Stuf People say to natural girls & Behind their backs

[Cherokee-n-Black]

I thought the video was cute.

I'm going to have to go back and checkout her profile though. I'm surprised she'd say that relaxed women can't grow their hair long since she was a long hair'd natural before her BC.

Take a look at her hair journey vid. You'll see that she used to press her hair (but was natural) as a youngster and her hair was down to her waist. As soon as she relaxed, it started breaking off until it reached her shoulders.

I feel like in my relaxed days (that seems so wrong to say, I'm much more "relaxed" now! ) I eventually found a great reggie that worked for me and basically could just grown my hair as long as I wanted to (and felt like maintaining it). That said, it was through a lot of trial and error, product after product, learning what my hair could and couldn't tolerate (and this was before the hair boards). Most people just do not and will not go through all of that--relaxed or natural--and I think that is really the difference between long and short hair.

Wait...I digress, I think her experience just told her "it was the relaxer!" whether that was true or not. Sorry, I kind of veered off topic there!

 

[MeowMix]

Funny and gorgeous too. 'Even Mister didn't like Miss Celie hair'.

 

[LovelyNaps26]

funny

Chime's hair doesn't shrink much. I believe she said only about 4 inches. Most of us type 4s experience 50% to 75% shrinkage. This is why there's always a hair typing debate w/ her hair. Her hair is kind of like LHDC2011 except she didn't heat train (she's actually pretty against it). I love my hair but I kinda envy her low shrinkage while still being a type 4.

 

[Solitude]

Aren't guys people?

prettypithy

Yes, guys are people, but her comments in the video were made as if they were from one character...a relaxed woman opposed to going natural.


Look, I know the guy who started this whole craze. If you notice, most people get into the character they are speaking from. She just stood in front of the tripod. I don't have to say the ish is funny when it wasn't funny to me. She's late on the trend, anyway.

Maybe she just hangs around some dumb people who say these things, IDK. She's not a guru, so I don't follow her. I really don't care beyond the few moments I took out of my day to comment in this thread.

 

[toyas08]

"Rest in peace in your short casket", lol!!!!

I died when she said that

 

[Lucia]

Take a look at her hair journey vid. You'll see that she used to press her hair (but was natural) as a youngster and her hair was down to her waist. As soon as she relaxed, it started breaking off until it reached her shoulders.

I feel like in my relaxed days (that seems so wrong to say, I'm much more "relaxed" now! ) I eventually found a great reggie that worked for me and basically could just grown my hair as long as I wanted to (and felt like maintaining it). That said, it was through a lot of trial and error, product after product, learning what my hair could and couldn't tolerate (and this was before the hair boards). Most people just do not and will not go through all of that--relaxed or natural--and I think that is really the difference between long and short hair.

Wait...I digress, I think her experience just told her "it was the relaxer!" whether that was true or not. Sorry, I kind of veered off topic there!

Cherokee-n-Black

Yes being diligent and a little hair obsessed will get you to superlong lengths it doesn't happen by accident you have to actively keep your hair healthy.

Here's the thing some people can have thick healthy hair and be relaxed, texlaxed without any issues it's true we see it on this board everyday. Now for some people like myself relaxing my hair was the worst thing I did to it. I tried the products the protein DC the moisture DC trimming etc.. I went through every product trying to get it right. I soon figured out my big problem was the relaxer cause before relaxing I had lush thick healthy natural hair without any issues and like Chime, and many others I knew my hair wasn't supposed to be limp lifeless, scalp issues, dandruff (that I never had in my life) and breaking off. I had BSL curly hair before the relaxer and 6 months later it was neck length, that ain't right when I talked to my stylist about it she just kept saying you have to take care of your hair, but I did and it still broke off.
So like we always say each head of hair is different and it's tue not everyones hair can take relaxing.

 

[LeopardLover77]

prettypithy

Yes, guys are people, but her comments in the video were made as if they were from one character...a relaxed woman opposed to going natural.


Look, I know the guy who started this whole craze. If you notice, most people get into the character they are speaking from. She just stood in front of the tripod. I don't have to say the ish is funny when it wasn't funny to me. She's late on the trend, anyway.

Maybe she just hangs around some dumb people who say these things, IDK. She's not a guru, so I don't follow her. I really don't care beyond the few moments I took out of my day to comment in this thread.

Why you mad though? Did she do something to you? You going hard in the paint in here about the video. Can't you just laugh - or not - then keep it moving? We get that you don't think it's funny. To the rest of us, it is.

 

[song_of_serenity]

People are trying waaay to hard to make snide comments and then do the "but I don't care anyway/this is so insignificant to my existence." thing..really? And naturals as well.

I could see if a relaxed person took offense (and yet would be like "Why?")but what did she do to you? This wasn't a "stuff 4xyz folks say to girls with good hurr like mine" video. Seriously. Just projecting. Like a freaking 2nd grade film. Smh.

 

[Cherokee-n-Black]

Cherokee-n-Black

Yes being diligent and a little hair obsessed will get you to superlong lengths it doesn't happen by accident you have to actively keep your hair healthy.

Here's the thing some people can have thick healthy hair and be relaxed, texlaxed without any issues it's true we see it on this board everyday. Now for some people like myself relaxing my hair was the worst thing I did to it. I tried the products the protein DC the moisture DC trimming etc.. I went through every product trying to get it right. I soon figured out my big problem was the relaxer cause before relaxing I had lush thick healthy natural hair without any issues and like Chime, and many others I knew my hair wasn't supposed to be limp lifeless, scalp issues, dandruff (that I never had in my life) and breaking off. I had BSL curly hair before the relaxer and 6 months later it was neck length, that ain't right when I talked to my stylist about it she just kept saying you have to take care of your hair, but I did and it still broke off.
So like we always say each head of hair is different and it's tue not everyones hair can take relaxing.

Point taken. My hair absolutely cannot tolerate heat. "Heat training" perplexes me!!! I would be scalp length if I tried that! But I will say that I had the same experience with my relaxed hair in the early days from middle school through college.

My hair went from--oh, somewhere around waist length to my shoulders within 5 years of relaxing (with many missteps in between). It stayed between shoulder length and BSB until I cut it off my senior year in college. From there is when I started with all my experimentation and mixing it up (inspired by a stylist who told me all these years I'd been using SLS, and that's what was killing my hair). I went from super short Halle Berry cut to BSL in 4 years (and that was with regular trims from a SHS). ETA: was getting relaxers the whole time, with very little to no stretching.

All those years before I was trying to take care of my hair but just hadn't hit on the right formula--or more to the point--what to avoid. So, that's why I said what I said about Chime's experience (I think I got a few years on her). Wish I was as enlightened back in the day as these twenty somethings all going natural! LOL

 

[30something]

Meh.. it was ok. I'm loving her bun tho!!!

 

[silenttullip]

Now the "I have slave her was kinda funny" only because she said it so prissy and OMG why aint ya'll tell me gary coleman was dead??? It would have been funny if she actually put on a straight wig and was talking to a natural who just never said anything or who finally pulled off the straight wig to call her bluff THAT woulda had me rolling..

 

[Afrobuttafly]

I found it HILARIOUS. I subbed. I shared it on Facebook & Tumblr.

 

[weaveadiva]

She's beautiful, and such a pretty smile.
I will agree with her on one point: "Natural hair ain't for everyone."