, i will um. I will do a video on that. If you guys want me to do so, that's it that's all! I have for you guys, look forward to the new content that i'm going to be bringing you guys very very soon, like a very, very, very, very, very soon so y'all can get to know to be the real mona b. Now i'm going to be behind the hair tour tutorials. Now i'm going to be behind the hair, even though my hair will always be lace-laid. Y'All know that okay, your makeup gon na be late slay, but uh yeah. Let me know if you have any questions um. I will elaborate more if i need to make another video i will, but hopefully everything is understood and that's all i have to say be on the lookout for the new content and i will see you guys on my next video baby. Won'T you keep me