Yes, I have had a WW tell me I should straighten my hair. I told her that I don't think straight hair is attractive or at least on me. I also told her that I prefer big coily hair, not flat to my scalp where it would look like two strands .
I know that trolls will come for me and my comment, I don't care. I think I might be a texturist by only seeing type 4B/4C hair as better and beautiful. I say that to say this, my hair is my best feature. It's coily, kinky, long, sandy, thick, happy , versatile, feminine and stunningly gorgeous. When I look at it, it is perfection and everything I have ever wanted in my hair. However, I didn't know that I had type 4b/4c hair when I was relaxed. I'm so in love with my gorgeous crown that I have to stop and look at it in a window, mirror, my phone or anything with a reflection throughout the day. I use to have the hand in hair syndrome, but I have learned to minimized that. My hair is my pride, my life, my everything, and I pray that it remains with me for the rest of my life.
lol someone who said I should straighten my hair. My mom 😂. Black mom, Caribbean dad. My hair is 4c thick and long. Whenever I do a wash day, first thing she says is “your hair would be down your back with a perm” 🤷🏾♀️🙄
Anok Yai is a beautiful East African model like the other women you mentioned. However, I would say she has keen features, she benefits from featurism even though she does not have an ambiguous exotical phenotype. Lupita Nyong'o is a very authentic dark chocolate, proper dark skinned beautiful East African model.
4C, Nappy and Kinky should all be removed from our vocabulary. -The hair typing method appears to be a ranking system. Guess where you find type 4. - Nappy is derogatory and means diaper. - Kinky is term coined by nonBlk people used to negatively described Afro hair. We need to realize that we are speaking the language of our colonizers. How about we use Non Latin terms to describe our beauty? How do we say beautiful afro hair in indigenous languages?
Alkebu-Lan is arabic for "Land of the Blacks" btw. I do agree on the Nappy and Kinky one ( I refer to my hair as coily). But about the hair typing one, I believe that it is helpful to find people on social media with similar hair types to you when you are starting out on your natural hair journey.
@@ChocolateSquadChannelthe issue is that describing afro hair as strictly coily is inaccurate. My hair is actually not coily, it’s kinky. It zig-zags and is more s shaped than coiled. It’s a tight wave rather than a tight curl, if that makes sense. We have blueprint hair. Some have tight waves and others tight coils. That’s why it’s kinky/coily and not just coily. I hear a lot of ppl getting offended by the word “kinky”, but for some of us that word more accurately describes our hair pattern. I don’t mind the term at all nor do most of the women I know with kinky (not coily) hair.
@@likemycommentifyouwantareply Kinky is a negative term in America, UK, Caribbean, etc. However, we could give it new meaning. As of now, we describe ourselves through the lens of colonizers. Maybe consider adding the words: pretty, beautiful, or soft, etc… in front of kinky, the way media always says beautiful in-front blonde and pretty just after long and silky straight to describe hair. This is called conditioning. Watch people’s reaction when you say, “ so and so has soft kinky hair or beautiful kinky hair.” People are going immediately be confused. Why? Because it is redefining kinkiness. The zig zag hair pattern resembles a high frequency wave found in the color violet. Violet is associated with high vibration and mindfulness. Afro hair is truly divine. 💜💜💜💜
Yeah and unfortunately I could not find one name for the continent given by its original people. Your hair pattern is surface level and appears one way while dry and another when wet. If you also focus on the texture, density and porosity, you more likely to find your fraternal hair twin. The hair typing system is referencing hair Pattern while ignoring the 3 components that make up the individual strands texture, density and porosity. This is why I say that the Typing system is counterproductive and quite frankly, divisive. How can we discuss our beauty without the influence of men and nonAfro melanated people. It may be easier than we think. ❤
@@AminaPhilosophy oooh I like ‘soft kinky’. Kinky should definitely be paired with a positive adjective to revamp the term. I didn’t know that about the color violet and wavelengths, thank you for that fun fact! 💜
Medium length is shoulder length to collar bone length. Long is cascading past your shoulders to mid back. Super long is past mid back. If your hair is mid back, then you have long hair. Be humble. Be happy. 😊
Just another point, when a woman of Afro-descent straightens their hair shouldn't you be comparing to woman of colour who has naturally straight hair like an Indian woman, especially one who has dark skinned. Indian women are the women who have the most beautiful silky straight dark hair. You have to question why everything has to be in proximity to whiteness? Not a woman of colour with a different hair type?
At 3:50 and 4:28 I meant “Internalised Texturism” and “Internally Texturist”, not colourist. Apologies. :)
Yes, I have had a WW tell me I should straighten my hair. I told her that I don't think straight hair is attractive or at least on me. I also told her that I prefer big coily hair, not flat to my scalp where it would look like two strands .
Period!
You are so smart and you are spot on! Be your own beauty standard do not copy someone else’s 👏🏼
Ahh thank you so much ! And thank you for watching :)
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I know that trolls will come for me and my comment, I don't care.
I think I might be a texturist by only seeing type 4B/4C hair as better and beautiful. I say that to say this, my hair is my best feature. It's coily, kinky, long, sandy, thick, happy , versatile, feminine and stunningly gorgeous. When I look at it, it is perfection and everything I have ever wanted in my hair. However, I didn't know that I had type 4b/4c hair when I was relaxed. I'm so in love with my gorgeous crown that I have to stop and look at it in a window, mirror, my phone or anything with a reflection throughout the day. I use to have the hand in hair syndrome, but I have learned to minimized that. My hair is my pride, my life, my everything, and I pray that it remains with me for the rest of my life.
I feel similarly. I love this for us! ❤
To be fair, it is fine to see your hair as the best! As long as you don't talk down on others.
What about 4a ? 😢
lol someone who said I should straighten my hair. My mom 😂. Black mom, Caribbean dad. My hair is 4c thick and long. Whenever I do a wash day, first thing she says is “your hair would be down your back with a perm” 🤷🏾♀️🙄
Omg! Your hair sounds beautiful! :)
Anok Yai is a beautiful East African model like the other women you mentioned. However, I would say she has keen features, she benefits from featurism even though she does not have an ambiguous exotical phenotype.
Lupita Nyong'o is a very authentic dark chocolate, proper dark skinned beautiful East African model.
4C, Nappy and
Kinky should all be removed from our vocabulary.
-The hair typing method appears to be a ranking system. Guess where you find type 4.
- Nappy is derogatory and means diaper.
- Kinky is term coined by nonBlk people used to negatively described Afro hair.
We need to realize that we are speaking the language of our colonizers.
How about we use Non Latin terms to describe our beauty?
How do we say beautiful afro hair in indigenous languages?
Alkebu-Lan is arabic for "Land of the Blacks" btw.
I do agree on the Nappy and Kinky one ( I refer to my hair as coily). But about the hair typing one, I believe that it is helpful to find people on social media with similar hair types to you when you are starting out on your natural hair journey.
@@ChocolateSquadChannelthe issue is that describing afro hair as strictly coily is inaccurate. My hair is actually not coily, it’s kinky. It zig-zags and is more s shaped than coiled. It’s a tight wave rather than a tight curl, if that makes sense. We have blueprint hair. Some have tight waves and others tight coils. That’s why it’s kinky/coily and not just coily. I hear a lot of ppl getting offended by the word “kinky”, but for some of us that word more accurately describes our hair pattern. I don’t mind the term at all nor do most of the women I know with kinky (not coily) hair.
@@likemycommentifyouwantareply Kinky is a negative term in America, UK, Caribbean, etc. However, we could give it new meaning. As of now, we describe ourselves through the lens of colonizers.
Maybe consider adding the words: pretty, beautiful, or soft, etc… in front of kinky, the way media always says beautiful in-front blonde and pretty just after long and silky straight to describe hair. This is called conditioning.
Watch people’s reaction when you say, “ so and so has soft kinky hair or beautiful kinky hair.”
People are going immediately be confused. Why? Because it is redefining kinkiness.
The zig zag hair pattern resembles a high frequency wave found in the color violet. Violet is associated with high vibration and mindfulness.
Afro hair is truly divine. 💜💜💜💜
Yeah and unfortunately I could not find one name for the continent given by its original people.
Your hair pattern is surface level and appears one way while dry and another when wet.
If you also focus on the texture, density and porosity, you more likely to find your fraternal hair twin.
The hair typing system is referencing hair Pattern while ignoring the 3 components that make up the individual strands texture, density and porosity.
This is why I say that the Typing system is counterproductive and quite frankly, divisive.
How can we discuss our beauty without the influence of men and nonAfro melanated people. It may be easier than we think. ❤
@@AminaPhilosophy oooh I like ‘soft kinky’. Kinky should definitely be paired with a positive adjective to revamp the term. I didn’t know that about the color violet and wavelengths, thank you for that fun fact! 💜
Medium length is shoulder length to collar bone length. Long is cascading past your shoulders to mid back. Super long is past mid back. If your hair is mid back, then you have long hair. Be humble. Be happy. 😊
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Just another point, when a woman of Afro-descent straightens their hair shouldn't you be comparing to woman of colour who has naturally straight hair like an Indian woman, especially one who has dark skinned. Indian women are the women who have the most beautiful silky straight dark hair. You have to question why everything has to be in proximity to whiteness? Not a woman of colour with a different hair type?
Took me a while to embrace my tOight curls but i love myself now🥰i can never go back to straightening/relaxing. Tight curls for the win🩷
PERIOD!