Sis...dont take this the wrong way,because this is truly a compliment. You are giving me Navi....the avatar, way of the water vibes with the blue,your hair,features etc!!!! You got the game on lock!!
I am so tired of wigs, relaxers, and even braiding hair. Sometimes I sit there as I’m struggling to do knotless box braids, and I ask myself, aren’t you tired? Why can’t I just let it grow out of my head the way it is? I know there’s multiple reasons why I feel this way. I just don’t want to do it anymore so I have a bit of a difficult journey ahead of me, learning to love myself in my truest form.
I had this same epiphany! Mine was around the time Keke Palmer was in the media a lot promoting Nope. Seeing her with her cute little curls really did something for me so lately I've just been like f*** it! Rock my natural hair, it doesn't always have to be "done" or edges laid all the time and let me say it's sooooo liberating. I will do braids or maybe a weave here and there if I feel like but my "go to" style now is literally just rocking my hair as it is right out of the shower. No twist out, no cancerous products, just detangle and moisturize. I've gotten the most compliments ever, you feel younger and more beautiful when you embrace your crown, let that sunshine bless it! A little tip: for me (because my hair rn is growing out from a big chop so its in super awkward length) it helped my self esteem to do cute but light makeup like euphoria inspired makeup, and a cute outfit helps to pull everything together so I didn't feel so bare. you will feel so many emotions but as long as you're CONFIDENT 🔑and choose something flattering for you it's an amazing beautiful thing I promise you! I felt comfortable enough to even go to the club with my natural hair which may not seem like much but like most black girls I always felt the need to throw on a wig. And another thing I find interesting: I got compliments from every type of person but mostly from white women and white men surprisingly. So all of what we think about our hair is really just us as people tearing ourselves down for literally no reason. Definitely over contributing to that! I say all of this to hopefully encourage you (and more ladies) who feel like this it's really awesome and it truly does wonders for your spirit once you learn to love every bit of yourself 💕💕💕
Yeah same had enough, I decided to try locs in loc down as everything was closed, here I am nearly 3 year later, best decision ever and I started with a TWA, my hair had broken off from the 'protective styles' and relaxers...its on my channel.
About seeing the kinkiest hair in its untampered state, I see it every day on my daughter's head and I love it and leave it to do it's thing despite years (5yrs now) of comments from teachers, random people on the street, family members and even her own father wanting to texturize it to make it more acceptable. I can't even leave her with my mom for too long because she says that she'll relax it to make it "prettier". Her hair is clean, healthy and moisturized but that's not enough for people suffering from self hate and internalized racism and overt texurism. It's so evil that black people even in Africa (SA) can't accept their own hair.
Protect your daughters hair at all cost. No child should have a perm without making that decision themselves. Sad black people don't see their own beauty to fit a standard not made for them.
Wow, shocked that I'm reading this about someone in SA. I guess it makes sense considering how much majority of women here can't seem to live without wigs and weave is the beauty standard. But I felt like things are changing with newer generations.
I totally agree with you 100%. I think Blk people just don't like kinky hair. But at the same time, I don't think that the natural hair movement was a total bust. There are more women wearing their hair natural then ever before. The dangers of perms were exposed and some of us learned that all those products were not good for our hair and health. For example, all of my family members went natural, either loose hair or locs, and I don't see anyone turning back. Love your commentary and insight.
I agree with you 100&, I also went natural during that time and saw the way it affected my community. there was a lot of beauty brought into the movement and a lot of it was grassroots and people figuring it out in real time.
Research shows that the actually do. We are just being trained by anti-blackness to not like our hair. It's all apart of an exploitation strategy. You can't exploit people if they love and want better for themselves.
I do agree. I grew up where NOBODY ON TV was natural. At least nobody with a kinky texture and if they did it was locs. The 80s and 90s were a mess for natural hair. I went natural in 2004 and my family literally laughed and now they're all natural. Even my cousins. So i can't say it was a total bust. We just got to keep pushing. ALOT of progress was made. And a lot more will come. Black women have that power💪🏾
@@Eden519 every time they “discover” something the price goes up. It even happened with grits. When they became obsessed with this “new” food phenomenon the price for a box of grits went through the roof lol
I live in a whiter area of Michigan, and where I am there’s a shop called “Buff city soap” it’s a white owned soap and body butter shop but everything about it is so commercialized and soulless it really reallyyy rubs me the wrong way.
OMG 😳 You are looking absolutely stunning with that Blue Radiating off of your dark skin. Just Beautiful! Y’all Young’s are outdoing yourself in the Beauty Department on colors, style and light 💡 💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿
Perms are literally a scam. I'd never get one just of the fact that cancer runs in my family. Also you can always just use heat. I actually did my first blow out a couple months ago and i was surprised how easy it was too do it myself. Tbh a lot natural hair content makes doing your own hair seem scary and dramatic for no reason lol
lol truuu they wanna make it seem unruly so you gotta turn to products or people to do it for you. personally my hair never took well to heat but if yours does, then you can explore with ease from your own home
Theres plenty of old women alive that had relaxed their hair all their lives and didn't get cancer nor did their hair fall out it comes down to genetics and what you have consumed in your lifetime.
@@TheAnonyy yes and no, because i know that relaxers can cause and have been linked to fibroids. I know more black women than any other race that have fibroids
@@TheAnonyya study recently came out that linked uterine cancer specifically to the chemicals in relaxers which makes sense since black women are the ones with the highest rates of that disease and are the ones who consume those products the most. It’s no coincidence. They literally tricked us into putting poison on little girls head is horrible.
SOME people can just use heat, but the rest of use have our hair visibly start reverting once we leave the salon or sweat. I can still remember the day I got a silk press, got out into the sun, and into my car. 20 minutes later and still in the car with the AC on my har was looking like a bad blow out (cuz it wasn't that stretched out). The only time my hair stayed stretched was the time i actually damaged it with heat, but limp hair wasn't for me. loc'd now
After using Mielle for years, I decided not to support them anymore. I don’t have 4c hair but I do have type 4a low porosity thick hair. I am currently in the process of researching other brands. I cannot support Mielle anymore after they partnered with P & G and “ allegedly” paid a white influencer to promote their products knowing that there would be outrage. They could have created another line for non black people but chose not to. I know the owner of the company said she won’t change the formula but I know eventually they will change it just like they did with Shea Moisture and Carols Daughter. I’m going to leave before they change the formula.
I stopped supporting them years ago because of the way the owner and her husband treated CZcamsr, Leila Lynn because they didn't like her review of one of their products.
The daily gaslighting blk women go through just to be heard is more than ridiculous. I had locs for 4 years and I felt the most beautiful and free with them. Grant it, I’m back to lose natural (and I like it also). I do think type 4 hair has to exist within itself- and with minimal product
I wish there was a way blk women could communicate with one another in secret online to discuss hair/ makeup/ fashion because we definitely have to start keeping information on the low because every time they infiltrate blk women spaces the products get watered down. A lot of times I don’t even think they care about the products they just like trolling and being centered in everything
It gets watered down after being brought because there is always a comment once it crosses over that the product “is too greasy” or “leaves a film” since we love /need the butters and moisture but others typically don’t. It may also be to cut costs. But I have seen sooo many “too greasy” comments I had to leave reviews sometimes to say I loved the product the way it is don’t change it.
"Just because it's business doesn't mean that people can't grieve, people can't be sad about what's going on" ALL OF THIS AND MORE!! something I've noticed more and more is that even when we're obviously being slighted, black women aren't allowed to be in their feelings for even a millisecond of time. yea, a lot of this is due to literally any emotion we experience being dismissed as anger by non-black folks, but I find the call is also coming from within the house, and goddamn does it get loud. what hurts so much about it coming from other black folks, other black women, is that oftentimes it comes from this continued expectation of quietly taking things on the chin and just moving forward. while yea, we more than most have to wade through the bullshit of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination; that doesn't mean we have to just take it a move forward, take it without taking time to process how we feel. there's this growing expectation of apathy that scares me in our community. this belief that the only way we can respond to this world and its nonsense is by simply cutting off feeling, and when one of us doesn't fall in line, we're embarrassing all black women cause we dared to show how something hurt us personally. im not the best with words, but it feels like a penalization of us daring to be people, ya'know? or maybe it's just another way black women are denied vulnerability. ur prolly gonna mention this, but ive had this stewing for a bit.
yeah youre totally right, how many times are we expected to just 'take it on the chin'? and I agree, it was also mainly black people trying to explain what capitalism is and how its ok (even tho im sure we all understand how capitalism works and it doesn't take away the harm of the pain) were expected to be ok with constantly being betrayed. thanks for writing this.
@@mayowasworld: I agree with all of this, but betrayed by whom? Capitalism did not “force” Mielle to sell. If anything, this situation and a history of Black businesses selling out should strengthen our resolve, increase dialog, and change our outlook on how we do business in the future and what Black unity and loyalty mean and how they affect us both culturally and economically.
I admit. I don’t understand the grief or outrage. If the brand had made certain promises then sure. But they didn’t promise any of us anything. Furthermore I always expect all brands to do what’s best for themselves financially. Is that not the same perspective everyone shares about brands?
@ag5495 it's less about brands just following corporate interests (cause that's no surprise there), and more about looking at it from a broader perspective. that perspective being that we have seen this happen again and again and again, wherein the interests of black women is used simply as a stepping stool to a whiter audience. thus meaning that, once again, for the women that mielle's (that shea moisture's, that carol's daughter's) products worked for, they have to start from scratch again. they have to once again deal with the fact that something that was (even for a moment) for them, has once again been redesigned and redirected for and toward white audiences, for whom the majority haircare is already focused on. it's frustrating and upsetting when time and time again, ur unconsciously told that u and urs don't matter in the long run. we all know it's just business, but that doesn't change the fact that for a lot of black women who've been in this cycle over and over, this shit only gets more tiring, more frustrating, and more discouraging over time. when the majority of haircare already isn't oriented towards us, to have one of the few brands that are make it obvious that we were simply a marketing hurdle to be overcome, again, is emotionally exhausting. like can't we have just the one thing, ya'know? not to mention, it isn't just mielle, but this constant society wide issue of using the black gaze as a gateway to wider (whiter) audiences. having this extend to all aspects from our media to our haircare, again, is emotionally exhausting.
"There's this growing expectation of apathy" This is so true!! I've noticed the same thing. Also, the insistence from certain people that all we should focus on is hustling & getting a bag and if you speak up about anything other than that you're called a broke crybaby hater.
I mean rosemary is easy to buy, and even cheaper to grow at home. Steep it in an oil of your choice along with other herbs and BOOM. Oil. I do understand that many people can’t do that for their own reasons but we need to at least consider it.
Agree and her oil is watery af lmao. I bought it for the first time a week ago and I can say this will definitely be the last time I’d rather steep rosemary with castor oil
Lowkey I feel like 4c hair people should be wearing clipins and wigs that are the same texture as theirs. I personally don't like wigs/extensions because I want to be more environmentally conscious but I condone wigs that at least look like our hair. It's sad that we need straight hair tk be beautiful
Exactly. It's a symptom of self hate imo, if you truly love your hair you won't want to be hiding it, imitating other textures but so many are in deep denial and even using excuses like "other races also wear wigs" but ... They wear wigs or extensions that actually emulate their OWN textures... Just so many excuses and deflections, etc and what I hate most as someone with pride is other races thinking we don't find ourselves beautiful and that we pedestalise their hair , feeding their egos at the expense of OUR image. We have the most unique hair texture, if more of us had self love, we'd capitalise on that and rock our kinks and curls!
for me, it's more than that. I have 4c hair and i cant manage it. i work a 9-5 and i cant give my hair the treatment she deserves. getting a 4c wig or clip-in requires the same amount of care as my actual hair. the point of getting straight wigs for me is that it's quick and easy. not all of us can afford to go to the hairdresser either. that's another reason the natural hair community is in shambles. there's judgement or some of us feel shame for doing straight styles. does it mean we hate our hair? no but some of us dont have the time or the skill to maintain our hair.
@@annabananaSplitz1 It wouldn’t be so hard to manage though if you could leave it in its actual natural state. When people tell me that they are trying to take care of their 4C hair and make it look “good”, it’s always something that’s complex. How is the way something grows naturally out of your head the one thats the most work?
The day i knew i hated my hair texture was when i wore a straight lace front under my hijab，I knew right there that i didn’t love myself…..I’m so glad i got to realize it and repented….imagine a whole hijab but i was still worried that if my scarf falls people will see my 4c hair😕
Thank you for all your videos. I’ve finally gotten out of my own denial of having 4C hair, and I’m currently on my personal internal journey to start freeform locs. Not quite there but soon. I just want you to know that you’ve made me really look at myself hard on my own internalized anti-blackness, and they I greatly appreciate.
awww I really appreciate this comment! its hard to reflect on our anti blackness in this system but its incredible youre already tackling it head on. I wish you the best on your loc journey whenever you decide to start!
I accepted my 4c texture a long time ago! I realize now I must keep it stretched or straightened because now I'm in for an epic detangling process😳😁 because I let it go for a time! My hair needs moisture, conditioning, and oil/ grease! But it works best stretched or straightened!
I think that people were upset because it was finally something just for us. I personally never used the product so I can't speak on how good it was. (I mix my own hair liquor from a recipe my grannies made.) In all my 58 yrs old I've experinced everything locs, naturals, perms, braids, press and curls, weaves, and wigs. My community (grannies, mama, and etc.) always did each others hair, and all the little girls in the family. There was always a discussion on what was best for their individual hair and what style they were trying to get. I agree their needs to be more open discussion on natural hair, shit lets be honest on being Black in the World. We've been programmed not to self love and until we learn to self love we can't accept other's decisions on hair or anything. There is no easy answer to this issue, but with influencer's like you I pray the we begin to talk more and be more understanding of each other. I applaud your content and the work you do. M
I Love This. ❤❤❤ There’s never anything just for us, for long…. Dance, Food, Hair, Skin, Style… let me stop😢 So in the WI w Our Aunties use a lot of Shea butter and coconut oil. I’m a 4c so Shea butter works best with me. I May even mix it with almond or castor oil. But I could never do olive oil. We need to learn our hair as you said and make our own products. Same with our skin.❤
Only products that worked best for my hair were natural products. No tangles! Stop giving these companies our money. (Sorry about the edit. CZcams erased some of my message 😢) Use aloe vera, oils, and clays y’all!!
Agree!! My hair thrives when I take the time to make my own products. I can control exactly what goes into it and don't have to worry about the ole switcheroo that a lot of these companies continue to pull.
Yess!! Thank you for saying this. People give me products all the time and it’s because my hair is natural. They aren’t comfortable with my hair looking dry or nappy looking. It needs to altered and products are pushed to make it look like a looser curl pattern
That’s so crazy that all of this happened in a matter of weeks. From the outrage over the product being hijacked by ww to the selling (out) of the company and it no longer being black owned. They wasted NO TIME. 😅
Brand acquisitions don’t happen that fast. This deal was in the making for at least several months. That’s why I’m inclined to agree with Mayowa about the outrage being purposely drummed up to create publicity. The timing isn’t a coincidence at all.
I don't have 4 type hair but I came to a salon just to susupport them because they were black owned. I will admit I didn't detangle my hair because I was planning to wash it and style it that day . The stylist made fun of it and I kept thinking the whole time if she's treating me like this I can't imagine how disrespectful she was to people with 4C hair. I forgot to add I told her I didn'thave plans for her to do it that day I justwanted to know her prices but she wanted to kick me when I was down that day
I’ve been natural since I was 13, I am 25 now. I have been working on my body butter & hair line for the last 2 years. I will say this ONE more time….MAKE👏🏾YOUR👏🏾OWN👏🏾PRODUCTS!! Sadly, a lot of BIG black companies initially cater to black women to genuinely help us learn our hair, but then they’re bottom dollar starts to outshine all of that and they have NO problem no longer creating a product that actually works for their target audience…how many times do we have to watch this: wash, rinse & repeat pattern before we understand our movement will always be co-opted & betrayed…Honestly the natural hair community needs a hard reset back to the beginning of natural YT and get back to the basics!
I LOVE the makeup so much, it looks like butterflies! It's so cute! I'd love a video explaining different hair types and styles, I'm a white artist who wants to get better at drawing black hair, a content creator who I find entertaining making a video explaining the basics would literally be ideal.
Sometimes I see clips of black folks in the 70’s embracing their natural hair in a way where I think it was really beautiful I think going back to that would be very dope or to see people kind of take on how it was maybe with our own twist
I'm looking for buying a wig right now, not to hide my hair, not to assimilate, or because I don't love or I'm ashamed of my 4c/b hair, but I want to protect them. Winter is real, and also North atmosphere is not our home at all. I was born and raised in Eu and when I left for the first time to go on holiday in Miami, then in Bahamas, I've noticed something amazing about my skin and my hair that I've never experienced before... lot of humidity in the air: my skin was clear, my hair was fluffy and happy. After, I went to Senegal and same results. When I came back in Eu 😪, where is cold and dry, my hair is breaking, my skin is a mess again. They need proper care but I'm a bit too stressed out and disorganized right now. Therefore it's better for me to get a weekend per month to take good care of my skin and hair, that I would braid it and leave it alone under a wig until the next month. UntiI can figure it out what oil, treatment my hair likes, which hairstyles I like and don't damage my crown. It's fine to wear wigs sometimes.
I see TONS of people on tik tok with 4a hair saying they have 4c. And one girl who 4a trying to sell her routine to 4c girls saying they can have long hair too and mocking ppl saying “my 4c could never” and she’s promoting impossible expectations
Even here on CZcams, there's so many 4C-fishers. I feel like a lot of Americans don't know what 4C really looks like maybe? Because I feel like those hair influencers need to be called out. That's why I rely more on African hair influencers, few American because maybe the idea of 4C is different.
@@LeratoM98 True because I am Khoi-San and I feel Americans dont know what 4c is. Most African Americans come from West Africa where the have looser curl pattern like 3c and 4a
Omg there are so many 4a ppl on social media claiming to be 4c smh it’s irritating and also a slap in the face. Especially because many of them know they are being disingenuous for views and money smh I also sometimes think it’s an extension of their internalized anti-blackness, assuming that any hair that requires a certain degree of work must be 4c or any other hair type that appears unkempt (4a or 3c hair being neglected or cared for improperly) just MUST be 4c… any hair that isn’t straight or wavy pretty much. The delusion is just beyond me smh
I dye my hair and I still study how locs are because my natural hair is still my sacred root. At a certain age i thought my relaxed hair was my natural hair, wow how things have changed. Now that black woman know their power, everyone wants edges and to use our products because "it looks nice and feels authentic" white people buying bonnets when i never saw them buy them before. I read somewhere that an American society without racism wouldn't be an American society. American society to blackness is a little different when you talk from in international point of view.
I don’t buy business oil either I personally think it’s BS and very expensive I bought Mille for the first time to try it don’t think I will try it again it’s way too light I have to mix it with my cast or oil, way too watery for my 4a/3c mixed curls
After hearing how Miele treated one CZcams influencer who was a black woman who was genuine in her review some years back, I stopped buying from them. I didn’t like how she got her husband threatening ANOTHER WOMAN. I wish I remembered the woman’s name but she didn’t deserve that type of treatment all because she didn’t like the rice water line 🙄
About Mielle founders, l know the husband is Dominican and l believe the wife is as well. They aren’t Black. I don’t care how brown the skin is they are NOT Black as y’all may view them. Culturally, they are Hispanic. I remember that incident a few years ago. It was nasty and unnecessary.
@@MayMay-el4wg I didn’t even know she wasn’t black and was Dominican… that explains a lot tbh. I’m glad that woman showed her ass though, now I put my money towards taliah Waajid still to this day
@@johnesia …thanks sis! I hopped over there and subscribed! 😉. One thing l don’t do is use the Black label indiscriminately. Hispanics are Cubans, Mexicans, Latin Americans, Puerto Ricans, including Dominicans. I always want to know ethnicity because that helps with knowing the culture and mindset. Same with African. What country and tribe? Caribbean family? What island and ethnicities? African Americans? Biracial, Gullah, or Creole. I’ve always been this way and it helps in my communication with people plus it’s interesting knowing other people of color’s heritage. 🖤🤎❤️🧡💛🤍
@@MayMay-el4wg in my experience, it depends on the individual Dominican. Some identify as black, some don't. It usually depends on how much experience they've had in the US, but not always. I find that to be generally the case with darker Latinos too. Colorism is a sensitive topic in Latin America... So I'm not sure how the Mielle creator identifies: she may consider herself Black in the sense we understand. You can't really assume.
I agree. And we are also led to believe that our hair "should change" when we use these products. So we are led to believe that our kinky hair is not supposed to be kinky, and if it doesn't change with the products, something is wrong, and then we need to try another product. So we jump from product to product, wondering what is wrong, when nothing is wrong at all. We just need to accept our hair. Also, I'm so uncomfortable seeing stylists put half a tub of mousse or whatever foam onto a style and saying "Look at that curl pattern." That's not your curl pattern. That's literally the product sitting on your hair, juicing it up. And you know this because as soon as you rinse it out, it's gone! You are so right! I'm exhausted with all of the nonsense too.
By your logic, your hydrated skin isn’t real when it’s slathered with a moisturizer? 🤨 Styling products can’t give you a curl pattern you don’t already have, otherwise perms and wigs wouldn’t be so profitable. I’m tired of reading dumb comments like this, as if everyone doesn’t use products on their hair for manageability regardless of hair type. Good luck styling dry hair with no product to prevent breakage and keep the hair in place.
Being a natural from as far back as the late 90’s, I can tell you that we had none of these products, and TRU 4 C hair was represented on CZcams. African Export was one that I followed (I do wish that I could remember all of the names of the beautiful 4 C women of the 90’s), but that was the community that I relied on to keep it real regarding what my 4C hair was capable of achieving!
I agree that texturism has withdrawn some people from the natural hair community. As corny as it sounds. It has to start from home and the way we allow our family members to talk about children with kinky hair and the differential treatment when they have curlier hair cause it’s definitely a thing. We all have the stories. It’s a micro aggression that has serious consequences in my opinion
It’s crazy to see ppl going back to perms. Especially knowing the ppl on the boxes had natural hair in those photos! I honestly will never get a perm again. If I need it straight, a silk press is an appointment away. I mostly wear my hair blown out using the revlon hair brush dryer. I jus added some kinky straight itips for length & ppl legit believes this is my hair!! I don’t do anything to it. I love “low maintenance” hairstyles. As in I don’t need to do it everyday, jus brush it at least twice 🤷🏾♀️
As a Black woman, this channel feeds my soul. I would love more long-form content, as well as the "hair type" video! Thank you for your education and commentary 🙌🏾 💙🔷️💙🔷️
This is my problem with the natural hair community. This community started out with women with the kinkiest textured hair expressing appreciation and acceptance of their hair the way it grew out of their scalps. There were creative styles to bring out the versatility and beauty of their hair type being taught to us kinky-haired girls. But as this movement caught on, which is what always happens whenever BW push anything that is about our upliftment, it gets usurped by either WW or in this case biracial, mixed, curly-haired women who wanted to have the movement be about them. When these women were never discriminated against, were never told that their hair was ugly or unkempt, or nappy, or didn't grow -- Nor lost a job or were kicked out of school because of their hair. I don't like the way these women with their looser-curled hair wrapped themselves up in our pain and used their hair texture to sell us products that claimed to tame our kinky hair to look more like theirs as the standard of beauty. This only served to further undermine the purpose of the movement in the first place. We kinky-haired girls had haircare companies even change their formulas to better suit these looser-curl-haired women and leave us, kinky-haired girls, out in the cold. Shea Moisture can lie all they want to about not changing their formula but our kinky hair knows the difference and that a change was made. The product was helping grow our hair and keep our hair healthy and now that product no longer works the same. Period. I feel like there is a conspiracy to keep kinky-haired women at a disadvantage with our hair being able to retain length and stay healthy and flourish. the haircare companies are not catering to us and our unique haircare needs. This is why we have to come up with our own concoctions to grow our hair and retain length. Length retention is our biggest obstacle. We want long luxurious hair too -- and we can get it provided we are given the same catered haircare products everyone else is given to maintain the health of their hair. We are being discriminated against still in that regard.
Wow this is a word-- for me 'going natural' was just not straightening my hair anymore altogether... I recall doing an ad for Dark and Lovely and I definitely kind of regret it LOL but I did Inspire my mom who has 4b hair to stop perming and go natural so something good came out of it 😀
Eh, not really. More black women are growing their hair long than ever before. You can use any products to grow your hair for the most part, it's all about technique.
You always hit. I have so many stories about the hypocrisy both on my own head and on others. At the end of the day, I'm done with products as much as I can be. Aloe vera, castor/ olive oil, shea butter, and flaxseed gel are all I'm using on my 4c hair except for olaplex and any deep conditioner that I'm gonna use once a week, until i can find a recipe that's easy to make that I like. These hair people are not getting my coins anymore.
A real concerns with the conglomerates purchasing the smaller brands that cater to Blk hair and skin care is that the formulation change…I feel to destroy our natural and unique beauty. Because when Blk brands are independent, it’s been created to address a unique need and most times it’s successful if it’s on the market. These Blk brands need to beware because although brand visibility increases, they’ll stand a chance of brand integrity and reputation can decrease. Btw, first time watching your vid. New subbie. Truly enjoyed this vid 👏🏽.
I'm a little confused. People can get rosemary from the grocery store and make the oil from scratch and it'll actually cost them less. Also, it's oil...anyone can use oil. Indian women aren't upset about the growing popularity of Aryuveda haircare (which also involves using oils).
Maybe because Indian women are front and centre, capitalizing on the fact that Aryuveda hair care methods are now popular within the mainstream beauty industry!
I’m living for the blue butterfly look. And yeah I realize my privileges in this area. I might not have completely type 3 hair but it’s definitely looser. So I make it a point to just shut up whenever anyone complains or talks about their hair
Yess the video on hair types would be v interesting!! AND you look STUNNING in the blue, your makeup literally looks genuinely bioluminescent it’s so magical.
Listening to your videos made me develop a deep love for my kinky 4c hair to the point that I totally feel uncomfortable wearing wigs and everything that's not naturally me. Please continue making these videos. I loooove Mayowa and honestly hope to meet this gorgeous human someday You look amazing with the blue eyeshadow. 💙
This has been illuminating. I’ve been natural for 15 years now and only just hearing about mielle. I specifically went looking for CZcamsrs with my type 4 hair and the ones I gravitated toward were more about understanding our hair, experimenting with methods, processes, and generic products rather than a specific brand of products and it’s helped me to work with my hair on its own terms. If you’re looking for that I Recommend green beauty channel, naturally high, and nappyfu as good places to start.
I was soooooo in love with Carol's D products. The store was where spike lee's joint was downtown brooklyn. Then the store closed and i panicked finding the expensive product again😔😔😔😔😔😔Eventually i began to slowly give up the expensive product movng on to cheaper. Then tired of trying different products over and over again. Now, i D.IY. all day. I know i stand firm in having my natural hair always. I love it on days after i wash it. Yesss!!!!, blue is my favorite color!!!! Your make us is stunning with the butterfly as well.
I've never been able to articulate it but yes there is no product that will change your hair texture. Black women's hairs are for sale so no advice is necessary unless you are pro-coils and licensed in coily hair. I hate to hear people that hate the way my hair grows to tell me how long it will be if I straighten it or that I need to see a Dominican to get it real straight. I used to say my hair fights me but it should, my hair was right because my hair does what it's supposed to... PROTECT MY BIG HEAD🤣 it's job is not to keep up with white girls or loose hair textures. She tight and tight is right for me!😍💖
Off topic but I love your makeup and hair in this video. As someone who uses Mielle Organics for alopecia, I was DISTRAUGHT to learn that they were sold to P&G. I literally rushed to my nearest Target and bought as many bottles as I could. I finally found a product that helps slow the process of alopecia only to learn that the company has bought out.
oh wow thanks for writing this! I didnt kno there was also a huge push for products in the loc community smh. what were people saying the products would do?
@@mayowasworld When I mean loose natural, I mean before I had locs, just my natural hair, I consider my locs to be natural . But I'm just differentiate between the two... Hope that's makes sense. I use less products now its great!!
Girl that blue on you is A. MAZ. ING. Omg i love you for saying the truth about decision making. Logic and emotions definitely run 50/50. There is never a separation. Thank you!!
I’ve grown tired of people telling me that I just haven’t found what works for me yet. It angered me knowing that people or friends with looser hair types waltz into a store pick something random and then have it work. Meanwhile I’ve been on this long journey of 2-3 years buying multiple products just to get my hair to even curl. 😂 I’m happy now just to have my hair be healthy. I don’t want to give advice and I don’t want to hear advice. Because we are all different and may never get the curls we see on the internet. On a side note I did not like that non black woman doing the Tik Tok joke on his 4c hair. We need to gatekeep our hair stuff. 💀jokes and all.
First you look gorgeous. The blue is perfect against your lovely complexion ❤ definitely about 3rd wave 😂 You’re locs are beautiful. You and lauryn Hill locs are my inspiration. I have thick locs and I would love to see a routine for yours. I’m one year loc’d and it’s been a battle but I’m hanging in there. I don’t use a comb but I part with my fingers if I do decide to retwist which is rarely. But I’m debating on going full free form.
I'm nervous about the formula change as well. Like a few other women have mentioned, I've been natural all my life and I just discovered Mielle a few months ago. It makes my hair manageable and healthier. It's been amazing to just let my hair be free, I'm currently wearing it in an afro.
I’ve never used Carols Daughter bc I didn’t think it was for my 4c texture. I used Shea Moisture b4 they went YT and I’ve never used Mielle. I’ll still with Eden Bodywork’s, Curls, Kinky Curly, Dudley’s, and Design Essentials which are all black owned
I would love for you to do a dedicated video on what you mentioned. The fact that most 4C girls use all these products, tutorials and styles to mimic 3c and mixed girl hair types. Cause no one is talking about this.
It’s funny because before you even got to the pet where you mentioned making our own products I was saying “FU*K THAT! The start is making our own products for EACH person’s hair” let’s start to love the process of plying w/ natural ingredients that love our hair & our hair textures love & SHARE THE KNOWLEDGE!❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for your channel and being a voice for us black girls ❤️ Also as far as hair type, there's a youtuber out there who explains the way we type our hair (4a,4b,4c,etc) is outdated and not beneficial for our hair health and provides another way to describe hair types. Have to look her up. Yes, the blue eyes are gorgeous 💙
I had to pull back on the amount of product I use cuz the natural hair community was like using leave in by the palm full. Enough! I save so much money now. Washing my hair every two weeks. I don’t have a cabinet full of shit like before. I do like to style my hair but damn we need to chill
You are life giving 💙 my hair is 2 C and has recently started to mat all on its own. I think I am starting a free form loc journey and I’m hyped, you are my inspiration. I just want to love myself as I am and you are such a good example. Much love to you!
The 1980s jheri curl products for moisturizing changed formulas, too thanks to the natural hair community demonizing mineral oil and wheat protein. They have the same bottles but different ingredients that are , in my opinion, not nearly as effective as the original.
Seeing the surge in the natural hair community Relaxing their hair is scaring me esp bc there’s been links to serious cancers & relaxers + black women are the most overlooked when it comes to healthcare 😢
I love the blue butterfly look Mayowa, it’s simple gorgeous. I don’t know if you are into anime but you remind me of the Shinobu from Demon Slayer. Anyways, snaps to you for adding more depth of thought to the natural hair discourse. You made an excellent point about product hoarding that I personally relate to. One of my good friends explained to me that I would need to stop over using moisturing products in my hair, especially if I was going to get locs. I think that is true for natural hair in general because I start to have a little bit of dermatitis and scalp acne due to the over use of products. I have laid off the pore clogging products and I have a better moisturizing and sealing method that is helping out my hair a lot. I feel closer to getting the locs I’ve always wanted. Thanks 😊
Yess you looked so cute with the Butterfly and blue make up. Honestly, I thought that there would be a shift in the opposite direction once black women realize that relaxers have been linked cancer😢
This commentary was so on target and, in my opinion, very much needed. I think you eloquently put into words what many of us with natural hair have been feeling with regard to the online natural hair community and products for natural hair for ages. Well done! Also, I must speak on how much I love your look in this video. Absolutely gorgeous! 🦋
You are an absolutely stunning young lady. More power to our natural 4? hair. You're right, our foreparent were not running around trying to buy fake products for their hair. Beautiful content!
Bringing back a sense of community is so important. We can support and love each other online and support black brands, but we must find a way to love on each other and engage in real life.
I was legit saying throughout the whole video that I think Blue really suits you. The make up is givinggg. And what struck me the most is that what you said about "your hair alone in its natural state is enough". I have 4c kinky of the kinkiest hair and I've had my hair locked for 3 and half years now Before I locked it I remember all the products I used to buy to help it "grow" and it just kept breaking even when the product seemed promising at first.. After, I got tired and just told my aunt whose hair has been locked for 24 years now to do mine too and she told me best way to approach locs was patience cus it really was an individuals journey and to just leave the hair alone. So since I started I stopped choking the hair with products and stuck to oiling it once a week. 2x in winter. Only a little will do and a good massage helps. I also rinse it with water in the shower, no shampoo once a week and wash it thoroughly with shampoo once a month..and I'm telling you my hair feels like it can breathe again. It just grows and grows unhindered even when I loc it a week later the scalp is disappearing.🤣 Lately ive been trying to loc it every 3 months instead of 2 to allow my hair to grow thick at the scalp so the strands become stronger. Im trying to be proactive about thining. So yeh all the "u need this and that product" I realised were LIES. What a scam. Best decision I ever made to loc my hair..and I really only started cus I got sick of all the damn spending. Good luck to anyone out there figuring out what works for you hair. Ps referencing ancestors too makes so much sense. I really believe they also went with simple is best. 💙💙 and y'all u know your hair on your scalp best.
Omg I’m definitely interested in the hair type video. I’ve been wanting to make a tik tok discussing how non-Black people have, in recent years, have become so obsessed with curl pattern that they now believe that they’re curly or even kinky. To the point where they have created a new wave of texturism in their own communities and have pushed Black folks out. Like they even have so many videos about defining their “curls” and it’s just definition obsessed content/hair standard. As someone with afro textured hair, I can still recognize that I literally have a type 2 pattern in the front of my head (without heat damage) but it’s afro textured. Meanwhile, the ✋🏻people think they have type 3 or kinky (some even say nappy😐🙄) hair. Some people have texture/pattern blindness and some people are straight up texturist. And there’s no one being blunt about all of it😭
I've been so annoyed by the "so my hair is actually wavy!!" discourse happening amongst non-black people these days... they'll see a slight indent in their hair and do all types of steps to hold a curl. Actually not even a curl. A WAVE LMAO. Now I hear white girls calling straightening their hair "silk presses" and distinguishing their hair via the typing system (which black folk should do away with since its creator was antiblack but I digress). It's wild! I've legit seen non-black people with straight hair dunking their heads into buckets of water and conditioner to hold a curl...I'm so tired. I completely agree with you, now that non-black people with straight hair are claiming it to be wavy or even curly Black people have been completely erased from this convo and it sucks. I just mind my own business and do what I like, I don't really follow hair influencers anymore unless its for creative styles no more 10 step routines for me.
@@ChiChi-um6qq we are literally on the same page lol, and the amount of videos I’ve seen of them trying to form a curl a million different ways with a brush is comical
My favorite is wearing my hair like a young girl never been permed hot combed kinky and care free...literally the kinkyer the better!! It's a heaven cloud and yess this is about to be on the for front because I decree it to be and will be the conscious spokes person for it!!
I'm still learning about my hair everyday this white woman or anyone who doesn't have the thickest of the thick 4c: don't touch my hair without permission and don't tell me what to do those are my rules. I had to create my own save space from the few videos i was able to find on CZcams this channel included. I love your videos thank you so much for your art💕
This is why I started freeforming & don’t use any products at all besides a homemade oil I put together. I can’t trust anything anymore almost every product I used growing up has changed in a bad way the ingredients went from natural to chemicals. Needless to say I don’t regret my decision. I just hope the people involved in lawsuits get justice & start learning more about the beauty of their own unaltered texture I feel we are the most beautiful in our natural state but unfortunately so many don’t think that way. Lowkey brainwashed imo.
i really wish us people with type 4 hair would be happy with our hair in it natural state. there are so many hair tutorials on how to avoid shrinkage and it’s so saddening. TYPE 4 HAIR IS SO BEAUTIFUL WHEN ITS SHRUNK ! the beautiful coils and curls are just so breathtaking.
I don't understand why anyone would be so obsessed and laugh at someone else's hair texture! 😳🤔 Our hair, African textured, is unique and has its own style, haircare methods, tools, combs, picks, etc! I decided not to get too attached to brand-name products even though I still use a particular brand of shampoo, oil, conditioner, and detangler! I've been with Creme of Nature Moroccan oil shampoo,conditioner, leavein conditioner, and oil! I'm also using a child's brand called Curl Peace and I use their leavein detangler/styler,, shampoo and conditioner! I love these products but I'm aware that they could change at any time!
I love your hair! I'm a 67 year old white woman and have always thought natural black hair was beautiful. "Beauty companies" are always trying to make women feel inadequate and I've never bought that shit. You are beautiful the way you are!
My mom started relaxing my hair when I was 6 years old. She did it for my pre school graduation, it was almost like a celebratory moment. I stopped relaxing my hair when I was 18 years old, I actually had a hard time loving my natural hair. I actually still think I struggle a little with loving my natural hair. I got treated a lot better when my hair was relaxed, long, and neat. Hair is so important, I love that you make that known. You make me think about the deeper reasons behind things like WHY was getting relaxer celebrated? WHY do we get treated differently because of what's on our head? WHY do I have the overwhelming feeling to always make sure my hair is "neat"? etc etc. Anyway, I love you and your channel. You talk about a lot of shit people are not ready for, thats why I fw you.
I look at hair products as just another way of styling my hair to me it’s no different than wearing braids, locs, silk press or relaxed. I wear it out when it’s frizzy and when it defined. I’m not loyal to a company unless it works I use it if not I don’t.
if im honest a lot of people with type 4 hair believe their hair is hard to manage and that it takes too much time. For me thats not the case, I just had to learn what it liked and didnt like. It's also about accepting and seeing the beauty in kinkiness and how our hair shrinks and defies gravity. More representation in the media would help people to see our hair in a favorable light instead of pushing either loose curls or 30 inch buss downs all the time.
Natural from the 2012 community here. 🙋🏾♀️. Honey it has been a mess with many of the main stream hair products. One that I haven’t seen mentioned is Jane Carter solutions…..haven’t anyone noticed that you don’t really see her products as much? It’s a MESS honey. Cantu, Shea Moisture, Carols Daughter and others I haven’t named. This isn’t the first time this has happened and unfortunately it won’t be the last. This is the first time I’ve seen people go this hard for Mielle due to her past 3-4 years trending for some very distasteful actions. The products will not be more expensive, but cheaper now that she has been acquired. They knew black women would be outraged. They knew there would be a spike in sales BUT. They did not sale just because of the oil, this has been in the works and now….✨here we are ✨
Every single thing you said is correct. And I feel the solution is to stop buying products and make our own products. It's always going to be this vicious cycle of finding a product that we love, using it for a long time, for it to then be bought out by a major products conglomerate. So, let's start making our own products, I have been because I'm sick of these companies doing this! Thank you for your video because THEY don't give a damn about us, they just want our money!
@Mayowa's World Mama you are killin the game honestly! I must say I absolutely love your content, you say what we're all thinking. After years of being obsessed with faux locks, I finally found the courage to start my loc journey 3 weeks ago and I'm absolutely loving it. I am so happy to be on this journey to embrace my true self. You are a true inspiration. ❤
We black women should really come up with a fake trend to prove how much others eat off our plate
I agree
I'm down... let's do it!
Yes, this is brilliant Sabrina....begin my dear!
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Sis...dont take this the wrong way,because this is truly a compliment. You are giving me Navi....the avatar, way of the water vibes with the blue,your hair,features etc!!!! You got the game on lock!!
LMAOOOO THIS IS SWEET THANK U
James Cameron be watching 👀👀👀
Have no idea who Navi the avatar is but this goddess with this blue butterfly, 🧚🏾♀️ vibes is eveything!!!
So freaking beautiful!
I just saw avatar and I was thinking the same thing!! The movie was so beautiful it made me cry 😭
OMG that was the first thing I thought of.
That blue eye makeup is GIVING! 💙💚
thank u love!
I am so tired of wigs, relaxers, and even braiding hair. Sometimes I sit there as I’m struggling to do knotless box braids, and I ask myself, aren’t you tired? Why can’t I just let it grow out of my head the way it is? I know there’s multiple reasons why I feel this way. I just don’t want to do it anymore so I have a bit of a difficult journey ahead of me, learning to love myself in my truest form.
I had this same epiphany! Mine was around the time Keke Palmer was in the media a lot promoting Nope. Seeing her with her cute little curls really did something for me so lately I've just been like f*** it! Rock my natural hair, it doesn't always have to be "done" or edges laid all the time and let me say it's sooooo liberating. I will do braids or maybe a weave here and there if I feel like but my "go to" style now is literally just rocking my hair as it is right out of the shower. No twist out, no cancerous products, just detangle and moisturize. I've gotten the most compliments ever, you feel younger and more beautiful when you embrace your crown, let that sunshine bless it!
A little tip: for me (because my hair rn is growing out from a big chop so its in super awkward length) it helped my self esteem to do cute but light makeup like euphoria inspired makeup, and a cute outfit helps to pull everything together so I didn't feel so bare. you will feel so many emotions but as long as you're CONFIDENT 🔑and choose something flattering for you it's an amazing beautiful thing I promise you! I felt comfortable enough to even go to the club with my natural hair which may not seem like much but like most black girls I always felt the need to throw on a wig.
And another thing I find interesting: I got compliments from every type of person but mostly from white women and white men surprisingly. So all of what we think about our hair is really just us as people tearing ourselves down for literally no reason. Definitely over contributing to that!
I say all of this to hopefully encourage you (and more ladies) who feel like this it's really awesome and it truly does wonders for your spirit once you learn to love every bit of yourself 💕💕💕
yup, been there. doing non-jumbo knotless braids on yourself will have you questioning youself 😆
They say that stuff is “protective” but explain that to the bald spots I got from over working. Nature shouldn’t be this complicated.
THIS !
Yeah same had enough, I decided to try locs in loc down as everything was closed, here I am nearly 3 year later, best decision ever and I started with a TWA, my hair had broken off from the 'protective styles' and relaxers...its on my channel.
About seeing the kinkiest hair in its untampered state, I see it every day on my daughter's head and I love it and leave it to do it's thing despite years (5yrs now) of comments from teachers, random people on the street, family members and even her own father wanting to texturize it to make it more acceptable. I can't even leave her with my mom for too long because she says that she'll relax it to make it "prettier". Her hair is clean, healthy and moisturized but that's not enough for people suffering from self hate and internalized racism and overt texurism. It's so evil that black people even in Africa (SA) can't accept their own hair.
Protect your daughters hair at all cost. No child should have a perm without making that decision themselves.
Sad black people don't see their own beauty to fit a standard not made for them.
Wow, shocked that I'm reading this about someone in SA. I guess it makes sense considering how much majority of women here can't seem to live without wigs and weave is the beauty standard. But I felt like things are changing with newer generations.
Sad
But true
@@darkfemme4914 What's sad is that the child might even feel like a perm will have them being treated better by people they know
@@slowyourroll1146 Very sad and manipulative for a family to do that to their own.
I totally agree with you 100%. I think Blk people just don't like kinky hair. But at the same time, I don't think that the natural hair movement was a total bust. There are more women wearing their hair natural then ever before. The dangers of perms were exposed and some of us learned that all those products were not good for our hair and health. For example, all of my family members went natural, either loose hair or locs, and I don't see anyone turning back. Love your commentary and insight.
I agree with you 100&, I also went natural during that time and saw the way it affected my community. there was a lot of beauty brought into the movement and a lot of it was grassroots and people figuring it out in real time.
Research shows that the actually do. We are just being trained by anti-blackness to not like our hair. It's all apart of an exploitation strategy. You can't exploit people if they love and want better for themselves.
Right. I am natural and my life is way easier. No going back.
I do agree. I grew up where NOBODY ON TV was natural. At least nobody with a kinky texture and if they did it was locs. The 80s and 90s were a mess for natural hair. I went natural in 2004 and my family literally laughed and now they're all natural. Even my cousins. So i can't say it was a total bust. We just got to keep pushing. ALOT of progress was made. And a lot more will come. Black women have that power💪🏾
Absolutely!
I don't see myself going back, neither!
The same is happening to Shea butter, it use be mainly black woman making body butter, etc now it’s wave of everyone using Shea butter.
yup and after that happened I feel like black people stopped using It and the hype went down all together.
And don’t forget the price went up
@@Eden519 every time they “discover” something the price goes up. It even happened with grits. When they became obsessed with this “new” food phenomenon the price for a box of grits went through the roof lol
@@TrangPakbaby lol at “new” 😆
I live in a whiter area of Michigan, and where I am there’s a shop called “Buff city soap” it’s a white owned soap and body butter shop but everything about it is so commercialized and soulless it really reallyyy rubs me the wrong way.
OMG 😳 You are looking absolutely stunning with that Blue Radiating off of your dark skin. Just Beautiful! Y’all Young’s are outdoing yourself in the Beauty Department on colors, style and light 💡 💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿
hehe thank you!
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Like a Barbie doll!
Perms are literally a scam. I'd never get one just of the fact that cancer runs in my family. Also you can always just use heat. I actually did my first blow out a couple months ago and i was surprised how easy it was too do it myself. Tbh a lot natural hair content makes doing your own hair seem scary and dramatic for no reason lol
lol truuu they wanna make it seem unruly so you gotta turn to products or people to do it for you. personally my hair never took well to heat but if yours does, then you can explore with ease from your own home
Theres plenty of old women alive that had relaxed their hair all their lives and didn't get cancer nor did their hair fall out it comes down to genetics and what you have consumed in your lifetime.
@@TheAnonyy yes and no, because i know that relaxers can cause and have been linked to fibroids. I know more black women than any other race that have fibroids
@@TheAnonyya study recently came out that linked uterine cancer specifically to the chemicals in relaxers which makes sense since black women are the ones with the highest rates of that disease and are the ones who consume those products the most. It’s no coincidence. They literally tricked us into putting poison on little girls head is horrible.
SOME people can just use heat, but the rest of use have our hair visibly start reverting once we leave the salon or sweat. I can still remember the day I got a silk press, got out into the sun, and into my car. 20 minutes later and still in the car with the AC on my har was looking like a bad blow out (cuz it wasn't that stretched out). The only time my hair stayed stretched was the time i actually damaged it with heat, but limp hair wasn't for me. loc'd now
After using Mielle for years, I decided not to support them anymore. I don’t have 4c hair but I do have type 4a low porosity thick hair. I am currently in the process of researching other brands. I cannot support Mielle anymore after they partnered with P & G and “ allegedly” paid a white influencer to promote their products knowing that there would be outrage. They could have created another line for non black people but chose not to. I know the owner of the company said she won’t change the formula but I know eventually they will change it just like they did with Shea Moisture and Carols Daughter. I’m going to leave before they change the formula.
I stopped supporting them years ago because of the way the owner and her husband treated CZcamsr, Leila Lynn because they didn't like her review of one of their products.
Try Design Essentials almond & avocado line. Their hair masque is great. Also, The Doux is another great black owned hair company.
@@nro9261 wow smh thank goodness I never used them. I use Camille rose
Shea moisture changed their formula? When?
@@samleo75 whew Chile DE is expensiveeeeee
The daily gaslighting blk women go through just to be heard is more than ridiculous. I had locs for 4 years and I felt the most beautiful and free with them. Grant it, I’m back to lose natural (and I like it also). I do think type 4 hair has to exist within itself- and with minimal product
our ancestors was not using leave-ins that's for sure lmfao
I wish there was a way blk women could communicate with one another in secret online to discuss hair/ makeup/ fashion because we definitely have to start keeping information on the low because every time they infiltrate blk women spaces the products get watered down. A lot of times I don’t even think they care about the products they just like trolling and being centered in everything
This one right here!
I think Mastadon or Discord could be potential options.
You could start a Facebook group or maybe find one on Facebook
It gets watered down after being brought because there is always a comment once it crosses over that the product “is too greasy” or “leaves a film” since we love /need the butters and moisture but others typically don’t. It may also be to cut costs. But I have seen sooo many “too greasy” comments I had to leave reviews sometimes to say I loved the product the way it is don’t change it.
Instead of them just using the thinner oils made for their hair type
"Just because it's business doesn't mean that people can't grieve, people can't be sad about what's going on" ALL OF THIS AND MORE!!
something I've noticed more and more is that even when we're obviously being slighted, black women aren't allowed to be in their feelings for even a millisecond of time. yea, a lot of this is due to literally any emotion we experience being dismissed as anger by non-black folks, but I find the call is also coming from within the house, and goddamn does it get loud.
what hurts so much about it coming from other black folks, other black women, is that oftentimes it comes from this continued expectation of quietly taking things on the chin and just moving forward. while yea, we more than most have to wade through the bullshit of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination; that doesn't mean we have to just take it a move forward, take it without taking time to process how we feel. there's this growing expectation of apathy that scares me in our community. this belief that the only way we can respond to this world and its nonsense is by simply cutting off feeling, and when one of us doesn't fall in line, we're embarrassing all black women cause we dared to show how something hurt us personally.
im not the best with words, but it feels like a penalization of us daring to be people, ya'know? or maybe it's just another way black women are denied vulnerability.
ur prolly gonna mention this, but ive had this stewing for a bit.
yeah youre totally right, how many times are we expected to just 'take it on the chin'? and I agree, it was also mainly black people trying to explain what capitalism is and how its ok (even tho im sure we all understand how capitalism works and it doesn't take away the harm of the pain) were expected to be ok with constantly being betrayed. thanks for writing this.
@@mayowasworld: I agree with all of this, but betrayed by whom? Capitalism did not “force” Mielle to sell. If anything, this situation and a history of Black businesses selling out should strengthen our resolve, increase dialog, and change our outlook on how we do business in the future and what Black unity and loyalty mean and how they affect us both culturally and economically.
I admit. I don’t understand the grief or outrage. If the brand had made certain promises then sure. But they didn’t promise any of us anything. Furthermore I always expect all brands to do what’s best for themselves financially. Is that not the same perspective everyone shares about brands?
@ag5495 it's less about brands just following corporate interests (cause that's no surprise there), and more about looking at it from a broader perspective. that perspective being that we have seen this happen again and again and again, wherein the interests of black women is used simply as a stepping stool to a whiter audience. thus meaning that, once again, for the women that mielle's (that shea moisture's, that carol's daughter's) products worked for, they have to start from scratch again. they have to once again deal with the fact that something that was (even for a moment) for them, has once again been redesigned and redirected for and toward white audiences, for whom the majority haircare is already focused on.
it's frustrating and upsetting when time and time again, ur unconsciously told that u and urs don't matter in the long run.
we all know it's just business, but that doesn't change the fact that for a lot of black women who've been in this cycle over and over, this shit only gets more tiring, more frustrating, and more discouraging over time. when the majority of haircare already isn't oriented towards us, to have one of the few brands that are make it obvious that we were simply a marketing hurdle to be overcome, again, is emotionally exhausting. like can't we have just the one thing, ya'know?
not to mention, it isn't just mielle, but this constant society wide issue of using the black gaze as a gateway to wider (whiter) audiences. having this extend to all aspects from our media to our haircare, again, is emotionally exhausting.
"There's this growing expectation of apathy" This is so true!! I've noticed the same thing. Also, the insistence from certain people that all we should focus on is hustling & getting a bag and if you speak up about anything other than that you're called a broke crybaby hater.
The reaason why I'm not mad about Mielle is becuase we can make our own. She's not a scientist. we can do what she did in our own home.
Yes!! Exactly
I mean rosemary is easy to buy, and even cheaper to grow at home. Steep it in an oil of your choice along with other herbs and BOOM. Oil.
I do understand that many people can’t do that for their own reasons but we need to at least consider it.
Agree and her oil is watery af lmao. I bought it for the first time a week ago and I can say this will definitely be the last time I’d rather steep rosemary with castor oil
Lowkey I feel like 4c hair people should be wearing clipins and wigs that are the same texture as theirs. I personally don't like wigs/extensions because I want to be more environmentally conscious but I condone wigs that at least look like our hair. It's sad that we need straight hair tk be beautiful
Exactly. It's a symptom of self hate imo, if you truly love your hair you won't want to be hiding it, imitating other textures but so many are in deep denial and even using excuses like "other races also wear wigs" but ... They wear wigs or extensions that actually emulate their OWN textures... Just so many excuses and deflections, etc and what I hate most as someone with pride is other races thinking we don't find ourselves beautiful and that we pedestalise their hair , feeding their egos at the expense of OUR image. We have the most unique hair texture, if more of us had self love, we'd capitalise on that and rock our kinks and curls!
@@LeratoM98 I think if most of us were properly educated about our hair we would feel more confident about wearing our natural hair.
for me, it's more than that. I have 4c hair and i cant manage it. i work a 9-5 and i cant give my hair the treatment she deserves. getting a 4c wig or clip-in requires the same amount of care as my actual hair. the point of getting straight wigs for me is that it's quick and easy. not all of us can afford to go to the hairdresser either. that's another reason the natural hair community is in shambles. there's judgement or some of us feel shame for doing straight styles. does it mean we hate our hair? no but some of us dont have the time or the skill to maintain our hair.
@@Neesha242 Yes that's also true.
@@annabananaSplitz1 It wouldn’t be so hard to manage though if you could leave it in its actual natural state. When people tell me that they are trying to take care of their 4C hair and make it look “good”, it’s always something that’s complex. How is the way something grows naturally out of your head the one thats the most work?
The day i knew i hated my hair texture was when i wore a straight lace front under my hijab，I knew right there that i didn’t love myself…..I’m so glad i got to realize it and repented….imagine a whole hijab but i was still worried that if my scarf falls people will see my 4c hair😕
Thank you for all your videos. I’ve finally gotten out of my own denial of having 4C hair, and I’m currently on my personal internal journey to start freeform locs. Not quite there but soon. I just want you to know that you’ve made me really look at myself hard on my own internalized anti-blackness, and they I greatly appreciate.
awww I really appreciate this comment! its hard to reflect on our anti blackness in this system but its incredible youre already tackling it head on. I wish you the best on your loc journey whenever you decide to start!
I accepted my 4c texture a long time ago! I realize now I must keep it stretched or straightened because now I'm in for an epic detangling process😳😁 because I let it go for a time! My hair needs moisture, conditioning, and oil/ grease! But it works best stretched or straightened!
I think that people were upset because it was finally something just for us. I personally never used the product so I can't speak on how good it was. (I mix my own hair liquor from a recipe my grannies made.) In all my 58 yrs old I've experinced everything locs, naturals, perms, braids, press and curls, weaves, and wigs. My community (grannies, mama, and etc.) always did each others hair, and all the little girls in the family. There was always a discussion on what was best for their individual hair and what style they were trying to get. I agree their needs to be more open discussion on natural hair, shit lets be honest on being Black in the World. We've been programmed not to self love and until we learn to self love we can't accept other's decisions on hair or anything. There is no easy answer to this issue, but with influencer's like you I pray the we begin to talk more and be more understanding of each other. I applaud your content and the work you do. M
I agree
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I Love This. ❤❤❤
There’s never anything just for us, for long…. Dance, Food, Hair, Skin, Style… let me stop😢
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Our Aunties use a lot of Shea butter and coconut oil.
I’m a 4c so Shea butter works best with me. I May even mix it with almond or castor oil. But I could never do olive oil.
We need to learn our hair as you said and make our own products.
Same with our skin.❤
We need to stop buying these man made products, JUST STOP and make our own.
I was literally about to say this. And the most important part is the ingredients won’t change.
@@nycopersephone5772DEADASS!
I second this!
yea we really don’t need as many products as they market
@@maijennasis EXACTLY.
Only products that worked best for my hair were natural products. No tangles! Stop giving these companies our money. (Sorry about the edit. CZcams erased some of my message 😢) Use aloe vera, oils, and clays y’all!!
agreed its all I trust
Yessss my faves are castor and chebe oil. Works wonders
Agree!! My hair thrives when I take the time to make my own products. I can control exactly what goes into it and don't have to worry about the ole switcheroo that a lot of these companies continue to pull.
Not to much oil.
Same
Yess!! Thank you for saying this. People give me products all the time and it’s because my hair is natural. They aren’t comfortable with my hair looking dry or nappy looking. It needs to altered and products are pushed to make it look like a looser curl pattern
That’s so crazy that all of this happened in a matter of weeks. From the outrage over the product being hijacked by ww to the selling (out) of the company and it no longer being black owned. They wasted NO TIME. 😅
Acquisitions take MONTHS. The PR was planned.
Brand acquisitions don’t happen that fast. This deal was in the making for at least several months. That’s why I’m inclined to agree with Mayowa about the outrage being purposely drummed up to create publicity. The timing isn’t a coincidence at all.
@@IAmPlaysWithSquirrel ❤
I don't have 4 type hair but I came to a salon just to susupport them because they were black owned. I will admit I didn't detangle my hair because I was planning to wash it and style it that day . The stylist made fun of it and I kept thinking the whole time if she's treating me like this I can't imagine how disrespectful she was to people with 4C hair. I forgot to add I told her I didn'thave plans for her to do it that day I justwanted to know her prices but she wanted to kick me when I was down that day
We so heavily rely on wigs, extensions and so called protective styles. It’s really sad.
I’ve been natural since I was 13, I am 25 now. I have been working on my body butter & hair line for the last 2 years. I will say this ONE more time….MAKE👏🏾YOUR👏🏾OWN👏🏾PRODUCTS!! Sadly, a lot of BIG black companies initially cater to black women to genuinely help us learn our hair, but then they’re bottom dollar starts to outshine all of that and they have NO problem no longer creating a product that actually works for their target audience…how many times do we have to watch this: wash, rinse & repeat pattern before we understand our movement will always be co-opted & betrayed…Honestly the natural hair community needs a hard reset back to the beginning of natural YT and get back to the basics!
I LOVE the makeup so much, it looks like butterflies! It's so cute! I'd love a video explaining different hair types and styles, I'm a white artist who wants to get better at drawing black hair, a content creator who I find entertaining making a video explaining the basics would literally be ideal.
Have you heard of Vegalia? They have a lot of videos of different hairstyles for Black people. 😃
@@imjustsaying281 I'll check them out, thanks!
Pls pls pls edit this comment. I think you meant “creator” and not “creature”.
@@dajiyahmcae1880 oh you're right, I didn't spot that
@@imjustsaying281 her brushes are so cuteeee
Sometimes I see clips of black folks in the 70’s embracing their natural hair in a way where I think it was really beautiful I think going back to that would be very dope or to see people kind of take on how it was maybe with our own twist
the eye makeup is EATING, jaw literally dropped
I'm looking for buying a wig right now, not to hide my hair, not to assimilate, or because I don't love or I'm ashamed of my 4c/b hair, but I want to protect them.
Winter is real, and also North atmosphere is not our home at all. I was born and raised in Eu and when I left for the first time to go on holiday in Miami, then in Bahamas, I've noticed something amazing about my skin and my hair that I've never experienced before... lot of humidity in the air: my skin was clear, my hair was fluffy and happy. After, I went to Senegal and same results. When I came back in Eu 😪, where is cold and dry, my hair is breaking, my skin is a mess again. They need proper care but I'm a bit too stressed out and disorganized right now. Therefore it's better for me to get a weekend per month to take good care of my skin and hair, that I would braid it and leave it alone under a wig until the next month. UntiI can figure it out what oil, treatment my hair likes, which hairstyles I like and don't damage my crown.
It's fine to wear wigs sometimes.
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I see TONS of people on tik tok with 4a hair saying they have 4c. And one girl who 4a trying to sell her routine to 4c girls saying they can have long hair too and mocking ppl saying “my 4c could never” and she’s promoting impossible expectations
Who?
Even here on CZcams, there's so many 4C-fishers. I feel like a lot of Americans don't know what 4C really looks like maybe? Because I feel like those hair influencers need to be called out. That's why I rely more on African hair influencers, few American because maybe the idea of 4C is different.
@@LeratoM98 True because I am Khoi-San and I feel Americans dont know what 4c is. Most African Americans come from West Africa where the have looser curl pattern like 3c and 4a
@@janinewest7844 True. And a lot of African Americans are now mixed or have admixture so tend to get looser curl patterns not 4C.
Omg there are so many 4a ppl on social media claiming to be 4c smh it’s irritating and also a slap in the face. Especially because many of them know they are being disingenuous for views and money smh I also sometimes think it’s an extension of their internalized anti-blackness, assuming that any hair that requires a certain degree of work must be 4c or any other hair type that appears unkempt (4a or 3c hair being neglected or cared for improperly) just MUST be 4c… any hair that isn’t straight or wavy pretty much. The delusion is just beyond me smh
I dye my hair and I still study how locs are because my natural hair is still my sacred root. At a certain age i thought my relaxed hair was my natural hair, wow how things have changed. Now that black woman know their power, everyone wants edges and to use our products because "it looks nice and feels authentic" white people buying bonnets when i never saw them buy them before. I read somewhere that an American society without racism wouldn't be an American society. American society to blackness is a little different when you talk from in international point of view.
Girl I have 2 bottles of the original oil, in will start to make my own for my girls 🤷🏾♀️
Lol you came prepared!
This is why I don't bother with big business oil companies. I only buy homemade oils from my close friends or sellers on Etsy
My mom is jamaican and we go to Jamaica once in a while to get black castor oil
I don’t buy business oil either I personally think it’s BS and very expensive I bought Mille for the first time to try it don’t think I will try it again it’s way too light I have to mix it with my cast or oil, way too watery for my 4a/3c mixed curls
After hearing how Miele treated one CZcams influencer who was a black woman who was genuine in her review some years back, I stopped buying from them. I didn’t like how she got her husband threatening ANOTHER WOMAN. I wish I remembered the woman’s name but she didn’t deserve that type of treatment all because she didn’t like the rice water line 🙄
About Mielle founders, l know the husband is Dominican and l believe the wife is as well. They aren’t Black. I don’t care how brown the skin is they are NOT Black as y’all may view them. Culturally, they are Hispanic.
I remember that incident a few years ago. It was nasty and unnecessary.
@@MayMay-el4wg I didn’t even know she wasn’t black and was Dominican… that explains a lot tbh. I’m glad that woman showed her ass though, now I put my money towards taliah Waajid still to this day
The CZcamsr is Linda Lynn
@@johnesia …thanks sis! I hopped over there and subscribed! 😉. One thing l don’t do is use the Black label indiscriminately. Hispanics are Cubans, Mexicans, Latin Americans, Puerto Ricans, including Dominicans. I always want to know ethnicity because that helps with knowing the culture and mindset. Same with African. What country and tribe? Caribbean family? What island and ethnicities? African Americans? Biracial, Gullah, or Creole. I’ve always been this way and it helps in my communication with people plus it’s interesting knowing other people of color’s heritage. 🖤🤎❤️🧡💛🤍
@@MayMay-el4wg in my experience, it depends on the individual Dominican. Some identify as black, some don't. It usually depends on how much experience they've had in the US, but not always. I find that to be generally the case with darker Latinos too. Colorism is a sensitive topic in Latin America... So I'm not sure how the Mielle creator identifies: she may consider herself Black in the sense we understand. You can't really assume.
I agree. And we are also led to believe that our hair "should change" when we use these products. So we are led to believe that our kinky hair is not supposed to be kinky, and if it doesn't change with the products, something is wrong, and then we need to try another product. So we jump from product to product, wondering what is wrong, when nothing is wrong at all. We just need to accept our hair. Also, I'm so uncomfortable seeing stylists put half a tub of mousse or whatever foam onto a style and saying "Look at that curl pattern." That's not your curl pattern. That's literally the product sitting on your hair, juicing it up. And you know this because as soon as you rinse it out, it's gone! You are so right! I'm exhausted with all of the nonsense too.
By your logic, your hydrated skin isn’t real when it’s slathered with a moisturizer? 🤨
Styling products can’t give you a curl pattern you don’t already have, otherwise perms and wigs wouldn’t be so profitable. I’m tired of reading dumb comments like this, as if everyone doesn’t use products on their hair for manageability regardless of hair type. Good luck styling dry hair with no product to prevent breakage and keep the hair in place.
@@IAmPlaysWithSquirrel They’re not really giving you a curl pattern they are just defining curls and removing frizz I get your point though
Girls… I’m sorry but I’m going to have to steal this eye makeup because bayBEE…
thank you! it was inspired by my friend Tiiwon!
Being a natural from as far back as the late 90’s, I can tell you that we had none of these products, and TRU 4 C hair was represented on CZcams. African Export was one that I followed (I do wish that I could remember all of the names of the beautiful 4 C women of the 90’s), but that was the community that I relied on to keep it real regarding what my 4C hair was capable of achieving!
I agree that texturism has withdrawn some people from the natural hair community. As corny as it sounds. It has to start from home and the way we allow our family members to talk about children with kinky hair and the differential treatment when they have curlier hair cause it’s definitely a thing. We all have the stories. It’s a micro aggression that has serious consequences in my opinion
It’s crazy to see ppl going back to perms. Especially knowing the ppl on the boxes had natural hair in those photos! I honestly will never get a perm again. If I need it straight, a silk press is an appointment away. I mostly wear my hair blown out using the revlon hair brush dryer. I jus added some kinky straight itips for length & ppl legit believes this is my hair!! I don’t do anything to it. I love “low maintenance” hairstyles. As in I don’t need to do it everyday, jus brush it at least twice 🤷🏾♀️
As a Black woman, this channel feeds my soul. I would love more long-form content, as well as the "hair type" video! Thank you for your education and commentary 🙌🏾 💙🔷️💙🔷️
This is my problem with the natural hair community. This community started out with women with the kinkiest textured hair expressing appreciation and acceptance of their hair the way it grew out of their scalps. There were creative styles to bring out the versatility and beauty of their hair type being taught to us kinky-haired girls.
But as this movement caught on, which is what always happens whenever BW push anything that is about our upliftment, it gets usurped by either WW or in this case biracial, mixed, curly-haired women who wanted to have the movement be about them.
When these women were never discriminated against, were never told that their hair was ugly or unkempt, or nappy, or didn't grow -- Nor lost a job or were kicked out of school because of their hair.
I don't like the way these women with their looser-curled hair wrapped themselves up in our pain and used their hair texture to sell us products that claimed to tame our kinky hair to look more like theirs as the standard of beauty. This only served to further undermine the purpose of the movement in the first place.
We kinky-haired girls had haircare companies even change their formulas to better suit these looser-curl-haired women and leave us, kinky-haired girls, out in the cold.
Shea Moisture can lie all they want to about not changing their formula but our kinky hair knows the difference and that a change was made. The product was helping grow our hair and keep our hair healthy and now that product no longer works the same. Period.
I feel like there is a conspiracy to keep kinky-haired women at a disadvantage with our hair being able to retain length and stay healthy and flourish. the haircare companies are not catering to us and our unique haircare needs.
This is why we have to come up with our own concoctions to grow our hair and retain length. Length retention is our biggest obstacle. We want long luxurious hair too -- and we can get it provided we are given the same catered haircare products everyone else is given to maintain the health of their hair. We are being discriminated against still in that regard.
Wow this is a word-- for me 'going natural' was just not straightening my hair anymore altogether... I recall doing an ad for Dark and Lovely and I definitely kind of regret it LOL but I did Inspire my mom who has 4b hair to stop perming and go natural so something good came out of it 😀
Well said!!
Eh, not really. More black women are growing their hair long than ever before. You can use any products to grow your hair for the most part, it's all about technique.
You always hit. I have so many stories about the hypocrisy both on my own head and on others. At the end of the day, I'm done with products as much as I can be. Aloe vera, castor/ olive oil, shea butter, and flaxseed gel are all I'm using on my 4c hair except for olaplex and any deep conditioner that I'm gonna use once a week, until i can find a recipe that's easy to make that I like. These hair people are not getting my coins anymore.
A real concerns with the conglomerates purchasing the smaller brands that cater to Blk hair and skin care is that the formulation change…I feel to destroy our natural and unique beauty. Because when Blk brands are independent, it’s been created to address a unique need and most times it’s successful if it’s on the market. These Blk brands need to beware because although brand visibility increases, they’ll stand a chance of brand integrity and reputation can decrease. Btw, first time watching your vid. New subbie. Truly enjoyed this vid 👏🏽.
I'm a little confused. People can get rosemary from the grocery store and make the oil from scratch and it'll actually cost them less. Also, it's oil...anyone can use oil. Indian women aren't upset about the growing popularity of Aryuveda haircare (which also involves using oils).
Maybe because Indian women are front and centre, capitalizing on the fact that Aryuveda hair care methods are now popular within the mainstream beauty industry!
I’m living for the blue butterfly look. And yeah I realize my privileges in this area. I might not have completely type 3 hair but it’s definitely looser. So I make it a point to just shut up whenever anyone complains or talks about their hair
Yess the video on hair types would be v interesting!! AND you look STUNNING in the blue, your makeup literally looks genuinely bioluminescent it’s so magical.
Listening to your videos made me develop a deep love for my kinky 4c hair to the point that I totally feel uncomfortable wearing wigs and everything that's not naturally me.
Please continue making these videos. I loooove Mayowa and honestly hope to meet this gorgeous human someday
You look amazing with the blue eyeshadow. 💙
This has been illuminating. I’ve been natural for 15 years now and only just hearing about mielle. I specifically went looking for CZcamsrs with my type 4 hair and the ones I gravitated toward were more about understanding our hair, experimenting with methods, processes, and generic products rather than a specific brand of products and it’s helped me to work with my hair on its own terms. If you’re looking for that I Recommend green beauty channel, naturally high, and nappyfu as good places to start.
I was soooooo in love with Carol's D products. The store was where spike lee's joint was downtown brooklyn. Then the store closed and i panicked finding the expensive product again😔😔😔😔😔😔Eventually i began to slowly give up the expensive product movng on to cheaper. Then tired of trying different products over and over again. Now, i D.IY. all day. I know i stand firm in having my natural hair always. I love it on days after i wash it.
Yesss!!!!, blue is my favorite color!!!! Your make us is stunning with the butterfly as well.
What do you diy?
I'm LOVING this look! ❤
thank you!
i love my type 4 hair more than anything 💞 I wish more people can love their kinky coily hair because it’s God’s gift
I've never been able to articulate it but yes there is no product that will change your hair texture. Black women's hairs are for sale so no advice is necessary unless you are pro-coils and licensed in coily hair. I hate to hear people that hate the way my hair grows to tell me how long it will be if I straighten it or that I need to see a Dominican to get it real straight. I used to say my hair fights me but it should, my hair was right because my hair does what it's supposed to... PROTECT MY BIG HEAD🤣 it's job is not to keep up with white girls or loose hair textures. She tight and tight is right for me!😍💖
Amen
Exactly ✨❤️💯.
Off topic but I love your makeup and hair in this video. As someone who uses Mielle Organics for alopecia, I was DISTRAUGHT to learn that they were sold to P&G. I literally rushed to my nearest Target and bought as many bottles as I could. I finally found a product that helps slow the process of alopecia only to learn that the company has bought out.
The make up is on point!! I have locs and I spent so much money on products as a loose natural, was too much!!
oh wow thanks for writing this! I didnt kno there was also a huge push for products in the loc community smh. what were people saying the products would do?
@@mayowasworld When I mean loose natural, I mean before I had locs, just my natural hair, I consider my locs to be natural . But I'm just differentiate between the two... Hope that's makes sense. I use less products now its great!!
Girl that blue on you is A. MAZ. ING.
Omg i love you for saying the truth about decision making. Logic and emotions definitely run 50/50. There is never a separation. Thank you!!
Mayowa ,it seems that you have decided to bless us this new year with your looks😍😍😍😍😍😍😍💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💘🌷
I’ve grown tired of people telling me that I just haven’t found what works for me yet. It angered me knowing that people or friends with looser hair types waltz into a store pick something random and then have it work. Meanwhile I’ve been on this long journey of 2-3 years buying multiple products just to get my hair to even curl. 😂 I’m happy now just to have my hair be healthy. I don’t want to give advice and I don’t want to hear advice. Because we are all different and may never get the curls we see on the internet. On a side note I did not like that non black woman doing the Tik Tok joke on his 4c hair. We need to gatekeep our hair stuff. 💀jokes and all.
First you look gorgeous. The blue is perfect against your lovely complexion ❤ definitely about 3rd wave 😂 You’re locs are beautiful. You and lauryn Hill locs are my inspiration. I have thick locs and I would love to see a routine for yours. I’m one year loc’d and it’s been a battle but I’m hanging in there. I don’t use a comb but I part with my fingers if I do decide to retwist which is rarely. But I’m debating on going full free form.
Protect this queen she is a gem. Her makeup is always creative.
Your eye makeup is always so creative and cute!
I'm nervous about the formula change as well. Like a few other women have mentioned, I've been natural all my life and I just discovered Mielle a few months ago. It makes my hair manageable and healthier. It's been amazing to just let my hair be free, I'm currently wearing it in an afro.
i think that's the prettiest makeup i've ever seen, i can't stop looking at your eyes...
aw thank you!!
I’ve never used Carols Daughter bc I didn’t think it was for my 4c texture. I used Shea Moisture b4 they went YT and I’ve never used Mielle. I’ll still with Eden Bodywork’s, Curls, Kinky Curly, Dudley’s, and Design Essentials which are all black owned
I think Eden Bodyworks and Kinky Curly may leave us next 😢
I would love for you to do a dedicated video on what you mentioned. The fact that most 4C girls use all these products, tutorials and styles to mimic 3c and mixed girl hair types. Cause no one is talking about this.
It’s funny because before you even got to the pet where you mentioned making our own products I was saying “FU*K THAT! The start is making our own products for EACH person’s hair” let’s start to love the process of plying w/ natural ingredients that love our hair & our hair textures love & SHARE THE KNOWLEDGE!❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for your channel and being a voice for us black girls ❤️
Also as far as hair type, there's a youtuber out there who explains the way we type our hair (4a,4b,4c,etc) is outdated and not beneficial for our hair health and provides another way to describe hair types. Have to look her up.
Yes, the blue eyes are gorgeous 💙
I had to pull back on the amount of product I use cuz the natural hair community was like using leave in by the palm full. Enough! I save so much money now. Washing my hair every two weeks. I don’t have a cabinet full of shit like before. I do like to style my hair but damn we need to chill
You are life giving 💙 my hair is 2 C and has recently started to mat all on its own. I think I am starting a free form loc journey and I’m hyped, you are my inspiration. I just want to love myself as I am and you are such a good example. Much love to you!
The 1980s jheri curl products for moisturizing changed formulas, too thanks to the natural hair community demonizing mineral oil and wheat protein. They have the same bottles but different ingredients that are , in my opinion, not nearly as effective as the original.
Seeing the surge in the natural hair community Relaxing their hair is scaring me esp bc there’s been links to serious cancers & relaxers + black women are the most overlooked when it comes to healthcare 😢
I love the blue butterfly look Mayowa, it’s simple gorgeous. I don’t know if you are into anime but you remind me of the Shinobu from Demon Slayer. Anyways, snaps to you for adding more depth of thought to the natural hair discourse. You made an excellent point about product hoarding that I personally relate to. One of my good friends explained to me that I would need to stop over using moisturing products in my hair, especially if I was going to get locs. I think that is true for natural hair in general because I start to have a little bit of dermatitis and scalp acne due to the over use of products. I have laid off the pore clogging products and I have a better moisturizing and sealing method that is helping out my hair a lot. I feel closer to getting the locs I’ve always wanted. Thanks 😊
Yess you looked so cute with the Butterfly and blue make up. Honestly, I thought that there would be a shift in the opposite direction once black women realize that relaxers have been linked cancer😢
This commentary was so on target and, in my opinion, very much needed. I think you eloquently put into words what many of us with natural hair have been feeling with regard to the online natural hair community and products for natural hair for ages. Well done! Also, I must speak on how much I love your look in this video. Absolutely gorgeous! 🦋
You are an absolutely stunning young lady. More power to our natural 4? hair. You're right, our foreparent were not running around trying to buy fake products for their hair.
Beautiful content!
Bringing back a sense of community is so important. We can support and love each other online and support black brands, but we must find a way to love on each other and engage in real life.
They said they are not selling out but selling up. I guess if they make money off of it, they are happy.
The artistry of your eyes tho’. I love it!
I was legit saying throughout the whole video that I think Blue really suits you. The make up is givinggg. And what struck me the most is that what you said about "your hair alone in its natural state is enough". I have 4c kinky of the kinkiest hair and I've had my hair locked for 3 and half years now Before I locked it I remember all the products I used to buy to help it "grow" and it just kept breaking even when the product seemed promising at first.. After, I got tired and just told my aunt whose hair has been locked for 24 years now to do mine too and she told me best way to approach locs was patience cus it really was an individuals journey and to just leave the hair alone. So since I started I stopped choking the hair with products and stuck to oiling it once a week. 2x in winter. Only a little will do and a good massage helps. I also rinse it with water in the shower, no shampoo once a week and wash it thoroughly with shampoo once a month..and I'm telling you my hair feels like it can breathe again. It just grows and grows unhindered even when I loc it a week later the scalp is disappearing.🤣 Lately ive been trying to loc it every 3 months instead of 2 to allow my hair to grow thick at the scalp so the strands become stronger. Im trying to be proactive about thining. So yeh all the "u need this and that product" I realised were LIES. What a scam. Best decision I ever made to loc my hair..and I really only started cus I got sick of all the damn spending. Good luck to anyone out there figuring out what works for you hair.
Ps referencing ancestors too makes so much sense. I really believe they also went with simple is best. 💙💙 and y'all u know your hair on your scalp best.
Omg I’m definitely interested in the hair type video. I’ve been wanting to make a tik tok discussing how non-Black people have, in recent years, have become so obsessed with curl pattern that they now believe that they’re curly or even kinky. To the point where they have created a new wave of texturism in their own communities and have pushed Black folks out. Like they even have so many videos about defining their “curls” and it’s just definition obsessed content/hair standard. As someone with afro textured hair, I can still recognize that I literally have a type 2 pattern in the front of my head (without heat damage) but it’s afro textured. Meanwhile, the ✋🏻people think they have type 3 or kinky (some even say nappy😐🙄) hair. Some people have texture/pattern blindness and some people are straight up texturist. And there’s no one being blunt about all of it😭
I've been so annoyed by the "so my hair is actually wavy!!" discourse happening amongst non-black people these days... they'll see a slight indent in their hair and do all types of steps to hold a curl. Actually not even a curl. A WAVE LMAO. Now I hear white girls calling straightening their hair "silk presses" and distinguishing their hair via the typing system (which black folk should do away with since its creator was antiblack but I digress). It's wild!
I've legit seen non-black people with straight hair dunking their heads into buckets of water and conditioner to hold a curl...I'm so tired. I completely agree with you, now that non-black people with straight hair are claiming it to be wavy or even curly Black people have been completely erased from this convo and it sucks. I just mind my own business and do what I like, I don't really follow hair influencers anymore unless its for creative styles no more 10 step routines for me.
@@ChiChi-um6qq we are literally on the same page lol, and the amount of videos I’ve seen of them trying to form a curl a million different ways with a brush is comical
My favorite is wearing my hair like a young girl never been permed hot combed kinky and care free...literally the kinkyer the better!! It's a heaven cloud and yess this is about to be on the for front because I decree it to be and will be the conscious spokes person for it!!
I'm still learning about my hair everyday this white woman or anyone who doesn't have the thickest of the thick 4c: don't touch my hair without permission and don't tell me what to do those are my rules. I had to create my own save space from the few videos i was able to find on CZcams this channel included. I love your videos thank you so much for your art💕
This is why I started freeforming & don’t use any products at all besides a homemade oil I put together. I can’t trust anything anymore almost every product I used growing up has changed in a bad way the ingredients went from natural to chemicals. Needless to say I don’t regret my decision. I just hope the people involved in lawsuits get justice & start learning more about the beauty of their own unaltered texture I feel we are the most beautiful in our natural state but unfortunately so many don’t think that way. Lowkey brainwashed imo.
I just wanna say I LOVE your freeform locs. Ur so gorgeous!
Very rarely do we see representation for thus texture n style. LOVE IT
i really wish us people with type 4 hair would be happy with our hair in it natural state. there are so many hair tutorials on how to avoid shrinkage and it’s so saddening. TYPE 4 HAIR IS SO BEAUTIFUL WHEN ITS SHRUNK ! the beautiful coils and curls are just so breathtaking.
I don't understand why anyone would be so obsessed and laugh at someone else's hair texture! 😳🤔 Our hair, African textured, is unique and has its own style, haircare methods, tools, combs, picks, etc! I decided not to get too attached to brand-name products even though I still use a particular brand of shampoo, oil, conditioner, and detangler! I've been with Creme of Nature Moroccan oil shampoo,conditioner, leavein conditioner, and oil! I'm also using a child's brand called Curl Peace and I use their leavein detangler/styler,, shampoo and conditioner! I love these products but I'm aware that they could change at any time!
The butterfly and the blue is everything! Love love love. Stay blessed
I love your hair! I'm a 67 year old white woman and have always thought natural black hair was beautiful. "Beauty companies" are always trying to make women feel inadequate and I've never bought that shit. You are beautiful the way you are!
My mom started relaxing my hair when I was 6 years old. She did it for my pre school graduation, it was almost like a celebratory moment. I stopped relaxing my hair when I was 18 years old, I actually had a hard time loving my natural hair. I actually still think I struggle a little with loving my natural hair. I got treated a lot better when my hair was relaxed, long, and neat. Hair is so important, I love that you make that known. You make me think about the deeper reasons behind things like WHY was getting relaxer celebrated? WHY do we get treated differently because of what's on our head? WHY do I have the overwhelming feeling to always make sure my hair is "neat"? etc etc. Anyway, I love you and your channel. You talk about a lot of shit people are not ready for, thats why I fw you.
I look at hair products as just another way of styling my hair to me it’s no different than wearing braids, locs, silk press or relaxed. I wear it out when it’s frizzy and when it defined. I’m not loyal to a company unless it works I use it if not I don’t.
if im honest a lot of people with type 4 hair believe their hair is hard to manage and that it takes too much time. For me thats not the case, I just had to learn what it liked and didnt like. It's also about accepting and seeing the beauty in kinkiness and how our hair shrinks and defies gravity. More representation in the media would help people to see our hair in a favorable light instead of pushing either loose curls or 30 inch buss downs all the time.
The makeup, butterfly and blue look amazing on you.
I love the blue! Looks gorgeous on you. 😍 And I'd love to hear a break down of hair types.
Me too! I hope she does the breakdown in another video.
I have 4a /4b hair I don’t want 3c hair. My texture is beautiful. Everyone don’t want those type of curls. But I love this video
Gosh!!! The eyes and the butterfly are killing. You look so beautiful ❤❤
Natural from the 2012 community here. 🙋🏾♀️. Honey it has been a mess with many of the main stream hair products. One that I haven’t seen mentioned is Jane Carter solutions…..haven’t anyone noticed that you don’t really see her products as much? It’s a MESS honey. Cantu, Shea Moisture, Carols Daughter and others I haven’t named. This isn’t the first time this has happened and unfortunately it won’t be the last.
This is the first time I’ve seen people go this hard for Mielle due to her past 3-4 years trending for some very distasteful actions. The products will not be more expensive, but cheaper now that she has been acquired. They knew black women would be outraged. They knew there would be a spike in sales BUT. They did not sale just because of the oil, this has been in the works and now….✨here we are ✨
Every single thing you said is correct. And I feel the solution is to stop buying products and make our own products. It's always going to be this vicious cycle of finding a product that we love, using it for a long time, for it to then be bought out by a major products conglomerate. So, let's start making our own products, I have been because I'm sick of these companies doing this! Thank you for your video because THEY don't give a damn about us, they just want our money!
Can I just start by saying how absolutely stunning you look ! The butterfly, the blue eyeshadow, the glow. Just giving me life ! 🥰😍
aww yay thank you!!
@Mayowa's World Mama you are killin the game honestly! I must say I absolutely love your content, you say what we're all thinking. After years of being obsessed with faux locks, I finally found the courage to start my loc journey 3 weeks ago and I'm absolutely loving it. I am so happy to be on this journey to embrace my true self. You are a true inspiration. ❤
yes for everything you said and omg the aqua eye look is "bussin "as the kids say
Came for the makeup look stayed for the conversation 🙌🏾
Oh I forgot that when I was wearing an Afro I remember using hair grease to braid my hair at night and washed it every 2 weeks.