Would You Deceive Other Women Seeking Longer Hair for Money?

[HAIRapy]

H*ll to the yeah! LOL Shoot, we see women on those hair commercials all the time with weaves. It cracks me up when I see a woman on a hair color commercial (like Beyonce') knowing that it's a full weave in their head. Yeah, I'd do it, but I would just wear a weave, I wouldn't let them do anything to my own hair.

 

[Candy_C]

ERRMMM!! I COULD NEVER, WILL NEVER HAVE NEVER!

it goes against everything that i stand for!!!!!!!!!!!!!


i wouldnt rep anything that didnt work for me

 

[chicacanella]

H*ll to the yeah! LOL Shoot, we see women on those hair commercials all the time with weaves. It cracks me up when I see a woman on a hair color commercial (like Beyonce') knowing that it's a full weave in their head. Yeah, I'd do it, but I would just wear a weave, I wouldn't let them do anything to my own hair.

I think that goes for most of the ladies in hair commercials. Like the one with the purple kangaroo, that lady had on a lace front.

 

[lovenharmony]

Well, if I had long hair, I wouldn't do it because I would remember how difficult it was for me to get my hair long and how it made me feel when other perpetrators led me down the path of hair destruction.

 

[OrangeMoon]

Nope, can't do it

 

[lovenharmony]

Wow, you ladies came up with some interesting views. Maybe I should have been more specific with my question. However, at the time I did not think of all of the good points you brought up.

If I had to be on a box of some relaxer, magazine, et cetera I would.

In high school/college Debbie Allen had some "natural" relaxer you could practically eat. I tried it and my hair looked or felt no different. Thank God my hair did not fall out! I would not do an infomercial that I did not believe in.

That "natural" relaxer was RIO / COPA!!! That ish destroyed my hair cause I thought it would be less damaging for my hair because it claimed to be all natural ingredients. At the time I was only 15 and was trying to take care of my own hair...see it's stuff like this that irks me because Debbie Allen is a respectable woman of color and would believe that she would not be a spokeswoman for a product that does nothing good for our hair. I know it's business and it's all about the money, but it really sucks when they get our own people to chuck nonsense for us to buy, making money off our hopes and dreams to have longer, healthy hair .

Some may put their image and/or name on anything to make a buck, but I wouldn't be able to do it.

 

[sonce]

PH, Imma tell you straight.....I gots bills to pay.

Basically. And it's just hair. If it was a product affecting health or lives, that'd be one thing. Smart ladies will figure out quickly that the product is garbage, and if they don't, all they've lost is hair, which grows back in two seconds. Meanwhile, some of my student loans are paid off.

 

[Moroni]

As a hair model, there's no pretense involved, so my answer is yes, they can take pictures all they want to, and the deception is theirs, just as it always is. As a representative for a commercial, it's the same condition, where you read a script, and the job is yours because you fit what they're looking for.

There is NO way, though, that I would personally represent to anyone that this is what caused my hair growth. I would draw the line, also, if I knew that the product was dangerous or damaging to the customer....no way I could be a part of that.

I wouldn't see it any different from getting paid to have pictures taken with a milk mustache for a "got milk?" picture, when I wouldn't touch milk *otherwise* with a ten-foot pole. I just don't view payment for this type of service a deception.

ETA: otherwise

 

[cheeks87]

I sure would! And I'd take that money & run!

I personally don't look at the hair model in hair commercials & stuff and think, oh her hair is pretty let me go buy this. I assume they don't actually use the product. Just like every other ad. I assume people in diet pill ads are either naturally thin or eat right & exercise. If someone's naive enough to be like, "Oh she's thin! Maybe I should try that $200 diet pill!" then that's their problem. If someone thinks using some hair product is gonna magically make their hair look like the model's that's their problem. And maybe that's mean, but I'm not gonna turn down easy money just cuz some people are gullible. That's what you do when you're a model. You represent products you more than likely will never use/wear/whatever. How crazy would it seem if some model's agent was like, Hey Gucci wants you to do a runway show and the model was like, oh no I can't work with them. I don't wear Gucci.

Now if someone tried to pay me to rep some product on LHCF & pretend I was using it. No, I'd never do that.

 

[Blkprincess]

I wouldn't...I couldn't and would endorse or promote anything that I personally would never use or that is harmful. I'm a huge product junkie, so I'm real quick to tell a friend or family if I find a great product that I've experienced good or bad results with...sharing is caring

 

[Vinyl]

Yeah, but that's because I've always dreamed of becoming a model of some sort...

As long as they don't cut my hair.

 

[*Muffin*]

NO! Money isn't worth your soul or reputation. I hate companies that seek to make money off of deceiving the masses. For all the money that they pay these models and for advertisements they should invest some toward better ingredients and more quality products.

 

[beans4reezy]

If Star Jones can shamelessly promote Payless, then I would take the modeling job. Cash rules!

 

[JJamiah]

Personally I'd have to test the product out if I don't like it I am not going to fake it for any $$$$. In my career as a hair stylist and before I refer it anyone I test it on me or one of my eight sisters and if it isn't working then I am not going to advise it. If I hear good results via someone else I will tell a person about it but that it wasn't my experience. BUT.... if I love something I will sell sell sell sell like gargamel!

 

[Mz.MoMo5235]

i honestly dont think i can do it. i dunno why but i think i wouldnt. but not just with hair stuff. when i was younger and dreamed of being a famous singer (before i realized i cant sing lol) i would think about the stuff i would promote and not promote. so i've always felt like this. i guess i'm weird lol

 

[*CherryPie*]

Ummmm......yes, I would!!!!!!!!!

 

[mariofmagdal]

No I would not, but this reminds me of the time I did a hair show for some friends. They owned the hair salon, but I was not one of their clients.

 

[BostonMaria]

If someone gave me a product and asked me to do a review and I hated it.. now that would be a dilemma because I couldn't sit there and LIE about it. That's wrong and I'm sure it happens. I was asked to do a review on Curls and boy was I relieved when I ended up liking the product because otherwise I would've had to do a bad review.

As far as being a hair model for a product I wouldn't use even to clog my drain... I guess it would depend. If someone took before and after shots of me and pretended their snake oil made me grow my hair AND said company was a company that advertised here, couldn't do it. You guys would scalp me If its some random company and I'm just sitting there looking perdy, hey momma needs a new Coach bag what can I say

 

[Mz.MoMo5235]

BM, you liked the curls line? my hair was not a fan lol too bad though cause i LOVED THE SMELL mmmmmmmm so nummy

 

[chebaby]

if they were paying me good money, heck yea.

 

[vainღ♥♡jane]

yes. i would do it for some free hydrathema naturals products. ♥

 

[MyAngelEyez~C~U]

Hail Naw.

 

[Amber_moon]

whats with all these zombie threads?

 

[MyAngelEyez~C~U]

whats with all these zombie threads?

IDK

 

[Mz.MoMo5235]

whats a zombie thread?

 

[NikStarrr]

Yea, if I was hired as a hair model--I would just be doing my job. This is the oldest trick in the book. My grandmother was in Ebony Magazine doing hair product ads in the 50's and she has type 2 hair naturally. She never needed a "pressing creme" in her life. lol

 

[Optimus_Prime]

I don't see the harm in it.

 

[Bnster]

What if that product is messing up AA hair and you knew it? I would not do it and yes someone else will come along and get paid to sell that product. Some stars are careful what they lend their name too. It could be they are more concern about their image and a smaller percentage on their beliefs.

 

[aquajoyice]

No I could never do something like that. Becuase I used to be the girl watching and buying those products that didn't work. For example Rio, that was bad from the very beginning. I will only educate but never decieve.

 

[carib_n_curly]

yup, i'm a student and i need all the money i can get