A call for your beauty industry tips!
We do a pretty good job of keeping each other informed about what’s happening in the health & beauty world, but I want to make an official request for any (legal!) info you have about things happening behind the doors that affect women of color.
What sparked this? Well, a few weeks ago I had a meeting with the top officials of a well-known Illinois-based beauty school. It was in the days leading up to the June Chicago naturals meetup and they wanted to discuss possible partnership opportunities with BGLH. I left the meeting surprised and disappointed at how little the officials knew about natural hair, and how dismissive they were of getting to know more. They basically wanted to use the meetup as an opportunity to recruit for their school, where natural hair isn’t even taught.
At one point, a top beauty instructor said, “We study real hair here, not natural hair.” She didn’t say it to be offensive. She was explaining as best she could, but her choice of semantics really betrayed her ignorance.
I want us to begin to inform each other about decisions being made in the beauty industry that affect us directly. Both good and bad! This isn’t meant to be a witch-hunt, just a wake-up call.
If you have insider tips, please email blackgirllonghair@gmail.com. Put “beauty tips” in your title.
What kind of gall is that? call in a natural hair blogger/advocate and then dismiss natural hair in lieu of “real hair” yet want you to promote them? So they wanted to come to a natural hair meetup and praise perms/relaxers? wtf?
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Really?My hair is fake? HOW COME NO ONE TOLD ME!!!
/sarcasm
Pfft-whatever lady. Go recruit for your school somewhere else.
Alice
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Here’s an “ambush makeover” by Essence: [http://www.essence.com/emf2010/ambush_makeover_before_and_afte.php]
The subject had a flawless complexion and great hair in the before pic and they just air brushed her to make her about 5 shades lighter, added a little more hair to her bangs and asked, “How gorgeous is her ‘after’ shot?”
Not a fan.
Real hair = No True Scotsman Logical Fallacy. Not. Falling. for. It.
It’s either real or fake. Come correct.
Can you give the name of the place? I thinking of going to beauty school, and I want to steer clear of this nut.
Wait, I thought about a bit more. I think the instructor meant ‘African hair.’ That they only do Caucasian hair and Mongolian hair. Not African.
Well, either way, this school won’t be getting any of MY money.
‘real hair’? I literally said ‘wow’ out loud when I read that. And the ignorance goes on…
Well as long as they aren’t studying my “fake” hair they’re not getting any of my REAL money.
It’s one thing to be ignorant. It’s an entirely different thing to remain that way by choice.
Really?!!! How insulting of them!
So I guess they saw you as the nappy-headed no-nothing whom they thought they could dazzle by the prestige of a big name, so they could weasel their way into a whole pack of nappy-headed no-nothings to recruit them for the Creamy Cracker-Track Institute. After all, y’all haven’t got the good sense to straighten that mess, let alone relax it, what do y’all know; I guess the Cracker-Tracks thought they were doing you a favor!
Way to go, Leila, for not falling for that BS! What an insult to your intellect that they even thought to try such! And what a betrayal of all the beautiful, intelligent naturals in your area if you had fallen for it and brought them to the meetup. A thousand thanks, Sister, for not letting them do that to you.
Any person have any updates on this? Would like to know more.