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I don't like to try to judge or look down on anyone
for believing or thinking a certain way
I mean, I'm sure they have a reason to belive or think the way they do
but to be as if women use, you know, all the fake hair and the fake eyelashes
and all the make up to make themselves feel better
and I just feel better but appear, maybe that's what they think
they want or they need to look like
And that's not look down, it's just that there's a huge
misconception in our society about what beauty is
and that is I more want to have conversations with them
and, you know, ask them "why do you feel that you need
to look this way and wear all of this, wear all of these
things that are not you, to perpetuate what our society thinks beauty is?"
I think I know with my girls what I do, and we
have on a daily basis, we talk about beauty and all
this diversity and I tell them everyday that they're beautiful
I tell them that other people who look like them is beautiful
but I also talk about beauty in terms of other people's perceptions
so I teach them that beauty is diverse
That you don't have to be one skin tone or have
one way of wearing your hair or you don't have to have
flaxen hair, for exemple. That it can be tightly curl and be considered beautiful
And that's a daily conversation we have, and it has to be repeated
in multiple levels, I think. Starting at a very young age
because they're bombarded with these images, you know, on the media
of beautiful woman who are thin and hair light. Even if they're not
light, they have kind of approximate a particular standard
It has to be a work that starts to the family, in an individual level,
and working its way through the school system,
various institutions. I think when we look at media magazines
in particular there needs to be diverse imagens on those covers
I don't know Beyoncé personally, I've heard interviews,
I've seen her on television and I think that, I think inside she had
a really good heart, but again the lightening of the skin,
the extended hair is saying "well this is how you should look,
this is how you have to look to be able to be in the lime light,
to be able to be a super star, to be considered beautiful"
And I don't agree with it, I don't agree with that...
I think she is talented, again, I think she's a beautiful woman
but, what message are you sending?
I have two girls myself. One 23 years old, one two years old
The 23 year old I did not allowed to watch videos,
I did not allow to read certain magazines, anything that
was gonna tell her this is how she had to look
to be beautiful, even different songs. If it said that you had to have
the behid part this big or your hair down here
I wouldn't let her listen to it
Because she needed to know who she was and then
engage beauty from that
This is what I love, and this is what I'm gonna do
it comes right out, it's what's inside
Well, I used to do before and then I cut it off
and then I started going by my hair, and I used to
do other things with it, which I don't like, it don't come from within
and whatever comes from within is what I want to do
And also, I think, another question should be
aside of locking you can have natural hair without...
Without locking it, yes
I have been servicing XXXX since I was... oh, Jesus, I think a very very long time
and XXXX's hair has been natural since
Ever since we had started servicing her as a client
Locks is just a choice of style of your hair
but we just believe that you wear your hair natural, specially if you wanna
keep it
You go through a phase where wigs and extensions and wearing
your hair rise and long and flowy and having the illusion that
you have long silky hair was popular
But now these are becoming more popular again because
a lot of people are going natural
but for me I wear this as a protective style
because, like I said, I'm transitioning to natural hair again
so it just help my hair grow