Why don't they quit separating hair products at the grocery store!!!

Soul♥Flower

Soul♥Flower

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...and what the hell is a "ethnic" product? :ohwell:
Anyway, I was at the grocery store headed to the hair aisle. As I turned the corner, I saw this white lady standing at the itty bitty section of "ethnic" hair products aaaalll the way at the end of the ailse. I didn't pay much attention to her, she kind of kept on walking up the aisle when I came over. Like I said, I didn't pay much attention too her but then I started to feel like she was waiting for me to leave or something. :perplexed
She was looking at some tressame stuff, but she wasn't really looking at it...ya know.:rolleyes:
Anyway, I pick up the cheap oil I was looking for and notice her head turn slightly like maybe she wanted to see what I got. Then I moved down to the "non-ethnic" section of the hair ailse to pick up some NTM. When I turned my back she had moved back into "No Man's Land", and had picked up something. When I turned to give her a friendly smile she faked interest (like a hmmm, I wonder what this does?), shrugged, and put it back down before she left the aisle. :lachen:
Now, I know damn well she really wanted whatever she was looking at because she ran out of it and that's why she came to the store in the first place.....I'm a PJ I KNOW that look.:lovedrool:
She looked so ashamed yall, I don't know why. Maybe she thought I was gonna be like>>>> "Put the S-Curl down, and back away ****":clubu:
Anyway, I thought to myself "This is so silly, I don't know why that girl cared so much about whether or not I saw what she was getting." (BTW, I thinkg it was Kemi Oyl):wacky:
They need to get rid of this ethnic/non ethnic section nonsense. Anyone, can clearly see that the separation is really "black" and "non-black" :giggle:
Hair is hair and I think I'm going to make a suggestion....I don't know to whom yet:look:
But shoot, if they gonna give us a special "ethnic hair" section, they might as well put a special 70qt cooler all the way in the back of the store behind the seafood counter filled with pickled pig feet, chitterlings, watermelon, black eyed peas, red Kool aid and call that the "ethnic food" section. At least they can do that!.... damn!:spinning:
 
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I've never really cared that much about it, guess I've never thought about it too deeply. My mum however gets beyond pissed everytime she see's the aisle names and sees ethinc hair care. When I want to get her heated, I'll tell her that whatever she is looking for can be found in the ethnic aisle, in whatever number/row they keep it:grin:
 
I really dont know why they do that cuz technically I have been buying "non-black" products for years esp Pantene products (my first Love). I think labelling the products just continues to further the thinking that our hair is so diff from everyone else's. But then again, we are the only race of people that it seems like haven't mastered managing our hair as yet. Just my observation...
 
I think many "ethnic" women aren't aware that they can use non ethnic products on their hair. I know that last week my sister used some of my HE LTR leave in and was all :love: and googly eyed over it.... I told her if she liked the leave in, she would LOOOVE the shampoo and conditioner...She quickly proceeded to argue with me about how she could only use products specifically geared toward black hair on her own mane...basically contradicting herself because she absolutely adored the LTR leave in and even asked me where to buy and how much it cost! Anyhoo...I digress...
 
br0wney3z said:
I've never really cared that much about it, guess I've never thought about it too deeply. My mum however gets beyond pissed everytime she see's the aisle names and sees ethinc hair care. When I want to get her heated, I'll tell her that whatever she is looking for can be found in the ethnic aisle, in whatever number/row they keep it:grin:
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:lachen: you better stop messing with Moms. LOL
 
MrsWatson said:
I think many "ethnic" women aren't aware that they can use non ethnic products on their hair. I know that last week my sister used some of my HE LTR leave in and was all :love: and googly eyed over it.... I told her if she liked the leave in, she would LOOOVE the shampoo and conditioner...She quickly proceeded to argue with me about how she could only use products specifically geared toward black hair on her own mane...basically contradicting herself because she absolutely adored the LTR leave in and even asked me where to buy and how much it cost! Anyhoo...I digress...
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The crazy part is that sometimes it's the same stuff, in a different bottle :nono:
 
Buck that white lady, let her walk around with a nappy head since she's too ashamed to buy the ethnic product.:lachen: Maybe she was trying to pick up something for her boyfriend. :blush:
 
This really irritates me too. One time I was getting some cheapie condition (V05 or something) and this yt girl looked at me like you're in the wrong aisle. Ok, maybe it was all in my head. But hell why do ethnic products have to be seperate. I vote for intergration of all hair products.
 
frizzy said:
Buck that white lady, let her walk around with a nappy head since she's too ashamed to buy the ethnic product.:lachen: Maybe she was trying to pick up something for her boyfriend. :blush:
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:lachen::lachen: What I don't understand is why have we been labeled. Other races don't have their own section....maybe they're tryna make us feel "special"....lol
 
Well what I want to know is, why in the "non-ethnic" isle do they have a section called "Women of Color"? Then the next isle over is called "ethnic" isle?

Everyone is ethnic last time I checked. It's just another way to be "seperate but equal".:rolleyes:
 
bbdgirl said:
I really dont know why they do that cuz technically I have been buying "non-black" products for years esp Pantene products (my first Love). I think labelling the products just continues to further the thinking that our hair is so diff from everyone else's. But then again, we are the only race of people that it seems like haven't mastered managing our hair as yet. Just my observation...
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so where in the world do they stock the pantene relaxed and natural stuff?

oh wait, it's in a brown bottle so must be in the brown aisle? :lachen:

yall have a point.............
 
You are wasting your time if you are trying to figure out why they do what they do.

Somebody back in the 60's prolly asked for a "Negro" hair care section, so they are doing us a favor by giving us our own 2 foot area, instead of us having to sift thru hundreds of "their products". :look:
 
I see white and latina/hispanic women in the "ethnic" section all the time lately. I stay in both sections too. I used to think of it like that as "black" products and "nonblack" products but since Im black and can also find products beneficial to my hair outside that "ethnic"section, I don't think like that anymore. It doesn't bother me. Most of the collections seem to be together. Or I see it as the quality/higher priced products grouped together. I just get conditioners(&shampoos) from one end and go to the other end if I want a oil , oil moisturizer or grease. Shoot, lately people can see me in that Spanish products section grabbing aceite this and aceite that. Even my moisturizing face creme says "crema..." and is from that section. It's one of the best I've ever used and is the cheapest of all. :yep:

Even though it doesn't bother me, at the same time it would be nice to see all the product lines/collections together though. but I rarely run into traffic whenever Im in the hair aisles getting my fav products (love HE and Dove :love2:) and I hope that wouldn't change with everything being together.
 
I usually see the "ethnic" products right next to the non-black products in the same aisle. i've never seen them in an entirely different aisle than regular hair care.

What I can't figure out is why ALL of our stuff is in that section...face stuff included. What does Ambi have to do with hair? Why is it in the hair care section?
 
It's funny I discovered CON poo in my pre-LHCF days after reading an article in Allure magazine about the best hair products. CON poo was listed as kinda of secret product find for white girls getting clued in to a traditionally black hair care product.

It's all good in crossing the color line in the haircare aisle. :rolleyes:
 
Keen said:
they do that that just about everywhere now.
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You are so right and it's a shame.

I was walking past Bubbles Hair salon some months ago and in the window they have tons of products, however behind the counter/register all the products geared toward ethnic hair - Keracare, Mizani, PhytoSpecific, etc... Shoot they may as well have been locked up:perplexed

So, being the mini-rebel that I am, I asked to speak with a manger to find out why. It was a young white guy, gay and he said in a straight face: It was company policy to keep those products in that area and then gave me a "you know what they trying to say" look.

I ended up writing a letter to Bubbles, but haven't heard back.

ETA: I don't have a problem with it being in a different area really, I just don;t think it needs to be 'protected'
 
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Im not so bothered. Our hair is different. IMHO VERY different and it just makes it quicker and easier for me to find what I want. :ohwell: Just like ethnic foods. When you have to shop all over the store for this and that trying to make a taco and bam they have all teh tortillas and spices and sazon in one spot?! Makes shopping easier for me. :yep:
 
While its true "white" products can work on "black" hair, and that "black" products can work on "white" hair, there are differences in the formulations and marketing that warrant separate sections. Its done more for organization rather than racial segregation, if thats what you're really trying to imply.
 
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GOD said:
While its true white products can work on black hair, and that white products can work on black hair, there are differences in the formulations and marketing that warrant separate sections. Its done more for organization rather than racist segregation, if thats what you're really trying to imply.
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Thus saith the...

ummm...

nevermind...
 
Okay, this is funny. Sometimes when I'm in the non-black section (cuz you know that's what it is), I feel . . .wrong. Like people would think "doesn't she know her proper section is right behind her? What kind of hair does she think she has?!" And my hair looks, um, ultra ULTRA negro. But at least they're in the same aisle. I can just turn around and be looking at the other section.

But I'm equal opportunity. I give all products a chance to not impress me and completely fail to make any noticeable difference in my hair. And the black and white products are all equally competent in that respect. :perplexed

Hmm, chicken or egg? I think it's definitely true that black people on the whole tend to buy the "black products." Do they organize them that way because it reflects our spending patterns, or do we buy those products because they organized them that way? :spinning:

Just a thought, though, in a sense, since we're all on a hair board for black hair care, aren't we kind of confirming the idea that our hair requires different care . . .?
 
Embria said:
mwedzi said:
Okay, this is funny. Sometimes when I'm in the non-black section (cuz you know that's what it is), I feel . . .wrong. Like people would think "doesn't she know her proper section is right behind her? What kind of hair does she think she has?!" And my hair looks, um, ultra ULTRA negro. But at least they're in the same aisle. I can just turn around and be looking at the other section.

But I'm equal opportunity. I give all products a chance to not impress me and completely fail to make any noticeable difference in my hair. And the black and white products are all equally competent in that respect. :perplexed

Hmm, chicken or egg? I think it's definitely true that black people on the whole tend to buy the "black products." Do they organize them that way because it reflects our spending patterns, or do we buy those products because they organized them that way? :spinning:

Just a thought, though, in a sense, since we're all on a hair board for black hair care, aren't we kind of confirming the idea that our hair requires different care . . .?
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Yes, I think our hair requires different care, but at the same time I don't think that justifies a separated section. I don't know, I think that the difference lies in the techniques and uses of the products and not the products themselves.

BTW: That first paragraph was funny, b/c I know exactly how you feel.LOL
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I just think white women are going to be confused when a bunch of box kits with smiling black women start popping up next to the Garnier Fructis. If I was white I'd be confused too...


A bunch of mineral oil filled, overly-hyped overly-priced products created by white folks but separated for the minorities to use... thats all I see when I go to the "Black people section" or even the "HIspanic hair section." With the exception of some of the S-Curl products and a few others... that really is all it is... a joke to me. Sure some of the products work, but some only sell because there's a picture of black woman on the bottle, the title of the product is spelled incorrectly... or its written in Spanish. :rolleyes: I don't even buy anything from that section anymore.

I mean... for example: Do Gro?Why do we have to have something spelled horribly wrong for us to buy? Why do Hispanics have to have it only in Spanish with no ingredients listed and the number 1 ingredient mineral oil for them to think it works? I'm embarrassed sometimes when I go to those isles... when I read the labels and its just silly. They could spell things right, replace the bad filler ingredients and move it one isle over and we would all be "equal" but that would make them uncomfortable to see us in their isle. It would be like them having to borrow our brush... You know the feeling:rolleyes:
 
I thought I was the only one annoyed by that. Every body is off some ethnicity or another so I find it irritating that ONLY black hair care products are in that aisle.

If they so bent on separating the different products then they should label "white/caucasian hair care"

BTW I use Garnier fructis. :grin: I tried pantene relaxed and natural and that think made my hair break. Did the same thing to my sister's hair.
 
poor lady. She probably thought the product was too expensive or something. I know if I want a product, no one around me will stop me from getting it. I don't care if it's even yeast infection cream. I will have what I want in the end!
 
I noticed that a couple of the Targets around here have re-labeled the "ethnic hair care" aisle "Relaxers.":spinning:
 
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