From $40k On Wigs To $20k On Natural Hair Products, Women Explore Cost Of Black Haircare | Glam Gap
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
- Black women are spending about $53 million out of $63 million on hair care preparation. In the hair industry, Black women exceed their White counterparts in spend on hair and hair care products. #GlamGap
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The problem for me is not necessarily the money women spend on hair care. The problem is that we DON’T OWN ANY OF THE INDUSTRY. We are paying billions to others and those others barely pay us respect.
And that’s the issue.
It’s Latasha agree
This is so freaking true.. we should be monopolizing the industry 🤦🏾♀️💀
Open a company sis
Plus, the problem is the black people who own a black care market keeps selling out to outside industries that regrades the ingredients to fit every race(Carol's daughter/ shea moisturizer) when its mainly black women who buy the product.
Black women are too busy tearing eachother down to work together.
Hence why the Koreans own everything.
40k on wigs a year made from Brazilian and Asian hair..... Thats so sad.
When Suave introduced a line of hair care products for Black hair, each item was twice the price of their other items. Why are we willing to be exploited like this?
Not to mention their products weren't that great.
Chianti Bliss
Because they know we spend money on our hair, being greedy off the backs of Blacks, again. History always repeats itself in many forms.
We are the only group insisting on sulphate free, silicone free, alcohol free, mineral oil ,petroleum free and paraben free. Well the natural alternatives for those products are expensive!!!
Buy black owned products
Suave really babmoozled a lot of people. The ingredients were the same, only the packaging and promotional stuff was different
I might be an anomaly, but I literally spend at most $150-$200 a year on hair care. I barely buy wigs, I trim my own hair, mostly stick with the same natural hair styles, and my products last a while. I don't think you have to spend that much money to have "nice" hair.
I'm right there with you. 💯
That's the truth. 💛
Yes, I completely agree, and use the cheaper old school / mainstream products that are ($3-$7). I don’t wear extensions either but once a year (braids w/Marley hair), and I do my own hair.
Ursula Chioke I agree with you. I have always done my own hair even when I was relaxed, have been natural for 6 years and I still do my own hair. I love it. I don’t spend any money on wigs or weaves. I always get compliments on my salt and pepper hair!
like you, i refused to spend over 200 on hair every year. However, I spent alot of time waiting... on my hair to accept those simple ingredients to work on me, shea butter wouldnt work, aloe broke off my hair, just water dried it off, i had to use very specific oils. it was literally an experiment and waiting game. I never bought wigs, straightentend nor dependended on turbans because i felt it was a cop out, plus I needed time to deprogram myself from all of the nonsense i was led to believe about my hair while growing up. 10 years of looking dusty just so my hair would finally learn to accept these ingredients. Now my hair likes these ingredients. Its hard out here, but do what's necessary for you... i paid my price, now I know i will be able to pass on the knowledge to my babies when the time comes.
40k on wigs fam!!! Damn I could do a lot with 40k 😂
dontlikeusernames that's a whole car‼️
I could pay off some student loans with that.
Miss Rose she’s a celebrity hair stylist. She buys her hair wholesale from a vender which is why it’s expensive.
@@keondrajanaetv04 and a contribution to a retirement plan.
I'm still smh on that one, even after the video is over.
This video upset me as a black woman. One woman in the video actually said “I’ll miss a birthday, their birthday will come around next year.” So you can’t take the time to attend a birthday party because you of a wash day. It’s NOT that serious.
I wish they would talk about black woman who suffer balding or hair loss. My mother has been suffering hair loss and it’s been eating away at her confidence and she constantly has to hear about how she needs to do such and such and make her hair grow back. Why is her identity as a black woman so wrapped up in her hair? I’m sick of so many black women focusing so much on it! There is absolutely no inclusion for women who have no hair. Instead many people get shamed or talked about with statements like “well at least I have my edges” or “I love my 3a or 4c hair”. So many other black women are shamed into hiding their hair and don’t get the ability to bs confidence without being shamed for having bald spots or thin edges. It sickens me.
Correct
Ugh it goes back to Africa hair has always been apart of our culture and cultures around the world. Society holds a women’s beauty in her hair.
OUR HAIR IS PART OF OUR CULTURE. Come on, you can't be that ignorant.
I thought it was just me. Some parts of this video bothered me.
@@jazzyj904 it is not the only part though...
What irks me is that people believe other races of women are just so effortless with their hair and beauty. They spend a lot of time, money, and effort on their hair especially the bottle blondes. My nonblack coworkers take hours to get ready. Meanwhile my natural hair doesn’t take long at all. Black women can be effortless they are just choosing not to be. That is fine because hair is a cultural statement and can be fun but don’t act like it’s necessary for black women to do all this.
Finally, someone that gets it
I totally agree with U. It takes me Less than 30min aday to do my hair no matter how I wear it. I couldn't relate to this at all.
Exactly! I've been around them. They easily spend $500 on a color and cut like nothing
Great point!
@@veronicacross1293 Took me a couple of hours to comb mine. The struggle is real, BUT, 40k on a wig? Just turn that into 401k and now we're talkin!
It's amazing how much we spend on products, hairdos, and maintenance, yet so many companies, and salons that Don't cater to us. Sad.
...they've definitely changed to lure us
I don’t understand how people be spending all these money on products. Like why do u have a whole cabinet of products. And why is it taking 24 hours to braid your hair by a professional?
Not to mention that we're lucky enough to be able to use kitchen products on our hair that work just fine.
Yeah i didn’t see anything about those braids that should take 24hrs. But maybe her and her hairstylist socialize while she does her hair
It takes me 9/10 hours to braid my hair by myself but 24 hrs is nuts
fr I was confused why is it taking 24 hours to get your hair done mine is the same length took about 5 hours
Only thing I’ve heard taking that long is sister locks
I loved the content from this video, but honestly it would’ve been more beneficial to hear from some of your everyday 9-5 black women speak on how you/we manage to save our dollars in the hair care industry. The more reasonable ones.
Shhhh regular black women dont exist! Gotta cherry pick every self conscious girl to prove the point.
Yeah...i'm looking at all the interviewee titles like, "ok...cool, but where the everyday chicks at?" The ones who haven't been to a salon in more than a decade because they learned to care for their own hair. I'm one of those chicks and I and my daughter have healthy hair down our backs. I guarantee you I spend less than 100 bucks in a 6-month period on hair gimmick, I mean hair care products. My mom taught me (she has tail bone length locs), I added to that knowledge, and i'm teaching my daughter. I'll save my 40k for property and business development...
@@j.r.maverick4355 yess you are an amazing mother!
My mammie raised me and taught me all natural masks and different rinses mostly made out of eggs, different oils, and beer!
I see what my sister and her friends spend on hair hats and color and that just aint for me ✌
@@j.r.maverick4355 mind giving us some tips please, like fr tho 😂😊
@21 Rhinestone Lol! I try to keep it simple with products. I've tried different things over the years, but not much. My staples are Shea Moisture clarifying castor oil shampoo, Design Essentials rosemary and mint conditioner, and castor oil with jasmine essential oil sprinkled in. My hair is like wool, so it will easily drink up a light oiling twice a week. I always tie our hair up at night, I use protective styling for my daughter, and I try to be as gentle as possible by avoiding damaging tools and detangling her hair by hand when I can.
This is why I make my own hair care products! My own natural whipped shea and my own natural oil treatments!!
Make a video
Please share some tips
Pls do share!!
RUclips full of videos
Thanks sis bc I started doing the same thing a couple of years ago.
This hair industry use emotions to get in our pockets. They feed off black women insecurities to build a billion dollar brand. India Arie said I am not my hair I am not my skin I am not your expectation no. Our dollars need to go towards something else and not on hair.
But we're trash towards each other too about this hair thing.. if you have a minute watch Lydia Dinga's latest vid on this hair subject it explains it all too well
I love India Arie too, but the reality is we are judged by our hair. And more harshly than any other race or gender. This is what is driving the demand- societal expectations.
Your right
@Transformation I'm not even black and I noticed that. PEOPLE ARE INDIVIDUALS AND NOT GROUPS
well then are black people really smart or the person who is profitting?
How were Black women caring for their hair 30, 40, 50+ years ago before this Black hair product revolution? What is at the root of this current state of Black women forming their entire lives around hair care? Imagine if that same energy and time was focused on our overall health.
Yes!
They wore wigs
If we took care of our health like our hair there would be no obesity, heart disease, stroke , no one on dialysis, or blindness .or cancers especially breast cancer or uterine cancer which kills high number of black woman we are dying but our hair is done
Say it again for the people in the back who didn't hear you!!!
They had relaxers. Black women were conditioned that if your hair wasn’t as close to white hair you were ugly. It has gotten a lot better with the natural hair movement.
As black women I love how we are always changing up our hairstyles. However, the amount of money some of us spend on products is insane. Buy some stock too!
And sending ming lee to college
I totally agree with you buying stock's are much better. I love my hair looking beautiful but this is extra I am tired just listen to them.
We don’t really have a choice, black hair care products are expensive.
The only reason I was spending so much on my hair is I went natural and was obsessed with not making it look natural. So I wanted my hair to have all this definition and do things it wasn't meant to do. Once I stopped feeling the pressure to conform to what society says my hair should look like and embrace my kinky tresses, I've found that I don't need as much product at all. Most of them work the same anyway. I spend about 70% less than I did when I first went natural.
Exactly
Agreed. And my hair reached its full potential when I actually start to love and desire my hair type and let it do what
t it wants to do
Thank you! I hate this narrative that natural black hair is expensive or more work or more investment than any other type of hair its not only untrue but feel like its rooted in antiblackness
@@keondraprier8641 It definitely is.
I refuse to spend more than $10 for a product. In my opinion, all of that is unnecessary
I spend $11 on 'kinky curly not today' because it works
@@dongysakura418 Amén. THIS COMMENT NEEDS AN AMÉN.
And you're right 👍
Agreed
Well it’s higher quality
We make hair care too complicated! Tbh I’m natural and I like to 2 strand, 3 strand box braid (myself) whatever . Every 2 months I spend $50 (shampoo, consitione, styling cream, avocado oils (seal). (I stretch out every drop, and scrape the bottle). Call me cheap but I have other priority bills to pay.
i respect your hustle. Some of the women ouchea be accusing folks like us of having messed up hair, or non-polished hair.... okay, AND?? 10 years later, my hair is healthy AF, long, thick, i know what to do with it, because i never relied on super expensive and extravagant products to begin with. If my hair starts falling or acting ratchet i know immediately what to do.... and i rarely rely on professionals since they f*k up my hair anyway. I spent 10 years on this journey, now I'm a wig wearer (syntetic wigs.. because girl, i love money and i love my edges) oh... haha.. and im 4c hair... so you damn right, i was called ALL types of
heinous names because of this texturerism nonsense. after 10 years now, i believe i'm starting to reap the fruits of my labor now. i got money in the bank, and my hair and i are allies.
Brittney J girl same that design essentials is my business I only spend $65 and that’s with a hair grease and castor oil bottle 😂
That’s a lot of money for hair products though
I was like, maybe I’m just broke but I cannot bring myself to spend more than $50 in one sitting on hair products and not get an entire line (aka conditioner, deep conditioner, styler, gel etc). I always go to Marshall’s where it’s on sale or hit up my black owned ones when they have their Labor Day, Black Friday sales.
@@tulip324 same here.
She spent more on wigs than what I made as a teacher in my first year smh
Latisha Williams but why thou why do we as black women obsess over hair
Grace.- all women obsess over hair.
She also makes more than you as a celebrity stylist
Bw obsess over beckys hair too much though
I can't and won't think about how much money I've spent on my hair alone..
Say that!!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Amen
The owner of Camille rose got a lot of nerve saying we spend a lot on hair care when her hairline is literally an arm and a leg. She would know better than most
I hate to say it but I spend nothing on hair care. I just shampoo and condition twice a month. I spend nothing on clothes. I am 52 and I have enough clothes to last till I die. The only thing I spend my money on is grocery and my utilities, car, mortgage and car insurance. I have no other bills. I keep my life simple. Very simple. I'm glad everyone is not like me because if they were no businesses would prosper except the grocery store. lol and no I am not overweight because I don't eat out. another expense I don't have.
lets talk! im interested in learning from you!
Ebizzill right? Me too 😂😂 I’m currently living that broke college student life and I need to find ways to save money😂😂
@beverly boo what is your info?
i will connect with you too @tblake
I wish I was like u I spend like a mad woman😥😥😥😥😥
Same. I have no debts.
Here's another layer to this convo: black woman in business get zero funding for their startups. This one sided business model of how we invest in other brands but rarely do others invest in us is toxic conditioning.
Malene Charles THANK YOU!!!!!
Ming lee constantly going to college off of bw...
I am 65 years young and I didn’t grow up worrying about my hair. My family never had the money to go to the salon so we did our hair at home. I still do my hair at home. I am natural and I keep it clean, conditioned, cut and healthy. No wigs or weaves. Just black owned products that work for my hair, but I am willing to try other products that work.
Cool. If u dont mind me asking. What kind of styles do u do and what's your fav black owned hair care brands?
I have been going to Taliah’s natural hair show for the past 4 years and have tried many products but my hair loves Camille Rose products because they are glycerin free. TGIN products as well. Design Essentials work. Twist outs is my style and I love the undercut. I am in the process of growing out my sides but will keep my nape shaved. I use Shea butter and all kinds of oils. Coconut oil stays on my kitchen table.
DanceSexMusicHipHop Can you please tell me if this is generational? In the segregated south where I grew up, these issues were not a problem. Of course things changed with integration and black girls trying to compete with white girls to get attention from the black boys. The boys fell in love with their long straight hair! Sad to say their white skin as well!
Kathy MahoneStreet yes, this is very real. It is very generational, sad to say, but it’s true. Also it’s really interesting hearing your perspective being that you’re from the previous generation. Thanks for sharing.
Sun kissed_ Melanin O Thanks for your reply! It is great to hear from different generations!
it’s neverrrrr that serious, there’s so many ways to avoid spending this much
I know right
Spend so much money and hair still look a mess for the most of them 🤯
Righttttt
I make my own stuff,and I do my hair, my daughter's hair,and my brother's hair. I have never spent that kind of money on my hair. I have bills to pay and a family to take care of. That is more important to me.
I wish more black women had the same mentality.
Looks like you have locs though
Nikki Raton but you can do locs on yourself for the low and she said she does her own hair
Great attitude. My mother always did her own braids and hair and taught my sister. What happende to "DIY" and "self-made"....
💪👏👏👏👏👏❤
I always felt like Camille Rose was expensive 👀.
Girl her products are 16.99 a pop, They want us to support black business but charge that for each product
Two words... Black Friday.
I love CR because a little goes a long way and they are glycerin free for this Georgia humidity!
Her products are the only products that are worth the price.......to me
@@Eveningbreeze721 nope! That spring $10 sale
That analogy of being groomed by our mothers is a act of love, is soooooooo true. So true.
Black women are really doing the MOST.
Haircare is that, HAIRCARE. You shouldn’t be taking days off to care for your hair. (Braids are another story.)
The natural hair movement is amazing but we went from spending money on relaxers and sew ins to now spending that money on natural hair products and wigs/breads.
Haircare is expensive for our hair types. I buy products in the salon sizes for that reason. But another reason why we spend a lot is because many of use have a mentality that we need every new product launch and have thousands of products we don’t use
And my wash day isn’t a day. It’s more like an hour and I leave home with damp hair. Why must we stay home to dry our hair? Every other race of women leave home with damp hair....and I’m saving money and I’m no longer balding with damaged hair.
Brit Ferguson why doesn’t this have more likes
Where do you buy salon size?
Because leaving home with damp hair means hair is shrunken. For 4c hair u should never leave ur hair in a shrunken state
Yes sis I leave home with wet hair too embracing my curls!
Totally agree. Sounds like internalized racism to me
What genius pays full price for products? Clearly a lot of y'all don't know how to shop. There's two major times of the year to buy products: Black Friday and spring time (late April / early May). The idea is to rack up enough during Black Friday where brands are offering 40-60% off to last you until April. Then rack up again until the late summer / beginning of fall. Lots of brands will do a sale a month or two before Black Friday. Also, look for natural hair shows in your area or in cities near you. They also slash the prices in half. There is no damn reason y'all should ever pay full price for hair products. Because I sure as hell don't. Follow these brands on IG, sign up for their newsletters, etc. I've never paid full price and will never. I like quality, high end natural hair products, but the frugal chick in me will never pay retail price. Smarten up.
Locking my hair has saved me so much time and money!
Same here!
Me too. I legit probably spend less than $50 on my haircare per YEAR! lol. I buy hair oil and shampoo. That's it! I love my locs. 12 years strong 💪🏿
Yes. I just use dr bronners and blue magic on my scalp. Best decision ever.
Babygirl2986 What about tightening. Don’t that cost? My sister has sister locks and she has to pay to maintain it....unless you’re walking around with fuzzy loose roots.
Sister locs are harder to maintain vs regular locs. You need a specialist in sister locs trained in that method to tighten them. Regular locs can be tightened easily at home for free 99. ✊🏿
Do they know How Much of that Money could go Towards their Retirement?
Imagine if that chick that spent 40k on wigs invested it into a business or better yet- opened her own salon
Lol ❤
Like imagine spending that much money on hair and you have nothing to show for it. Embarrassing
@@missunique5227 An then give up and decide that wearing an Indian person's discarded hair is better than you could ever do with your own genetic makeup.
Learning how to do hour own hair will save you endless money. Braiding is too expensive. RUclips saves lives ladies.
That's true but I can't seem to understand how to do my own braids
I used to be a product junkie until I stopped buying and actually used a product until completion.They are counting on us overbuying and over using!
You can Just slap on a wig and attend your friends birthday party
Mame Camara, Nangadef. on wear a beautiful headscarf
Hey did you go to Pike Highschool...i knew of a Fatoumata ..i think she had your last name..if so HEY Girl lol
They are Too Self Absorb.
Lechiffresix six right ... that’s what I do. Head wrap or wig 🥳
Lol!!
Dosnt seem like a black issue.... Seems like a low self esteem issue being taken advantage of by big hair companies.......
💯💯
Completely agree!
Well said!
💯💯💯💯
Bw have low self esteem and insecure
The highest expenses goes on wigs and protective styles. Not in product to moisture. Let's be honest about that. When we embrace our blackness entirely, we'll save a lot of money sisters. Yeap I said it.
Looking at this video; decluttering, organizing, minimizing and natural hair using 4 products for under $30 monthly was the best decision I have ever made.
I literally use two products, aside from shampoo...hair grease and leave in conditioner. It just ain't that deep for me.
Contact graysom_autumn on instagram he will fix your sick promises,he did mine thank me later💯💯
Sisters stop the madness. We get paid the least & spend the most. I am a reformed product junkie & decided to start using natural oils, T. Joe's shampoo/ conditioner & a decent leave in. Turns out it only costs abt $20- $30 / month. I also save bcuz I only go to the hairdresser col times a year. As a mom just cldn't justify spending the $$ & more importantly didn't want to teach my daughter that it was ok to spend that much $$ on beauty products.
I spend the minimal on hair products and I rarely visit salons. I just couldn't imagine spending ridiculous amounts of money on my hair. I was shocked when a 17 year old female I worked with told me that her birthdays were expensive because she had to buy bundles then pay someone to install the bundles. While it's important to look after our hair because of its texture we definitely over do things.
I tried the "wash day" thing, and it didn't make sense to me so now I wash my hair when I take a shower (maybe once a week), dry it with a towel/shirt, put in chunky braids until I have to leave the house.
The entire process probably takes an hour (including my shower).
So far so good.
I think we've been fed the narrative of our hair needing a lot of "care" and "attention" but in reality it doesn't really have to be the case.
Why isn't curly/full hair the staple of "beauty" and straight/flat hair considered unkempt by the masses? It's time to flip the table.
Also...being effortless or low maintenance as a black woman, requires a lot of self esteem. When you no longer care about what others think of you, all of the extra goes away.
Y’all a little extra tbh this isn’t really the average black women this is like someone who really livin lavishly
Very true
Whewww chile all that money on hair can pay for college. I guess i dont get it. Im relaxed and i get a retouch about every 3 months, and i wash my hair myself every week. I buy liter joico products at Ulta during their big sale twice a yr. I just cant bring myself to spend all that money. Most of these products suck anyways. These white brands use the same ingredients for white hair and just slap a black person on the bottle or claim it is for black hair.
Kuttiesmith03 I agree with you...
Exactly!! I go to a professional about 3 to 4 times per year, and between visits, I shampoo, deep condition and style my own hair. If we would only invest the money we waste on foolishness.
Congratulations
We need a list of black owned brands, still being managed by blacks so we invest back into our community. Also I dont why black hair products more expensive than other products.
Rauha K Paulus because of the natural ingredients used in products.
Exactly which discourages me from supporting sometimes.
@@dazzeldil143 well i guess that makes since if it really is expensive..i mean buying natural oil is expensive when I get it at whole foods but idk.
All they will do is sell out to whites in the end so what’s the difference?
Taliyah McKenzie true!! like Shea moisture 🙄
We say dollars are not in our black community, clearly that’s not all the way true. Look how much is spent on hair alone 🤦♀️
It's there but it doesn't stay there
I wear my hair natural, weaved, and braided with weave. I love how I look in every form. I don’t spend that much on hair by doing this also haha. Don’t judge a woman’s confidence and self worth by her hair *cough cough, these comments*
I'll stop judging womens confidence when women stop basing their own confidence over their hair.
I was a hairstylist for years and every woman in this video needs a therapist- not a stylist!
ChellyTheGreat exactly
@@RainyRunningRiver 😂😂
Instead of calling it wash day I call it self care day. I love washing my hair! I love my natural hair ❤️
Y’all gotta learn to do your own hair and to ration how much you’re using. I’ve saved so much just doing my own hair with the exception of like once a year that I will let someone else do it.
I enjoyed reading all of the comments and respect them, we are all different and of different generations. I like the education I get from reading the various perspectives. I think different hair types and textures require a little more tender loving care.
I'm a man that buys a $2 can of barbasol shave cream that can last me amazingly all year and a razor can last me just as long for a couple cents. So it costs me about $3 A YEAR to shave my head and I've been shaving my head my whole life. I've never stepped foot in a barbershop my whole life! Everytime time I shave my head in the shower, I always think to myself: "DAMN I'm saving ALOT of money!" Its so much cheaper being a man!
I started my natural hair journey as a broke high schooler. I’m lucky to have started out learning how to do my hair without excess product. As an adult I can proudly say I make house visits to my family members houses to do their natural hair. They started being natural because of me and grooming their Afros and dreads have brought us even closer.
Same here! I began my natural journey in 2009 during my freshman year in high school. I had to learn what worked for my hair and what didn't. I was the only person I knew with natural hair and RUclips didn't have very many naturals to follow. I now make my hair products and sell them to friends and family for a reasonable price along with styling their hair.
I just want an aloe vera plant cause it's great for afro hair. Aloe makes and keeps it soft and helps with much-needed moisture. Our hair will drink up water like an alcoholic cause it stays thirty. Don't use products that will or can remove moisture.
This comment is already a week old- but at Lowes they have Aloe plants on sale for $1
I keep hearing this but my mother tried aloe on me twice and it made my hair even dryer than it was before.
I used to be like this until I started making my own hair products:
Flaxseed or aloe Vera mixed with some oils for a curl defined of gel
Avocado, banana, rice water for deep conditioner
Rice water, water, aloe Vera gel for leave in conditioner or moisturizer
I’ve learned a lot!
But if I ever do buy hair products, it’s only ever from black-owned businesses ✊🏿
Do you sell your produce? I'm not really a diy person but I would happily purchase other people's homemade products.
CATHOLIC THOT I do not :( but one day I’d love to :)
Am I the only person who thinks she should hire a new stylist? 24 hrs for braids really?
This is crazy! Spending a lot of money on haircare was part of the reason I decided to loc my hair. I have my products narrowed down to 4 things that cost me no more that $25 at the beauty supply. I used to have a shitload of products because I couldn’t figure out what worked with my hair type.
Great series!
YUP, and this is why im choppin my hair off. It is too expensive and takes too much time. I wanna get up and go. no worries. no leaving the house with wet hair... NOPE im over it. Time for the chop lol
Lol I hear I'm opposite. I want mine long.
Neicy Nunnery lawd i had it all the way too my butt and i would break combs and brushes. Im just tired. And texas gets too damn hot!
Girl that’s the best thing I ever did was cut my hair off
I felt the same way and chopped mine off the end of July... I don’t miss anything those women spoke about especially the washing and twisting and waiting for it to dry. I happily pay my barber his $25 and I’m on my way!
I did it 5 times..and shaved it twice after regrowing my hair back to natural length ;)
This is why I'm happy that I was a broke college student when I first went natural. I had to look up the *natural* naturals, who didn't use any products-the "rub the sebum from your scalp down your hair-shaft to detangle your hair"...type naturals. The only thing I could afford was Olive Oil (for cooking) and a shower, lol. So when I finally got money, I knew how to care for my hair without needing 20 different products. But that's also why I don't have an issue with spending a little more on a product like Melanin haircare and putting money in the pockets of another black woman who created haircare for black women.
ALSO invest in a doll head and practice doing styles so you can do your own hair and won't have to stop your whole day and spend a whole check just to get a stylist. There are way too many YT instructional videos on how to style hair to be complaining about how you have to hit up the salon.
40k a year just to push the Euro Centric beauty standards even more... We are a mess as a people... 🙄 I respect the beautiful sistas who want nothing to do with the Euro Centric beauty anymore and are pushing Afro Centric beauty instead.. ✊🏾✊🏾
Honestly if black women as a whole were more comfortable with their natural hair we wouldn’t spend that much on weave & wigs.
Loving this new series on here, things I can actually relate too 💖
Lol I learned that I was cheap and I don't care my hair as much as other black women
Me too
What if I told you; shampoo’s like Treseme, Garnier, Aussie, etc. work just fine
What if I told you: you are telling the TRUTH! Seriously a massive bottle of Treseme lasts me for 6 months!
If we as black women stop comparing our hair to other races and just accept our hair for what it is we want have to spend so much money on products, wigs, extensions and extremely long and unnatural looking hair and braids.
THANKS!
Thank you!!!!
As a Black Woman this is really embarrassing...
Contact graysom_autumn on instagram he will fix your sick promises,he did mine thank me later💯💯
They should have interviewed 'Indigenous Strandz' with her thigh length type 4 a/b natural hair‼️
She doesn't spend very much money on hair. 🌟✔️
I love you for this comment. So much money spent but none of them have long hair. That’s the point of the market right? Lol ( also I’m talking about the women in the documentary) we gotta get it together.
I stopped being a product junkie a long time ago. I use aloe vera as a leave-in and a mixture of oils as a styler. The key is to discover what your needs and that usually doesn't cost a fortune.
I’ve gone back to the basics and spend $4.00 every 4-5 months with shampoo, conditioner and grease. VO5 and Blue Magic grease. I have 4c hair and it only takes 20 mins to wash, condition and grease. Not 3 hours!! That’s insane!!
40K on wigs? Please use Divatress.
Claire Joseph she’s a celebrity hair stylist. 40k is the amount of hair she’s buying to services all her customers since she’s buying wholesale.
I get a 40% off coupon from cvs almost ever week. I use that to buy my products. Sally's will let you return if you don't like the products. Also, target gives hair coupons on cartwheel. But SN: I'm going spend money on my hair. I love to switch it up. I do try my hardest to buy black but it doesn't always happen. I wish more black ppl provide quality synthetic wigs, I would buy!
They stopped giving me 40% off coupons months ago :(
As a stylist, I have white clients spend $150-$300 every 2-3 weeks for a chemical service, products, & styling.
Those are elective services that require upkeep. Black women spend that much to maintain our own hair (washing and keeping it moisturized and protected)
sjc04d a A majority of the services are not elective. They are required to keep their hair presentable, healthy, free of split ends, moisturized, and ph-balanced. Mainly because of things like (hard) well water, use, environment, harsh styling, frequent time in chlorine pools, or just unfavorable genetics, etc.
*Watches this and uses my $3 blue magic grease*😂 I'm done spending tons of money in this industry and stressing over what OTHERS feel my hair should look like. Simple is better for me.
Imagine if that trillion dollar spend was used for Black infrastructure and systems, ownership of industries etc - this is literally heart breaking - I understand the reasons but there has to be a better way that uplifts us directly financially speaking
This video was painful 😖😫😫😫😂😂
My black mammie is rolling in her grave.......
The most painful video, I have watched in years!
It was
I was actually mad 😡
I don't even spend 30 dollars a month for my hair...
Sis in the mustard yellow and black top is gawgeous! 😍😍😍🔥🔥🔥
I don’t spend that much on products😭 i use oil, some Shea butter and a leave in. And some eco styler gel and I’ll venture out on other products sometimes🤷♀️
Products do be expensive but I feel like a lot of over do it when it comes to products. All you need is a deep conditioner, a moisturizer, and a styler. You don’t need all the extra
5:00 love her sisterlocks. I started my locs in 2018. Best decision to date. Once a month a maintainance and its impacted by eating habits. More water, fish, fish, fruits, and veggie.
Edge gels and curl defining creams? Please y’all just like to spend money just to spend it🙄🤚🏾
Thank you! Just Go back to grease or use olive oil. This movement is all about money.
I think most of the women in this video are exaggerating the "cost of black natural hair care". Expensive wigs and weave are not necessary. Natural hair isn't "a fight for it to be presentable". The issue is that we are not educated as to how to take care of your hair. I've been natural for 5 years and I probably $20 US per month on hair.
I've been natural since 1985 & make my hair oil & gel & curl cream from products at Trader Joe's. We need to create our own products & monetize them for ourselves.
As a mixed guy with longer hair i almost fell into this trap of spending lots of money on a bunch of different hair care products after combing out my dreads. I recently started to limit myself to 5 hair care products I know work for my hair instead of saying "Let me buy this to see if it'll work better for my hair" stop doing this. A shampoo, conditioner, deep conditioner, moisturizer and styling cream is all you need and use them till they're empty. You dont need a closet full of products from different brands that do the same thing. focus on products that keep your hair moisturized like a moisturizer or leave in and a product that retains that moisture and gives you hold like a gel or styling cream.
This is just my opinion, Whenever I see women doing a hair video or products it's all about curls. Everyone texture is different. I find that those products doesn't work for me because I don't have loose curls or curly hair. I had very course hair...mad shrinkage. I'm ok with that.
For years I have used Ultra Sheen shampoo & conditioner, and Dax hair grease has worked just fine for me. Yes I took it back to the way my mama cared for my hair and no issues.
These new brands for natural hair cost so much money, it's ridiculous. When I don't feel like dealing with my hair, I go and get my braids done and that's not often.
They want 3b, 3c hair texture when they really have 4c smh
Shea butter, sweet almond oil, and lavender oil mixed together is what I use for my hair now. I thank those youtubers who provided me with the knowledge on how to make homemade hair cream. I buy my butters, and oils from a Black owned business. Gone are the days when I am giving my money to other people who show me scant respect. There really is no good reason why black women should be spending so much on hair products. These companies know that black women are prepared to pay top dollar, and so they exploit that fact.
$330 for braids rah that’s mad
I had a women that did it for less than £60
All I'm hearing is CHOICE CHOICE CHOICE. You are competing with other women and paying to win. You spend money on what's important to you.
Women who don't value that don't pay for it. Some women value shoes, some women value their daughters cheer leading, some women spend that money on their bodies to attract men, some women spend money on education. Some women will have no money in the bank, but their house is hooked up.
Spending this kind of money on hair is just not an option to me. I'm at about $150 a year on hair and I don't have any disadvantages in my life because of this. BUT I spend money on the things that are important to me. These ladies are no different.
If the energy of the video was pride in how much they invest in themselves and their HOBBY then I wouldn't care at all. But the energy is victim-hood in my opinion.
Great video, thank you for this
Camille rose is expensive. They want us to buy black owned brands, but black owned brands are the most expensive
ForevaLaTrelle coach and Nike aren't too expensive though.
This documentary comes from a linear view. This is not every women of colour narrative.
Learn how to do your hair. If your hair dresser is doing something that works ask her what she's doing for your hair.
Beverly Davis exactly I’ve been doing my own hair for years and it works for me.
The part that I find sad and disappointed about this video is how reliant and codependent some of these women are to their hairdresser. Knowing how to take care of and style your hair is just a necessary skill
The chick with the braids are u serious!!!! For your hairdo I spend 200 and 24 hours dam!!!🤔
This myth that the average Black Woman is completely unreasonable when it comes to her hair care and budget has got to stop. Just read all these comments here. Woman after woman, with all hair types, talking about how they care for their own hair and don't spend a mortgage every month doing it.
$40k a year for WIGS?? Why not spend that money to pay off debt or for your future children’s tuition if you plan on having them? Generational wealth?😟
Right , good wigs are not that expensive and can last for years.
We need our own hair industry again
Am I the only one struggling to understand three hour wash days? A few extra minutes in the shower is all I need unless I'm deep conditioning under a hood.
What are you doing that takes three hours?
Some people just go slow and show there hair a lot of tlc, so no breakage, length retention and preventing bad ends, it all for our hair
I used to be obsessed with different products, but I got a sour taste in my mouth once Carol's daughter was sold to Pantene (?) And Shea Moisture changed as well. I said forget it I'm keeping my $$. Now its coconut oil, shea butter, olive oil, with the basic leave in cream and shampoo and conditioner with an occasional special ingredient like Goji berry or aloe vera. Hair is now down my back. Gave up on wigs cause i dont have the patience for the maintenance, and its too hot in florida.
Ain't this something to spend so much money on hair care & its maintenance when most of them can't pay off their debt.
True people can buy junk food all the time but can’t go to Sally’s Clearance section I bought 5 hair mask 20 cents each with macadamia oil and buy a detangling brush at Walmart for 8$ that works for 4 years come on now.
I’m not spending that kind of money on hair. And over the last few months I have reduced how much I spend and I’m working on becoming a minimalist when it comes to my hair.
4:27 How sad and PATHETIC do you have to feel about yourself to miss yout freinds party to get your hair done????