Live: 4C Hair Videos, Having A Baby, Should We Stop Using "Kinky Hair"?

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Thank you, hello, hey guys! Welcome back to the channel, it's a girl, a a it's, a girl, a welcome back to this live conversation. I hope that you can hear me. Let me see if I can start this on my device as well, so I can see what you can see and make sure that y'all can hear me good. I am so excited y'all we're gon na have a great evening. Oh, the worst part about going live, and I'm pretty sure everyone says the same thing is the technical aspect, because there's so much going on, you know there's like all these comments, there's the visuals there's the audio and honestly. It feels like something always goes wrong. Ah, if y'all can hear me, if you can hear me good, let me know if you can see me good. Let me know. Okay, I think I think we're connected we're connected, hey girls. I hope y'all ready for this good conversation, we're about to have we're just gon na chill. Honestly, I hope you got yourself a little song, Something okay. I know I do. I also got some water too, just in case you know, you don't want to be out here crazy in these internet streets. Ah yo someone already asked a question about the storm, and can we start about? Can we talk about the storm outside? I can hear all kind of craz craziness right now and basically there's a huge storm, that's going through Ontario, which is where I am. I am in Canada, if you guys didn't, know that and uh there's a huge storm y'all, and on top of that, they said that it's gon na be like one once in a lifetime. Generational type storm and I'm like um - is that, like keyword that I need to get out is that does not mean I need to pack my bags do I need to be on standby because I'm not trying to be out here and die in Canada. Okay. No! I have Life to Live. I have uh places to see you know, I want to travel and see the world not be frozen to death in Canada. That is not how I imagine my life ending. I I've had a lot of um thoughts about how I would go. I just don't think I just don't think that going from a snowstorm would be it but yo, it's crazy. Ever since last night there was a huge like I don't even know, I guess it started with um ice falling off the skies y'all ice and then I think it's snowing. Now it's super windy. It don't look good, it don't look good at all anyways. I hope that you're ready to just chat it up. If you have any questions, just leave it in the chat. I also want to be Petty a little bit. Someone already says: hey Patty, Jen um right now, it's Jen Jen, but you know Patty Jen can come out any second okay, depending on the topic, depending on the question, depending on the video that we watch, I would love to um kind of talk about. I don't know maybe like making interactive go through and maybe watch videos with. You guys react to some videos. I thought that would be fun um. What else did I thought about? I thought about putting like games or something I saw Grace do. Let me just uh put it out there and be honest. I saw I watched Grace's life yesterday and, if you missed it, it's on her Channel nappy, free TV go watch it and she played a bunch of games. I thought it was so fun. First of all, where do you get all these games? She was ripping games right on live, shows like let's argue, or this other game or this block on the game, who has like seven stack of games cards boards, just ready to whip out at any seconds at the house who, who up? I don't okay. So apparently I am slacking in the game department, but I need to get myself some games but, like I figure, maybe we can like Google something or maybe there's a game that you guys know that I don't know that we could play out. I don't know anyways. We can catch up on vlogmas. We can talk about the holidays. I wonder how it's going for you guys, because I feel like the holidays. It doesn't really feel like the holidays for me, because I've been working so much whipping out these videos back to back to back. Okay, I don't know if you're new here girl, but we've been doing vlogmas this month, which means I posted a video every single day. This month, I'm very proud of myself. One thing about me: what I realized about me: what I'm learning as an adult about Jen is Jen is very happy when Jen creates a goal saying Jen, say: she's gon na do vlogmas, which means posting a video every single day in December, and it makes me Really happy to actually follow through the goal. I don't know what that means about me, but accomplishment makes me feel good about life. So I'm very happy that vlogmas has gone very well, there's only two more videos to go and the last video you don't want to miss that one. The last video is um. If I was you, I wouldn't miss it. Okay, that's all I want to say if I was you, I wouldn't miss it, because there's a huge announcement happening and maybe I'll give you a hint here and there in this chat, but we'll see, depends on how you behave. You know depends on how this conversation go, but we'll see anyways any topic that you want to talk about living in the chat, though - and oh God, there's actually a bunch of comments, I'm missing them. Wait, I'm in shambles hold up um. Let'S see what's happening here way says that she loves my glasses. Thank you, girl. They are from Zillow and they were cheap, cheap, nothing, a lie, I have like eight pair of glasses from them and they should sponsor your girl, because at this point I keep sending people over to the website. I'M just saying I'm just putting it out there by the way, speaking of sponsorship, if you ever want to support your girl, there is a little thing called Super Chat and I actually learned about it. Just the other day when I went live with Grace and Latoya. Ah, it's crazy I've been going live for years and never even thought about it, never even tapped into it, but there's a little thing. A little um dollar sign icon. Next, to where you type in your comments, it's literally conveniently convenience conveniently placed there next to the little Emoji for you to send super chats if you want, and that will support the channel. That will support your girl. That will allow me to create these high quality videos for you, so just putting that out there. Okay, let's get the Super Chat going last time I was live with Grace and Tori. I think I got like 50 bucks and I was like. Oh my god. I didn't even know that was a thing, so let's beat 50 bucks tonight, that's the goal: Jen. Can you talk about the hair typing chart and how we are told we should not use it Etc. Is this how we want to start this conversation? We want to start straight into like a heavy Hair Topic. I have an unpopular opinion when it comes to the super. The super I was gon na say the Super Chat. I have an unpopular opinion when it comes to the hair typing chat and I feel like people well. First of all, if you don't know, the hair typing chart is basically one two three four ABC when they classify your curls based on the pattern. The size of your crawl be means you're fit into 4A, 4B or 4C and it was um created by white men and I think that's where all the controversy controversy comes in and on top of that, when it was created, 4C didn't exist. So this man was like - maybe he even know about us - I don't know what the rationale was. He was just like y'all, not gon na, be on this chart and then of course, there's so many women with kinky hair, kinky hair that just didn't fit in the chart. So we created or updated and added 4C to the chart, and I think 3C as well. Just like title crawls, weren't included in the chart, so with that said, this is where the controversy comes in, because you know people are like wow, the original chart didn't have us, we shouldn't use it, and - and I also think people has been misusing the chart because We use it as a way to say if I have 4C hair the way my hair behaved, your hair is going to behave the same way and that is inaccurate. Technically the chart only tells you about the size of your curl. It doesn't tell you anything else. It doesn't tell you how to take care of your hair. It doesn't tell you what products you should use. It doesn't tell you about your texture, your porosity doesn't tell you about anything and that's. I think why people say not to use it, because it's not very useful in terms of how you should care for your curls. However, however, I think that we can take it and see it as something negative or we can use it for our own benefit. For example, if I title my video 4C, you know what I'm talking about. Okay, you know what I'm talking about. I could say tightly coiled, I don't know, but if I say 4C, it's been universally. It'S like a language. I could say that's universally spoken. So to speak, so you know exactly what I'm talking about so we're gon na, say 4C baddies or in this chat right now, which is y'all then y'all be like well well. That'S me tight curl Nation over here. So that's the only way I feel like it should be used personally just to kind of categorize or classify our curl size, and we should just keep it that way. If we want to use it as a way to divide us, then I think it's going the wrong direction. It'S going in the in a negative way because you're not using it for anything beneficial, and I mean people can say what you should do and not do, and at the end of the day, we're just gon na do what we want to do anyway. So you know, I don't think it's something that we need to be losing sleep over. That'S just my opinion, but I also understand that it wasn't created for us by us and it's not that useful in terms of what you should do and how you should take care of your hair. But that's it was never meant to do that. So why are we trying to take apples and making it do what an orange is supposed to do? It'S kind of Deep have been watching I've been watching your vlogmas consistently. Thank you. Fungi. Fungi is a how you say it. I don't know if I butcher your names y'all, I am Haitian and we pronounce things all kind of funky ways, so I am so sorry. Ah are these super chats that are rolling in wait a minute? First of all, not before TV shout out to you girl, not twenty dollars great, you stopped that right now. Thank you. Grace shout out to you for supporting and helping the channel. We also have black Diamond Black Diamond the way that you spelled your name. You really trying to mess me up huh, I just said Haitians, don't know how to pronounce, and she very unique though imma give that to you Merry Christmas to the channel Jen. Thank you Merry Christmas to you guys as well. Merry Christmas to the family, I hope you guys are having a great holiday season like I said it doesn't really feel like the holidays for me, yet just because I've been working so much, but I have two videos to wrap up and today was supposed to be A editing day but baby, I'm tired, I'm tired. I did not do the editing that I wanted to do so tomorrow. I'M probably gon na have to catch up on that, so that I don't have to working. I don't have to working. I don't have to work on Christmas Day. Y'All are gon na. Have me out here working under the tree. No, I want to so I'm gon na try to see if I can wrap up these videos tomorrow and then it'll be it for for the for. For December - and you know, I'm gon na go and hide under a rock for a little bit. Okay, I think the only person that can get me out of my hiding spot will be grace and Latoya, because these girls have been talking about having another life. So we'll see how that conversation goes, but I make no promises a minute. Another one Leticia. She said Merry Christmas love the community you gave and you're building. Oh thank you. I really love the community as well. I feel like we're very connected in terms of where we are in our lives, the things that we discuss and it's crazy, because I've been so shy to get out of my Hair Care box so to speak. Um. You guys want to make a lot of hair care videos and they come naturally to me because I've been I've been creating them for so long, and so all year this year I was like okay, I'm gon na I want to break out of that. I want to create more videos around different topics, talk about different things, etc, etc, or even if I create hair videos, I want it to be a little different, not the same. This is what you should do with your hair type videos, because there are so many of these videos on this platform, and I don't know if you want to bring Patty Jen out, but so many of them are just deceitful they're lying to y'all. Every video is about how to grow hair, there's a recipe here and there or the other about how you can get six inches overnight. Legit y'all, I was browsing YouTube the other day and I saw a video about how you can get six inches of hair growth. Overnight got ta, get out of hair care man overnight, so you mean to tell me black women have cracked or cold to do the impossible when it comes to Hair Care, The Impossible - I just I don't know I don't buy, I don't buy it so anyways with That said, I've been creating so well. Vlogmas has pushed me to create videos outside of hair care, and it's been received so well. I'M actually very proud to see how you guys are interested in different topics that I can talk about and I created a video actually the other day which was so fulfilling. It was around nutrition, which I'm so passionate about nowadays, but eating well eating the right things. For your body, because at the end of the day, they are pumping us with legit poison and we're eating poison and we're all sick and not feeling well, and you wonder why? It'S because of the food that we're eating the food is so bad for us anyways. I created a whole video on it. If you want to go back and catch up and the response again was overwhelmingly positive and I was like wow, I should keep going just brunch out Jen get out of the Hair Care space. I will still love hair care, though let's uh, let's be honest, and if I do create when I do create hair videos, I kind of want them to be a little different. Like the two past hair videos that I've created, they've, been just more like thought, provoking conversation starters just to get us to think a little deeper about how we feel about our hair, and I love this type of conversation. I love this type of videos. Give us a hand wow black diamond um. How are you and the hubby we are good? Thank you for asking married life is excellent. The way from what I hear in the dating scene, I am very happy to be married. I yeah every video I see online. Now it's about women, fighting men or men, fighting women and the menosphere's mind, and I guess women are mad and I don't know it just seems very detrimental to to us and I am very happy to be married. I love married life and to be fair, we stand and I a lot of people ask me that question. I guess I'm gon na go a little bit deeper, how's newlywed life. You know it feels the same. It'S exactly the same, and that's because I believe instead and I have worked on ourselves in our relationship way before we got married. It wasn't even like okay, let's get married and then now we're trying to make it work. We had already learned about each other. We learned about each like our own experiences ourselves so that we can become the best version of ourselves for the other person, and that has been the key that completely changed our relationship years ago. Maybe like three years ago, I, oh my God three years ago. That'S crazy, I started therapy and when I started therapy, it's ironic I didn't start therapy because I wanted to change Stan or for the relationship or whatever I started therapy because I wanted it for me. I wanted to learn about myself and like PNP on. What'S the word unlearn things and relearn new ways of processing things processing through my emotions and feelings, all the things that I was raised to either push down and never acknowledge or avoid. I started tackling these things face on and I started changing my behavior and I kind of feel like me becoming a better person changing who I am also kind of prompted him to do his own work and we do we do it separately. We do it differently. I'M a huge Bookworm and you know therapy I get all my knowledge from online and reading Etc. Meanwhile, he's different, you know, he's um. He listened to like podcasts. He likes learning from other people like experiences, so he does that in his own way and then when we bring that together there, it is we're better people for the relationship. So it's just been great. Ever since we started doing our own individual work and that's why I truly believe that a lot of times we bring our own emotional baggage and traumas into the relationship and expect the other person to understand us and fix it, blah blah blah. And it's like technically, whatever happened in your child has learned to do with him. Okay, like there's no reason for you to put all that on him. We got another one y'all uh. We have Miss Josephine, who said twenty dollars, uh Josephine you shouldn't have. Thank you! Girl, you guys are going crazy today, just supporting the channel wow I am in awe. I am very grateful. Thank you so much thank you for pouring into the community as much as I pour into it as well. I appreciate you Josephine Merry Christmas girl. I think there's another one: did I miss another one? If I miss it, I hope that I can go back to it. Um, okay. What was I was talking about therapy. I highly recommend therapy honestly, like I know a lot of us will talk to like family Patty. Jen says no, not Jan don't come for me. Patty gem says no um, Barnes 247 says how can you can you tell me how to do a super chat? Um? Okay, I don't know, is there an issue with it? There'S a little dollar sign icon, where you're supposed to type a comment, and if you click there, I think it's going to give you all the directions. I mean. If I'm looking away it's because my computer's over there and I'm trying to make sure I don't miss any any other comments, although I'm also trying to follow with my little iPad over here, but the iPad is like weird: it's all over the place: uh, okay, okay, Wait wait, wait, see it's not going so fast. Let me see if I can stop it um. What is Type 4 with no curl uh. Honestly, I feel like we all have a curl pattern. It may be super tight. It may be like s girl. It may be like a zigzag curl, but they're guarantee you. There is a little Sun something in there because that's what makes it kinky you got. Ta got a little, you have. You got ta, have little kinks in your hair for it to be kinky. So you do have a pattern: it's just probably not seen based on how you um say, take care of your hair or if you comb it out, then you're not going to see the little tiny, coral and Kinks. For example, if you have shedded hair, if you take one of your hair that sheds and put it on your finger and look at it, you will see that it's like a little o pattern or like a little s or a curl. It'S gon na look like something I guarantee it: okay, because if you didn't have a crawl, then your hair would just be straight and you'll be a one, not a four um. I see we're talking about we're talking about um. The Type 4 chart see I'm all the way up there. I got ta go faster since you have so many educational hair videos. I would love to ask a non-hair related question. If you were to start your content creator YouTube career over. What would you do differently? Great question there Grace if I was to start my content creation differently, I'm not gon na say I wouldn't go into hair, because I honestly feel, like hair saved my life, because it wasn't the place of my life where I was so depressed. I was so down and taking care of my hair was how I started taking care of myself. So it's very ironic, my entire life I've been kind of ripping my hair out, making her want to do making her do things that she never wanted to do. Trying to fight my hair, but then when I was at my lowest point, she was there for me this girl. Let me tell you something me and my hair we're so connected now, because I let her do her thing, but if I was to start over, I would diversify earlier. That would be what I would do um what I would change differently and I would go all in earlier as well, because I've been very timid and fearful of going all out to my online platform, and a lot of it is because of how I was raised Right like the internet, what is that you better go, be a doctor or a doctor or a doctor, and maybe, if you fall short, we'll accept lawyer or architect or something, but really we want you to be a doctor, and I was like engraved with me in Me, since a very early age - and I felt like if I was doing anything outside of studying to become a doctor or sciency, then I was a failure and I felt like that for For the Longest Time Imagine I started YouTube a really long time ago, like 12 years ago, so I really um - I hoped if I could go back, I would go all in way earlier than 2022, because I just recently quit my job now to be a full-time Creator and to be fair, everything happens for a reason. I always tell myself that I am in a better place mentally now than I was 12 years ago 10 years ago, whatever I'm a different person now and I'm definitely a lot more mature than who I was when I first started YouTube. But you know I'm grateful for the journey. I guess is what I'm trying to say for the growth that I've been able to have over the years the maturity that I've acquired being online. But if I can do it all over again, still I will go all in a lot earlier and see what happens. I would bet on myself a lot earlier and also diversify earlier, because I feel, like I put myself in a box when it comes to natural hair, to the point that when I started posting on Tick Tock. That'S when I realized how how much I have boxed myself in because I was like what do I post about, even though I have so many interests when I go on Tick Tock, I'm like oh, I should post about hair and it's like why. Why should I post especially on the platform like Tick Tock, where you can do whatever you know, there's no reason for me to post about hair on Tick Tock and still put myself in the same box, and I'm trying to get out of it makes no sense. Jennifer and that's when I realized I had put myself in a box for so long that I didn't know how to share about my other interest, so yeah CCB says she's here for another life for the with the three besties Grace. You hear that the people want part two or part three of this boy, so we got ta, give we got ta, give it to them and I'm down I don't mind, I'm actually really been enjoying these lives. It'S so weird because um we can be in our heads when it comes to going, live and the technology around it and then once you do it you're, like, oh, my God, what is there to be in our head about what is there to be nervous about? Because the conversation ends up flowing anyway, it ends up being so nice and honestly, I feel like it's one of the best ways to really get to know your audience is by going live and talking to you guys in real time, because someone can ask a question And you get to it later and of course, when you entering them later, you can't be able to be more polished. You know you can take your time to think about it, but now you're getting like my live first thoughts. Blurbed out all in the internet wait a minute, I'm behind shout out to DD wase wassi. Sorry girl. If I mispronounce your name, you know it's all love coming from me. Your channel has changed so many things in my life, I love learning with or from you have a magical Christmas and happy all happy holidays. Everyone wow, thank you, girl, see. Those are the comments. I feel that just hit straight to my heart, if you guys know me, I'm a huge softy. I have crazy boundaries online, but I'm a huge softie, so comments like that really get to me because it's difficult, sometimes you know especially being a Creator um a lot of times. I feel like I'm just like. Why am I doing this? Why am I creating content? Who is it really affecting, especially nowadays, because you're competing with, like the algorithm you're competing with other creators, you're competing with the views you're competing with this? And that? And it can feel like your voice is lost in the sauce of content creation and the world of content creation, because it's really loud um right now, I find in the content creation world especially, is, for example, Tick Tock. I can't take too much of tick tock because I feel like it's so loud the moment you hop on the platform. It'S like people screaming at you in every direction and I just have to like ah boundaries. I can only take it in doses, so it can really feel like your voice is lost and your messaging is lost out there, and then you get a comment like that that Rudy just fueled you where you're like thank you I'ma, keep going girl. I'M gon na be fighting for the cause always and then we have barns two four seven, you figured it out shout out to Barnes for figuring it out. First of all, wow. Thank you so much for your support. She sent 50 dollars y'all. We have surpassed our goal of 50 bucks. First of all, this is a great lesson for Jen. Don'T sell yourself short, because I was like 50 bucks is all we need to to to beat and she herself sent fifty dollars so Congo girl. Thank you. So much. Thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you for pouring into my community. She said: have you considered doing more videos where you do a tutorial on applying makeup? I think you do amazingly well, because your makeup looks phenomenal. I feel like I'm in my head when it comes to makeup because I feel like there are so many great phenomenal creators that are putting content around makeup, and I mean I learned from them. So I'm just like I I in my head, I feel like I'm. I'M a beginner, honest, I'm, okay, I just know how to do these neutral looks um, so I mean, I think I I guess I'll consider it I'll consider it. I don't know you know, never say never, I'm no longer in a space of my life, where I see no no to two things. This is the year of yes, and if an opportunity comes yes, I'm not going to be the person that gets in my way anymore. I said that to myself a lot like earlier this year, so, yes, I will consider doing more videos where I do a tutorial. It will probably be like makeup and then talking about something talking about the topic, because I think that'll be a little bit more interesting since you know I'm not a makeup artist and I don't know, but I can do it, I can do it. One last shout out black mom. I think. That'S how you say it. Y'All got I'm telling you black, eight mom, crazy, usernames you're, sharing your experiences inspiring me and yes, I am more than happy to share. I feel, like I don't know a lot of times. We don't share, especially as creators, I guess I'm talking from a Creator standpoint. We don't really share what's going on on the inside, unless it's overwhelming or until it becomes overwhelming. So you see a lot of creators. Seemingly their lives is perfect. Seemingly everything is gray and then boom burnout boom they're gone for like a year and like what happened to this person searching for them. Looking at their channels, sis is gone because she's been going through it and it's like a lot of us, don't share. What'S going on as we're going through it and I'm not and I'm not saying you need to be an open book and put all your business out there or anything like that. But, for example, me I've been kind of sharing my struggle with entrepreneurship on YouTube and Instagram, and it's been resonating with a lot of people more people than I actually thought and even like my fear, around becoming an entrepreneur. I think is something that I've been sharing and that's been resonating with people as well. But that's not like you know over. I don't think it's over sharing or anything like that, but it's the reality because a lot of times, especially on social media, they make it seem like um. Entrepreneurship is easy. You just quit your job next thing you know you're a billionaire. You build three businesses in two days. You wake up at 5am every day and by the time seven o'clock hits. You already worked out. You already uh. Did your gratitude Journal. You already had seven meetings and it's like who are these super humans? How are they getting it done and then you, you know: you're, like yeah, I'm gon na become a billionaire too, and you quit your job and you're like um. You can't even get out of bed and I feel like that's a reality that is not talked about. Often, how difficult it actually is for you to transition from one point of your life to another, and I didn't realize how difficult the transition was until I started transitioning then I was like wow y'all been lying to me. The internet had been lying to me. So I'm not gon na listen to y'all, no more. I'M gon na go read some books and get my answers like it's. It'S crazy. Someone said she she Shire. Oh, I feel like I'm butchering and she said I admire the people with the drive and creativity to become an entrepreneur see I do too, but I wouldn't word it that way, because I think a lot of people don't naturally have that drive um. They just build up that discipline over time and I think that's what's happening with me, because I figured when I was working on out of five and doing YouTube. I that's all. I knew and I've always been doing, like working and being a creative as I guess you could say online. It'S been kind of like ingrained in my personality. To always be busy, go, go. Go! I'M gon na go to work. I'M working on the farm, I'm gon na come home and I'm gon na work on like a video or edit a video or something so we're just like my routine, which people would say Jen. I don't know how you do it and I was like. Oh, I just don't sleep, it's not that it's not that hard. You know you just don't sleep, but it is that hard and a lot of people struggle with coming home being exhausted and having to do something. And what I'm trying to say is I've built up that discipline over the years to be able to work one out of five and create content and then, when I got rid of my out of five, so ironically enough, I was like I'm gon na. Have all this time I'm gon na get all the things that I've always wanted to do done. Then I was less productive, not because I think you know I just didn't, have the drive or whatever, but I think I have to rebuild a whole new system around who I am and how I'm showing up and also work towards that discipline to create the discipline That I want to have now as an entrepreneur, so it's not something that just comes naturally, and I don't think he came naturally before either it's just that. I build it up over time, because I mean at the beginning of my channel. I was very inconsistent with a lot of my content with my uploads. I was known to be inconsistent on YouTube and then it got to a point where it was like videos after videos, even though I was working with another five, so I built up that discipline. I think building up the discipline, I don't I don't even think it comes naturally to anybody, or maybe some people. There are some superhuman in this world. There'S the outliers - I'm not gon na take that away, but I also think that a lot of us just have to work at it and for me, I'm creating a routine where I'm working on being disciplined with the work that I have to do. Regardless of how I feel, regardless of the weather, regardless of anything, I'm gon na, do the things that I say, I'm gon na do when I'm gon na do it and which is - and that brings me a lot of Joy, actually to be able to check things Off my list and say you know what I have this goal and I went after it. So that's what I think. I think I think it's um discipline keeps you consistent, basically not motivation, because half the time is not gon na be motivated to do anything um. I love your confidence in all situations, says: Isabel Isabel. I don't know if I'm confident in every situation, I'm not con. I mean I'm not confident at all being an entrepreneur right now, but again I'm not quitting that's the difference, I'm not giving up. I know I read something today: actually I'm reading a book that is amazing, it's called uh. What is it called cash flow quadrant is by the same guy, who wrote Ridge Dad Poor Dad you guys probably heard of that book. It'S very popular, I haven't read ridged out Poor, Dad though, but I skip ahead and went to cash flow Quadra and he said something about you could quit at any time. So why quit now? You know it's! It'S basically telling you. You should keep going quit some other time, but not today, and I was like oh I guess so, sir. I guess so. Foreign Jen was the best way for an aspiring content creator to connect with other creators, especially when they are new versus the ogs. I think you just have to reach out to them DM them. That'S what I've been doing so earlier this year before quitting my job. I think I said it in my last video. It wasn't my last video. I don't know which videos are everything's blurred now um. My influence the truth about influencer video. If you haven't seen it go, watch it. She, I posted in there that I wanted to. I knew I was gon na quit my job earlier this year, so I started reaching out to a lot of creators just to um. You know get a bit of better idea of the industry, getting more information from them and Etc. Just like more in-depth conversation, because last year I talked to a lot of creators as well, but it was around how much you get paid. You know around the the I don't know: transactions with brands, so this year I was a lot more intentional with reaching out to people and and talking to them - and I just kind of I just did it at first. I was very shy as well reaching out to other people because it was like. Why would they talk to me or why would they answer me and a lot of them won't and that's okay, it's not has nothing to do with you, it's not a reflection of who you are okay. You got to be able to detach these things. If you reach out to a Creator - and they don't answer back, keep it moving reach out to someone else and that's: okay, um! You can't force someone to talk to you. It'S like creating friends, I guess, but when I I just DMS a bunch of Creator and a lot of time I saw I heard Issa Ray say that too, where she was like. We don't put enough value on um, collaborating like laterally. It'S not basically that's what she said, so we want to collaborate up. We want to go and talk to someone who's already successful. Meanwhile, there's a lot of um there's a lot of. What'S the one I'm looking for it's a lot of hmm that emphasis Worth or there's a lot of called things that you can cultivate by speaking to someone that is at the same level that you are so reach out to other entrepreneurs and creative that are in The same pool that you are so that you can collaborate with them and I've found that it's easier to get an answer from someone who is on the same level as you are than say, an OG Creator or someone who's already successful. So I would just say: um don't be shy, reach out to whoever you want to reach out to DM them, send them an email. Maybe they won't answer, but that's okay be persistent, follow up and if you follow up like a few times and they don't answer, then you know bye Felicia find somebody else. I found somebody else um. Where are we oh minimalist natural said they pull out a kinky weave in terms of those fake hair growth? Videos? Oh okay, waves! No way! No way. I need to see a video so they're over here lying to people. I refuse to look at those types of hair videos, anymore, they're, getting out of handout. They really are. I I don't watch them either anything, that's that's promising extreme hair growth, icicle right bass, I'm sorry! Okay and I watch a lot of hair videos. I it's like therapeutic I'll watch them as I do my hair or like after a long day of work or something but um. I'M not gon na allow someone to lie to me. Okay, I'm in a space of my life, where I can see that you're lying and I'm gon na X out. I didn't know you were Haitian. Do you speak Creole? I do speak Creole. Can you tell us something in Creole Creole? That means I speak Creole. I didn't hear my child's father speak Creole until weeks after we met. Oh that's interesting. I didn't know his poor Creole. Yes yeah. I was born and raised in Haiti. Actually in case you guys didn't know. I left Haiti when I was 13.. Yes, I was 13. when I left Haiti uh. We need more nutrition videos. Ah, okay, girl, okay, say less. I actually wanted um. I want to have a whole series. I want to continue kind of like how I've started what I did my journey. I want to talk a little bit more about that and I also want to talk about what I eat, because I think a lot of people have that question too, and I'm not very strict anymore. I was a lot stricter at first. Let'S put it that way and I'm still Mindful and I'm still intentional what I eat, but I kind of I don't I let it flow. I just make sure that it's Whole Foods. It came from a tree. It came from the Earth it didn't come from, a process can and then it come from a bottle, because these are typically so processed, so bad for you so toxic, there's, so many ingredients that your body can digest and a lot of ingredients that are us as Women really affect our hormones, so we talk about hair growth and we want hair growth. But if you have a lot of inflammation in your body which a lot of these foods are causing, if your hormones is being put out of rock based on these food that you're eating there, it is that's the problem right there and you're gon na have inflammation On your scalp you're, going to have inflammation um on in your gut in your hormones, are out of whack, and all of this is going to affect your entire system. Y'All, not just hair, not just Nails, not just skin your entire system. You can eat your mental health. Is crazy. Like everything, is you can't you can't sleep? That'S what I meant to say you can't sleep well, mental Health's out of wack, because I mean your mental health is not going to keep up if your physical health is so poor. You are, I don't know your weight. Is fluctuating up and down up and down it's a endless battle: um period pains, your Cycles are irregular. All of these things get affected y'all by nutrition, and it's crazy. How doctors will tell us. Nutrition has something to do with the calories or calories. Where did you go to school, sir? Who taught you that you only need to be a doctor to know I don't know 500 calories of broccoli is better than 500 calories from McDonald's um anyways. I do plan on making more nutrition videos all that said, the camera that I'm using. I am using a Canon 80d, that's what I'm using and the lens, which is probably what you're asking about a lot of people when they're asking for cameras. It'S not the well. The camera has something to do with it, but the lens is usually what gives you a nice buttery background gives you crisp quality and the lens that I'm using is a sigma uh 18 to 35 millimeter, that's what uh the lens is, and actually I have that's The camera that I use for most of my videos, 2019 up until like 20 up until this year, wait a minute. Let me see, let me go down, I love getting to know the you, the YouTubers, that I follow and I love getting to know my audience. There'S nothing more fun way, sad, wait! You know what I think you told me how to pronounce your name last time and now I'm calling you way again. I don't know, I think it's. Oh. I apologize girl that Dior short was super cute and sexy. So I posted a short earlier today and I've been working on repurposing, my content, so you guys are going to be seeing a lot more shorts this year than um than ever or next year. I should say all of my short form content on social media on I guess what I should say is Instagram and Tick. Tock, specifically they're all gon na be on here of two girl, I'm just saying we're trying to work smarter, not harder. So I repurpose a short that was best for Instagram and it's like a Dior commercial and it had so much fun creating it. You guys I was like. Oh, I want this to be like a real Dior commercial and that's the end goal that I was coming from and you guys can tell that. I'M smiling because I think it's cute and I love the editing. I love the song choice and, of course, Jen J on everything. Jim James is the model she's, the camera woman, she's, the editor she's, the music person she's, the director, a talent on Talent, I'm Talent, okay, imma just took my own little horn, because sometimes we just need to do that. You got ta, be your own hype. Man. You really got ta, be your own heart man and uh, and I really love how it came out. Dior could never okay, if Danny the black woman in their commercials, I'm available um vinay the artist says good for me. I am married because social media is scaring me away from dating it scared me away too, and I'm not even dating. I don't know, what's going on right now, but it's crazy growing together. Black love is so beautiful. Oh 23 years, black diamond. Oh, my God, you need to give us some tips. I we need three tips from Black Diamond on how to make black love last. Okay, that girl leave it in the comment. Leave it in the comment. Sometimes we do bring our own emotional baggage into the relationship and that can be a setback in any relationship. I agree. I agree, you can't bring your own, you can't bring like past trauma and emotional baggage and hoping that the person is going to be your Superman. It'S not fair to them, and it's not fair to you to not unpack your own trauma. Like you got ta, you got ta work through the emotion. We all think that if we push it down, it's gon na be okay. No, you may get it out of your mind, but your body, your body, is great at absorbing these emotional stressors. Okay, ah we got another one wait. Do we I don't know, went away. There was like a super chat that just came in and then I can't see it anymore. I think it was from Carol Carol. I could have sword, I saw something and then I went away okay. Well, maybe I didn't see something um. I saw your vlogmas video and it gave me inspiration to do my hair like yours. I hope you have a great holiday. Thank you, blue robot. I hope you have a great holiday as well. My hair right now is a wash and go with a little Razzle Dazzle, as I call it on the side. It'S just three bantu knots and I think it looks very cute Nikita and I did I just used a dew for this wash I'm going. Although my hair is very soft, I feel like it's not going to give me a lot of longevity, because I did my hair yesterday and it's already looking like he's gon na, take its own little form, which I like. I typically like when my hair kind of evolved by itself over the week, so if you're looking for hold, I would not recommend to do if you're looking for softness and moisturization, then you could use the Dew. That'S my recommendation, my unprofessional opinion, not Grace being my hype. Man, she said, make sure y'all hit the thumbs up button, so it signals to YouTube to push this life out to others. Is that how it works? Nappy food TV? Is that how it works? If that's how it works, I need y'all to smash the like button, there's 135 in here, and I only have seven likes. How does that make sense? First of all, I'm gon na go like my own video write, this instant. Let'S smash the like button and get it to a hundred likes since there's 139 of y'all in here: okay, let's get 100 likes real quickly, so that YouTube pushes out the video. According to Grace, I didn't know: that's how it worked. I am 32 years old. Someone asked hi Jen your hair is a texture. Your hair texture is a lot like mine. What would you say is your go-to, shampoo and conditioner um? I really don't like giving product recommendations. It sounds weird because I just feel like there's so many great shampoos, there's so many great conditioners, um and a lot of times. It depends on what you're looking for. But if your hair is like mine, you probably value hydration, which is what I value and I like AG curl as my go-to shampoo, and I also like AG boost as a good conditioner. I also used a line that is fairly new to me. I got it in PR, though, and it's the Andrew Andrew Fitzpatrick line. I think that's the name. It'S in my last video. I just used it for this wash and go and the shampoo girl I was able to detangle my hair the moment the shampoo hit my scalp and I was looking at the bottle to make sure that I didn't accidentally use a conditioner or something like that beautiful. It leaves your hair, so soft, so hydrated, really like it they're quickly becoming my favorite and smells really good, too good, texture, great smelling and great performance everything you want in a shampoo and conditioner really. So I will recommend these two lines um, but when it comes to shampoo and conditioner there's so many gray ones um, I just don't like giving like restricting people just make sure that you're, washing and conditioning on a regular basis, that's what's more important. I think the lives are my favorite says not Mary and thank you. I am quickly liking the lives too. I don't have to edit a video I don't have to film. I don't have to do anything this is it plus we get to have great conversations. So the lives are really good um. How do you feel about having a baby in your 30s? This has been heavy on my mind lately. Why is that heavy? On your mind, do you feel like having a baby in your 30s is too too late? I think, as long as you're healthy what you should always be working towards your health, your mobile you're, exercising you're eating well, which is going to give you a ton of energy. It'S going to make you feel great. I don't see a reason why you wouldn't have a baby in your 30s. You know. Sometimes we just have to trust God's timing and if he's blessing you with a baby right now embrace it, it will work out and love your baby girl. Our bodies are supposed to do what it's supposed to do so Embrace that and have your baby in your 30s and love your baby, make sure to tell her to to love her natural hair too. I admire the people. Oh, I already read that one. Oh, my God, okay Kristen Christianity, I got ta, give you a shout out. She was like Jen, remember back in the day when you had like three jobs, and yes, I remember back in the day when I had three jobs. You know it's very interesting people's Journeys, a lot of the times. I don't know why my nose is so itchy a lot of the times we compare our say today to someone's tomorrow. I feel, like that's a better way to say this and I'm butchering it, but I think you know what I'm trying to say you compare where you are in your journey to someone who's already been there and and has grown or whatever, because um her saying that Made me think about back in the day when I did have three jobs and someone could be looking at me now and they're saying Jen you're. So confident and I love your drive. But I went through the mud as well and I was not confident and I did not have a drive and I was working a ton of jobs trying to make ends meet and I wasn't making any money. Oh, my God, that's really taking me back and I was struggling and I remember at the time actually the reason why I had to work. Three jobs is putting a little bit of my baggage out here. I was in the relationship and, and he helped and left he first of all, wasn't even he was you think about the relationship that you've gone through and you're just like why? Why did I ever? Why did I ever think that was a good idea? You know thank you for delivering me Jesus. Why did I ever think that was a good idea and um anyway, so he wasn't working. He was just being at home, doing nothing and then eventually was like I'm leaving, so he left the relationship, leaving me with the apartment and all of the bills and everything, and at the time I was doing YouTube. I was working man out of five and then I was like Snap. I'M not gon na be able to make ends me so I had to find another job. So I was working day and night and I remember I would leave school. I would oh no well. I was also in school yeah, that's not too. I remember I would go to work. Go to school leave school, go to my second job and then go home trying to like sleep quickly and then do it all over the next day. It was hell, I'm not gon na lie. It really was, but now that I'm thinking about it, I've gone through these experiences are shaping me. They shape who I became. They shape my mindset, the shame. That was definitely thing. I feel like that's when I became really hungry in terms of I don't want to do this forever. I got ta figure things out. I got ta work harder and I used to tell myself as I drove to work tears in my eyes like this is temporary. This is like, I would repeat that device I was like this is temporary Jen. This is temporary you're, sacrificing a lot right now so that you can have more later. I swear. I can't believe those days happen and I can't believe they're gone. Actually, I'm happy they're gone, let's not even laugh bye. I do not. I never want to work through jobs and going to school at the same time ever again, uh. Oh there, it is see there was a comment by Carol. Um not a comment or a Super Chat, and she said I love that you are in Canada, hey Canada here too, ah, okay, girl, fellow Canadian, thank you for creating content that is authentic. Well, you are welcome Carol and, I hope, you're staying safe with the storm that we're having because yeah it sounds like it's crazy out there not to knock anyone. But do you think that YouTube social media in general is an extension of Hollywood to be recognized and noticed? Hmm, that's really deep. I like to believe that Hollywood is just a place and I guess I guess I could say social media is also just a place. You make it what you want it to be. So if you go on in Hollywood or you hop on social media, because you want to be recognized and noticed, then that's what it's going to be for you. But if you come in here, because you want to create something meaningful just like, if you go to Hollywood and you want to create something meaningful, you want to help others you want to touch lives, then that's what you can do with it as well. So I think it is what you make out of it, but I do think a lot of people see it and think that it's you know they want the fame. They want the money um, I don't know they want the lavish lifestyle and they will quickly learn that social media is very difficult and there's a lot of probably easier ways to have a lavish lifestyle without hopping on social media. I don't know, don't forget to hit the like button, I don't see it going up. Is it going up? Are we hitting the like button? I did not see the like button. Go up, I don't know I don't know. Oh wait.

vicky fox: I wouldn't mind a Cookin wit Jenn series where you show us how you nourish your hair from the inside, perhaps with Haitian recipes

vicky fox: Jenn, I'm sad I missed the rest of this live. I really resonate with this conversation about outgrowing the older members of your family and realizing that the relationship is super toxic. I loved the video where you talked about it and it just makes me feel less crazy and like the one in the wrong to hear other people talk about it. Would love to hear more thoughts about the subject, especially things you learned in therapy--if you feel comfortable sharing any of it.

Fabiola Ford: Your journey is inspirational, love your authenticity, love the hair videos but also equally love your diverse contact as well. Looking forward to more nutrition videos.

vicky fox: I feel like kinky had negative connotations but only because our hair had negative connotations. Those things are less true today. Love and positivity for and acceptance of tightly coiled hair has grown exponentially. And with it, the negativity has lessened. The use of kinky and nappy WITHIN our community is reclaimed and up to the individual for whether and how they use it. As long as there is any negativity directed at our hair, to avoid offense and disrespect, I think people outside of our community should stick to tightly coiled. But y'know, if we ever manage to end racism and all that then words can just be words.

rshwnwhit: I've been wanting to get my hair shaped and grow like yours for so long. But my hair is extremely tight coiled and I don't think it'll ever get there. Lol. And I'm just getting over unwanted comments from my mom and aunt about having my hair so short. They're soo old school and bible on it! I'm good now girl.

Fabiola Ford: You are so relatable!!!

vicky fox: A moment of silence for the strand of hair Jenn ripped out her scalp in the name of science

Zachary Drake: Curly hair is an umbrella term for 3 different curl types. Wavy being loose, coily being tight, and curly being somewhere in the middle. Still a curl, just a very tight curl. Thought it was common sense. I’m with Jenn, potato-potato!

Reservechic: hat people have is hair that was genetically passed down to products according to AndreWalker’s hair typing system. Which is why, I do not hairtpe. There are opinions and then there are scientific facts. This is the thing that is hurting the natural hair community, because so much misleading info has been put out that people just ran with and made popular, which honestly shouldn’t have been. When I go to watch natural or curly hair videos, I watch individuals who have natural hair of all kinds and I enjoy seeing how they take care of their hair and the new products that they try and the demos and reviews of the. I find that great to watch and enjoy. A lot of natural hair Youtubers don’t realize that they can gain much more support and way more views towards the videos that they post that are hair related, by coming up with catchy titles to their videos, that will drawn in individuals with all curltypes and hair textures, which will give them a much broader audience overall. Because, even though I have fine textured , wavy hair, when I am interested in possibly buying and trying a new hair care product, I will see how the product works on a very large scale of different curltypes and hair textures, no matter their ethnicity. I learned that naturally texture hair in respective to curl patterns are wavy, curly and coily. A person can have either one or more of these curl patterns can exist on a person’s head. And, that is actually most common, than just having one. I just want to see people be more educated on how to really take care of their hair individually versus, just thinking, hey this person has similar hair that looks like mines, so whatever works for that other person should 100% work the same for me. It takes trial and error, but it doesn’t take bombarding one’s hair with tons of products that it doesn’ truly need in the 1st place. The overall health of one’s hair and body should be of utmost priority. And, not chancing after the perfect look with their hair, that their favorite Youtuber(s) happens to have and giving into buying and trying everyone that they recommend, hoping and praying that it will work the same for their hair body. One must carve out one’s own individual party plan for peace and happiness with their inner selves, and as well, with their out selves ourselves most importantly too.

Lauren Adams: The 25th announcement..Let me guess...you're with child!

Muriel Williams: Oh no I missed the live

Thea Wilson: What’s going on Jenn.

Shantina Barber: I bet Jen will announce she is with child.‍♀️

Tyrona Alston: 6 inches of hair overnight?!?!?! The LIES they tell!!!!

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