GOOD HAIR!!
Hi everyone i hope all is well, i am doing a lot better thanks for the concern and well wishes!
well i wanted to talk about the whole GOOD hair BAD hair thing....
if you didn't know comedian Chris Rock, is coming out with a new documentary called
"Good Hair" i for one will be going to watching it.
Chris said he came up with the concept when is daughter, Lola, came up to him crying and asked, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” he told the several interviews that he was confused and bewildered! Chris then committed himself to research in depth through out the black community to find out who had put that question into his little girl's head! 
Chris with his 2 girls Lola (6) and Zahra (4)
Director Jeff Stilson’s camera followed the funnyman, and the result is Good Hair, a wonderfully insightful and entertaining, yet remarkably serious, documentary about African American hair culture.An expose of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, Good Hair visits hair salons and styling battles, scientific laboratories, and Indian temples to explore the way black hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of black people men and women a like!
he also interviewed celebrities such as Ice-T, Kerry Washington, Nia Long,
Paul Mooney, Raven Symoné, Maya Angelou, and Reverend Al Sharpton all candidly offered their stories and observations to Rock while he struggles with the task of figuring out how to respond to his daughter’s question.
What he discovers is that black hair is a big business that doesn’t always benefit the black community and little Lola’s question might well be bigger than his ability to convince her that the stuff on top of her head is nowhere near as important as what is inside.
so please ladies and gent if you are in to hair let's go out and support his movie,
Chris Rock is not only a comedian he is a very intelligent man, who is a great husband and father. his wife Malaak Compton-rock is a brilliant and beautiful women her self, she is highly educated and well spoken.
I remember her on a MSNBC special called meeting david wilson, if you don't know who that is please google it, it was a great tv special... anyways she was talking about race relations in the America, Malaak held her own with all of those men and carried her self so well!
she also stated on the show that she felt that the media was sending wrong images to young girls then she went to talk about how her daughters often questioned their hair grade and skin tone,
so yes i will support the rocks!
Chris Rock talking to a few high school students
about black hair.
Here is the official article from the ajc/Atalanta newspaper
Park City, Utah — Chris Rock was having a good hair day at the Sundance Film Festival.
Hours after President Barack Obama’s inauguration, Rock sat down to talk about his Sundance entry, “Good Hair,” a hilarious examination of the cultural pressures that prod blacks into costly, often painful methods to care for their hair.
Sundance Institute, HBO
Chris Rock talks to high school students during the filming of ‘Good Hair.’
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The idea first hit Rock in the mid-1990s on a standup tour through Atlanta, where he came across the Bronner brothers hair show, a glitzy convention for black stylists.
“I thought, wow, this would make a great movie, but that was like 15 years ago, and no one was making funny documentaries 15 years ago,” Rock said in an interview Tuesday alongside Nia Long, one of many actresses and other celebrities Rock interviews in the film.
“So you cut to now, and I have daughters, and I’m really dealing with them and their hair a lot, and my friends have daughters, and we talk about our daughters’ hair issues. I kind of saw where to go at it, and now people are making funny documentaries,” he said.
“Good Hair,” one of 16 films in Sundance’s U.S. documentary competition, follows Rock from the Bronner brothers show to neighborhood salons, businesses dealing in hair-care products and the streets of India, where human hair is a huge export industry for hair weaves.
“I was kind of scared to come to Sundance in a sense, because I think this is the blackest movie ever made,” said Rock, a producer and co-writer on the film. “So I was kind of scared to come to Utah, because it’s so white.”
But Rock said Sundance crowds have given “Good Hair” an enthusiastic reception, bolstering his hopes that it can find a broad audience. Produced by HBO, “Good Hair” eventually will air on the cable channel, but Rock and his collaborators are considering a theatrical release first.
While loaded with the 43-year-old actor-comedian’s wisecracking humor, “Good Hair” also raises serious questions about identity and equality among black women who feel they need long, straight, silky hair to fit into white society.
“It’s this whole thing about approval. That approval is not simply, ‘I want white people to love me.’ It’s like, ‘I need a job. I want to move forward, and if I have a hairstyle that is somewhat intimidating, that’s going to stop me from moving forward,’” said Nelson George, executive producer of “Good Hair.”
Rock interviews women who undergo hair-relaxing treatments with chemicals that burn their scalps and others who pay thousands of dollars for hair weaves. Along the way, he trades witty, insightful observations with such figures as Maya Angelou, the Rev. Al Sharpton, actresses Raven-Symone and Tracie Thoms, and singers Eve and Ice-T.
Long talks candidly in the film about her own perms and weaves, but in the interview with Rock, she also speaks hopefully about how Obama, his wife and their two daughters can help blacks overcome the cultural inferiority complex that prompts them to change their hair.
“Just seeing that family photo and seeing the daughters with their hair in cornrows sometimes, it resonates for me in such a huge way,” Long said. “I just feel finally we have an image that’s the most powerful image in our country that actually is a part of who I am.”
Rock also reveled in Obama’s inauguration, but he joked about another hurdle still facing blacks.
“Excellent black people have always been compensated for excellence. Always,” Rock said. “The real equality is when we can have a black president as dumb as George Bush. That’s when we’re really equal. That’s when the dream has come true.”
My thoughts on Good hair.........
When i was younger, i was made to feel that black people who had curly or wavy hair
had "GOOD HAIR" i was told basically hair that is close to European texture was considered good hair. Well since my hair was not close to that, i automatically felt that i had "BAD HAIR"
no one really teased me about my hair grade, but i do remember having cousins and friends who were bi-racial or had a looser curl pattern, being complemented constantly lol.
I remember they were always being told they had "GOOD HAIR"
I mean as soon as they stepped in a room... their hair was always the topic of discussion,
well since my hair didn't look like that, and no one oohed and awed about my hair,
i felt that my hair was bad unfortunately, i had this mind frame for a very long time.
Now that I am older, I now realize there is no such thing as "GOOD HAIR/BAD HAIR"
there is only different types of curl patterns or hair grades :)
ALL HAIR IS GOOD HAIR! not matter the texture or length as long as you take proper care of your hair and it's healthy then it's good hair.
I also remember trying everything to achieve that "good hair" look, i used everything from relaxers, to texturizers to weaves... I now realize that a person with so called "good hair" can not help the way they were born, just like a person with kinky hair can not help that fact either.
It's simple genetics and how God made us, so there is no way to change what your were born with, you just have to except it, and learn the proper way to care for your hair.
It's funny now that I am older the shoe is on the other foot, my boys have the type of hair that people love to call "GOOD HAIR" it makes me cringe, when ever one of my friends or family members says things like " ohh your boys have that "GOOD HAIR" or they say things like
"all the little girls are going to like them, cus they got that "GOOD HAIR"! (SMDH)
that shit trips me out, i can't believe that in this day and age grown adults still think and talk like that, but as the old saying go's old habits die hard.
All I can do is raise my kids to know that their is no such thing as GOOD HAIR/BAD HAIR.
I also let them know that their hair is no better or worse then another child, as long as it is washed and maintained properly that is all that matters.
I want my kids to feel good about the person they are inside and not what their outward appearance looks like.
So what do you think of Chris Rock's decision to a documentary on black hair? Will the film resonate with a broad audience? do you think people of other races will truly understand the whole good hair bad hair thing? please let me know what you all think about the whole
“ GOOD HAIR/BAD HAIR” conversation.
BE BLESSED,
ti
sad but true....in this day and age a lot of people would consider the girl on the left as having "good hair" and the girl on the right as having "bad hair" :(
maybe i am wrong, but at times i feel that if a person with this particular grade of hair, wears their hair like this, it is more acceptable in society....
it's usually looked at as cute, fun or flirty.
when these particular hair grades are shown in the media, they are usually worn to make a statement like... ethnic origin, black pride,"Earthy" or natural.
hair grades in the 4's are rarely in commercials that exemplify beauty.
Ask yourself how many times, have you ever seen 4a or 4b hair in a herbal essence or
pantene pro-v commercials, please do not say Bree from a.n.t.m. her hair is 3b/3c lol.
this model has 4b hair, this hair type is usually shown in commercials,
in a negative light. when ever someone is shown with this grade of hair,
they are usually doing a before and after relaxer scene or hair straighting scene,
Dr. miracle and other relaxer commercials are good for this....
In Hollywood most black celebrities choose to follow a more euro-centric look to obtain continued success, movie, tv and video roles.
my girl Gabrielle union.
Beyonce aka ms. fierce!
even the young girls are following suite, like everyone else I saw Teyanna Taylor on
mtv's super sweet 16, I truly thought it was all her hair, it was so pretty and curly and wild it fit her personality to... well it's not her hair.
Here is a pic of Tyanna this was taken a few mths ago, as you see this hair looks nothing like the hair above. There is absolutely nothing wrong with wearing wigs, or weaves cus y'all know
I rock them lol, but I do feel like there is something wrong when the media is only willing to portray black females with a certain look, which is usually long, straight, wavy or curly hair that is similar to that of other races.
Here are a few pictures of my childhood hair idols lol
I love and respect all of these beautiful ladies, but at a young age me and a lot of my friends were made to feel that since our hair was not the same texture or length as these ladies, then we had
"BAD HAIR" because these were the "hair"images that were fed to us for so many years.
chilli of tlc
lark voorhies aka lisa turtle
from saved by the bell
this was my show on sat mornings!
Reagan Gomez-Preston as Zaria Peterson
on the parenthood, I really liked that show.
Tatyana Ali as Ashley banks
Karyn Parsons as Hilary banks
this was my all time favorite tv show.
I loved Ashley's hair!
I loved little Rudy's hair on the cosby show... her hair was similar to mine.
she was one of the few girls on tv, back then with long, natural, 4a hair!!!
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