Our Natural Hair Experience!

Our Natural hair Experience

From the left: YouTubers LoveisinthehairNolye, MoChunks Show (myself)

KelechiCeri and ChiakaValentina

Really happy i got the opportunity to collaborate with these gorgeous ladies. From the video you'll see that going natural is one heck of a journey. We all share our experiences, from how family reacted, to comments at work and in a school environment. 

Something we all had in common, was that our natural hair has not been considered professional, an idea which stems way back when slaves first arrived in the western world. In order to be accepted in a cooperate sector, we had to adapt the European look. 

This has been masked in modern day, people believe relaxers were made to ensure hair is 'manageable'. Manageable for who though? Even our first lady Michelle Obama, only wears her hair straight. Very Sad. We were doing just fine with our hair back in Africa until the white man had something to say about it. Rather than fight back, we conformed. 

Remember these? No matter how hard we tried, I never looked like the girl on the box lol.

As harsh as it sounds it is the truth. However, as stated in the video the relaxer industry is depleting drastically. The natural hair movement has begun. This could be the generation that reverses, the cycle us black females (sometimes males) have found ourselves in. 

One thing we forgot to mention in this video, are the men in our lives. How do they react to this natural hair movement? I think in general, a few of our black men are still sceptical. They are so used to seeing their mothers, sisters and other female family members relaxing their hair to the straight form. This is all they know, so they believe it is better. It is important to no just educate our young girls, but our men also. The mentality that straighter is better, has to change, sooner or later.

Hope you guys enjoyed the video and thank you for reading this post, till next time..

Peace & Chunks !