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Those are my daughters, Lola and Zahra, | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
the most beautiful girls in the world. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
And even though I tell them that they're beautiful every single day, | 0:01:41 | 0:01:45 | |
sometimes it's just not good enough. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
Just yesterday, Lola came into the house crying | 0:01:48 | 0:01:51 | |
and said, "Daddy, how come I don't have good hair?" | 0:01:51 | 0:01:54 | |
I wonder how she came up with that idea? | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
Well, there's always this sort of pressure within the black community, | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
like, "Oh, if you have good hair, | 0:02:03 | 0:02:06 | |
"you're prettier or better than the brown-skinned girl | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
"that wears the Afro or the dreads or the natural hairstyle." | 0:02:09 | 0:02:12 | |
I mean, have I gone around thinking it, | 0:02:12 | 0:02:13 | |
and have I said it to myself, "I got good hair"? | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
Do I say it to my daughter, | 0:02:16 | 0:02:17 | |
like, and not even thinking what I'm saying? | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
I'm like, "Honey, you have such good hair. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:20 | |
"You have such beautiful hair." | 0:02:20 | 0:02:22 | |
Growing up, I considered anybody's hair but mine good hair. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
Like, my mom is white. | 0:02:25 | 0:02:27 | |
I'm half Russian and Norwegian on my mother's side, | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
so my mom's hair is silky and blonde, and I was like, "Why? | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
"Just why didn't I get your genetics?" | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
That was what I looked at as, you know, | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
good hair was white hair. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
The lighter, the brighter, the better. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:45 | |
And that's a thing that causes great dissension | 0:02:45 | 0:02:47 | |
within the black community and with black women. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:49 | |
You know, I look in the black hair books, | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
and it's like all the hair is straight. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
It was a hard, like, decision in the beginning. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:56 | |
I said, "No, I'm going to be strong against all the forces | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
"that are going to try to get me to straighten my hair." | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
You know, you look at the magazines | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
and you want to be that girl, you know. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:06 | |
You want to be that girl, | 0:03:06 | 0:03:07 | |
and you have this fantasy where you think, | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
"If they straighten it out, | 0:03:10 | 0:03:11 | |
"then all of a sudden it's going to grow | 0:03:11 | 0:03:12 | |
"and it's going to really move and it's going to really flow | 0:03:12 | 0:03:13 | |
"and I'm going to have this hair." | 0:03:13 | 0:03:14 | |
Well, you never had the hair to begin with, | 0:03:14 | 0:03:16 | |
but you don't know that, you know. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:17 | |
When you look at a woman's hair, | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
it's a fantasy come true if they can really pull that off. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
So, for me, yeah, hair's real important. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
Well, I would say that hair is a woman's glory, | 0:03:25 | 0:03:30 | |
and that you share that glory with your family. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:34 | |
And they get to see you braiding it, | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
and they get to see you washing it, | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
and they get to... It's a glory. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:39 | |
But it is not a bad thing or a good thing. It's hair. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:42 | |
If you have it on your head, it's good. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:44 | |
If you have it growing between your toes, | 0:03:44 | 0:03:46 | |
it probably isn't so good. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:48 | |
So what feeds this hair machine? | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
How do we decide what good hair is? | 0:03:51 | 0:03:53 | |
Well, at least for some people, that decision is made | 0:03:53 | 0:03:56 | |
where all major black decisions are made... | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
in Atlanta at the Bronner Brothers Hair Show. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:02 | |
That's right, the Bronner Brothers Hair Show. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:05 | |
Twice a year, for over 60 years, | 0:04:05 | 0:04:08 | |
the Bronner Brothers have hosted this massive hair show | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
with over 120,000 hair professionals in attendance, | 0:04:11 | 0:04:15 | |
over 28 major hotels booked exclusively, | 0:04:15 | 0:04:18 | |
and over 60 million pumped into the Atlanta economy. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:21 | |
Good hair is good business. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
My father started it 60 years ago, | 0:04:25 | 0:04:27 | |
and the show was actually a seminar | 0:04:27 | 0:04:29 | |
to teach the people buying the products | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
how to use the products. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:33 | |
And 60 years later, | 0:04:33 | 0:04:35 | |
the number-one purpose of the hair show, | 0:04:35 | 0:04:36 | |
to come learn how to use new products. | 0:04:36 | 0:04:40 | |
Certain products, we index triple what the white market does. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:45 | |
We're at 12 per cent of the population, | 0:04:45 | 0:04:47 | |
but we buy 80 per cent of the hair. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:48 | |
Wow! | 0:04:48 | 0:04:50 | |
I got in the wrong business. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
All I know is, we spend a ton of money on our hair. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
No matter what, we going to look good. | 0:04:56 | 0:04:57 | |
We going to look good. | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
You know, that's the bottom line. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:00 | |
We're going to look good regardless. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:02 | |
While the main purpose of the show | 0:05:02 | 0:05:04 | |
is to promote products and make tons of money, | 0:05:04 | 0:05:06 | |
the three-day event culminates in a hair contest | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
where stylists from around the world | 0:05:09 | 0:05:11 | |
come to compete and show off their skills | 0:05:11 | 0:05:13 | |
in front of an arena of cheering hair fans. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:15 | |
The winner not only takes home 20,000, | 0:05:15 | 0:05:18 | |
but also receives lucrative endorsement deals | 0:05:18 | 0:05:21 | |
and establishes themselves as the leading voice in black hair. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:24 | |
Now, can you tell me, how are the hairstylists chosen | 0:05:25 | 0:05:29 | |
to compete in this competition? | 0:05:29 | 0:05:31 | |
We try and select the best of the best. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:33 | |
If we see someone that's exciting on stages, | 0:05:33 | 0:05:37 | |
we invite them in to do our Battle. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:39 | |
Tanya, I really can't say her strength, | 0:05:39 | 0:05:42 | |
cos this is her first time doing the Battle. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:45 | |
Her weakness is that she's sort of new. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:48 | |
-Well, I'm happy to be nappy. -How about that? | 0:05:48 | 0:05:50 | |
Oh, Lord. See, Tanya, don't take it there. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:53 | |
She don't want to be nappy. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:55 | |
No, I'm not saying... | 0:05:55 | 0:05:56 | |
I know my hair can get very coarse, but... | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
Ooh, and then they try to find a better word for it. | 0:05:59 | 0:06:01 | |
Yes! | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
Dress it up, baby. It's OK. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:06 | |
That's a stigma. | 0:06:06 | 0:06:07 | |
Chris, are you listening? | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
It's not called bad. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
Nappy's not bad. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:12 | |
Well, actually... | 0:06:12 | 0:06:13 | |
It can still be good. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:14 | |
It's just nappy. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:16 | |
I changed it around. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:18 | |
Cos people with that soft, natural, curly hair, | 0:06:18 | 0:06:21 | |
I call that bad hair now. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:23 | |
OK, cos it's hard to curl? | 0:06:23 | 0:06:25 | |
Cos nappy hair holds curls. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:26 | |
Tanya's new to this, but she's also business partners | 0:06:26 | 0:06:29 | |
with former Bronner Brothers champion Kevin Kirk. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
Kevin won 20 grand back in 2005, | 0:06:32 | 0:06:34 | |
when 20 grand really meant something. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:37 | |
If that belt could talk, what do you think it would say? | 0:06:37 | 0:06:39 | |
It'd say, "Bring home my brother August 18th." | 0:06:41 | 0:06:44 | |
So the brother's held captive? | 0:06:46 | 0:06:48 | |
It's held captive. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:49 | |
Bronner Brothers got it on lock right now. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:51 | |
I picture myself being David | 0:06:51 | 0:06:52 | |
and all the other contestants being Goliath. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
Derek is a very exciting person. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
He's a unique person. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:04 | |
His performance is always at the top. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:06 | |
Styling, he might be a little bit weak on that, | 0:07:06 | 0:07:09 | |
but exciting, very exciting. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:12 | |
Derek competed last year | 0:07:12 | 0:07:13 | |
and many people, mostly Derek, felt he should have won. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
But he ended up losing on two technicalities - | 0:07:16 | 0:07:19 | |
nudity and too many people on stage at one time. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:22 | |
My biggest scare was me | 0:07:25 | 0:07:27 | |
trying to find a pair of boots to wear for the show. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
A guy hit me up on MySpace, | 0:07:29 | 0:07:31 | |
and he ends up being a boot designer. | 0:07:31 | 0:07:33 | |
Jayda, Tyree. Terrence, Tyree. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:36 | |
And he basically takes boots that you... | 0:07:36 | 0:07:37 | |
a boot that you already have, | 0:07:37 | 0:07:38 | |
and redesigns it and customises it | 0:07:38 | 0:07:40 | |
and, hopefully, you guys will see a phat pair of boots. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:45 | |
I can't wait. I'm so excited about this right now. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:48 | |
Freddie... | 0:07:50 | 0:07:51 | |
very smart. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:52 | |
That's her strength. Smart, can do hair. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
Her weakness is that she over-thinks it. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:57 | |
She goes over the audience's head. | 0:07:57 | 0:08:00 | |
Last year's theme was Broke Front Mountain. | 0:08:00 | 0:08:02 | |
So that was based | 0:08:02 | 0:08:03 | |
-on the movie Brokeback Mountain. -It was, kind of. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:05 | |
When we did the... | 0:08:05 | 0:08:07 | |
We did a video clip | 0:08:07 | 0:08:08 | |
that was in the beginning that was about 30 seconds. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
I'm going to work on her with all these. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:14 | |
I might have to hide from them to get them, though. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:17 | |
I'm going to be hiding more than Harriet Tubman was hiding. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:20 | |
You know, I liked Broke Front Mountain. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:23 | |
I think I just shouldn't have cut the hair in the boxes. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:25 | |
I put this "FJ," my logo on there, | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
and people thought it was something Asian. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:29 | |
They just couldn't keep up. | 0:08:29 | 0:08:32 | |
Now, which of the other stylists are you most worried about? | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
Probably Jason. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:43 | |
Jason Griggers. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:45 | |
Me and Jason know of each other. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:47 | |
Do you have any enemies in hair? | 0:08:47 | 0:08:50 | |
No. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:53 | |
Jason's strength is his incredible hairstyles. | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
I, actually, am from the same hometown as Jason. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
He's been doing my hair since about 2000, | 0:09:02 | 0:09:04 | |
and my hair was her length when I started coming, | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
and this is mine. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:08 | |
No tracks in this. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:09 | |
So he has what we used to call "the growing hand". | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
I never said that. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:14 | |
So, Jason, you seem to be able to get women off the weaves. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:20 | |
You're kind of like the Betty Ford of black hair. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:24 | |
I refer to it as the Rosa Parks of hair. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:27 | |
Jason... | 0:09:30 | 0:09:32 | |
where does a white man learn how to do black hair? | 0:09:32 | 0:09:34 | |
In school, they teach you everything. | 0:09:34 | 0:09:36 | |
This one teacher that I had, | 0:09:36 | 0:09:39 | |
she would always give me a pair of these | 0:09:39 | 0:09:41 | |
to walk around school with, and she'd say, | 0:09:41 | 0:09:43 | |
"I don't hear you clicking and twisting. | 0:09:43 | 0:09:45 | |
"I don't hear you clicking and twisting." | 0:09:45 | 0:09:46 | |
-Was she a black woman? -She was a black woman. | 0:09:46 | 0:09:48 | |
She was the only black teacher at school. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:50 | |
And she was determined to teach you... | 0:09:50 | 0:09:52 | |
She was determined to teach me how to work those Marcel irons. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
So she's like Branch Rickey and you're the Jackie Robinson. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
That's "The Jackie Robinson Story" | 0:09:59 | 0:10:01 | |
starring Jackie Robinson as himself. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:03 | |
It's big league all the way. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:06 | |
There are some white people that are good at doing black hair. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:08 | |
But there are very few that I've met. | 0:10:08 | 0:10:11 | |
There are very few. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:13 | |
So what happens is, | 0:10:13 | 0:10:14 | |
you walk in and the first thing you say is, | 0:10:14 | 0:10:18 | |
"Do you have a pressing comb? | 0:10:18 | 0:10:19 | |
"Do you have a flat iron?" | 0:10:19 | 0:10:20 | |
And it's like, "Oh, yeah! | 0:10:20 | 0:10:22 | |
"You know, we have everything. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:23 | |
"I can do whatever you need." | 0:10:23 | 0:10:25 | |
And then the process starts. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:26 | |
The process starts, and it's a little tragic. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:29 | |
If you don't understand black hair, | 0:10:29 | 0:10:31 | |
you're afraid of it if you see it in its natural state. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:35 | |
And you can't really see around it. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:36 | |
They don't understand that it can change. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:39 | |
"Give me two days, baby. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:40 | |
"What you want? Long, short, black, blue, green? | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
"Little fan on the side? What hair do you look... | 0:10:43 | 0:10:45 | |
"Give me a picture, give me two days, I got you." | 0:10:45 | 0:10:47 | |
Is this your hair? | 0:10:47 | 0:10:49 | |
Yes. All mine. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:50 | |
-All your hair? -All mine. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:51 | |
Shake it for me. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:53 | |
I mean, how does this happen? | 0:10:53 | 0:10:56 | |
What did you put in it? | 0:10:56 | 0:10:57 | |
If you went under the counter in a black woman's bathroom, | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
she's got about 30 or 40 bottles of different things. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:05 | |
She's always constantly trying out something, | 0:11:05 | 0:11:07 | |
trying to perfect the solution, if you will. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:10 | |
The antidote. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:12 | |
The antidote. Yeah. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:14 | |
Relaxer. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:16 | |
The closest thing we have to a nap antidote. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:19 | |
For all you white people out there that don't know what it is, | 0:11:19 | 0:11:22 | |
you name a black woman, any black woman, | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
no matter how famous or infamous, | 0:11:25 | 0:11:28 | |
they've either had their hair relaxed, | 0:11:28 | 0:11:30 | |
or they're having their hair relaxed right now. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:33 | |
And a lot of black men, too. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:35 | |
If your hair's relaxed, white people are relaxed. | 0:11:35 | 0:11:39 | |
If your hair is nappy, they're not happy. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:41 | |
So what's your definition of good hair? | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
Something that looks relaxed and nice. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:48 | |
Yeah, relaxed and straight. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:49 | |
Wow, what do you have there? | 0:11:49 | 0:11:50 | |
Is that a bucket of relaxer? | 0:11:50 | 0:11:52 | |
No doubt, baby. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:53 | |
Relaxer. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
Also known by its government name, sodium hydroxide. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
Relaxer's the chemical that will take a black woman's hair | 0:12:01 | 0:12:04 | |
from this... | 0:12:04 | 0:12:05 | |
and change it into this. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:09 | |
Wow. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:11 | |
Look at it. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:14 | |
My ring is still there. | 0:12:14 | 0:12:17 | |
My fingers all there. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:19 | |
I think I'm going to marry you. | 0:12:19 | 0:12:22 | |
In fact, as far as hair products go, | 0:12:23 | 0:12:25 | |
relaxer's the cash cow for the Bronner Brothers Hair Show. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:27 | |
It's how black women have been getting their hair straight for decades. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:30 | |
Vigorol Liquid Hair Relaxer. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:34 | |
You're going to love your hair like you've never loved it, | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
come rain or come shine. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:40 | |
The first time I got a relaxer, | 0:12:40 | 0:12:41 | |
I remember thinking, "Wow, now I'm pretty. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:43 | |
"Now, I'm beautiful... | 0:12:43 | 0:12:46 | |
"or closer to it, at least." | 0:12:46 | 0:12:47 | |
Dark and Lovely Permanent Creme Relaxer. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:49 | |
A beautiful way to relax your kind of hair. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:52 | |
Mentally, I think a lot of black women, | 0:12:52 | 0:12:55 | |
they're on this quest for attaining the straightest hair possible, | 0:12:55 | 0:13:00 | |
trying to conform to a more European look. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:02 | |
The straighter hair, the better. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:04 | |
And we've been coached with that mentality since childhood. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:09 | |
With Vigorol Hair Relaxer and a hot comb, | 0:13:09 | 0:13:11 | |
you'll have your hands full. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:13 | |
I remember seeing ads like this | 0:13:13 | 0:13:15 | |
when I was a little kid watching Soul Train. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:17 | |
What the hell is relaxer anyway? | 0:13:17 | 0:13:20 | |
Where does it come from? | 0:13:20 | 0:13:21 | |
Well, some of it comes from Greensboro, North Carolina. | 0:13:21 | 0:13:25 | |
This medium-size town | 0:13:25 | 0:13:26 | |
was once the capital of the Confederacy. | 0:13:26 | 0:13:28 | |
White will fight desegregation! | 0:13:28 | 0:13:30 | |
But now it's the home of Dudley Products, | 0:13:30 | 0:13:33 | |
a 35-million black-owned hair empire | 0:13:33 | 0:13:37 | |
that employs thousands of people worldwide. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:39 | |
Greensboro is the home of the Dudley Mansion, | 0:13:39 | 0:13:42 | |
the Dudley Beauty School, | 0:13:43 | 0:13:47 | |
Mr Dudley himself, | 0:13:47 | 0:13:48 | |
and, of course, Dudley Manufacturing. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:51 | |
Dudley Products have been valued at up to 100 million. | 0:13:57 | 0:14:00 | |
The plant itself is worth over ten. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:03 | |
It employs hundreds of people | 0:14:03 | 0:14:05 | |
and is situated on over 47,000 acres | 0:14:05 | 0:14:08 | |
of prime North Carolina real estate. | 0:14:08 | 0:14:11 | |
In short, Mr Dudley is a nap impresario. | 0:14:11 | 0:14:14 | |
Bad hair has been very good for Mr Dudley. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:17 | |
What's he doin'? | 0:14:17 | 0:14:18 | |
Joe is making relaxer. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:20 | |
This is how they make relaxer? | 0:14:20 | 0:14:22 | |
This is a portion of a 7,000-pound batch of relaxer. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:25 | |
7,000 pounds is worth how much? | 0:14:27 | 0:14:29 | |
7,000 pounds, you're talking about 18,000. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:32 | |
This would last Prince about a month. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:34 | |
Exactly. | 0:14:34 | 0:14:36 | |
The slightest little bit of these chemicals | 0:14:36 | 0:14:38 | |
can really cause harm to the body. | 0:14:38 | 0:14:39 | |
A splash of sodium hydroxide in your eye | 0:14:39 | 0:14:42 | |
can potentially lead to blindness. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:44 | |
It may not happen right away, | 0:14:44 | 0:14:45 | |
but it can lead to blindness later on in life. | 0:14:45 | 0:14:47 | |
But you'll eventually have a dog. | 0:14:47 | 0:14:48 | |
Yes, you will eventually have one. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:50 | |
And the more of these chemicals you inhale | 0:14:50 | 0:14:53 | |
as you continue to work in it, | 0:14:53 | 0:14:55 | |
it can have an adverse affect on your body. | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
Let me read some of these. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:04 | |
"The rate of change is controlled by what factors? | 0:15:04 | 0:15:07 | |
Temperature, concentration, time, and pH." | 0:15:07 | 0:15:10 | |
Wow, what's that word? | 0:15:11 | 0:15:13 | |
What? Ammonium thioglycolate? | 0:15:13 | 0:15:15 | |
Wait. Say that again to the camera. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:16 | |
Ammonium thioglycolate. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:18 | |
You're smart. | 0:15:18 | 0:15:22 | |
Enrolment at the Dudley School of Beauty | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
means one thing - long nights poring over scalp theory. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:27 | |
These budding hair scholars | 0:15:27 | 0:15:29 | |
master the chemistry of Dudley products | 0:15:29 | 0:15:31 | |
and how to use them on mannequins, | 0:15:31 | 0:15:33 | |
even white mannequins. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:35 | |
They are also tested on the finer points | 0:15:35 | 0:15:38 | |
of how not to put relaxer in the eyes, | 0:15:38 | 0:15:40 | |
how not to burn ears with hot combs, | 0:15:40 | 0:15:43 | |
but most importantly, they learn | 0:15:43 | 0:15:45 | |
that if you can make enough black women happy, | 0:15:45 | 0:15:47 | |
you can live like a king. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:50 | |
When you go back home, | 0:15:52 | 0:15:53 | |
I want you to tell the world, | 0:15:53 | 0:15:55 | |
we manufacture our own product, | 0:15:55 | 0:15:58 | |
we sell our own product to our own, through our own. | 0:15:58 | 0:16:02 | |
That's the reason why we will never sell our company. | 0:16:02 | 0:16:08 | |
Because if I asked you to take off the clothes | 0:16:08 | 0:16:11 | |
that you didn't buy from your race, | 0:16:11 | 0:16:13 | |
it would be a nudist camp in here right now. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:16 | |
The nudity thing was a little weird, | 0:16:18 | 0:16:19 | |
but if you sniff enough chemicals, | 0:16:19 | 0:16:21 | |
you just might say anything. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:23 | |
But I've got to admit, | 0:16:23 | 0:16:24 | |
looking at these proud black women | 0:16:24 | 0:16:26 | |
just made me think about my daughters. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:29 | |
So the next day, I got on a plane | 0:16:30 | 0:16:32 | |
and went to meet the Dalai Lama of hair himself. | 0:16:32 | 0:16:35 | |
Tell me, when was the first time you had relaxer in your hair? | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
Late '70s. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:41 | |
James Brown, who was like the father I've never had, | 0:16:41 | 0:16:45 | |
was in his office one evening in Augusta, Georgia, | 0:16:45 | 0:16:47 | |
and he said to me | 0:16:47 | 0:16:49 | |
that he was real tight with the Republicans. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:51 | |
And I said, "Well, if you so tight, | 0:16:51 | 0:16:53 | |
"why don't you get us Martin Luther King's birthday | 0:16:53 | 0:16:56 | |
"a federal holiday?" | 0:16:56 | 0:16:57 | |
He said, "Get the White House on the phone." | 0:16:57 | 0:16:58 | |
I said, "Oh, yeah, right." | 0:16:58 | 0:17:00 | |
But I told his secretary, "Get the White House on the phone." | 0:17:00 | 0:17:02 | |
They left a message. | 0:17:02 | 0:17:03 | |
Three hours later, to my surprise, | 0:17:03 | 0:17:05 | |
the White House called back. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:06 | |
He got on the phone | 0:17:06 | 0:17:07 | |
and told them he wanted to come see President Reagan. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:10 | |
So they agreed to meet on January 15th, '82. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:13 | |
And I'll never forget, he said, | 0:17:13 | 0:17:15 | |
"When you go to the White House, I want you to look like me, | 0:17:15 | 0:17:18 | |
"cos when people see you, I want 'em to see me. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:20 | |
"You're a reflection of me." | 0:17:20 | 0:17:21 | |
He took me to a lady in Augusta named Mary. | 0:17:21 | 0:17:24 | |
He said, "I want you to style Rev's hair like mine." | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
But that's the day we went to the White House, right there. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:29 | |
When was the first time you had a relaxer? | 0:17:30 | 0:17:33 | |
I was nine. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:34 | |
I remember the exact day. | 0:17:34 | 0:17:36 | |
And I was, like, "Mama, I want to get my hair done. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:37 | |
"I want a relaxer." | 0:17:37 | 0:17:39 | |
And she was, like, "What do you know about relaxers?" | 0:17:39 | 0:17:41 | |
And I was, like, "I want a relaxer." | 0:17:41 | 0:17:43 | |
At nine years old, I got my first relaxer | 0:17:43 | 0:17:44 | |
and I remember it just being... | 0:17:44 | 0:17:47 | |
it was like a miracle. | 0:17:47 | 0:17:48 | |
I think you're trying to blend in. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:49 | |
I think you're trying to make everybody comfortable. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:52 | |
Relaxed. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:53 | |
Relaxed and not, like, | 0:17:53 | 0:17:54 | |
"Oh, my God, what is that?" you know? | 0:17:54 | 0:17:56 | |
That's what the relaxer does. It relaxes people. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
How old were you | 0:17:58 | 0:18:00 | |
the first time you got a relaxer? | 0:18:00 | 0:18:03 | |
Oh, God. | 0:18:03 | 0:18:05 | |
I was about 70. | 0:18:05 | 0:18:07 | |
70? | 0:18:07 | 0:18:09 | |
You went your whole life? | 0:18:09 | 0:18:10 | |
Not my whole life. I'm still alive. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:13 | |
I relaxed my hair when I was in the tenth grade. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:18 | |
And I'll tell you, when you was really gangster, | 0:18:18 | 0:18:20 | |
you could show up in homeroom with rollers in your hair. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:22 | |
And you had rank by how big the rollers were. | 0:18:22 | 0:18:25 | |
Like, the yellow rollers were smaller, | 0:18:25 | 0:18:26 | |
and they get bigger and bigger. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:28 | |
The orange rollers meant you had more hair, | 0:18:28 | 0:18:30 | |
so it was like, | 0:18:30 | 0:18:32 | |
I actually got a mug shot some-damn-where | 0:18:32 | 0:18:33 | |
with rollers in my hair. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:36 | |
Yeah. | 0:18:36 | 0:18:38 | |
I have a relaxer. I am on the creamy crack. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:40 | |
You call it "creamy crack"? | 0:18:40 | 0:18:42 | |
Because once you're on it, | 0:18:42 | 0:18:43 | |
unfortunately, people tend to have a difficult time getting off of it. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:47 | |
Creamy crack. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:50 | |
So you're saying your hair's addicted to relaxer? | 0:18:50 | 0:18:53 | |
It was. For a time, I was the first one at the beauty shop. | 0:18:53 | 0:18:57 | |
I was like, "I feel roots. | 0:18:57 | 0:18:59 | |
"Hook it up." | 0:18:59 | 0:19:00 | |
I don't know. | 0:19:00 | 0:19:02 | |
I was taught by a lot of old hustlers. | 0:19:02 | 0:19:03 | |
They said that the only way | 0:19:03 | 0:19:05 | |
you could have a upper hand on a woman | 0:19:05 | 0:19:06 | |
is to be flyer than her. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:09 | |
Tell us about the first time you ever got... | 0:19:18 | 0:19:20 | |
-the process. -- The cook-up? | 0:19:20 | 0:19:21 | |
Yeah, the cook-up. | 0:19:21 | 0:19:25 | |
You got to wash that out immediately. | 0:19:25 | 0:19:26 | |
Soon as it starts to burn, | 0:19:26 | 0:19:29 | |
you got to get to the sink immediately, | 0:19:29 | 0:19:30 | |
or else you lose your hair. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:32 | |
The burn of a perm is, I think, the most excruciating burn. | 0:19:32 | 0:19:35 | |
I think it's hotter than fire. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
Especially the first time. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:39 | |
I mean, the first time, | 0:19:39 | 0:19:40 | |
you've never felt like your whole skull is on fire, | 0:19:40 | 0:19:43 | |
and why are you doing this? | 0:19:44 | 0:19:46 | |
If you have maybe like a pimple or something in your scalp, | 0:19:46 | 0:19:49 | |
and that stuff gets in, it'll start to burn. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:54 | |
But usually if you're really trying to relax your hair, | 0:19:54 | 0:19:55 | |
it's kind of like a torture session. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:57 | |
It's like you want it to get as straight as possible, | 0:19:57 | 0:20:00 | |
so you feel it burning, | 0:20:00 | 0:20:01 | |
but you be like, "Just a little longer. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:02 | |
-"Just a little longer. -A little bit longer. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:04 | |
"Wash it out!" | 0:20:04 | 0:20:05 | |
Anybody here ever been shot? | 0:20:05 | 0:20:08 | |
So what felt worse, | 0:20:08 | 0:20:09 | |
the bullet or the relaxer? | 0:20:09 | 0:20:13 | |
Anybody here have a baby? | 0:20:13 | 0:20:15 | |
What's more pain, | 0:20:15 | 0:20:16 | |
a chemical burn or childbirth? | 0:20:16 | 0:20:19 | |
Childbirth. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:21 | |
But what if you had to have a bad perm for eight hours? | 0:20:21 | 0:20:24 | |
I don't know. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:29 | |
Where were you shot? | 0:20:29 | 0:20:31 | |
In the face. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:32 | |
You got shot in the face? | 0:20:32 | 0:20:33 | |
That's a pretty bad shot. | 0:20:33 | 0:20:35 | |
I was the first 50 Cent. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:37 | |
Somebody just thought you was ugly? | 0:20:37 | 0:20:39 | |
Could be. | 0:20:39 | 0:20:40 | |
What's it feel like, the chemical burn? | 0:20:40 | 0:20:43 | |
Can you explain it? | 0:20:43 | 0:20:44 | |
Just like, you know, you're on fire, literally. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:47 | |
You know, my head was just burning. | 0:20:47 | 0:20:49 | |
The sensation was just horrible. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:50 | |
Immediately, I just began to cry. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:52 | |
It was horrible. | 0:20:52 | 0:20:53 | |
The burning of the skin, the stripping, | 0:20:53 | 0:20:56 | |
you know, the oozing, the weeping, | 0:20:56 | 0:20:58 | |
all the things that go along with stripping | 0:20:58 | 0:21:00 | |
that superficial epidermis off the skin. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:03 | |
You can get a burn, like scabs around your head, | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
in the middle of your head. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:07 | |
It's supposed to take the knottiness of your hair | 0:21:07 | 0:21:10 | |
down to some thin, laid-back, Suave Bolla Dominica hair. | 0:21:10 | 0:21:14 | |
But if you leave it in too long, you just get Negro nappy scab, | 0:21:14 | 0:21:18 | |
left the Concolean too long, | 0:21:18 | 0:21:21 | |
and you just are walking around twisted | 0:21:21 | 0:21:23 | |
with scabs on the front of your head. | 0:21:23 | 0:21:25 | |
That's how my asymmetrical thing came in. | 0:21:25 | 0:21:27 | |
Oh, yeah? | 0:21:27 | 0:21:28 | |
Remember when my sister did my hair? | 0:21:28 | 0:21:31 | |
-And then this whole side was burnt off. -I remember. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:34 | |
And then that's how the style | 0:21:34 | 0:21:35 | |
of the asymmetrical look came in with Salt-n-Pepa. | 0:21:35 | 0:21:38 | |
And I had to shave off one side of my hair, | 0:21:38 | 0:21:41 | |
and that's how my hair fell out. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:44 | |
I remember that. That was devastating. | 0:21:44 | 0:21:46 | |
I was really hurt for you. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:47 | |
In the "Push It" video. | 0:21:47 | 0:21:49 | |
Right before that. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:52 | |
Cos in the "Push it" video, it's kind of... | 0:21:52 | 0:21:54 | |
And then you were colouring it in with... | 0:21:54 | 0:21:56 | |
-With pencil. -With brown pencil. | 0:21:56 | 0:21:58 | |
I was colouring in those spots for you. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:00 | |
I remember that. | 0:22:00 | 0:22:01 | |
Can you imagine that? | 0:22:01 | 0:22:02 | |
And she's colouring my hair with pencil, | 0:22:02 | 0:22:04 | |
trying to cover the bald spots. | 0:22:04 | 0:22:07 | |
So, I'm here with Professor Berry, well-renowned. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:12 | |
Now, could you tell us | 0:22:12 | 0:22:14 | |
exactly how dangerous sodium hydroxide is? | 0:22:14 | 0:22:17 | |
Sodium hydroxide will burn through your skin. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:21 | |
The chicken is your skin. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:22 | |
OK. So it'll go from my brown skin down to the white meat. | 0:22:22 | 0:22:25 | |
-Right. -Wow. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:28 | |
Now, you realise this goes on people's heads, right? | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
Sodium hydroxide? | 0:22:30 | 0:22:31 | |
Yeah, black people, black women, some men... | 0:22:31 | 0:22:35 | |
You know, Morris Day, Prince... | 0:22:35 | 0:22:37 | |
put sodium hydroxide in their hair to straighten it out. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:41 | |
Why would they do that? | 0:22:41 | 0:22:42 | |
To look white. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:43 | |
Probably what the sodium hydroxide is doing | 0:22:43 | 0:22:45 | |
is actually breaking down the protein in their hair. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:48 | |
If it gets down into the scalp, it'll kill it at the root, | 0:22:48 | 0:22:51 | |
and you'll actually have bald spots there. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:54 | |
If you're a beautician or something, | 0:22:54 | 0:22:55 | |
and you deal in sodium hydroxide all day, | 0:22:55 | 0:22:58 | |
-I mean... -I wouldn't do it. | 0:22:58 | 0:23:00 | |
If you breathe just the fumes from sodium hydroxide, | 0:23:00 | 0:23:03 | |
those fumes will ruin your lungs. | 0:23:03 | 0:23:05 | |
They'll damage your lungs permanently. | 0:23:05 | 0:23:06 | |
Wow. | 0:23:06 | 0:23:07 | |
Now, this is an aluminium soft drink can, | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
and it's been in sodium hydroxide for just over an hour. | 0:23:12 | 0:23:15 | |
Another aluminium soft drink can | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
that's been in for about three hours. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:21 | |
And then this one has been in | 0:23:22 | 0:23:25 | |
for out four hours. It has disintegrated. | 0:23:25 | 0:23:28 | |
So that can's got a good perm. | 0:23:29 | 0:23:31 | |
That can's got a good perm. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:33 | |
Wow, you're a good girl. | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
How old are you? | 0:23:43 | 0:23:44 | |
Six. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:45 | |
Six. Getting that perm. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:49 | |
What's the youngest kid you ever done? | 0:23:49 | 0:23:52 | |
Three. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:53 | |
Three? | 0:23:53 | 0:23:55 | |
How long you been getting your hair permed? | 0:23:55 | 0:23:58 | |
This is your second perm, huh? | 0:23:59 | 0:24:01 | |
No. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:02 | |
How many have you gotten? | 0:24:02 | 0:24:04 | |
I had the texturizer, and some of my hair fell out, | 0:24:04 | 0:24:07 | |
and my mama started giving me some Kidee Perms. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:10 | |
So your mama gave you Kidee Perms? | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
I didn't even know they had Kidee Perms. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:18 | |
Of course, they go to the drugstore | 0:24:18 | 0:24:20 | |
and they see Kidee Perm. | 0:24:20 | 0:24:22 | |
Well, a kidee perm is really the same as any adult perm. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:25 | |
It's just milder. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:26 | |
But it's still that same chemical, | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
that hydroxide chemical that can be very damaging. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:31 | |
It would be like a kiddie beer. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:33 | |
Right. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:35 | |
Does your hair blow in the wind? | 0:24:35 | 0:24:38 | |
Is it cuter than the other girls at school? | 0:24:38 | 0:24:41 | |
Really? | 0:24:41 | 0:24:43 | |
Sometimes their hair be hanging down longer than mine. | 0:24:43 | 0:24:46 | |
The other girls at school got perms, too? | 0:24:46 | 0:24:49 | |
I mean, I have had mothers that are starting to give their girls, | 0:24:49 | 0:24:54 | |
their little girls perms, | 0:24:54 | 0:24:55 | |
and they're not even two years old yet. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:57 | |
They're calling regarding consultation | 0:24:57 | 0:25:00 | |
on, "Dr Maclin, what do you think that I should do? | 0:25:00 | 0:25:03 | |
"My daughter is one and a half, | 0:25:03 | 0:25:05 | |
"and it's tough for me to comb her hair. | 0:25:05 | 0:25:08 | |
"I'd really like to put a perm in. What do you think?" | 0:25:08 | 0:25:10 | |
Under a certain age, the child is still growing, | 0:25:10 | 0:25:12 | |
the scalp is still maturing, | 0:25:12 | 0:25:13 | |
the follicles are still maturing. | 0:25:13 | 0:25:15 | |
And if you're putting this chemical on too early, | 0:25:15 | 0:25:18 | |
you're damaging your child's follicles almost for life. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:20 | |
When was the first time you got a perm in Jaylin's hair? | 0:25:22 | 0:25:27 | |
It was back in July, I think. | 0:25:27 | 0:25:29 | |
How old was she? | 0:25:29 | 0:25:31 | |
Three. She had turned three in June. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:34 | |
Do you like gettin' perms? | 0:25:34 | 0:25:36 | |
I got a little three-year-old, Zahra. | 0:25:36 | 0:25:38 | |
She don't have a perm, though. Not yet. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:40 | |
Should I get one for her? | 0:25:40 | 0:25:41 | |
-Yes. -OK. | 0:25:41 | 0:25:43 | |
Why should Zahra get a perm? | 0:25:43 | 0:25:45 | |
Cos... | 0:25:45 | 0:25:47 | |
she's supposed to get a perm. | 0:25:47 | 0:25:50 | |
Cos everybody's supposed to get a perm? | 0:25:50 | 0:25:51 | |
-Yes. -OK. | 0:25:51 | 0:25:54 | |
When the time's right, I'm going to tell my daughters, | 0:25:59 | 0:26:01 | |
"Don't drink, don't smoke, | 0:26:01 | 0:26:03 | |
"and don't have babies till you're married." | 0:26:03 | 0:26:05 | |
Now I got to add, "If you do have a baby, | 0:26:05 | 0:26:08 | |
"make sure you don't get her a Kidee Perm." | 0:26:08 | 0:26:10 | |
Wow. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:13 | |
Now, it's five days till the show. | 0:26:18 | 0:26:21 | |
What do you think you need to work on the most? | 0:26:21 | 0:26:24 | |
Upside-down cuttin'. | 0:26:24 | 0:26:27 | |
I'm hanging upside down from a bar, | 0:26:32 | 0:26:34 | |
and I'm cutting one of my models' hair upside down. | 0:26:34 | 0:26:37 | |
It's really hard. | 0:26:37 | 0:26:39 | |
Oh, jeez. | 0:26:39 | 0:26:42 | |
I'm scared. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:44 | |
So are you going to try to cut in front of her face? | 0:26:44 | 0:26:46 | |
Uh-uh. She going to have a spiked bob. | 0:26:46 | 0:26:48 | |
OK, so you ain't... That'll make it easy. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:52 | |
That's what I was tellin' you. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:53 | |
It takes you so long to catch on here. | 0:26:53 | 0:26:56 | |
In order to do great things, you know, | 0:26:56 | 0:26:58 | |
you have to have greatness inside you. | 0:26:58 | 0:27:01 | |
I believe the greatness is Jesus Christ. | 0:27:01 | 0:27:03 | |
Our talent level might be right there, | 0:27:03 | 0:27:06 | |
but it's that favour and anointing that we have | 0:27:06 | 0:27:08 | |
that take us over the top. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:11 | |
Now...sacrifice. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:17 | |
If you ain't never been there, you're about to go there. | 0:27:17 | 0:27:19 | |
So let's get ready, OK? | 0:27:19 | 0:27:20 | |
Sacrifice. We're going to start a fast | 0:27:20 | 0:27:23 | |
starting midnight tonight, no sodas...all right? | 0:27:23 | 0:27:26 | |
No juice. Water only. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:30 | |
We're purifying ourselves, OK? | 0:27:30 | 0:27:32 | |
No snacks. Water only. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:34 | |
No food? | 0:27:34 | 0:27:36 | |
OK, first of all, hold on. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:39 | |
You're not going to stand here and tell me | 0:27:40 | 0:27:42 | |
what you are or not going to do, all right? | 0:27:42 | 0:27:44 | |
Winners do one thing. Hold on. | 0:27:44 | 0:27:46 | |
Winners do one thing... that's win. All right? | 0:27:46 | 0:27:49 | |
And we're going to make some sacrifices. | 0:27:49 | 0:27:51 | |
I've sacrificed a lot for this show. | 0:27:51 | 0:27:54 | |
That's something I really don't believe in. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:57 | |
-You're not a Christian? -No. | 0:27:57 | 0:28:01 | |
Wow, she's gettin' debris out your nose. | 0:28:09 | 0:28:12 | |
You went to school for this? | 0:28:12 | 0:28:13 | |
Yes. | 0:28:13 | 0:28:16 | |
Now, what does the feet washin' do for you, Derek? | 0:28:16 | 0:28:18 | |
I'm wearing a four-inch boot for the show. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:21 | |
-A four-inch boot? -Correct. | 0:28:21 | 0:28:22 | |
And so I need to make sure that my feet is right | 0:28:22 | 0:28:25 | |
so they won't be all hurtin' after I get off that stage. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:28 | |
cos people don't want to see me nasty, | 0:28:29 | 0:28:32 | |
so this is just my "me" time. | 0:28:32 | 0:28:33 | |
So can you describe your show? | 0:28:33 | 0:28:36 | |
It's a real high-energy show. | 0:28:38 | 0:28:41 | |
I chose the theme "Battle of the Bands," | 0:28:43 | 0:28:46 | |
cos it's a big thing here in Atlanta. | 0:28:46 | 0:28:47 | |
It basically shows rivalry throughout the first part of the show. | 0:28:47 | 0:28:50 | |
Then everyone that's in the show come together | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
to do this whole number at the end of the show. | 0:28:52 | 0:28:55 | |
A lot of people are on point this year. | 0:28:55 | 0:28:56 | |
I just like glamorous, sexy hair. | 0:28:56 | 0:28:58 | |
That's what people want. That's what men want to see. | 0:28:58 | 0:29:01 | |
Now, what do you have to say to the competition right now? | 0:29:01 | 0:29:04 | |
Just come correct. | 0:29:05 | 0:29:06 | |
You know, that's all I can really say to them. | 0:29:06 | 0:29:08 | |
Just come correct. That's why they got me at the end. | 0:29:08 | 0:29:10 | |
cos they know what's about to happen. | 0:29:10 | 0:29:12 | |
You the headliner? | 0:29:12 | 0:29:13 | |
Yep. They just my openers. | 0:29:13 | 0:29:15 | |
Can you tell us about this year's competition | 0:29:15 | 0:29:20 | |
and what you have planned? | 0:29:20 | 0:29:23 | |
Basically, I have planned a bar scene | 0:29:24 | 0:29:27 | |
called the "Aqua Bar." | 0:29:27 | 0:29:30 | |
My theme is, I play the owner of a bar, | 0:29:33 | 0:29:35 | |
and I'm the hairstylist that works at the bar sometimes, so... | 0:29:35 | 0:29:38 | |
two other ladies come in the bar | 0:29:41 | 0:29:42 | |
and they have these hideous ponytails | 0:29:42 | 0:29:44 | |
that somebody put on their heads. | 0:29:44 | 0:29:45 | |
I talk her into getting a haircut. | 0:29:45 | 0:29:47 | |
And I tell her I have to wet it, and she says, "Water?" | 0:29:47 | 0:29:50 | |
So then there's an aquarium at the back, | 0:29:50 | 0:29:52 | |
so basically I throw her in the aquarium, | 0:29:52 | 0:29:54 | |
and I jump in and cut her hair. | 0:29:54 | 0:29:57 | |
So you're going to make it a little simpler this year by... | 0:29:58 | 0:30:00 | |
I'm trying to make it simpler. | 0:30:00 | 0:30:03 | |
By going underwater? | 0:30:03 | 0:30:05 | |
How much time do you spend rehearsing for this show? | 0:30:11 | 0:30:14 | |
I haven't rehearsed at all for this show. | 0:30:14 | 0:30:16 | |
What I'm trying to do this year is a bit of an experiment. | 0:30:16 | 0:30:19 | |
My theory is, if I can get into what makes women feel pretty | 0:30:19 | 0:30:24 | |
or what makes women feel good, | 0:30:24 | 0:30:26 | |
I can expand on that. | 0:30:26 | 0:30:28 | |
So I'm trying something different this year | 0:30:28 | 0:30:29 | |
for the hair competition. | 0:30:29 | 0:30:31 | |
What are we seeing you for today, Jason? | 0:30:31 | 0:30:32 | |
A little Restylane and a little Botox. | 0:30:32 | 0:30:36 | |
A little bit of this and a little bit of that. | 0:30:36 | 0:30:38 | |
-Fill this up. -Fill it up? | 0:30:38 | 0:30:41 | |
OK, we'll fill it up. | 0:30:41 | 0:30:42 | |
Let's get you over here on the table. | 0:30:42 | 0:30:44 | |
I got to psych myself up. | 0:30:44 | 0:30:46 | |
You're going to do great. | 0:30:46 | 0:30:47 | |
I can do this. I can do it. | 0:30:47 | 0:30:49 | |
Good. Excellent. | 0:30:49 | 0:30:50 | |
I wish we had a Botox | 0:30:50 | 0:30:52 | |
with something similar to the python venom. | 0:30:52 | 0:30:55 | |
It's actually botulism toxin. | 0:30:56 | 0:30:58 | |
What is the main ingredient in this Restylane? | 0:30:58 | 0:31:01 | |
Hyaluronic acid. | 0:31:01 | 0:31:02 | |
Like I know that that is. | 0:31:02 | 0:31:03 | |
I don't want to be too aggressive | 0:31:03 | 0:31:04 | |
since this is your first treatment, OK? | 0:31:04 | 0:31:06 | |
Some of the girls that come into the salon say they get this done, | 0:31:06 | 0:31:09 | |
so I'm excited to... | 0:31:10 | 0:31:12 | |
I think you will end up loving it. | 0:31:12 | 0:31:14 | |
I'm pleased with the way everything is looking now. | 0:31:14 | 0:31:16 | |
The redness and the swelling are normal. | 0:31:16 | 0:31:18 | |
That will dissipate over the next several hours to 48 hours. | 0:31:18 | 0:31:21 | |
I don't feel as beautiful as I had anticipated. | 0:31:23 | 0:31:25 | |
Ice the face over the next 30 minutes. | 0:31:25 | 0:31:29 | |
I feel like I've been attacked by a thousand killer bees. | 0:31:29 | 0:31:32 | |
We came up with a test, cos human hair actually... | 0:31:36 | 0:31:39 | |
usually has a little weight to it, so it bounces. | 0:31:39 | 0:31:41 | |
So if you ladies mind jumping up for me, | 0:31:41 | 0:31:43 | |
you can kind of see which one's real and which one's not. | 0:31:43 | 0:31:46 | |
Bounces. Bounces. | 0:31:46 | 0:31:47 | |
Just sitting there. | 0:31:47 | 0:31:50 | |
Not doing anything. | 0:31:50 | 0:31:51 | |
They always say, "Diamonds are a girl's best friend." | 0:31:51 | 0:31:54 | |
But diamonds better watch out, | 0:31:54 | 0:31:56 | |
because there's a new friend in town, | 0:31:56 | 0:31:57 | |
and its name is weave. | 0:31:57 | 0:31:59 | |
I don't remember the world without weaves. | 0:31:59 | 0:32:02 | |
Back in your mother's day, there was wigs, right? | 0:32:02 | 0:32:04 | |
The weave is like a graduation from the wig. | 0:32:04 | 0:32:07 | |
At least a weave is like an extension of reality. | 0:32:07 | 0:32:11 | |
Maybe her mother's mother was an Indian or something. | 0:32:11 | 0:32:14 | |
It's about big hair today. I can't keep up. | 0:32:14 | 0:32:17 | |
I'm like, "Peps, you got to get this hair bigger, you know?" | 0:32:17 | 0:32:20 | |
They just want a little fullness, a little thickness. | 0:32:20 | 0:32:22 | |
They want their own hair but with some drama. | 0:32:22 | 0:32:24 | |
Like, they want to go like this. | 0:32:24 | 0:32:26 | |
Like in the movies in the 1970s or something. | 0:32:26 | 0:32:28 | |
Like Farrah Fawcett. | 0:32:28 | 0:32:30 | |
Those images are stuck in everybody's head, | 0:32:30 | 0:32:32 | |
and they ain't lettin' them go. | 0:32:32 | 0:32:34 | |
Chicks be wantin' to be blonde or something. | 0:32:34 | 0:32:35 | |
When I first started going to Extensions Plus, | 0:32:35 | 0:32:38 | |
which is where I get my hair from in LA, | 0:32:38 | 0:32:39 | |
they used to have a back entrance, | 0:32:39 | 0:32:41 | |
and going in Extensions Plus | 0:32:41 | 0:32:43 | |
was like a scene from a James Bond movie. | 0:32:43 | 0:32:45 | |
You have dark glasses | 0:32:45 | 0:32:47 | |
and you pull up to the door and you run in, | 0:32:47 | 0:32:49 | |
and it's like, "Did anybody see me? OK." | 0:32:49 | 0:32:52 | |
You know, when I started doing it, | 0:32:52 | 0:32:53 | |
women weren't as free to discuss, | 0:32:53 | 0:32:55 | |
"No, this is really my hair." | 0:32:55 | 0:32:56 | |
No, it's not. It's really not. | 0:32:56 | 0:32:58 | |
So in the early days, everyone was lying? | 0:32:58 | 0:33:01 | |
For the most part, yeah. | 0:33:01 | 0:33:02 | |
Back in the day, a weave was kind of like | 0:33:02 | 0:33:04 | |
you was in a secret weavy society, and it was like, | 0:33:04 | 0:33:07 | |
we vow to weave together | 0:33:07 | 0:33:08 | |
and we have little special weave sayings. | 0:33:08 | 0:33:11 | |
I don't know. It was like a special little world | 0:33:11 | 0:33:13 | |
that literally I had white friends | 0:33:13 | 0:33:14 | |
who were like, "Your hair grew overnight! | 0:33:14 | 0:33:18 | |
"A foot! How did you do that?" | 0:33:18 | 0:33:20 | |
I mean, like, you know, | 0:33:20 | 0:33:22 | |
they used to have these dolls in the Toys "R" Us | 0:33:22 | 0:33:24 | |
that you could make their hair grow by pushing a button. | 0:33:24 | 0:33:25 | |
I swear to God, they think black people had a little button | 0:33:25 | 0:33:27 | |
at the small of our back | 0:33:27 | 0:33:29 | |
where you just pressed the button and the hair grows. | 0:33:29 | 0:33:31 | |
# Hair that grows Hair that goes | 0:33:31 | 0:33:33 | |
# To here, to there... # | 0:33:33 | 0:33:35 | |
You know, it was considered our beauty secrets | 0:33:35 | 0:33:37 | |
that we just don't discuss. And now it's like, | 0:33:37 | 0:33:40 | |
women stop other women on the street, | 0:33:40 | 0:33:41 | |
like, "What kind of hair is that that you got?" | 0:33:41 | 0:33:43 | |
And we share our secrets. | 0:33:43 | 0:33:45 | |
The weave words and the weave culture, | 0:33:45 | 0:33:47 | |
I wasn't in it for very long, | 0:33:47 | 0:33:49 | |
but you have to get indoctrinated quick. | 0:33:49 | 0:33:51 | |
So they teach you a lot. | 0:33:51 | 0:33:53 | |
You know how you're in the desert, | 0:33:53 | 0:33:55 | |
and you see, like, the tumbleweed going by, | 0:33:55 | 0:33:58 | |
the scene in the movie? | 0:33:58 | 0:33:59 | |
Well, if you're on 125th Street in Harlem, | 0:33:59 | 0:34:01 | |
or Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, Queens, where I was, | 0:34:01 | 0:34:04 | |
or any number of places in Brooklyn | 0:34:04 | 0:34:06 | |
or Crenshaw or wherever you are in this country | 0:34:06 | 0:34:08 | |
in a black neighbourhood, | 0:34:08 | 0:34:09 | |
occasionally you will see the tumbling tumbleweave | 0:34:09 | 0:34:12 | |
blow down the street. | 0:34:12 | 0:34:13 | |
It's a ball of hair that's flying out of a door | 0:34:13 | 0:34:16 | |
after they have done the weave and swept up the hair. | 0:34:16 | 0:34:20 | |
They sweep it outside, | 0:34:20 | 0:34:21 | |
and it goes tumbling down the street. | 0:34:21 | 0:34:25 | |
And I call it the tumbling tumbleweave. I love it. | 0:34:25 | 0:34:28 | |
Every time I see it, I'm, like, there goes the tumbleweave. | 0:34:28 | 0:34:30 | |
The tumbling tumbleweave. | 0:34:33 | 0:34:35 | |
I think the horrific part of the hair | 0:34:35 | 0:34:36 | |
was when I really started to find out, you know, | 0:34:36 | 0:34:40 | |
what they was doing. | 0:34:40 | 0:34:41 | |
You know, because it was a mystery early, | 0:34:41 | 0:34:43 | |
and then I was like, "OK, if it's a wig, do they take it off?" | 0:34:43 | 0:34:48 | |
They're like, "No." | 0:34:48 | 0:34:49 | |
How's it stay on? Glue? | 0:34:49 | 0:34:52 | |
Sometimes, and they sew it. | 0:34:52 | 0:34:54 | |
They sew it to what? | 0:34:54 | 0:34:55 | |
Then I was getting more and more information and stuff. | 0:34:55 | 0:34:58 | |
It was like a secret society, | 0:34:58 | 0:35:00 | |
a hair society of what's really going on and stuff. | 0:35:00 | 0:35:04 | |
It's very interesting. | 0:35:04 | 0:35:05 | |
Do they have classes? | 0:35:05 | 0:35:07 | |
I don't know, but I'm starting it. | 0:35:07 | 0:35:08 | |
So you're like a weave scientist? | 0:35:08 | 0:35:11 | |
Yeah, I'll note myself as a weave scientist. | 0:35:11 | 0:35:14 | |
You're a weaveologist. | 0:35:14 | 0:35:16 | |
So what's in your hair now? | 0:35:18 | 0:35:19 | |
A few things. | 0:35:19 | 0:35:21 | |
This hair, underneath the other hair, is thick hair. | 0:35:21 | 0:35:24 | |
This is a weave right now. | 0:35:24 | 0:35:26 | |
This is a weave. It's my edges and everything. | 0:35:26 | 0:35:29 | |
I have pieces that are... | 0:35:29 | 0:35:31 | |
..kind of, like, you know, like, extensions. | 0:35:31 | 0:35:33 | |
Right now, I have clips in my hair. | 0:35:33 | 0:35:35 | |
-I've attached... -..two pieces here, because... | 0:35:35 | 0:35:38 | |
-I want a little more... -..fullness. | 0:35:38 | 0:35:39 | |
Mine is all one unit. | 0:35:39 | 0:35:40 | |
Like that. | 0:35:40 | 0:35:42 | |
Oh, God. | 0:35:42 | 0:35:43 | |
It's like Dr Frankenstein. | 0:35:43 | 0:35:46 | |
-"It lives! It lives!" -"It lives! It lives!" | 0:35:46 | 0:35:49 | |
There are a couple different ways of doing it. | 0:35:50 | 0:35:52 | |
You could do tracks, where you just take a cornrow, | 0:35:52 | 0:35:54 | |
and you attach the track onto the braid and sew. | 0:35:54 | 0:35:58 | |
It you have a full weave, like myself, | 0:35:58 | 0:36:00 | |
my entire hair is braided up, | 0:36:00 | 0:36:03 | |
and then there's a very thin net that protects my hair, | 0:36:03 | 0:36:07 | |
and then the tracks are actually braided onto the net. | 0:36:07 | 0:36:10 | |
The thing about a successful weave, | 0:36:10 | 0:36:12 | |
and as we say in our industry, | 0:36:12 | 0:36:14 | |
"You got to know your weaver." | 0:36:14 | 0:36:17 | |
Know your weaver, baby, | 0:36:17 | 0:36:18 | |
cos you got to be able to do it and cut it. | 0:36:18 | 0:36:20 | |
She's got to know what she's doing, right? | 0:36:20 | 0:36:22 | |
I'm from New York, but I live in Colorado. | 0:36:22 | 0:36:24 | |
You flew from Colorado to New York? | 0:36:24 | 0:36:28 | |
Yep, to get my hair done. Yes, I did. | 0:36:28 | 0:36:30 | |
How long is the flight? | 0:36:30 | 0:36:31 | |
The flight is 3 1/2 hours. | 0:36:31 | 0:36:33 | |
There should be a weave airline. | 0:36:33 | 0:36:35 | |
Sometimes you got a long flight | 0:36:35 | 0:36:37 | |
and you want to pass the time. | 0:36:37 | 0:36:39 | |
If you could get your hair done on the flight... | 0:36:39 | 0:36:43 | |
would you take that airline? | 0:36:43 | 0:36:44 | |
Yes, I would. | 0:36:44 | 0:36:46 | |
Every black woman in the country would take that airline. | 0:36:46 | 0:36:48 | |
And when you land, your hair's done. | 0:36:48 | 0:36:51 | |
Oh... | 0:36:51 | 0:36:53 | |
Depending on who your hairdresser is, | 0:36:53 | 0:36:55 | |
I mean, I've been in the chair for six to eight hours. | 0:36:55 | 0:36:58 | |
Black men have to become very, very patient. | 0:36:58 | 0:37:00 | |
It's like jail. | 0:37:00 | 0:37:01 | |
And I remember it took a good five hours. | 0:37:01 | 0:37:04 | |
It was a very intricate piece, | 0:37:04 | 0:37:06 | |
and I was very particular. | 0:37:06 | 0:37:07 | |
I don't like weaves that you can see the tracks. | 0:37:07 | 0:37:09 | |
I don't like weaves where it looks like weaves. | 0:37:09 | 0:37:11 | |
I don't like hair that looks like that waxy hair. | 0:37:11 | 0:37:12 | |
If it looks waxy, it needs to look shiny, | 0:37:12 | 0:37:14 | |
cos you put grease in it, | 0:37:14 | 0:37:15 | |
not because there's extra pieces of plastic in it. | 0:37:15 | 0:37:18 | |
I'm very particular about my hair. | 0:37:18 | 0:37:20 | |
OK. | 0:37:20 | 0:37:22 | |
I get serious, right? | 0:37:22 | 0:37:23 | |
You're really serious about your weave. | 0:37:23 | 0:37:25 | |
I love my weave. I do. I love it. | 0:37:25 | 0:37:27 | |
I embrace it, yes. | 0:37:27 | 0:37:28 | |
Do you have a pet name for your weave? | 0:37:28 | 0:37:30 | |
No! Money. Bitch costs money. | 0:37:30 | 0:37:33 | |
I paid a lot of money for this, but this is an investment. | 0:37:33 | 0:37:37 | |
The black hair business is a 9 billion business. | 0:37:37 | 0:37:40 | |
60% to 70% of the business is the weave hair alone. | 0:37:40 | 0:37:43 | |
The margin is 125%, 150%. | 0:37:44 | 0:37:47 | |
How much is this hair? | 0:37:47 | 0:37:48 | |
1,000. | 0:37:48 | 0:37:50 | |
1,000. For just the weave or the weave...? | 0:37:50 | 0:37:52 | |
Just the weave, not the hair. | 0:37:52 | 0:37:54 | |
The hair was more. | 0:37:54 | 0:37:55 | |
Let me tell you, them prices can go up. | 0:37:55 | 0:37:56 | |
One of these can run you 5,000. | 0:37:56 | 0:37:58 | |
I'm famous for switching out my weaves | 0:37:58 | 0:38:00 | |
once every month, cos I get bored. | 0:38:00 | 0:38:03 | |
Is that 18,000 for the year? | 0:38:03 | 0:38:05 | |
Yeah, about that. | 0:38:05 | 0:38:06 | |
-Throughout her whole life? -Oh, my God! | 0:38:06 | 0:38:09 | |
Probably about 150,000. | 0:38:09 | 0:38:10 | |
Over. Oh, yeah, about that. | 0:38:10 | 0:38:12 | |
I change my mind a lot. | 0:38:12 | 0:38:14 | |
So some people have a wine cellar. You have a weave cellar. | 0:38:14 | 0:38:17 | |
1998, this was a good year for weaves. | 0:38:17 | 0:38:19 | |
How much does this cost? | 0:38:19 | 0:38:21 | |
-That's 1,000. -This is 1,000? | 0:38:21 | 0:38:23 | |
Yes, it is. | 0:38:23 | 0:38:24 | |
You come in... It's a maintenance. | 0:38:24 | 0:38:27 | |
You got to come in every two weeks or once a week | 0:38:27 | 0:38:29 | |
for wash and condition, | 0:38:29 | 0:38:30 | |
and every six weeks, you have to get it retightened. | 0:38:30 | 0:38:33 | |
Wow. This is amazing. 1,000. | 0:38:33 | 0:38:36 | |
Yes. It starts at 1,000. | 0:38:36 | 0:38:38 | |
It starts? So, how high... | 0:38:38 | 0:38:39 | |
You can go as far as 3,500. | 0:38:39 | 0:38:41 | |
-3,500? -Yes, yes. | 0:38:41 | 0:38:44 | |
-And who's payin' for this? -Ladies, workin' people. | 0:38:44 | 0:38:47 | |
-Black women? -Black women, everyday people that are working | 0:38:47 | 0:38:51 | |
and want to look good and look as natural as possible. | 0:38:51 | 0:38:54 | |
She's wearing a hair unit over there. | 0:38:54 | 0:38:56 | |
You? How much did you pay? | 0:38:56 | 0:38:57 | |
1,000. | 0:38:57 | 0:38:58 | |
You paid 1,000? | 0:38:58 | 0:39:00 | |
And those two ladies in the back over there. | 0:39:00 | 0:39:02 | |
A question. Where do you work? | 0:39:02 | 0:39:06 | |
I have my own business. Child care. | 0:39:06 | 0:39:08 | |
Child care, OK. | 0:39:08 | 0:39:09 | |
And you spent 1,000? | 0:39:09 | 0:39:12 | |
And it's worth it. | 0:39:12 | 0:39:14 | |
She's wearing one. | 0:39:14 | 0:39:15 | |
Yours cost 1,000, too? Where do you work? | 0:39:15 | 0:39:18 | |
I'm a schoolteacher and I'm a grad student. | 0:39:18 | 0:39:19 | |
Wait a minute. Schoolteachers don't make no money. | 0:39:19 | 0:39:23 | |
And this lady, she's getting hers for the first time today. | 0:39:23 | 0:39:26 | |
You're getting your first 1,000 weave today? | 0:39:26 | 0:39:28 | |
-I am. -Wow. | 0:39:28 | 0:39:29 | |
But I raised the kids already, so it's my turn now. | 0:39:29 | 0:39:32 | |
-It's your turn for the weave. -That's right. | 0:39:32 | 0:39:34 | |
Good for you. 1,000. | 0:39:34 | 0:39:36 | |
People don't realise how much money is in this. | 0:39:36 | 0:39:38 | |
It just seems that your clientele | 0:39:38 | 0:39:41 | |
is more hooked to this than, say, cocaine, because... | 0:39:41 | 0:39:45 | |
Well, I'll tell you, | 0:39:45 | 0:39:47 | |
once they start, they won't go back. | 0:39:47 | 0:39:49 | |
They won't go back. | 0:39:49 | 0:39:50 | |
She's been gettin' weaves for ten years. | 0:39:50 | 0:39:53 | |
If she had a drug habit, she would've went to rehab by now. | 0:39:53 | 0:39:57 | |
You know, even a bad drug addict got periods of sobriety. | 0:39:57 | 0:40:00 | |
The weave is going to put you in situations | 0:40:00 | 0:40:03 | |
that you don't want to be in. | 0:40:03 | 0:40:05 | |
Yes. | 0:40:05 | 0:40:06 | |
You going to have to date men you don't want to date | 0:40:06 | 0:40:07 | |
just cos you hungry. | 0:40:07 | 0:40:08 | |
Cos our hair's got to be weaved. | 0:40:08 | 0:40:10 | |
Cos you got to pay the money on this weave. | 0:40:10 | 0:40:11 | |
The problem is when it becomes something | 0:40:11 | 0:40:14 | |
that's beyond your means, | 0:40:14 | 0:40:15 | |
and we buy what we want rather than what we need. | 0:40:15 | 0:40:18 | |
And I tell women all the time, | 0:40:18 | 0:40:20 | |
"What do you have a 1,000 weave on for | 0:40:20 | 0:40:24 | |
"and don't have food in the house for the kids?" | 0:40:24 | 0:40:25 | |
It just doesn't make sense. | 0:40:25 | 0:40:26 | |
How does the average girl pay for this? | 0:40:26 | 0:40:29 | |
I have no idea. | 0:40:29 | 0:40:31 | |
I think about that all the time. | 0:40:31 | 0:40:33 | |
Like, what would I do | 0:40:33 | 0:40:35 | |
if I didn't make the money that I have? | 0:40:35 | 0:40:37 | |
I guess I'd... | 0:40:37 | 0:40:38 | |
I have no idea. | 0:40:38 | 0:40:40 | |
Are you payin' for this? | 0:40:50 | 0:40:51 | |
I'm paying for it right now. | 0:40:51 | 0:40:53 | |
Right now? | 0:40:53 | 0:40:55 | |
You've had a man handle this expense before? | 0:40:55 | 0:40:59 | |
Yes. | 0:40:59 | 0:41:00 | |
Any of you guys ever been pressured into, | 0:41:00 | 0:41:03 | |
you know, giving a woman some money | 0:41:03 | 0:41:05 | |
because of an expensive weave? | 0:41:05 | 0:41:07 | |
My mother and daughter. | 0:41:07 | 0:41:10 | |
Mother and daughter? | 0:41:10 | 0:41:12 | |
So you're spend on weaves... | 0:41:12 | 0:41:14 | |
These weaves are hurtin' your pocket? | 0:41:14 | 0:41:17 | |
A woman wants to look good, | 0:41:17 | 0:41:18 | |
and a man is going to find money up under a rock | 0:41:18 | 0:41:22 | |
so that she can be pleased by getting her hair done. | 0:41:22 | 0:41:26 | |
Now, those are the facts. | 0:41:26 | 0:41:27 | |
Well, I have a layaway plan on my hair units. | 0:41:27 | 0:41:31 | |
So, you can layaway the weave? | 0:41:31 | 0:41:32 | |
That's right. I have a layaway plan. | 0:41:32 | 0:41:34 | |
This lady right now, | 0:41:34 | 0:41:35 | |
in about another month or so, she's gettin' a new one. | 0:41:35 | 0:41:38 | |
She already start payin' for her next weave. | 0:41:38 | 0:41:41 | |
The price of maintaining a woman | 0:41:41 | 0:41:44 | |
is like real estate in New York City. | 0:41:44 | 0:41:47 | |
It's skyrocketing. | 0:41:47 | 0:41:49 | |
It's beyond out of hand. | 0:41:49 | 0:41:50 | |
One trip to the hairdresser, or the weaveologist, | 0:41:50 | 0:41:53 | |
could leave you bankrupt. | 0:41:53 | 0:41:55 | |
Do you think some of the men are being asked to subsidise | 0:41:55 | 0:41:58 | |
this weave habit, and it's creating | 0:41:58 | 0:42:02 | |
an animosity in the community? | 0:42:02 | 0:42:05 | |
Oh, it definitely can create animosity. | 0:42:05 | 0:42:07 | |
I mean, it's one thing for me to subsidise your living, | 0:42:07 | 0:42:10 | |
or subsidise your education | 0:42:10 | 0:42:14 | |
if you're young and I'm young and you're in school, | 0:42:14 | 0:42:16 | |
or I'm going to help you with your kids even. | 0:42:16 | 0:42:19 | |
But to subsidise your weave? | 0:42:19 | 0:42:21 | |
I mean, hard enough for me to get a job, | 0:42:21 | 0:42:24 | |
hard enough to go through school and get something, | 0:42:24 | 0:42:26 | |
and you don't want me to help you with education, children, mama, | 0:42:26 | 0:42:30 | |
401K, none of that. | 0:42:30 | 0:42:34 | |
Your weave. You want me to go to work | 0:42:34 | 0:42:36 | |
and invest in you puttin' some hair | 0:42:36 | 0:42:39 | |
on the back of your head that ain't yours. | 0:42:39 | 0:42:40 | |
I mean, I can't even write it off on my income tax. | 0:42:40 | 0:42:42 | |
Maybe I should have, as part of my dependents, your weave. | 0:42:42 | 0:42:46 | |
Cos your weave costs as much as some children. | 0:42:46 | 0:42:49 | |
That's ridiculous. | 0:42:49 | 0:42:50 | |
As you can see, the hair business can be cut-throat. | 0:42:50 | 0:42:53 | |
So far I've learned that good hair | 0:42:53 | 0:42:55 | |
could put you in the poorhouse, | 0:42:55 | 0:42:57 | |
and if you're not careful, it could burn down your house. | 0:42:57 | 0:43:00 | |
Back in Atlanta, the hair show battle was coming together, | 0:43:00 | 0:43:03 | |
and I was wondering how our contestants were holding up. | 0:43:03 | 0:43:06 | |
OK... we're going to see your first rehearsal on this stage. | 0:43:06 | 0:43:10 | |
We have a problem. | 0:43:10 | 0:43:12 | |
What's the problem? | 0:43:12 | 0:43:13 | |
This stage is double the size it was last year. | 0:43:13 | 0:43:15 | |
This is some bullshit. | 0:43:15 | 0:43:16 | |
This really is, though. | 0:43:16 | 0:43:18 | |
There's no way that y'all going to be able to make it | 0:43:18 | 0:43:20 | |
all the way down this damn stage. | 0:43:20 | 0:43:22 | |
I can't work with this. | 0:43:22 | 0:43:23 | |
This stage is double the fuckin' size it was last year. | 0:43:23 | 0:43:26 | |
This is some bullshit. | 0:43:26 | 0:43:27 | |
Whose job was it to get you the measurements of the stage? | 0:43:27 | 0:43:30 | |
Bronner Brothers. I don't have the right measurements. | 0:43:30 | 0:43:32 | |
I don't have rules. I don't have shit. | 0:43:32 | 0:43:35 | |
Derek, he said he didn't get the dimensions of the stage. | 0:43:37 | 0:43:41 | |
-Oh, really? -Did you know the dimensions of the stage? | 0:43:41 | 0:43:43 | |
Yes, I got it in my packet. | 0:43:43 | 0:43:46 | |
Are you nervous? | 0:43:46 | 0:43:48 | |
No, just anxious. | 0:43:48 | 0:43:49 | |
-Just anxious? -Yeah. | 0:43:49 | 0:43:51 | |
Like "anxious," you getting ready to kick somebody's ass? | 0:43:51 | 0:43:54 | |
-Well, yeah. -OK. | 0:43:54 | 0:43:56 | |
How was it, Tanya? | 0:43:56 | 0:43:58 | |
It was fine. | 0:43:58 | 0:43:59 | |
Leah, pay attention. Shit. | 0:43:59 | 0:44:01 | |
It's plugged up. He already did. | 0:44:01 | 0:44:03 | |
It's plugged up. | 0:44:03 | 0:44:05 | |
It's on the cord. | 0:44:05 | 0:44:07 | |
We kind of ran into every...mishap | 0:44:07 | 0:44:10 | |
you can possibly have. | 0:44:10 | 0:44:11 | |
It all had something to do with the show. | 0:44:11 | 0:44:13 | |
What we got, ten minutes left now? | 0:44:13 | 0:44:15 | |
Guys, come on! | 0:44:15 | 0:44:17 | |
You name it, it happened. | 0:44:17 | 0:44:18 | |
Lord Jesus, help me. | 0:44:18 | 0:44:20 | |
I just know this is our destiny. | 0:44:20 | 0:44:21 | |
You know what I'm saying? | 0:44:21 | 0:44:23 | |
Through my prayers, through the vision that God gave me. | 0:44:23 | 0:44:26 | |
And I said, "The next time it would be you." | 0:44:26 | 0:44:27 | |
Did I not say that? | 0:44:27 | 0:44:30 | |
Jason, everybody's rehearsin'. | 0:44:37 | 0:44:41 | |
Everybody's rehearsin'. That's right. | 0:44:41 | 0:44:42 | |
Except you. | 0:44:42 | 0:44:43 | |
You're the only one. | 0:44:43 | 0:44:45 | |
Yet, you're the favourite. | 0:44:45 | 0:44:48 | |
I just can't see why I'm the favourite. | 0:44:48 | 0:44:50 | |
I mean... | 0:44:50 | 0:44:52 | |
Are you worried? | 0:44:52 | 0:44:53 | |
-No. -You're not worried? | 0:44:53 | 0:44:54 | |
Like I said, I would love to win, | 0:44:54 | 0:44:57 | |
but, you know, whatever happens happens, | 0:44:57 | 0:44:59 | |
and I'm excited either way. | 0:44:59 | 0:45:01 | |
And no rehearsal? | 0:45:01 | 0:45:02 | |
And no rehearsal. | 0:45:02 | 0:45:03 | |
But we're going to look good. | 0:45:03 | 0:45:05 | |
OK. | 0:45:05 | 0:45:06 | |
Lookin' good is half of the battle. | 0:45:06 | 0:45:09 | |
It may be all about looking good for Jason | 0:45:11 | 0:45:13 | |
and the other hair show contestants, | 0:45:13 | 0:45:15 | |
but it's all about cash for the 1,800 hair booth vendors. | 0:45:15 | 0:45:18 | |
You guys are heads of the Black Owned Beauty Supplier Association. | 0:45:21 | 0:45:27 | |
Most of the black manufacturers | 0:45:27 | 0:45:28 | |
have sold their companies to the various companies | 0:45:28 | 0:45:30 | |
like Revlon and L'Oreal. | 0:45:30 | 0:45:32 | |
Do black people own anything in this room? | 0:45:32 | 0:45:35 | |
We have a cluster of black manufacturers. | 0:45:35 | 0:45:38 | |
And these two rows and this row here | 0:45:38 | 0:45:40 | |
and this row here are all black entrepreneurs, | 0:45:40 | 0:45:42 | |
black manufacturers. | 0:45:42 | 0:45:44 | |
So of this whole convention, | 0:45:44 | 0:45:45 | |
only two rows are owned by black people, | 0:45:45 | 0:45:47 | |
but most of this is white? | 0:45:47 | 0:45:48 | |
Most of it is, I think, Asian. | 0:45:48 | 0:45:51 | |
-Asian? -Right. | 0:45:51 | 0:45:53 | |
Most of the black hair money is made by Asians. | 0:45:53 | 0:45:54 | |
Right, correct. | 0:45:54 | 0:45:55 | |
Is it hard for black people to get in the black hair business? | 0:45:55 | 0:45:58 | |
Yes, it is very hard | 0:45:58 | 0:46:00 | |
for African-Americans to get into the hair business. | 0:46:00 | 0:46:02 | |
The Koreans have dominated the manufacturing, | 0:46:02 | 0:46:05 | |
and they also dominate the retail level. | 0:46:05 | 0:46:07 | |
Koreans only sell to Korean retailers, | 0:46:07 | 0:46:09 | |
but because the profit margin is so large, | 0:46:09 | 0:46:12 | |
they will not sell to other African-Americans. | 0:46:12 | 0:46:14 | |
Are you Korean? | 0:46:14 | 0:46:16 | |
No, I am Chinese. | 0:46:16 | 0:46:17 | |
Chinese, sorry. | 0:46:17 | 0:46:18 | |
That's OK. | 0:46:18 | 0:46:20 | |
Are Chinese people in China buying any black hair? | 0:46:20 | 0:46:23 | |
We would like to. | 0:46:25 | 0:46:26 | |
And second, we're not Chinese. | 0:46:26 | 0:46:28 | |
We are Korean. | 0:46:28 | 0:46:29 | |
Korean. Sorry. | 0:46:29 | 0:46:30 | |
Imagine if I went into another community | 0:46:30 | 0:46:33 | |
and just set up shop selling them what only they use. | 0:46:33 | 0:46:37 | |
The question would be whether they'd call the cops | 0:46:37 | 0:46:39 | |
or whether they'd just shoot me. | 0:46:39 | 0:46:40 | |
But in our community, anything goes. | 0:46:40 | 0:46:43 | |
And I think that a lot of that, we got to blame on ourselves. | 0:46:43 | 0:46:45 | |
I mean, it's not like anybody else needs black hair products, | 0:46:45 | 0:46:48 | |
so if we can't control what nobody uses but us, | 0:46:48 | 0:46:54 | |
that is real economic retardation. | 0:46:54 | 0:46:57 | |
How many other black hair companies | 0:46:58 | 0:47:00 | |
do you know of that are black-owned? | 0:47:00 | 0:47:02 | |
That manufacture their own products? | 0:47:02 | 0:47:04 | |
That manufacture their own products. | 0:47:04 | 0:47:05 | |
About four. | 0:47:05 | 0:47:07 | |
Out of hundreds. | 0:47:07 | 0:47:09 | |
So did the white man just buy up everybody else's company? | 0:47:09 | 0:47:11 | |
Yeah. Yep. | 0:47:11 | 0:47:13 | |
In 1987, Revlon's president, | 0:47:13 | 0:47:17 | |
he said, "Eventually there are not going to be | 0:47:17 | 0:47:19 | |
"any black-owned hair care companies." | 0:47:19 | 0:47:21 | |
And then you could see the gradual takeover | 0:47:21 | 0:47:23 | |
through the late '80s into the '90s, | 0:47:23 | 0:47:25 | |
and now very few of the companies | 0:47:25 | 0:47:27 | |
that market to African-Americans are black-owned. | 0:47:27 | 0:47:31 | |
No wonder the schools and everything else is out of control. | 0:47:31 | 0:47:34 | |
I mean, you get up and comb your oppression | 0:47:34 | 0:47:37 | |
and exploitation every morning. | 0:47:37 | 0:47:38 | |
Or you attach your economic exploitation | 0:47:38 | 0:47:41 | |
to the back of your head every morning. | 0:47:41 | 0:47:44 | |
Or you shove it down or you put it on the nightstand. | 0:47:44 | 0:47:47 | |
"Here's my symbol of economic exploitation." | 0:47:47 | 0:47:49 | |
Lights out, go to sleep, | 0:47:49 | 0:47:51 | |
wake up, and cover it back up. | 0:47:51 | 0:47:53 | |
How are you going to think right | 0:47:53 | 0:47:54 | |
when you're wearing exploitation all the time? | 0:47:54 | 0:47:57 | |
That is a real grassroots need, | 0:47:57 | 0:47:59 | |
to recapture the fact that we can't control something | 0:47:59 | 0:48:02 | |
as close to us as the hair on our head. | 0:48:02 | 0:48:05 | |
People are complaining | 0:48:05 | 0:48:06 | |
that black people aren't making any money off this hair, | 0:48:06 | 0:48:09 | |
but the truth is, it's not our hair. | 0:48:09 | 0:48:12 | |
When and if my daughters ever decide to buy hair, | 0:48:12 | 0:48:15 | |
it can come from anyplace in the world. | 0:48:15 | 0:48:18 | |
What kind of hair is the ponytail? | 0:48:18 | 0:48:21 | |
I guess it would be considered... | 0:48:21 | 0:48:24 | |
It's called "human" on the pack. | 0:48:24 | 0:48:27 | |
What kind of hair is in there? | 0:48:27 | 0:48:28 | |
Oh, my God. I didn't know | 0:48:28 | 0:48:29 | |
you were going to ask all these questions. | 0:48:29 | 0:48:31 | |
I would've called the lady that I bought it from. | 0:48:31 | 0:48:35 | |
This is 100% human hair. | 0:48:35 | 0:48:37 | |
Meaning that you can curl it, | 0:48:37 | 0:48:39 | |
do whatever, and it won't melt. | 0:48:39 | 0:48:40 | |
This is 100% real, baby. | 0:48:40 | 0:48:42 | |
So do you have any idea | 0:48:42 | 0:48:44 | |
what nationality these humans were? | 0:48:44 | 0:48:47 | |
What part of the world these humans come from? | 0:48:47 | 0:48:51 | |
Yes, Indian humans. | 0:48:51 | 0:48:52 | |
Janet Jackson's hair is Indian hair? | 0:48:52 | 0:48:54 | |
It's Indian hair. | 0:48:54 | 0:48:55 | |
Who else got Indian hair? | 0:48:55 | 0:48:56 | |
Right now, I have Indian hair. | 0:48:56 | 0:48:58 | |
It's human hair, though, and it's prayed upon. | 0:48:58 | 0:49:01 | |
Are you thinking... Are you considering... | 0:49:01 | 0:49:03 | |
I see Jessica Simpson has her own weave line. | 0:49:03 | 0:49:06 | |
Have you looked into having your own weave line? | 0:49:06 | 0:49:09 | |
So there's a chance you may join the weave empire? | 0:49:09 | 0:49:12 | |
I don't know. | 0:49:12 | 0:49:13 | |
It depends on if I can get a straight connection to India. | 0:49:13 | 0:49:15 | |
Then I will, yeah. | 0:49:15 | 0:49:18 | |
You heard what Raven said. | 0:49:18 | 0:49:19 | |
"A straight connection to India." | 0:49:19 | 0:49:21 | |
Well, I guess that's where I got to go. | 0:49:21 | 0:49:24 | |
This is India, a land with a population | 0:49:34 | 0:49:37 | |
of over one billion people. | 0:49:37 | 0:49:39 | |
A quarter of the population lives below the poverty line, | 0:49:39 | 0:49:42 | |
making about forty cents a day. | 0:49:42 | 0:49:44 | |
Good thing they don't need weaves. | 0:49:44 | 0:49:47 | |
Overpopulation is at the root of much of India's problems, | 0:49:48 | 0:49:51 | |
but there would be even less room | 0:49:51 | 0:49:53 | |
if the Indians didn't ship out most of their hair. | 0:49:53 | 0:49:56 | |
After software and statues with eighty pairs of hands, | 0:49:56 | 0:49:59 | |
human hair is India's biggest export. | 0:49:59 | 0:50:02 | |
My cab driver, Sanjeep, said if I wanted to find good hair, | 0:50:23 | 0:50:26 | |
this was the place to go. | 0:50:26 | 0:50:29 | |
All right. | 0:50:32 | 0:50:33 | |
Mr Murali! | 0:50:33 | 0:50:34 | |
Hello, how are you? | 0:50:34 | 0:50:35 | |
All right. Chris Rock here. | 0:50:35 | 0:50:37 | |
-All the way from America. -Yeah, very good. | 0:50:37 | 0:50:39 | |
You are welcome to all this. | 0:50:39 | 0:50:40 | |
Now, I hear you the man with the hair. | 0:50:40 | 0:50:42 | |
Yes. | 0:50:42 | 0:50:43 | |
You got more hair than anybody. | 0:50:43 | 0:50:44 | |
Yes. | 0:50:44 | 0:50:45 | |
If I want some Indian hair, you're the man to see. | 0:50:45 | 0:50:48 | |
Yes. | 0:50:48 | 0:50:51 | |
This is daily, we are getting like this. | 0:50:51 | 0:50:53 | |
Collected from the temple. | 0:50:53 | 0:50:55 | |
Wow. Well, show me some more. | 0:50:55 | 0:50:56 | |
-Let's see some more. -Yes. Come. | 0:50:56 | 0:50:59 | |
What are they doing right now? | 0:51:01 | 0:51:03 | |
Now, this is the hair we have bought from the temple, | 0:51:03 | 0:51:06 | |
and they're just segregating this thing. | 0:51:06 | 0:51:08 | |
And this is before washing, we do like this. | 0:51:08 | 0:51:11 | |
Then we go for a washing. | 0:51:12 | 0:51:13 | |
Because there'll be some bugs. | 0:51:13 | 0:51:15 | |
It is all dead bugs but some people, | 0:51:15 | 0:51:17 | |
they don't like to have lice and bugs in their hair. | 0:51:17 | 0:51:19 | |
Yeah, I don't. | 0:51:19 | 0:51:20 | |
Whenever I buy hair, I don't want no bugs in it. | 0:51:20 | 0:51:23 | |
This is the place where we process human hair. | 0:51:35 | 0:51:37 | |
Weave paradise. | 0:51:37 | 0:51:39 | |
Yes. | 0:51:39 | 0:51:40 | |
So this is where the magic happens, huh? | 0:51:40 | 0:51:43 | |
And everyone's got a perfect weave on their head. | 0:51:43 | 0:51:46 | |
What are they doing right there? | 0:51:48 | 0:51:49 | |
See, this is what I mean. | 0:51:49 | 0:51:50 | |
I show you that after washing, | 0:51:50 | 0:51:51 | |
they'll just put the hair on the hackle, | 0:51:51 | 0:51:54 | |
there to remove this tangle, | 0:51:54 | 0:51:56 | |
and they'll remove the top-side of the hair. | 0:51:56 | 0:51:58 | |
So then it will be bundled, and it will be sold as bulk hair. | 0:51:58 | 0:52:02 | |
OK. | 0:52:02 | 0:52:03 | |
Approximately how many heads of hair | 0:52:03 | 0:52:05 | |
are processed every day? | 0:52:05 | 0:52:06 | |
-Not that, weight. -Kilos? | 0:52:06 | 0:52:08 | |
So, you don't even care about the head. | 0:52:08 | 0:52:10 | |
You measure by the kilo. | 0:52:10 | 0:52:11 | |
We measure by kilo only. | 0:52:11 | 0:52:12 | |
You like Scarface. "Keys." | 0:52:12 | 0:52:14 | |
Kind of like cocaine. | 0:52:14 | 0:52:15 | |
The hair business is probably an easier business to be in. | 0:52:15 | 0:52:18 | |
-Yes, it is a legal one. -It's legal. | 0:52:18 | 0:52:21 | |
Are there hair farms? | 0:52:21 | 0:52:23 | |
Are there just places | 0:52:23 | 0:52:24 | |
where just a bunch of women are sitting there growing hair? | 0:52:24 | 0:52:26 | |
No. | 0:52:26 | 0:52:28 | |
Everything's from sacrifice. Tonsure. | 0:52:28 | 0:52:30 | |
Everything's from the sacrifice. | 0:52:30 | 0:52:31 | |
Do your other friends sacrifice their hair, too? | 0:52:31 | 0:52:34 | |
Yeah. Everybody does. | 0:52:34 | 0:52:36 | |
Everybody does it. | 0:52:36 | 0:52:37 | |
I guess nobody in India buys hair. | 0:52:37 | 0:52:39 | |
Why? We already have our own hair. | 0:52:39 | 0:52:41 | |
It's like fish buyin' water. | 0:52:41 | 0:52:44 | |
Has anybody ever tried to steal your hair? | 0:52:44 | 0:52:46 | |
No. Not yet. | 0:52:46 | 0:52:47 | |
If you see some black women, just run the other way. | 0:52:47 | 0:52:49 | |
OK. | 0:52:49 | 0:52:50 | |
Now, there seems to be a great demand | 0:52:50 | 0:52:53 | |
for the hair all over the world. | 0:52:53 | 0:52:57 | |
Can the temple satisfy all the demand, | 0:52:57 | 0:53:00 | |
or do people find other ways to get the hair? | 0:53:00 | 0:53:02 | |
So let me get this straight. | 0:53:13 | 0:53:15 | |
Women fall asleep, | 0:53:15 | 0:53:17 | |
and while they're asleep, someone... | 0:53:17 | 0:53:19 | |
Trimming their hair. | 0:53:19 | 0:53:20 | |
Takes their hair. Does this happen a lot? | 0:53:20 | 0:53:23 | |
Somebody is cutting hair. | 0:53:30 | 0:53:32 | |
So you go see "I Am Legend," | 0:53:32 | 0:53:34 | |
and when you leave, you go, "I Am Bald." | 0:53:34 | 0:53:37 | |
Hair is worth more than gold? | 0:53:50 | 0:53:52 | |
Yes. | 0:53:52 | 0:53:53 | |
And women are being scalped to get this hair. | 0:53:53 | 0:53:56 | |
Ten inches and better? | 0:53:59 | 0:54:01 | |
It's like porno. | 0:54:01 | 0:54:02 | |
Tell me. | 0:54:02 | 0:54:03 | |
I'd learned that this good hair | 0:54:03 | 0:54:06 | |
came from a religious ceremony called "tonsure." | 0:54:06 | 0:54:09 | |
And that's what I needed to see, the tonsure ceremony. | 0:54:09 | 0:54:12 | |
If my daughters were going to eventually wear this hair, | 0:54:12 | 0:54:15 | |
I needed to see what kind of person's head it had been on first. | 0:54:15 | 0:54:18 | |
Over ten million people tonsure their hair every year. | 0:54:34 | 0:54:37 | |
They tonsure their hair in exchange for the gods' blessings. | 0:54:39 | 0:54:42 | |
Why do you tonsure your hair? | 0:54:55 | 0:54:58 | |
You ever think about your hair? | 0:55:03 | 0:55:05 | |
Thinkin' about seeing it again on somebody else? | 0:55:08 | 0:55:11 | |
-God likes hair? -Yeah. | 0:55:12 | 0:55:15 | |
Tonsure. | 0:55:21 | 0:55:22 | |
That's the word we keep hearin'. Tonsure. | 0:55:22 | 0:55:25 | |
Eighty-five percent of India's population | 0:55:25 | 0:55:27 | |
have had their hair shaved at least twice in a lifetime | 0:55:27 | 0:55:30 | |
in a religious ceremony known as tonsure. | 0:55:30 | 0:55:34 | |
In India, hair is considered a vanity | 0:55:34 | 0:55:36 | |
and removing hair is considered an act of self-sacrifice. | 0:55:36 | 0:55:39 | |
CHILD SCREAMS | 0:55:57 | 0:56:01 | |
By the end of the night, | 0:56:09 | 0:56:11 | |
these pretty young girls will be baldheaded. | 0:56:11 | 0:56:13 | |
And in a few weeks, | 0:56:13 | 0:56:14 | |
their hair will be on the heads of doctors, | 0:56:14 | 0:56:17 | |
lawyers, and even strippers swinging off of poles. | 0:56:17 | 0:56:20 | |
These people have no idea where their hair's going | 0:56:21 | 0:56:23 | |
or how much it's worth. | 0:56:23 | 0:56:25 | |
The money made at this temple is second only to the Vatican. | 0:56:25 | 0:56:28 | |
The hair collected here is auctioned off to exporters | 0:56:28 | 0:56:31 | |
who distribute it around the planet. | 0:56:31 | 0:56:34 | |
But its chief destination | 0:56:34 | 0:56:36 | |
is the weave capital of the world, Los Angeles. | 0:56:36 | 0:56:39 | |
-Vijay! -Hey. | 0:57:00 | 0:57:03 | |
How's it goin', man? | 0:57:03 | 0:57:04 | |
Good. How are you? | 0:57:04 | 0:57:05 | |
-Can't wait to see what you got. -Oh, yes. | 0:57:05 | 0:57:06 | |
All right, let's go in. | 0:57:06 | 0:57:09 | |
Now, Vijay. | 0:57:09 | 0:57:11 | |
How much money worth of hair | 0:57:11 | 0:57:13 | |
do you have in that bag right now? | 0:57:13 | 0:57:14 | |
Roughly about 10,000 to 15,000. | 0:57:14 | 0:57:17 | |
-15,000 worth of hair? -Yeah. | 0:57:17 | 0:57:19 | |
Have you ever been robbed? | 0:57:19 | 0:57:21 | |
No. Luckily, no. Touch wood. | 0:57:21 | 0:57:24 | |
All right. | 0:57:24 | 0:57:25 | |
Do you have security? | 0:57:25 | 0:57:26 | |
No. The security is it's a suitcase, | 0:57:26 | 0:57:29 | |
and they think it's clothes, and I'm a tourist. | 0:57:29 | 0:57:32 | |
I need, uh... | 0:57:32 | 0:57:33 | |
the auburn shades or the natural black? | 0:57:33 | 0:57:35 | |
The natural black. | 0:57:35 | 0:57:37 | |
And I need, like, 14 to 16 inch. | 0:57:37 | 0:57:39 | |
Now, what are you lookin' for when you go through the hair? | 0:57:39 | 0:57:42 | |
Well, one, I look to make sure that the ends are not so frayed. | 0:57:42 | 0:57:46 | |
You know what I mean? | 0:57:46 | 0:57:47 | |
I look to make sure that when I run my hands through it that it's silky. | 0:57:47 | 0:57:50 | |
OK. Now, is this your first stop today? | 0:57:50 | 0:57:53 | |
Yes. Today, it's my first shop. | 0:57:53 | 0:57:56 | |
So you get it first? | 0:57:56 | 0:57:58 | |
Beverly Hills gets it first? | 0:57:58 | 0:58:01 | |
So you start here and then you go to Compton? | 0:58:01 | 0:58:04 | |
It's not quite like that, Rock. | 0:58:04 | 0:58:05 | |
Everything else works like that. | 0:58:05 | 0:58:08 | |
OK, so you got this big-ass suitcase full of hair. | 0:58:09 | 0:58:12 | |
And this is your first shop? | 0:58:14 | 0:58:16 | |
Will you make it through the day with that? | 0:58:16 | 0:58:18 | |
How long before all that hair is gone? | 0:58:18 | 0:58:21 | |
It could be gone in a few hours. | 0:58:21 | 0:58:24 | |
A few hours? | 0:58:24 | 0:58:25 | |
Once the ladies get it, they want more. | 0:58:25 | 0:58:27 | |
And they won't pay their rent to get their hair done. | 0:58:27 | 0:58:29 | |
Yeah, there's a lot of that goin' on in America. | 0:58:29 | 0:58:32 | |
A lot of foreclosures. | 0:58:32 | 0:58:34 | |
But they got hair. | 0:58:34 | 0:58:35 | |
There's no hair-closures goin' on. | 0:58:35 | 0:58:38 | |
So if you not in the weave business, | 0:58:38 | 0:58:39 | |
you not in the hair business. | 0:58:39 | 0:58:42 | |
It's true, because you can't make the money. | 0:58:42 | 0:58:44 | |
The weavin' is where the money is. | 0:58:44 | 0:58:46 | |
It takes you up there. | 0:58:46 | 0:58:47 | |
It puts you up there with the doctors, you know? | 0:58:47 | 0:58:49 | |
It's that kind of income | 0:58:49 | 0:58:50 | |
because you're finding something that you can really promote. | 0:58:50 | 0:58:52 | |
It's like surgery. Non-surgical hair replacement. | 0:58:52 | 0:58:55 | |
It's the real deal. | 0:58:55 | 0:58:56 | |
You ever say, like, | 0:58:56 | 0:58:57 | |
"Hey, this hair is from a Hindu princess"? | 0:58:57 | 0:59:00 | |
Charge a little extra? | 0:59:00 | 0:59:01 | |
No. Why should I say that? | 0:59:01 | 0:59:02 | |
Well, I've put it on some celebrities and said, "This was on so-and-so. | 0:59:02 | 0:59:06 | |
"I'll sell it to you if you want it." | 0:59:06 | 0:59:08 | |
They'll buy it. | 0:59:08 | 0:59:09 | |
"Ooh, I got so-and-so's hair." | 0:59:09 | 0:59:10 | |
Really? So you can sell, like, | 0:59:10 | 0:59:12 | |
a used weave if Angela Bassett had it? | 0:59:12 | 0:59:14 | |
Yeah, she brings it back, then I resell it. | 0:59:14 | 0:59:17 | |
I say, "Angela had it on her head." | 0:59:17 | 0:59:18 | |
And they like, "Really?" | 0:59:18 | 0:59:19 | |
"This is Vivica Fox hair." | 0:59:19 | 0:59:20 | |
Yeah, and they'll buy. | 0:59:20 | 0:59:22 | |
You know, she like Malaysian hair. | 0:59:22 | 0:59:25 | |
Vivica likes Malaysian hair. | 0:59:25 | 0:59:26 | |
She's not really into the Indian hair. | 0:59:26 | 0:59:30 | |
I knew there was a market for selling Indian hair, | 0:59:30 | 0:59:33 | |
but what I really wanted to know | 0:59:33 | 0:59:35 | |
is if I could make any money at all selling black hair. | 0:59:35 | 0:59:38 | |
Black hair! | 0:59:38 | 0:59:41 | |
Black hair! | 0:59:43 | 0:59:46 | |
How you doin', sir? | 0:59:51 | 0:59:53 | |
OK, sir. How are you? | 0:59:53 | 0:59:54 | |
Pretty good. | 0:59:54 | 0:59:55 | |
So, you sell a lot of hair here? | 0:59:55 | 0:59:57 | |
Yes. | 0:59:57 | 0:59:58 | |
What kind of hair? | 0:59:58 | 0:59:59 | |
We have Malaysian. We have the Indian hair. | 0:59:59 | 1:00:02 | |
We have synthetic hair. | 1:00:02 | 1:00:03 | |
We have so many different hair. | 1:00:03 | 1:00:05 | |
-Wow. Do you have any hair from Africa? -Yes. | 1:00:05 | 1:00:08 | |
Really? Can I see the African hair? | 1:00:08 | 1:00:11 | |
Where is that? | 1:00:11 | 1:00:14 | |
This is... That's not African hair. | 1:00:14 | 1:00:17 | |
That's Indian hair. It says "Indian." | 1:00:17 | 1:00:19 | |
India is Africa from Indians. | 1:00:19 | 1:00:21 | |
-That's Indian hair? -Yes. | 1:00:21 | 1:00:23 | |
-For African women? -Yes. | 1:00:23 | 1:00:25 | |
See, I was tryin' to sell... | 1:00:25 | 1:00:28 | |
I had Indian hair, and I sold it easy, | 1:00:28 | 1:00:30 | |
but the black hair, nobody... | 1:00:30 | 1:00:33 | |
Would you like to buy some black hair? | 1:00:34 | 1:00:38 | |
I have all sorts of black hair here. | 1:00:38 | 1:00:40 | |
Some of this hair is from Cleveland and Cincinnati. | 1:00:40 | 1:00:43 | |
This hair is from Detroit. | 1:00:45 | 1:00:47 | |
Well, you might want to take it back. | 1:00:47 | 1:00:49 | |
So this is not good hair? | 1:00:49 | 1:00:51 | |
Uh-uh. | 1:00:51 | 1:00:52 | |
Is that off of someone else's... | 1:00:52 | 1:00:54 | |
This hair was cut off at a Baptist temple. | 1:00:54 | 1:00:57 | |
Uh, well, I couldn't... | 1:00:58 | 1:01:00 | |
It wouldn't be healthful for me to sell that hair here. | 1:01:00 | 1:01:03 | |
You think somebody's going to get sickle-cell | 1:01:03 | 1:01:05 | |
or something from wearing black hair? | 1:01:05 | 1:01:07 | |
Oh, yes. | 1:01:07 | 1:01:09 | |
The hair's no good. | 1:01:09 | 1:01:11 | |
But it's black hair for black people. | 1:01:11 | 1:01:13 | |
But black people don't wear that no more. | 1:01:13 | 1:01:15 | |
-So my nappy hair's not worth anything? -No. | 1:01:15 | 1:01:18 | |
They don't want to look like, you know... | 1:01:18 | 1:01:20 | |
like, you know, Africa, like this. | 1:01:20 | 1:01:24 | |
They want to look the style. | 1:01:24 | 1:01:25 | |
You know, right now, you look at all the magazines, | 1:01:25 | 1:01:27 | |
all the style, what kind of styles they have. | 1:01:27 | 1:01:29 | |
They want sexy-looking. | 1:01:29 | 1:01:31 | |
So this is sexy? | 1:01:31 | 1:01:33 | |
Nobody walks around with nappy hair no more. | 1:01:33 | 1:01:36 | |
No more. You see, how many people, they do it? | 1:01:36 | 1:01:38 | |
No. You make sure the hair's straight. | 1:01:38 | 1:01:41 | |
Look more natural. | 1:01:41 | 1:01:43 | |
As far as black women wearing hair from other nationalities | 1:01:43 | 1:01:47 | |
or the hairstyles of other ethnicities and races, | 1:01:47 | 1:01:50 | |
you know, I would just say that European and Asian hair, | 1:01:50 | 1:01:54 | |
the texture seems to be the style | 1:01:54 | 1:02:00 | |
that all women seem to be trying to achieve. | 1:02:00 | 1:02:03 | |
I always was bothered by women | 1:02:03 | 1:02:05 | |
that had it and used it as a power thing. | 1:02:05 | 1:02:10 | |
It's kind of like, if I'm wearing somebody else's jewellery, | 1:02:10 | 1:02:13 | |
but I'm flexin' it on you, that's kind of fake. | 1:02:13 | 1:02:15 | |
So if you got a wig on, but you flexin' your hair | 1:02:15 | 1:02:18 | |
like I'm supposed to give you points for that hair, | 1:02:18 | 1:02:21 | |
I'm not giving you those points. | 1:02:21 | 1:02:23 | |
I'll give you points for your ass. | 1:02:23 | 1:02:24 | |
I'll give you points for your legs or your skin, | 1:02:24 | 1:02:26 | |
but you don't get points for that. | 1:02:26 | 1:02:27 | |
But you whippin' it at me like... | 1:02:27 | 1:02:30 | |
And a real pimp can always look at a girl | 1:02:30 | 1:02:32 | |
and know what she looks like baldheaded. Be like... | 1:02:32 | 1:02:34 | |
You could see through the cap. | 1:02:34 | 1:02:37 | |
I have alopecia, | 1:02:37 | 1:02:38 | |
which causes hair loss on your head or on your body. | 1:02:38 | 1:02:42 | |
I chose not to wear a wig for a number of reasons. | 1:02:42 | 1:02:47 | |
There's this feeling about somehow hiding, | 1:02:47 | 1:02:49 | |
and I never wanted to feel like I was hiding something. | 1:02:49 | 1:02:53 | |
I wanted to deal with sort of accepting who you are | 1:02:53 | 1:02:56 | |
and look in the mirror and feeling | 1:02:56 | 1:03:00 | |
as though you're beautiful and legitimate. | 1:03:00 | 1:03:03 | |
So I think the reason hair is so important | 1:03:03 | 1:03:07 | |
is because our self-esteem is wrapped up in it. | 1:03:07 | 1:03:11 | |
It's like a type of currency for us, | 1:03:11 | 1:03:15 | |
even though those standards are completely unrealistic | 1:03:15 | 1:03:20 | |
and unattainable, especially for black women. | 1:03:20 | 1:03:22 | |
You know, you're going to be graduating soon, | 1:03:22 | 1:03:24 | |
going out into the real world. | 1:03:24 | 1:03:26 | |
You might have to pay your parents back | 1:03:26 | 1:03:28 | |
for the weaves at some point. | 1:03:28 | 1:03:31 | |
Do you think... | 1:03:31 | 1:03:33 | |
you have a chance of getting a good job with natural hair, | 1:03:33 | 1:03:36 | |
or are you going to need a weave to get a good job? | 1:03:36 | 1:03:39 | |
Even though I think your Afro is kind of cute, | 1:03:39 | 1:03:42 | |
if somebody came into my office with an Afro way out here | 1:03:42 | 1:03:46 | |
and a suit, that just seems really out of place. | 1:03:46 | 1:03:49 | |
It's like a contradiction. | 1:03:49 | 1:03:51 | |
So I would kind of second-guess. | 1:03:51 | 1:03:53 | |
And I agree with you. | 1:03:53 | 1:03:55 | |
If I was going to, say, some new law firm, | 1:03:55 | 1:03:58 | |
and you wanted to, you know, join, | 1:03:58 | 1:04:00 | |
and I'm like, "OK, you look really nice, | 1:04:00 | 1:04:02 | |
"and I'm understanding what you're saying, | 1:04:02 | 1:04:03 | |
"but I can't get past the fact | 1:04:03 | 1:04:04 | |
"that you're going to be sitting with big executives and all that, | 1:04:04 | 1:04:07 | |
"and it's, like, they're not going to really take you seriously | 1:04:07 | 1:04:10 | |
"for the fact that you just don't look too put together." | 1:04:10 | 1:04:17 | |
You have to kind of really have conviction with it. | 1:04:17 | 1:04:20 | |
cos there's so many pressures | 1:04:20 | 1:04:21 | |
to straighten your hair all the time. | 1:04:21 | 1:04:23 | |
But the result is a beautiful thing, you know. | 1:04:23 | 1:04:26 | |
And it's funny, because I always think it's interesting | 1:04:27 | 1:04:29 | |
that to keep my hair the same texture | 1:04:29 | 1:04:32 | |
as it grows out of my head is looked at as revolutionary. | 1:04:32 | 1:04:36 | |
Why is that? | 1:04:38 | 1:04:41 | |
I seek them out with the natural hair. | 1:04:44 | 1:04:47 | |
Now, do you seek out women with natural hair | 1:04:47 | 1:04:49 | |
cos it's more affordable? | 1:04:49 | 1:04:50 | |
Absolutely. | 1:04:50 | 1:04:52 | |
How old are you? | 1:04:52 | 1:04:53 | |
Nineteen. | 1:04:53 | 1:04:54 | |
Nineteen. God. | 1:04:54 | 1:04:55 | |
Have you ever seen a woman, | 1:04:55 | 1:04:56 | |
seen her hair, and thought, "I can't afford her"? | 1:04:56 | 1:04:59 | |
Sometimes. | 1:05:02 | 1:05:03 | |
OK. | 1:05:03 | 1:05:05 | |
I know how you feel. | 1:05:05 | 1:05:08 | |
Does this have an effect on the relationships | 1:05:09 | 1:05:10 | |
between black men and black women? | 1:05:10 | 1:05:12 | |
Is there a pressure on a black man... | 1:05:12 | 1:05:15 | |
Right. | 1:05:15 | 1:05:17 | |
..that's dating a black woman | 1:05:17 | 1:05:18 | |
that a white man doesn't have dating a white woman? | 1:05:18 | 1:05:21 | |
A black man automatically knows, | 1:05:21 | 1:05:23 | |
out the gate, especially if his mama's black, | 1:05:23 | 1:05:26 | |
so he's already grown up in a household with a black woman. | 1:05:26 | 1:05:28 | |
So he kind of understands | 1:05:28 | 1:05:30 | |
the importance of getting the hair done | 1:05:30 | 1:05:33 | |
and of the woman looking good, | 1:05:33 | 1:05:35 | |
and he wants his woman to look good. | 1:05:35 | 1:05:38 | |
Yeah, he probably has to make a bit of an investment in that area | 1:05:38 | 1:05:41 | |
and just know that's part of being a black woman, | 1:05:41 | 1:05:45 | |
and I'm going to embrace that. | 1:05:45 | 1:05:47 | |
I'm just sayin', your woman has a head of hair, | 1:05:47 | 1:05:50 | |
it's like a condo, and you got to pay the maintenance. | 1:05:50 | 1:05:53 | |
When your woman's hair is jacked, | 1:05:55 | 1:05:57 | |
it's a reflection on you. | 1:05:57 | 1:06:01 | |
And when you date a chick, as a single guy, | 1:06:01 | 1:06:04 | |
when I go out with a girl and I look at her, | 1:06:04 | 1:06:05 | |
and I'm looking at her hair, | 1:06:05 | 1:06:06 | |
first thing I know, | 1:06:06 | 1:06:08 | |
whether we could go to the bathhouse, | 1:06:08 | 1:06:10 | |
steaming, swimming, or a beach trip, | 1:06:10 | 1:06:12 | |
and is it going to be a big to-do? | 1:06:12 | 1:06:13 | |
When you have natural hair, you can do stuff. More stuff. | 1:06:13 | 1:06:16 | |
If I get caught in the rain, it's not the end of the day. | 1:06:16 | 1:06:20 | |
She will be, like, "I don't want a massage," | 1:06:20 | 1:06:23 | |
or, "I don't want to go to the steam room." | 1:06:23 | 1:06:24 | |
And you say, "Why not?" | 1:06:24 | 1:06:25 | |
"I'm not tense." | 1:06:25 | 1:06:26 | |
You know she's tense. | 1:06:26 | 1:06:28 | |
She's tense at the idea of the weave she just paid for | 1:06:28 | 1:06:31 | |
just fallin' to pieces. | 1:06:31 | 1:06:32 | |
Do you swim? | 1:06:32 | 1:06:34 | |
I have a pool. | 1:06:34 | 1:06:37 | |
That doesn't answer the question. | 1:06:37 | 1:06:39 | |
I do have a pool. | 1:06:39 | 1:06:40 | |
I can definitely get in the water. | 1:06:40 | 1:06:42 | |
I definitely get in the water, from about here down. | 1:06:42 | 1:06:44 | |
You don't swim? | 1:06:44 | 1:06:46 | |
No. We don't play those games. | 1:06:46 | 1:06:48 | |
He's got to be really special for me to get my hair wet. | 1:06:48 | 1:06:51 | |
Taking a shower together | 1:06:51 | 1:06:52 | |
could be more intimate than having sex. | 1:06:52 | 1:06:54 | |
Wow. | 1:06:54 | 1:06:56 | |
That's damn near like, "You're my nigga for real." | 1:06:56 | 1:06:59 | |
All my white classmates, whenever I'd get out of the pool | 1:07:00 | 1:07:02 | |
and my hair went from straight to curly, | 1:07:02 | 1:07:04 | |
they were like, "Wow!" | 1:07:04 | 1:07:05 | |
And they'd pull on it. And I'm like... | 1:07:05 | 1:07:07 | |
But they're curious. | 1:07:07 | 1:07:08 | |
They're curious white people. It's OK. | 1:07:08 | 1:07:12 | |
It's OK. You can touch it. | 1:07:12 | 1:07:13 | |
But just be gentle, and if it's me. | 1:07:13 | 1:07:15 | |
Don't just go walking up to a random black chick on the street | 1:07:15 | 1:07:18 | |
and reach out to touch her hair, | 1:07:18 | 1:07:20 | |
cos you might get hurt, | 1:07:20 | 1:07:21 | |
your fingers broken, sawed off, something. | 1:07:21 | 1:07:23 | |
Of course, a random white stranger | 1:07:23 | 1:07:25 | |
shouldn't walk up and touch a black woman's hair, | 1:07:25 | 1:07:28 | |
but what about her husband, her boyfriend? | 1:07:28 | 1:07:30 | |
You'd be surprised. | 1:07:30 | 1:07:32 | |
You guys, anybody ever been with a woman | 1:07:32 | 1:07:34 | |
that you couldn't touch her hair? | 1:07:34 | 1:07:37 | |
You know, when you can't put your hands | 1:07:37 | 1:07:39 | |
through a woman's hair, there's a lack of intimacy. | 1:07:39 | 1:07:41 | |
Have you ever put your hand through a black woman's hair? | 1:07:41 | 1:07:44 | |
Not that I can remember. | 1:07:44 | 1:07:45 | |
You can't touch a black woman's hair. | 1:07:45 | 1:07:47 | |
You just don't touch it. | 1:07:47 | 1:07:48 | |
Just leave it alone. | 1:07:48 | 1:07:49 | |
Don't tell me I can't touch your head. | 1:07:49 | 1:07:52 | |
It's decoration. Leave it alone. | 1:07:52 | 1:07:54 | |
It's like plastic fruit? | 1:07:54 | 1:07:55 | |
Kind of. Just leave it alone. | 1:07:55 | 1:07:58 | |
I don't care if you got fake titties, | 1:07:58 | 1:07:59 | |
I want to at least be able to squeeze 'em. | 1:07:59 | 1:08:00 | |
There just can't be no off-limits to no parts of your body. | 1:08:00 | 1:08:03 | |
If it's fake, cool, but I want to touch anyway. | 1:08:03 | 1:08:07 | |
Like, really. Don't do that. | 1:08:07 | 1:08:09 | |
cos I'll have to fight you. | 1:08:09 | 1:08:10 | |
So, you can't touch your woman's hair? | 1:08:10 | 1:08:13 | |
Hell, no! Not a black woman, right after she get it done. | 1:08:13 | 1:08:15 | |
"Nigga, I just got this done. | 1:08:15 | 1:08:17 | |
"Now let me wrap this up before we do anything." | 1:08:17 | 1:08:19 | |
The weave, yeah, it does matter. | 1:08:19 | 1:08:22 | |
It definitely matters if a girl got natural or weave. | 1:08:22 | 1:08:24 | |
I like real hair. | 1:08:24 | 1:08:25 | |
I mean, if you baldheaded, I'm cool with that, too. | 1:08:25 | 1:08:27 | |
You can't run your fingers through, | 1:08:27 | 1:08:29 | |
cos your fingers get stuck. | 1:08:29 | 1:08:31 | |
Like a DJ! | 1:08:31 | 1:08:34 | |
I don't want to run into the tracks | 1:08:35 | 1:08:36 | |
and get caught up and got to reset the fingers, | 1:08:36 | 1:08:38 | |
like, you know what I'm saying? | 1:08:38 | 1:08:39 | |
It's like gettin' your fingernail stuck in a sweater or something, | 1:08:39 | 1:08:42 | |
and you don't want that happening. | 1:08:42 | 1:08:43 | |
That's just nasty. | 1:08:43 | 1:08:44 | |
So weave-touching is off-limits? | 1:08:44 | 1:08:46 | |
Do not touch my weave, no. | 1:08:46 | 1:08:48 | |
I don't even touch the inside of my weave, barely. | 1:08:48 | 1:08:50 | |
But how close can you get with somebody | 1:08:50 | 1:08:52 | |
if you can't touch their hair? | 1:08:52 | 1:08:54 | |
I mean, at the right time, the right place, | 1:08:54 | 1:08:56 | |
I might be in another zone, | 1:08:56 | 1:08:58 | |
but if I'm in my right mind, get out my weave. | 1:08:58 | 1:09:01 | |
So what, you got to be high for somebody to touch your weave? | 1:09:01 | 1:09:03 | |
Maybe. | 1:09:03 | 1:09:04 | |
Weave sex is a little awkward. | 1:09:04 | 1:09:06 | |
What do you do? | 1:09:06 | 1:09:09 | |
I guess stay on top. | 1:09:10 | 1:09:14 | |
So if you're makin' love to one of these women | 1:09:14 | 1:09:16 | |
and you want to roll your hands through their hair, | 1:09:16 | 1:09:18 | |
you just got to really put all the... | 1:09:18 | 1:09:20 | |
Put all your effort in the bangs. | 1:09:20 | 1:09:23 | |
My advice for men | 1:09:23 | 1:09:24 | |
when they're making love to a woman who has a weave | 1:09:24 | 1:09:26 | |
is keep your hands on the titties. | 1:09:26 | 1:09:29 | |
That's probably the safest bet. | 1:09:29 | 1:09:31 | |
On the titties. | 1:09:31 | 1:09:33 | |
You can only touch up to here, | 1:09:33 | 1:09:34 | |
but if you get here, that's the forbidden zone? | 1:09:34 | 1:09:37 | |
Exactly. | 1:09:37 | 1:09:38 | |
You grab it during sex, | 1:09:38 | 1:09:39 | |
it's going to tear the relationship's ass up. | 1:09:39 | 1:09:41 | |
It's going to hurt the relationship, definitely, | 1:09:41 | 1:09:43 | |
if you grab it during sex, | 1:09:43 | 1:09:44 | |
cos it's going to go here, there. | 1:09:44 | 1:09:45 | |
They don't want you pulling that tail! | 1:09:45 | 1:09:47 | |
Maybe we stayed together back in the old days | 1:09:47 | 1:09:50 | |
cos Kunta Kinte could put his hands through Kizzy's hair, | 1:09:50 | 1:09:52 | |
thus bringing them closer together. | 1:09:55 | 1:09:58 | |
Kizzy was his daughter. | 1:09:58 | 1:09:59 | |
Oh, Kizzy was his daughter. I messed up. | 1:09:59 | 1:10:01 | |
Does your wife let you touch her hair? | 1:10:01 | 1:10:04 | |
The question is, do I let her touch mine? | 1:10:05 | 1:10:08 | |
So I hung out with her a couple of times. | 1:10:10 | 1:10:12 | |
You know, we went from partying | 1:10:12 | 1:10:13 | |
to, like, maybe we should do something. | 1:10:13 | 1:10:16 | |
You know, been over to my house a couple times, | 1:10:16 | 1:10:18 | |
laid up in the bed a couple times. | 1:10:18 | 1:10:20 | |
I ain't get at it yet, but I'm close. | 1:10:20 | 1:10:22 | |
But I haven't ran my fingers through her hair | 1:10:22 | 1:10:24 | |
because I'm not sure, is she really... | 1:10:24 | 1:10:27 | |
Is that all her hair? | 1:10:27 | 1:10:28 | |
And I don't want to ask her is that all her hair. | 1:10:28 | 1:10:31 | |
And I don't want to fool around and rub my fingers through it, | 1:10:31 | 1:10:34 | |
and say, "Wait, wait, wait, wait." | 1:10:34 | 1:10:35 | |
That "wait, don't do that." | 1:10:35 | 1:10:38 | |
I don't want to ruin the rhythm, | 1:10:38 | 1:10:39 | |
so I've been waiting for a period | 1:10:39 | 1:10:42 | |
where I ask her, what are the rules and regulations | 1:10:42 | 1:10:44 | |
of messing with your hair and making you feel sexy? | 1:10:44 | 1:10:47 | |
But I haven't got there yet. | 1:10:48 | 1:10:49 | |
I'm still waiting for that moment. | 1:10:49 | 1:10:52 | |
Hold up there. Hold a minute. | 1:10:54 | 1:10:55 | |
I was making love to this woman one time, right? | 1:10:55 | 1:10:58 | |
And I was, you know, gettin' it from the back. | 1:10:58 | 1:11:01 | |
You know what I mean, right? | 1:11:01 | 1:11:03 | |
You was getting it from the back? | 1:11:03 | 1:11:04 | |
Doggy-style! | 1:11:04 | 1:11:06 | |
And she told me... | 1:11:06 | 1:11:09 | |
She told me to pull her hair. | 1:11:09 | 1:11:11 | |
And when I pulled her hair... | 1:11:11 | 1:11:12 | |
it came off. | 1:11:12 | 1:11:14 | |
I said, "Uh-oh. | 1:11:14 | 1:11:16 | |
"I think it looks like a man." | 1:11:16 | 1:11:18 | |
-Oh, no! -But it wasn't. | 1:11:18 | 1:11:20 | |
-We ain't talkin' about that. -But it wasn't. | 1:11:20 | 1:11:21 | |
Baldheaded as could be. | 1:11:21 | 1:11:24 | |
So, you cannot touch a black woman's hair. | 1:11:24 | 1:11:26 | |
You can't. Wrong. You can't do it. | 1:11:26 | 1:11:28 | |
Understandably so. | 1:11:28 | 1:11:29 | |
If you paid 150 for a haircut, | 1:11:29 | 1:11:32 | |
you wouldn't want people touchin' your head. | 1:11:32 | 1:11:33 | |
You can't touch the weave? | 1:11:33 | 1:11:36 | |
When was the last time you touched a woman's hair? | 1:11:36 | 1:11:38 | |
1986, before the market crash. | 1:11:38 | 1:11:40 | |
The market crashed in '87, October 19th. | 1:11:40 | 1:11:43 | |
The last time I was allowed to touch a broad's hair was... | 1:11:43 | 1:11:46 | |
'86, somewhere in there. | 1:11:49 | 1:11:50 | |
White women love you to touch their hair. | 1:11:50 | 1:11:52 | |
Pull it, yank it. Twirlin' 'em around by it. | 1:11:52 | 1:11:55 | |
Jump off the ceiling with it. | 1:11:55 | 1:11:56 | |
Jump off the cliff and hang-glide with it. | 1:11:56 | 1:11:59 | |
Is this why black men... some black men favour white women? | 1:11:59 | 1:12:01 | |
-Yes. -No! | 1:12:01 | 1:12:03 | |
I don't favour them, though. | 1:12:03 | 1:12:04 | |
But some black men... not you... | 1:12:04 | 1:12:06 | |
some black men do favour... | 1:12:06 | 1:12:09 | |
-White women. -Yes. | 1:12:09 | 1:12:11 | |
Do you feel a level of intimacy with a white woman | 1:12:11 | 1:12:14 | |
that you cannot feel with a black woman? | 1:12:14 | 1:12:15 | |
-Yes, I do! -I'm not going to say that. | 1:12:15 | 1:12:17 | |
I'll speak up myself! Hell, yeah! | 1:12:17 | 1:12:19 | |
Because there's no rules. | 1:12:19 | 1:12:21 | |
I can do things with a white broad that I can't do with a black, yes! | 1:12:21 | 1:12:24 | |
Not true. You got to find the right black woman. | 1:12:24 | 1:12:26 | |
It's no secret that some of the best conversations | 1:12:40 | 1:12:42 | |
happen in barbershops and hair salons. | 1:12:42 | 1:12:45 | |
While the big hair business, | 1:12:45 | 1:12:46 | |
like manufacturing and distribution isn't in black hands, | 1:12:46 | 1:12:49 | |
these barbershops and hair salons | 1:12:49 | 1:12:51 | |
employ thousands of black men and women all over the country, | 1:12:51 | 1:12:54 | |
feed black babies, | 1:12:55 | 1:12:56 | |
and send thousands of black kids to college. | 1:12:56 | 1:12:59 | |
And they continue to act | 1:12:59 | 1:13:00 | |
as social centres in their communities. | 1:13:00 | 1:13:02 | |
As the barber, what is your role in the community? | 1:13:02 | 1:13:05 | |
I'm the doctor. I'm the psychiatrist. | 1:13:05 | 1:13:09 | |
Whatever it is you need, | 1:13:09 | 1:13:11 | |
if I can help you, I'll try to help you. | 1:13:11 | 1:13:12 | |
It's still an industry | 1:13:12 | 1:13:14 | |
where somebody can go into business, | 1:13:14 | 1:13:16 | |
make a lot of money, not have a college education, | 1:13:16 | 1:13:19 | |
be able to do something wonderful for themselves | 1:13:19 | 1:13:21 | |
and for their families | 1:13:21 | 1:13:23 | |
and maybe even their communities. | 1:13:23 | 1:13:24 | |
But there's this expression, | 1:13:24 | 1:13:25 | |
this creative expression of black people | 1:13:25 | 1:13:28 | |
that I think is shown when we see | 1:13:28 | 1:13:30 | |
all of these amazing individual hairstyles. | 1:13:30 | 1:13:34 | |
But what's the definition of style? | 1:13:34 | 1:13:36 | |
Right there, that's style. See that? | 1:13:36 | 1:13:37 | |
It's like a sculpture. | 1:13:37 | 1:13:39 | |
Hairdressers are superstars. | 1:13:39 | 1:13:40 | |
Barbers are superstars | 1:13:40 | 1:13:42 | |
that are bigger than doctors, lawyers. | 1:13:42 | 1:13:45 | |
What are your hair dreams? | 1:13:46 | 1:13:47 | |
I want to own a whole chain of salons. | 1:13:47 | 1:13:50 | |
-Like IHOPs. -Right. | 1:13:50 | 1:13:52 | |
What's your hair dream? | 1:13:52 | 1:13:53 | |
What's my hair dream? | 1:13:53 | 1:13:55 | |
To own my own salon and be a platform artist. | 1:13:55 | 1:13:58 | |
Platform artist? At the Bronner Brothers Show? | 1:13:58 | 1:14:00 | |
Right. Like at the Bronner Brothers Show. | 1:14:00 | 1:14:03 | |
So here we are in Atlanta. | 1:14:04 | 1:14:06 | |
After months of rehearsals in the heat, | 1:14:06 | 1:14:08 | |
fish tanks, Botox clinics, | 1:14:08 | 1:14:10 | |
churches, and day spas, | 1:14:10 | 1:14:12 | |
we finally made it to the Bronner Brothers hair competition, | 1:14:12 | 1:14:15 | |
all in the pursuit of good hair. | 1:14:15 | 1:14:18 | |
Now let's break it down. | 1:14:18 | 1:14:19 | |
We have Jason, | 1:14:19 | 1:14:21 | |
the self-proclaimed Rosa Parks of good hair, | 1:14:21 | 1:14:24 | |
the favourite to win | 1:14:24 | 1:14:25 | |
even though no-one has seen him practise. | 1:14:25 | 1:14:27 | |
I told everybody to be here around 3:00. | 1:14:27 | 1:14:29 | |
It's 3:05. It is what it is. | 1:14:29 | 1:14:32 | |
We've got Tanya and Kevin, | 1:14:32 | 1:14:33 | |
who have some beautiful models... | 1:14:33 | 1:14:35 | |
Oh, God! | 1:14:35 | 1:14:37 | |
And the Heavenly Father in their corner. | 1:14:37 | 1:14:38 | |
Victory, Lord, | 1:14:38 | 1:14:39 | |
in the name of Jesus and the Father, | 1:14:39 | 1:14:41 | |
let Your will be done. | 1:14:41 | 1:14:44 | |
And then there's Freddie, | 1:14:44 | 1:14:45 | |
the old pro with the tragic history of elaborate themes gone wrong. | 1:14:45 | 1:14:48 | |
Are they connected, they set up OK? | 1:14:50 | 1:14:52 | |
And then there's Derek, | 1:14:52 | 1:14:54 | |
a guy who's all about the hair. | 1:14:54 | 1:14:56 | |
Have you seen the boots? | 1:14:56 | 1:14:57 | |
Wow! That is some boot. | 1:14:57 | 1:15:01 | |
All of them as representative of the black hair industry | 1:15:01 | 1:15:03 | |
as anything the Bronner Brothers put on their shelves. | 1:15:03 | 1:15:06 | |
Yes, folks, this is the alpha and omega, | 1:15:07 | 1:15:10 | |
where it all begins and some of it ends, | 1:15:10 | 1:15:12 | |
where the weave monster sleeps and the world of curl leaks. | 1:15:12 | 1:15:16 | |
It's the Bronner Brothers Hair Battle Royale. | 1:15:16 | 1:15:19 | |
Now let's get ready to do some really good hair. | 1:15:19 | 1:15:22 | |
Hair is a woman's glory. | 1:15:22 | 1:15:25 | |
And that you share that glory with your family. | 1:15:26 | 1:15:29 | |
OK, before we start, let's meet our judges. | 1:15:31 | 1:15:34 | |
First up, the beauty surgeon, Dr Dave Ray, | 1:15:34 | 1:15:37 | |
internationally known weaveologist, Sammy Jones, | 1:15:38 | 1:15:42 | |
hot comb expert Britannica Stewart, | 1:15:42 | 1:15:45 | |
and, of course, former champion, | 1:15:45 | 1:15:47 | |
the legendary Patrick Antonio Bradley. | 1:15:47 | 1:15:50 | |
Welcome to the Hair Battle Royale. | 1:15:55 | 1:15:57 | |
Here are the basic rules. | 1:15:57 | 1:15:58 | |
There are four categories | 1:15:58 | 1:16:00 | |
that each contestant will be judged on - | 1:16:00 | 1:16:02 | |
originality, creativity, | 1:16:02 | 1:16:04 | |
hairstyles, | 1:16:04 | 1:16:05 | |
and audience participation. | 1:16:05 | 1:16:07 | |
There's a mandatory three-cut. | 1:16:07 | 1:16:08 | |
Three heads of hair must be combed and styled. | 1:16:08 | 1:16:11 | |
They have fifteen minutes to complete a look... | 1:16:11 | 1:16:14 | |
a fantasy look or an avant-garde look. | 1:16:14 | 1:16:16 | |
And finally, they must present a central theme on stage with music. | 1:16:16 | 1:16:19 | |
Tanya Crumel was born in New York | 1:16:22 | 1:16:25 | |
and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. | 1:16:25 | 1:16:27 | |
Tanya has been doing hair for 12 years | 1:16:27 | 1:16:30 | |
under the instruction of Kevin Kirk. | 1:16:30 | 1:16:33 | |
She gives total thanks to the Lord every single day. | 1:16:33 | 1:16:35 | |
Ladies and gentlemen, give Tanya a great big round of applause. | 1:16:35 | 1:16:40 | |
# Can you feel the flows? # | 1:16:50 | 1:16:53 | |
Tanya came to hit hard! | 1:17:04 | 1:17:07 | |
Don't hurt her. | 1:17:09 | 1:17:12 | |
She don't want no split decision. | 1:17:27 | 1:17:30 | |
She wants a knockout. | 1:17:30 | 1:17:33 | |
Tanya Crumel. | 1:17:36 | 1:17:39 | |
How'd you feel? | 1:17:41 | 1:17:42 | |
I feel good! | 1:17:42 | 1:17:46 | |
Is there anything you would change? | 1:17:46 | 1:17:49 | |
Just when we were all certain that Tanya couldn't be topped, | 1:17:49 | 1:17:52 | |
Jason's models arrived... | 1:17:53 | 1:17:56 | |
with 700 carats of diamonds. | 1:17:56 | 1:17:59 | |
Even our own camera crew was taken by surprise. | 1:18:00 | 1:18:03 | |
Would this be the deciding factor | 1:18:04 | 1:18:06 | |
in the 60th Annual Bronner Brothers Hair Battle Royale? | 1:18:06 | 1:18:10 | |
Let's see. | 1:18:10 | 1:18:13 | |
I was having the most amazing dream. | 1:18:24 | 1:18:27 | |
Oh, well, it's time to go to work! | 1:18:27 | 1:18:30 | |
Time to get that work done. | 1:18:37 | 1:18:40 | |
Exercise. | 1:18:43 | 1:18:46 | |
Getting in shape. | 1:18:46 | 1:18:49 | |
Now we know why Jason didn't rehearse. | 1:19:01 | 1:19:03 | |
No-one needs to choreograph hot women with no clothes on. | 1:19:03 | 1:19:06 | |
If you like what you see, | 1:19:06 | 1:19:08 | |
let me hear some noise out there. | 1:19:08 | 1:19:11 | |
CHEERING | 1:19:11 | 1:19:13 | |
Jason Griggers. | 1:19:37 | 1:19:40 | |
Will it be a knockout? | 1:19:45 | 1:19:48 | |
You're the best, Papa. | 1:19:48 | 1:19:49 | |
Thank you. We'll see who's best, Mama. | 1:19:49 | 1:19:52 | |
With such a hard act to follow, | 1:19:53 | 1:19:54 | |
I could see that Freddie was cracking down on her team | 1:19:54 | 1:19:57 | |
and internalising the pressure. | 1:19:57 | 1:19:58 | |
Make sure when I cut you or curl, you work the judges. | 1:19:58 | 1:20:01 | |
Work the judges. Smile. | 1:20:01 | 1:20:04 | |
Seductive. Smile. | 1:20:04 | 1:20:06 | |
There's no question that Freddie is a brilliant mind | 1:20:06 | 1:20:08 | |
in the hair world, | 1:20:08 | 1:20:10 | |
but after the failure of Broke Front Mountain, | 1:20:10 | 1:20:12 | |
her success will depend on her ability | 1:20:12 | 1:20:14 | |
to translate her concept into good hair. | 1:20:14 | 1:20:17 | |
It's obvious at this point that Jason's styling ability | 1:20:22 | 1:20:25 | |
is a thorn in Freddie's side. | 1:20:25 | 1:20:27 | |
Freddie will have to harness her amateur models | 1:20:27 | 1:20:29 | |
and rely on a complicated concept to earn the belt. | 1:20:29 | 1:20:32 | |
All right, make some noise | 1:20:36 | 1:20:38 | |
for Freddie J., ladies and gentlemen. | 1:20:38 | 1:20:41 | |
Freddie had her whole camp out there exercising. | 1:20:50 | 1:20:53 | |
The judges have no idea what's goin' on. | 1:21:12 | 1:21:16 | |
Freddie really made it simple this time. | 1:21:16 | 1:21:19 | |
Freddie knows how to handle it. | 1:21:20 | 1:21:23 | |
Oh, my goodness, what are they doin'? | 1:21:27 | 1:21:28 | |
She tryin' to cut her hair in there. | 1:21:28 | 1:21:30 | |
She's cutting that hair underwater. | 1:21:30 | 1:21:33 | |
I think they threw her in. What's goin' on? | 1:21:37 | 1:21:40 | |
I need some help. Get the lights on. | 1:21:40 | 1:21:43 | |
Freddie had a secret move. | 1:21:45 | 1:21:48 | |
Freddie J. | 1:21:50 | 1:21:53 | |
Come on, Atlanta, give it up for Freddie J. | 1:21:53 | 1:21:56 | |
Aquarium, aquarium! | 1:22:01 | 1:22:02 | |
Freddie! | 1:22:02 | 1:22:04 | |
You did great. | 1:22:04 | 1:22:06 | |
How'd you think it went? | 1:22:06 | 1:22:07 | |
I didn't even know what was going on. | 1:22:07 | 1:22:09 | |
While Freddie and her team were still catching their breath, | 1:22:09 | 1:22:12 | |
scores of dancers and models began to amass around Derek J. | 1:22:12 | 1:22:15 | |
He is Bronner Brothers' current Male Hairstylist of the Year. | 1:22:20 | 1:22:23 | |
He will radiate his greatest potential to the world. | 1:22:26 | 1:22:29 | |
So you're closin' the show? | 1:22:31 | 1:22:32 | |
Yeah. They opened for me. | 1:22:32 | 1:22:33 | |
Now it's time to have the all-time headliner. | 1:22:33 | 1:22:36 | |
So you going to take this to the next level. | 1:22:36 | 1:22:37 | |
Yes. | 1:22:37 | 1:22:38 | |
Good luck. | 1:22:38 | 1:22:39 | |
Ladies and gentlemen, | 1:22:39 | 1:22:41 | |
I know you are ready to see the Battle continue. | 1:22:41 | 1:22:44 | |
He is Derek J. | 1:22:48 | 1:22:51 | |
He's in the house. | 1:23:12 | 1:23:15 | |
Oh, my goodness! | 1:23:21 | 1:23:24 | |
Remember, the maximum number of people | 1:23:24 | 1:23:26 | |
allowed on stage is ten. | 1:23:26 | 1:23:29 | |
Anything more should result in an automatic disqualification. | 1:23:29 | 1:23:32 | |
Uh-oh. | 1:23:51 | 1:23:53 | |
I think... | 1:23:53 | 1:23:55 | |
he wants... | 1:23:55 | 1:23:58 | |
to knock out. | 1:23:58 | 1:24:01 | |
Ladies and gentlemen... | 1:24:32 | 1:24:34 | |
Derek J. | 1:24:34 | 1:24:38 | |
That was way more than ten people. | 1:24:38 | 1:24:40 | |
-And nude. -But they was not on the stage. | 1:24:40 | 1:24:42 | |
You know what I'm sayin'? So he found a loophole. | 1:24:42 | 1:24:45 | |
You can have 20 dancers on the side of the stage, | 1:24:45 | 1:24:49 | |
but they can't be on the stage. | 1:24:49 | 1:24:51 | |
Yeah, but if I get two plane tickets to go to New York, | 1:24:51 | 1:24:54 | |
and I show up with ten people | 1:24:54 | 1:24:56 | |
and go, "Well, they're not going to sit," | 1:24:56 | 1:24:58 | |
they don't let me on the plane. | 1:24:58 | 1:25:00 | |
I understand what you're sayin', but... | 1:25:00 | 1:25:02 | |
So this man brought 70 people? | 1:25:02 | 1:25:05 | |
It's a band. | 1:25:05 | 1:25:06 | |
Earth, Wind, and Fire don't got 70 people. | 1:25:06 | 1:25:09 | |
Even though the judges have not deliberated yet, | 1:25:09 | 1:25:12 | |
Heavenly Father, we're going to stand in our faith | 1:25:12 | 1:25:14 | |
and claim victory right now, Lord. | 1:25:14 | 1:25:16 | |
Who do you think won? | 1:25:16 | 1:25:18 | |
We did! Of course. | 1:25:18 | 1:25:20 | |
All right. Take care. | 1:25:20 | 1:25:22 | |
-OK. -Stay off the pipe. | 1:25:22 | 1:25:24 | |
You guys still think you're going to win? | 1:25:24 | 1:25:26 | |
Of course. | 1:25:26 | 1:25:27 | |
There's no question. | 1:25:27 | 1:25:29 | |
We're more about the substance than the show. | 1:25:29 | 1:25:31 | |
They need to bring it back where it's about hair. | 1:25:31 | 1:25:33 | |
Jason's assistant was right. | 1:25:33 | 1:25:35 | |
At the end of the day, it's all about hair. | 1:25:35 | 1:25:39 | |
And even though none of them cut that much hair, | 1:25:39 | 1:25:42 | |
one of them was about to win this contest. | 1:25:42 | 1:25:45 | |
Ladies and gentlemen, | 1:25:47 | 1:25:48 | |
we've got a champion. | 1:25:48 | 1:25:51 | |
Our winner is... | 1:25:55 | 1:25:57 | |
Derek J. | 1:25:57 | 1:26:00 | |
Did you all have Derek winning? | 1:26:08 | 1:26:11 | |
Yes. | 1:26:11 | 1:26:12 | |
Bringing out the marching band | 1:26:12 | 1:26:14 | |
actually used more than ten people at one time. | 1:26:14 | 1:26:18 | |
But they were not on the stage. | 1:26:18 | 1:26:20 | |
To be honest with you, he was brilliant. | 1:26:20 | 1:26:21 | |
Everything tied in for him. | 1:26:21 | 1:26:23 | |
Jason was number two, | 1:26:23 | 1:26:24 | |
but he was actually first in the hairstyles. | 1:26:24 | 1:26:27 | |
But just like in basketball, | 1:26:27 | 1:26:28 | |
you have to play offence and defence. | 1:26:28 | 1:26:29 | |
Freddie's I didn't quite get it. | 1:26:29 | 1:26:32 | |
I was like, "Well, where is the connection here?" | 1:26:32 | 1:26:34 | |
You know, these people are in the club. | 1:26:34 | 1:26:36 | |
Is there, you know, a fish tank in the club? | 1:26:36 | 1:26:39 | |
It didn't congeal. | 1:26:40 | 1:26:42 | |
So, Tanya lost. | 1:26:42 | 1:26:44 | |
What advice would you have for her? | 1:26:44 | 1:26:45 | |
Originality. | 1:26:45 | 1:26:47 | |
Now, if she had did her homework | 1:26:47 | 1:26:49 | |
and realised that cutting upside-down... | 1:26:49 | 1:26:51 | |
some of the other competitors have done that years before. | 1:26:51 | 1:26:54 | |
She's new to this, | 1:26:54 | 1:26:55 | |
but maybe by the third time, she'll be all right. | 1:26:55 | 1:26:57 | |
This is our Hollywood. | 1:26:57 | 1:26:59 | |
Competing has literally become a profession in itself. | 1:26:59 | 1:27:03 | |
In trying to understand the world of black hair, | 1:27:05 | 1:27:07 | |
I've been all over the world, | 1:27:07 | 1:27:10 | |
and I've talked to all sorts of people. | 1:27:10 | 1:27:12 | |
I've seen sodium hydroxide in its rawest form | 1:27:12 | 1:27:15 | |
and in the heads of four-year-old girls. | 1:27:15 | 1:27:18 | |
I've seen some people pay thousands for hair | 1:27:18 | 1:27:20 | |
and others give it away to God. | 1:27:20 | 1:27:23 | |
I've learned that the black hair industry | 1:27:23 | 1:27:25 | |
generates billions of dollars... | 1:27:25 | 1:27:27 | |
mostly for white people and Asians. | 1:27:27 | 1:27:30 | |
I've hung out with the best hairdressers in the country | 1:27:30 | 1:27:33 | |
and watched a thrilling hair competition. | 1:27:33 | 1:27:35 | |
I've seen black women work hard in their own businesses | 1:27:35 | 1:27:39 | |
to give other black women straight hair. | 1:27:39 | 1:27:42 | |
So what do I tell my daughters? | 1:27:42 | 1:27:45 | |
I tell them that the stuff on top of their heads | 1:27:45 | 1:27:48 | |
is nowhere near as important | 1:27:48 | 1:27:50 | |
as the stuff inside their heads. | 1:27:50 | 1:27:53 | |
Once we realised and identified who we were, | 1:27:55 | 1:27:58 | |
then it became personal. | 1:27:58 | 1:27:59 | |
Now I am also free to be who I want to be no matter what. | 1:27:59 | 1:28:03 | |
So my relaxed hair is just, to me, | 1:28:03 | 1:28:05 | |
as African-based as an Afro, | 1:28:05 | 1:28:07 | |
because all of that came out of black culture. | 1:28:07 | 1:28:09 | |
But I don't think it should be... | 1:28:09 | 1:28:10 | |
I don't think this is... I'm not my hair. | 1:28:10 | 1:28:12 | |
You know, it's just like putting on clothes. | 1:28:12 | 1:28:15 | |
It changes, it alters your appearance. | 1:28:15 | 1:28:17 | |
And it also alters the way | 1:28:17 | 1:28:18 | |
that you are perceived to the world. | 1:28:18 | 1:28:21 | |
Hair's very strong. | 1:28:21 | 1:28:22 | |
There is no good hair. Hair is hair. | 1:28:22 | 1:28:24 | |
You have to embrace what God's given you naturally | 1:28:24 | 1:28:27 | |
and keep it moving. | 1:28:27 | 1:28:28 | |
You got to work with what you got. | 1:28:28 | 1:28:29 | |
Or weave in what you don't got. | 1:28:29 | 1:28:31 | |
Or weave in what you don't got. Hey. | 1:28:31 | 1:28:34 | |
This is like soul music crossing over, this weave thing. | 1:28:34 | 1:28:36 | |
We don't even know how many white girls | 1:28:36 | 1:28:38 | |
really got weaves. | 1:28:38 | 1:28:40 | |
We should look at that, Chris. | 1:28:40 | 1:28:41 | |
We should find out which of these girls | 1:28:41 | 1:28:43 | |
that we think got long, wavy hair really got a weave? | 1:28:43 | 1:28:46 | |
Black hair care manufacturers | 1:28:48 | 1:28:51 | |
have turned the black hair care industry | 1:28:51 | 1:28:53 | |
into a chemical waste dump. | 1:28:53 | 1:28:57 | |
Who cares? | 1:28:57 | 1:28:58 | |
Not one piece of research have gone on in America, | 1:28:58 | 1:29:02 | |
while we have gone to the moon | 1:29:02 | 1:29:03 | |
and walked on the moon, | 1:29:03 | 1:29:06 | |
when our scientists have not even walked | 1:29:06 | 1:29:08 | |
on a black woman's head. | 1:29:08 | 1:29:10 | |
Natural hair is freedom. | 1:29:10 | 1:29:12 | |
Black women, yes, we are high-maintenance. | 1:29:17 | 1:29:20 | |
But with us, you get so much. | 1:29:20 | 1:29:25 | |
I just think that women | 1:29:28 | 1:29:31 | |
shouldn't point fingers at other women | 1:29:31 | 1:29:33 | |
for whatever they're doing to enhance their bodies. | 1:29:33 | 1:29:36 | |
Other than that, do whatever makes you feel good, | 1:29:36 | 1:29:39 | |
because, trust me, if a woman ain't happy with herself, | 1:29:39 | 1:29:41 | |
she going to bring nothing but pain | 1:29:41 | 1:29:43 | |
to every fuckin' body around it. | 1:29:43 | 1:29:45 |