very well said.

Where's Gaywood?

yeah i know where she's coming from. But i just feel like I love wearing weave. And I love wearing my big afro too! Ive been natural for 3 years. And I dont wear my fro everyday. I switch it up, cause I want to. Im not a one style girl and I dont care if ppl see that one day I have a weave and the next im with my natural hair. Its my head.

i'm a natural also
but it is just hair. every group changes their appearance to be in fashion.

besides i'm spotting weaves in nonblk girls everyday especially bad weaves lol.

I'm noticing alot of white girls with those clip on hair weaves. It really looks a mess because their hair is so thin that you can see the clip just @#$%!

^^^^just d angling.

Is that the Avatar lady?

But how is dreads natural? I don't get why people say that. You're hair doesn't naturally dread into perfect coils. If it does dread it will dread like a Rastafarian with big ones and little ones etc. etc. Where's her afro?

But how is dreads natural? I don't get why people say that. You're hair doesn't naturally dread into perfect coils. If it does dread it will dread like a Rastafarian with big ones and little ones etc. etc. Where's her afro?

At least some Black women know what time it is. Too many of these Yaki weave wearing, big designer sunglasses rockin, designer handbags having sistas are bamboozled and whitewashed.

P.S: Many of my fellow brothas ain't no better!!! Always sniffing behind the White and Latin women like a pesky lapdog.

she looks like the natural version of super head

For the clown questioning dreads: Locking ones hair is a technique used to style and/or manage natural hair, similar to braiding. No chemicals or tools are reqired for dreads to form. And if you did your research, you'd know that hair can naturally lock. If a black person does absolutely nothing to their hair over a lengthy period of time said individual's hair will lock on its own. Most people prefer to lock it themselves not only for hygenic purposes but because naturally formed dreads tend to reflect Sideshow Bob. Take an Afro-American course at your local community college or buy a book on our history at Borders. Knowledge is power, clown.
As far as the beautiful black woman's comments in the video, I concur. I saddens me to see our women so "whitewashed" (I like that term). The standard must change with us first.

She is so right. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Everybody has a different standard of beauty. The white man's opinion on beauty is bull@#$%! but you have some black women who think it matters. Do some research and learn how to take care of your own hair. It will save you alot of money spent on fake @#$%!. I don't see why @#$%!s got something to say about fake @#$%! because they still be trying to holla at bw with fake @#$%!. WTF?

I love that black women are trying to make themselves pretty by perming or buying that good hair. Men don't want a nasty stinky head woman with short hair or dreads. Dreads are the rebel to nice looking maintained hair. Very lazy appearance. Keep investing in your beauty black women.

WELL SAID 4:48 I WAS GONNA SAY THE SAME THING TO THE DUMB-ASS WHO ASKED ABOUT DREADS BEING NATURAL.. WAT A TOTAL DUMB-ASS.. BROOKLYN NU-SKOOL

If someone wants to wear a weave or wear their natural hair- whose business is it but their own? Everyone has their own preferences. And you mean to tell me out of all the issues plaguing the black community-to weave or not to weave is at the top of the list? Negroes, please.

@9:56 - Of course hair isn't the only issue blacks should concern themselves with yet identity crisis is a major problem. Trying to find our culture through other races is ass-backward. We're not the only peoples who suffer from this complex. Asians our using expensive surgery to widen their eyes and Brazilians are going blind "coloring" their irises blue and green. Most every brown eyed, blacked haired race has a large number of blue contact, blond dyed posers.

*Weave is a controversial issue that affects black women all over the world* LOL! Yeah, OK. Of all the issues going on in my life, my weave is the LAST thing I'm worried about.

What is up with all these adds?
Ya'll not getting paid enough over there?
-Another girl from D.C

Beautiful. I want to taste you.

I am comfortable with my hair in it's natural curly state but I also don't mind changing it up sometimes. I don't do it for public opinion or male approval. I do what my mind and mood dictates whether it be purple rinsed, blown straight, washed and air-dried curly, or weaved up. As someone in the fashion and beauty industry, I've seen a lot of natural women try other things for variety without sacrificing their integrity. Not saying there aren't some people easily influenced by the media, but most people make style choices according to their personal preferences. I don't have the kind of hair that will lock without damaging it but I can appreciate her choice of style. Being judgemental of other people's choices because they differ from your own can be taken as a sign of weakness and in some cases, personal insecurity.

She a @#$%!in idio...... read the BIBLE,Revelation 1:14 His description says that his hair was wool, and white a snow, His eyes werer like blazing fire, He's feet were fine as brass, voice was sound as many waters. Does that sound like a description of a WHITE man, you idiot @#$%!! He was a BLACK MAN!

I am comfortable with my hair in it's natural curly state but I also don't mind changing it up sometimes. I don't do it for public opinion or male approval. I do what my mind and mood dictates whether it be purple rinsed, blown straight, washed and air-dried curly, or weaved up. As someone in the fashion and beauty industry, I've seen a lot of natural women try other things for variety without sacrificing their integrity. Not saying there aren't some people easily influenced by the media, but most people make style choices according to their personal preferences. I don't have the kind of hair that will lock without damaging it but I can appreciate her choice of style. Being judgemental of other people's choices because they differ from your own can be taken as a sign of weakness and in some cases, personal insecurity.

lmao @people trin to make excuses

lol The black women on this thread are ridiculous.

" I wear weave because I like changing it up"

umm how are you changing it up when you live, eat, and breathe perms and weaves? that is the same old bullshyt you aren't changing anything up.

Sa-roc is a beautiful sista, I would definitely wife something like her up with the quickness. She is proud of being black, that is something I look for in a girlfriend/wife.

White washed eurocentric chasing black women need not apply. Having children with a white washed sista is a huge no no in my book. If I had a daughter with a negative sista like this she would be teaching my daughter self hatred at a young age, trying to perm her hair at age 3 and buying her lacefronts and all that other bullshyt.

WEARING WEAVE DOES NOT MAKE YOU ANYTHING BUT A "WEAVE WEARER". I AM SOOOOO SICK OF THESE PSEUDO INTELLECTUALS AND PHONY AFROCENTRIC SPEWING THEIR VERSION OF WHAT BLACK WOMEN SHOULD BE. WHAT HAPPEN TO CHARACTER AND INTEGRITY BEING THE MEASURE OF A PERSON. WOMEN OF ALL ETHNICITIES SHOULD DO WHATEVER MAKES THEM FEEL BEAUTIFUL. JUST AS CERTAIN WOMEN SHOULDN'T FEEL ANY MORE BLACK OR EARTHY BECAUSE YOU HAVE NAPPY HAIR/DREADS. NO ONE EVERY TOLD ME MY FEATURES OR MY HAIR WAS UGLY, I PRESS MY HAIR AND WEAR A SEW-IN BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I LIKE. END OF STORY.....

WEARING WEAVE DOES NOT MAKE YOU ANYTHING BUT A "WEAVE WEARER". I AM SOOOOO SICK OF THESE PSEUDO INTELLECTUALS AND PHONY AFROCENTRIC SPEWING THEIR VERSION OF WHAT BLACK WOMEN SHOULD BE. WHAT HAPPEN TO CHARACTER AND INTEGRITY BEING THE MEASURE OF A PERSON. WOMEN OF ALL ETHNICITIES SHOULD DO WHATEVER MAKES THEM FEEL BEAUTIFUL. JUST AS CERTAIN WOMEN SHOULDN'T FEEL ANY MORE BLACK OR EARTHY BECAUSE YOU HAVE NAPPY HAIR/DREADS. NO ONE EVERY TOLD ME MY FEATURES OR MY HAIR WAS UGLY, I PRESS MY HAIR AND WEAR A SEW-IN BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I LIKE. END OF STORY.....

WEARING WEAVE DOES NOT MAKE YOU ANYTHING BUT A "WEAVE WEARER". I AM SOOOOO SICK OF THESE PSEUDO INTELLECTUALS AND PHONY AFROCENTRIC SPEWING THEIR VERSION OF WHAT BLACK WOMEN SHOULD BE. WHAT HAPPEN TO CHARACTER AND INTEGRITY BEING THE MEASURE OF A PERSON. WOMEN OF ALL ETHNICITIES SHOULD DO WHATEVER MAKES THEM FEEL BEAUTIFUL. JUST AS CERTAIN WOMEN SHOULDN'T FEEL ANY MORE BLACK OR EARTHY BECAUSE YOU HAVE NAPPY HAIR/DREADS. NO ONE EVERY TOLD ME MY FEATURES OR MY HAIR WAS UGLY, I PRESS MY HAIR AND WEAR A SEW-IN BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I LIKE. END OF STORY.....

Every black woman doesn't want a nappy azz head to deal with. It doesn't make me any less black to put a RELAXER on my hair (for those of you idiots saying PERM). Please get over yourselves.

Every black woman doesn't want a nappy azz head to deal with. It doesn't make me any less black to put a RELAXER on my hair (for those of you idiots saying PERM). Please get over yourselves.

What black women need to stop doing is generalizing and putting everyone in the same box. No, BW shouldn't be ashamed of their natural hair but I don't think every who has a weave or wears a wig is ashamed. Some just like variety and other like to give their hair a break. With all that said, not every BW has to look like you Sa-Roc or share you views. It is this diversity that makes us all beautiful Black women.

^^^I agree with you @ 3:36^^^ I also feel like it these tore-up bishs like this with dreads that are the most insecure and jealous of a chick who can switch it up sometimes real hair or not. I mean, she looks like an addict to me.

SHE IS SO SEXY !!!!

its true look better natural then with all that bull@#$%!!

@3:44 PM

Sa-roc is not jealous of your ghetto lame weave wearing azz. I bet Sa-roc looks better than 99.9 percent of the females posting on this thread.

I guarantee if I saw all of the black women on this thread in person you would all be overweight with a cheap nasty lacefront on.

And how does wearing dreads make Sa-roc insecure? if anything it shows her pride and strength. She is not willing to fall under the grasp of the eurocentric beauty standard.

i hate weave... i love straight hair...and dreads dont work for everyone.

decisions, decisions

Luv natural just keep it long

WEARING WEAVE DOES NOT MAKE YOU ANYTHING BUT A "WEAVE WEARER". I AM SOOOOO SICK OF THESE PSEUDO INTELLECTUALS AND PHONY AFROCENTRIC SPEWING THEIR VERSION OF WHAT BLACK WOMEN SHOULD BE. WHAT HAPPEN TO CHARACTER AND INTEGRITY BEING THE MEASURE OF A PERSON. WOMEN OF ALL ETHNICITIES SHOULD DO WHATEVER MAKES THEM FEEL BEAUTIFUL. JUST AS CERTAIN WOMEN SHOULDN'T FEEL ANY MORE BLACK OR EARTHY BECAUSE YOU HAVE NAPPY HAIR/DREADS. NO ONE EVERY TOLD ME MY FEATURES OR MY HAIR WAS UGLY, I PRESS MY HAIR AND WEAR A SEW-IN BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I LIKE. END OF STORY..... (REAL TALK!)

IF YOU WERE A CANCER SURVIVOR AND WORE WEAVE WOULD IT BE A PROBLEM THEN? WTF SHE BRINGING UP GOD FOR ---

you are absolutely right sista...I have long hair....I recently stopped perming it....black women are being brainwashed to try and look white. it's really sad. If I had known what was really going on in the world, I would've never put one damn perm in my hair. Who says that everyones hair have to be straight. That's a European standard.

Wow, people are actually attempting to defend fake hair probably stolen from the head of some poor Indian woman, lol! But on a serious note, Black Woman need to wake up and try wearing your hair the way the Most High made it. The Most High does not make mistakes.

Those defending weaves are some self-hating slaves. THAT IS NOT HOW YOUR HAIR LOOKS NATURALLY. IT IS A LIE! YOUR HAIR IS A FAKE AZZ LIE! I BET YOU DON"T KNOW HOW IT LOOKS IN ITS NATURAL STATE. FIND SOME CONFIDENCE AND TRY IT! Saroc is a beautiful queen, and you are too. You do not need the weave and the straight hair to be beautiful. That is a lie that the white man has sold you and you believe it. Quit emulating those video hoes, stop trying to get hair like those women in the herbal essence commercials and embrace your beautiful, kinky hair!

I have beautiful healthy long relaxed hair...Locking your hair in a dread isn't "NATURAL" either for the record and every "black" person doesn't share the same hair TEXTURE. It boogles my mind that some of you natural-fanatics think you can assume a person's psyche by looking at their hair(THAT'S IDIOTIC). Your the brainwashed one...I am only defending a black woman's RIGHT to look the way she wants too and not have judgemental, closeminded people (like this woman and you) judge her...

I have beautiful healthy long relaxed hair...Locking your hair in a dread isn't "NATURAL" either for the record and every "black" person doesn't share the same hair TEXTURE. It boogles my mind that some of you natural-fanatics think you can assume a person's psyche by looking at their hair(THAT'S IDIOTIC). Your the brainwashed one...I am only defending a black woman's RIGHT to look the way she wants too and not have judgemental, closeminded people (like this woman and you) judge her...

@12:06

Shut your weave wearing perm using lame azz up. No one wAnts to hear your excuses.

There is never an excuse for black women to spend millions on hair care products when they have perfectly fine hair on their heads.

Unless you are a recovering chemo patient, or suffering from alopecia there is no reason why you should be wearing a damn wig/weave.

I'm personally sick and tired of the sheep crowd aka black women that follow the eurocentric standard of beauty attacking REAL SOULFUL BLACK WOMEN. If this REAL SISTA wants to voice her opinion let her do so. She speaks nothing but truth and you have the audacity to call her close minded? stfu.

Good Lord!!!
I am so sick of all of this good hair/bad hair crap and the generalizations about weaves -vs- relaxed -vs- natural. As if not having natural hair/locks somehow means your conforming to to the white mans standard of beauty. Bull****!
...some people relax their hair for no other reason than it's easier to manage when relaxed. There's no big hidden meaning/no agenda...it's just easier to manage!
Some people wear weaves/wigs because it gives your hair a chance to rest so your not always doing something to it or with it.
And for all of those o'natural people who think their style of choice is THE only way to go. Please stop the nonsense! It may be right for you but that doesn't mean it's right for everyone.

@12:12 Those are fighting word bish! What I said was not an excuse, my comment is my opinion. I don't have to answer to this broad in the vid or to your ignorant azz. Read what I said again then let it marinate. You don't get to decide what Black women should look like just b/c your Black.I feel with Black women this arguement (like color issues) is always so dense and one sided...nappy=good straight=bad. Is it ever possible for a black women to wear a straight weave simply because it's flattering and she like the aesthetic?......save the fact that she wasn't born with it.

can y'all get your money in a less obnoxious way than these DUMB Ufc ads??? please!
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ok, i have a perm, but she's absolutely right about the fact that there is a tinge of inferiority in the straight hair obsession we as Black women have. In our defense, many of us have had perms since we were 12, so we don't even KNOW how to do our natural hair.

She takes the JEsus imagery a bit far, but she's right that we need to establish some new standards for desirability. Because the lace fronts have taken over popular culture, and that's not the ONLY image we should projecting of Black beauty

rastaferians are smart people. the NOI and rastas study the samething but christianity dont.

lmao @ changing it up the hairstyle

umm b*tch please, you follow what others are doing and you afraid of critisism bcos youre not confortable or feel beautiful with your nappy hair.

i guarantee you alot of people would glorifying nappy if it was display on tv as the most amazing hair hairstyle but once you got celebs and idols wearing weaves and perm, its kinda hard to have your natural look

i love weave. period

I didn't even listen to this....we have ways to upgrade ourselves and if that improves your self esteem than go for it. Like the Nose ring and earrings she is wearing. Relax hair is easier to take care of...period. I'm no oppressed and wouldn't choose to be any other color but black, but I like to look good and manage my hair and if that takes relaxing it or weaving it I will.

I would love to just be myself but black people are full of it. My sister is a natural and she doesn't have a texture like this chick in the video, its closer to a black man's nappy fro. All the black people in my school ostracized her, made fun of her, assumed she was poor and called her ugly and Miss Pubes. Its so annoying, that if u don't have the "nice" flowy curls or hair that doesn't grow into a hard thick afro your considered ugly. I'm tired of all these dumb a-holes telling me to wear natural hair because if they had 4b-5 hair/ my sister's hair they'd be hiding in wigs. I'll conform now, but when they bring the 70's back I'm burning all my stupid extensions.

erase *doesn't*

As a black male, I am confused by women who are constantly talking about weaves but don't wear them (Get A Life). Sa-roc probably wouldn't want people to assume (because of her dreads) she smokes weed all day, is lazy and has no credentials, similarly she SHOULDN'T assume anything about another women solely based on there hair choices.

Making hair an issue AGAIN...women of all color are wearing weaves, so does that mean the black women should stay natural while the other women keep their weaves...nuh baby, its a free world let us be

real talk

For bm: stop cutting ur hair! grow an afro or dreads if yall wanna talk about being "natural". Men would relax or weave their hair if it was the norm to have long hair for men.

The fact that women of other races are now wearing weaves does not change the fact that black people are disproportionately 80% consumers of hair products such as perms relaxers wigs etc. Not to mention we do not control or benefit from a hair industry we completely support. Most black women and men have been taught to subliminally hate themselves from a early age into adulthood. Using excuses like your hair is easier to manage in its unnatural state is laziness. Accept that you have been programed and brainwashed into a European standard of what beauty is. If you need an example of natural hair & black pride just watch a re-run of soul train! It is blatantly clear that we as a people had a different mind state that included embracing ourselves and not imitating our oppressors.
Ultimately yes it is your choice but understand that you are perpetuating a white agenda. Generations to come, children and others look up to you... set an example.
Don't get blacked out through whitewash!!!

wow its ass backward slave minded individuals in these comments. do yall hear yourselves? did you actually listen to what SA-ROC said. she never attacked anyone or judged black women about the weaves and perms. but since you know that its actually true and you are afraid of having ur god givin natural hair you attack her. "you love your master" in the words of malcolm x! one of yall actually said perms and weaves are an upgrade. GTF outta here. learn your effen history and get some pride about your selves. remember you just got out of slavery and then jim crow and now obama and you still actin and lookin like your oppressor. SAVAGES. thats why these women can't keep a man! he doesn't actually know what you look like! lol!

WE SHOULD ALL TAKE LESSONS FROM OUR ELDERS. AFTER 50 YEARS OF PRESSING AND PERMING YOUR NATURAL HAIR ITS GONNA THIN THEN YOU REALLY GONNA HAVE TO WEAR A WIG! TELL ME IM WRONG... YOU ALL HAVE SOME ONE IN YOUR FAMILY THAT THIS IS HAPPENING TO RIGHT NOW! WE ARE IN A STATE OF DENIAL. THATS WHY SO MANY OF YOU SLAVES ARE MAD THAT SHE SPOKE THE TRUTH. YOU ALL LOVE IT WHEN YOUR RAP HEROES CALL WOMEN HOES AND @#$%!ES AND SELL KEYS OF COKE AND CRACK TO THE HOOD ON RECORDS BUT WHEN A BEAUTIFUL NATURAL SISTER TRYS TO SHED SOME LIGHT ON OUR ISSUES YOU SCREAM BLOODY MURDER. NO WORRY, I WILL DOUBLE THE PRICE AND SELL WIGS TO YOU BALDING AFRICANS AFTER YOU DESTROY YOUR FOLLICLES FROM WEAR AND TEAR! FAKE AS INTELLECTUALS!

drop a gem on them queen! its alot of us out here that have your back! SA-ROC is the truth!

If black women were tryin' to look white, more would be in the gym trying to lose their signature curves to have a body that was more "European".

Broke b!tches are the ones saying a sista should wear hear real hair. Cheap azz nappy headed dreads or funky short fros

@ THE PERSON WHO SAID "Broke b!tches are the ones saying a sista should wear hear real hair. Cheap azz nappy headed dreads or funky short fros" NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER. AND WHERE IN THIS DISCUSSION DID YOU GET THE ISSUE OF WHO HAS MONEY AND WHO DOESN'T? YOUR FUNNY, YOU MUST BE A TEENAGER WHO STILL LIVES WITH THEIR MOTHER AND BELIEVES THAT BLACK PEOPLE/AFRICANS STARTED HEAR IN AMERICA DURING SLAVEY. IF YOU EVEN HAVE KNOWLEDGE THAT REACHES BACK THAT FAR. GET SOME KNOWLEDGE BOUT YOUR SELF AND STOP SPENDING VALUABLE TIME SHOWING HATRED TOWARDS YOUR OWN KIND.

QUESTION WOULD YOU RATHER MICHELLE OBAMA OR WHOOPI? I THINK A VARIETY OF LOOKS/HAIRSTYLES ARE COOL BUT I LIKE LONG WAVY HAIR ON MOST WOMAN. DOES THAT MAKE ME A SLAVE TO SOME FOREIGN MENTALITY NO. IT JUST MEANS THAT SA-ROC IS NOT MY TYPE AND I'M PROBABLY NOT HERS.

ME IM A NEGRO MILITANT 100%BLK WHO LIKE ARE HISTORY LUV BLK GIRLS IM NOT INTERRACIAL CUPLE I FUKK THAT IM FOR REAL SISTA WITH THEIR NATURAL HAIR NOT OF INDIAN HAIR OR WHO BLEACH THEIR SKIN @#$%! FUKK ALL THAT. A PURE BLK DIAMOND WITH A AMAZING VOICE

GOD DONT WHITE OK GOD IS BLK ITS WHITE OK ALL ITS WHO IS GOOD IS WHITE ITS OF BULL@#$%! ITS NOT TRUE.

Sa-Roc is the real love her Planet BUM REPERSENATIVE

see the movie GOOD HAIR by Chris Rock

She dope as hell !!!!
Newark, NJ

2N1kvs It's straight to the point! You could not tell in other words! :D

OlTt25 Really appreciate you sharing this article @#$%! thank you! Want more.