The TRUTH about hair relaxers | Recent CBS news
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- CBS recently reported about the health risks linked with using hair relaxers, so let's get the truth out there. Share this with your communities to inform other black women of the risks.
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Yes, I'm also a believer of Christ! I stopped using relaxers back in 2004, and I rarely straighten my hair, maybe once or twice a year.
Heyy 👋🏾 awesome! Same, I probably straighten mine twice a year but I'm certainly glad I decided to go natural ☺️
@@Natural2020_ I'm glad as well. My hair was waist length at one point, but I had a setback, and now I'm trying to get my hair back healthy again.
Free in Christ indeed!!
I’ve been getting my coils altered since I was 4 years old in some way. First I was getting my hair straightened with a hot comb on the stove. Around 4th or 5th grade, I started getting Jheri curls. Around 7th grade is when I started getting relaxers. No matter the method, the psychological message was the same…my natural coils were not okay to be seen. I had that “rough stuff”, as my aunt used to say. My hair remained relaxed till I was 36 years old. I started seeing ladies return to their natural hair and LOVED IT for them, but thought I could NEVER look nice with my natural hair. Then I started developing a small bald spot in the front and center part of my edges. I had to comb my hair a certain way to conceal it. My friend asked me if I had ever seen a woman with her natural hair and thought she shouldn’t have done that…I said NO, and she said likewise for you. That was 10 years ago. Returning to our natural hair is waaaaayy deeper than just the aesthetic of it. It literally causes us to peel back and handle sone deep insecurities, old wounds passed down through generations. I literally just started loving my hair within the past year. Even though I’ve been natural for years, doing my hair was a chore, but now it’s a privilege. I had to remember the One who created me designed me with tight coils, and He doesn’t make mistakes. He said His creation was good. If He thought I was good, who am I to think any different? Returning natural is a whole journey. Now ladies are having to lay down the wigs and attachments the way we had to lay down the relaxers. What a multi layered topic this is! Sorry for this dissertation!! 😅 Thanks for this video! 💕❤️
Your dissertation was sooooo spot on though! It absolutely has been passed down through generations. Your friend made such a good point! When I first went natural my hair was totally shaved, so I had these lovely natural waves in my hair that were so shiny. But as my hair grew longer those waves couldn't be seen anymore, just frizz lol. So I had to learn to love that element of my hair, realising this is how God created me. It's a great thing we've come to the place we are now and we can help to educate others about their hair.
I relaxed from 1983 to 1993. Back then *everybody* had a "perm" then a few years later we started to get jheri curls. I begged to get a perm before 1983, but it was banned until we were 13. That first perm taught me to be careful what you wish for. Those chemicals burned the mess out of my head. I begged for them to take it off as soon as they would put it on. The hairdressers would ask me to tolerate the burning and I would start to cry😭😭😭So in those 10 years I was never fully relaxed, but moreso texlaxed. I had one of those "afro perms"🤣🤣🤣 I think it makes sense that 90% of Black women had a relaxer at some point as the natural hair movement did not get a good foothold until cira 2009. Twenty, 30, 40 years from now that 90% number will have decreased significantly, I'm sure.
@@123leahm I can almost hear your cries of "it's burning, get it off" lol. It is crazy that we thought we had to "tolerate" that. Yes I think you're right, the percentage of women who have had perms will likely begin to decrease in future years.