She may not realize it but she really is revolutionizing the beauty ideals in DR. I went last August and for the first time, I saw women in their natural hair textures and it really made me so happy to see.

"If I can leave my community, my country, my world just a tiny bit better." I like that 😊. That's something we should all strive for.

Women highlighting women and giving them their flowers while they are still HERE!!! Uggghhh my heart is exploding right now with so much happiness.

Beautiful to see Afro Latinas who take pride in their roots and inspire women to love their natural hair is amazing, i know in DR if you have curly or kinky hair it’s considered “bad” but i love that there’s people like her who broke free from that idea and decided for herself that it’s not true.

I’m going to DR this friday and my mom is already telling me to straighten in my curls because she doesn’t want people over there thinking we’re “poor or crazy”. There’s still a long way to go in cultural acceptance of our African ancestry. But I love my natural hair and it’s been two year since I last permed my hair and last March I did my big chop. All that has made me embrace my roots.

I started crying when the interviewer started crying. It makes me sooooo happy to see black women waking up much love!

honestly this is revolutionary for Dominicans

I’ve personally been to Miss Rizos salon in DR and the vibe and the employees are amazing. I got box braids done for only $70USD and girl was I SHOOK at how amazing they were done. I have a full head of thick curly hair that’s past my shoulders but when stretched they’re down to my waist. They finished the braids in 4 hours and on top of that they were medium thickness and reached mid butt. I wanna go back to DR just to get my braids done again and for that price 😂 loveeee this salon and I’ll deff be back when I go back to DR! 🇩🇴🇩🇴❤️

I remember first hearing about this Salon way back when. It was crazy because I am Barbadian and Panamanian and I went to a Panamanian hair salon. The lady would always relax my hair and when I went natural her solution was to press it every weekend. The idea that straight hair is the only “presentable” style is so ingrained in different cultures it’s crazy. One day I just stopped going to the salon and decided to figure my own hair out, 8 years later I’m still loving my natural hair.

I’m so Proud of being Dominicana and de mi curly hair también 🇩🇴👑

Walking in a Dominican salon 10 years ago they would stare at you cause you choose to wear your tresses in its natural state. Or whisper words such as " Pelo Malo" or "no es bueno para los negocios" Now being natural is glorified or those one that state such hate are now Natural.

Afro Latinas are just DOMINATING!!!!!!

I got my first curly cut with them while on my trip to DR this year. Such nice and beautiful girls. I wish them all the success in the world. 💛

this made me so emotional. I’m Dominican and Ecuadorian & I was born and raised in the Bronx surrounded by a lot of Dominicans. Therefore I always felt the necessity of straightening my natural 3b curls when I was only 5. I’ve been trying to transition back for almost 3 years & all I want is my curls back. ( fun fact I’m actually going to DR tmr lol 🇩🇴 ) pero que viva la cultura dominicana coño!🇩🇴

Aww, her story on going back to the motherland was so sad! If I'm ever in the DR, I'll have to give this salon a try. And of course there's a lot of natural hair salon every, but if she wants to put the spotlight on this woman and her story/salon then let HER TELL HER STORY! Geez, people!

We need one of these in PR too!🇵🇷🇩🇴✊🏿 Asap

I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!! I think that it's important for Dominicans to be comfortable with their natural hair. When I first went natural I got backlash from the women in my family mostly because Dominican women were taught to love their natural hair instead they were taught to keep their hair straight. I hope this video can change how Dominican women see themselves when it comes to their hair. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

My whole family on my dads side of the family all lives in Dominican Republic . I can't wait to go there one day. Damn I need to go that hair salon with my curly head self lol 😂 Y'all should put a like if u a Dominican

She’s rad for living out her dreams and overcoming adversity. Continue to shine queen! And that goes to the both of you strong and beautiful women! 💪🏾♥️

This brings tears to my eyes I love how natural hair is being more praised in DR. I love to see it. ❤️

What’s crazy is that whenever I go back to DR, all I see are people of all colors and hair textures. All Dominicans are BEAUTIFUL! However we’re constantly influenced to believe that white skin and straight hair is the ideal. I’m so inspired by this story ❤️🇩🇴

Love my DR, I'm just like her born in DR and raised in the US. When I was young I always wanted to have my hair straight and a few years ago I learned to love it and embrace it! In DR discrimination still exist and we have to fight for it to end. I remember people telling me " wow your hair is so soft" whenever they touched it because my hair is curly I guess they assumed it wasn't soft, I hated when they said that. I think all hair is beautiful no matter what texture or color so who cares what people say or think! People are always going to have an opinion so no matter what, believe in yourself and embrace those beautiful curls God gave us!!!

As soon as Julissa started getting choked up, I had to hold back those happy tears. I would love to go to DR to support this amazing salon.

I got emotional as well and I'm not even Dominican lol. Besos desde Argentina

This video is so good. Topic. Style. Vibe. Message. All of it. Fantastic work on this. Amazing.

...I'm not gonna cry...nope...wait ...I'm gonna bawl my eyes out!!! Such a beautiful story!!♥️

As a curly hair Dominican I know HOW BIG HAIR IS FOR OUR PEOPLE. You're called a pajonua from day 1, you're told to brush your hair when you 'just did it', you're told day in and out, and in some many ways to negate your blackness. I think this salon is such a great symbol of what to love and how to love it!

I'm not Dominican. I don't know what all i am except that I'm Black. But I wish I have a salon like this in my area!

I dunno if other people do this but I embrace my curls in a way to honor my African heritage😭😭

i love and admire how generous julissa is with her spirit.... true queen

I feel Julissa on her vision!! I wasn't born in Honduras but my entire family is Honduran & I feel 100% Honduran at heart & I would love to give back to my communities in Honduras & build something that will make people feel good about themselves just like Carolina did. Awesome video!!

Everyone is so beautiful. When Julissa started crying it made me think of all the pent up pain and trauma she must have went through just because of her hair and she's just ONE Dominican woman. Hair texture isn't something I ever had to think about until 3 years ago when I learnt that hair, isn't JUST hair. And knowing that that in itself is a privilege is just sad and terrible. Personally I've always wanted my pincer straight Chinese hair to have more bounce and texture. I'd always thought of wavy and curly hair as more beautiful and I wanted it badly. Also, if you think that super textured hair is unkempt, messy, dirty, and unprofessional, I think the key word here is "well-kept". And the same goes for all types of hair. "Pelo malo" defies gravity without the use of any products (Taraji P. Henson!), and isn't that so wonderful and great?

I remember Carolina shared her process on facebook and I felt: she gets me! I went through that transition at 12-13 years old, and there were wounds I didn't know I still had, and seing her journey, her apreciation for our natural beauty made me heal! thank you Caro, I always wanted to say it! I hope I can go to Miss Rizos soon! Thank you Julissa for this beautiful video!

I went to that salon last summer and it left my hair feeling amazing and Carolina was so sweet it was so great

Julissa is in her feelings and I am here for it! Both of you are so profoundly inspirational 💛

This was so needed and necessary. Thank you 💖👑

Finally ! a dominican that think like me every time I tell anyone I like they hair just natural they look at me like i'm crazy {tenemos el colonialismo muy arraigado aún }but, I see we are changing .

I was in Santo Domingo, DR last year visiting my boyfriends family! I got my hair done for the first time in a different culture and I lived how they did my hair!

I’m still struggling through high school and deciding what I want to do when I get to college. Just to hear about her story is so beautiful and inspiring, truly.

Omg I love your videos and I was happy when I saw the first seconds of it bc I know exactly where u are. My family and I went to Santo Domingo in April and they got married there as well. The wedding was so much fun! It was the best time of my life and I really want to go back. Ever since I’ve been there I’ve been obsessed with everything Dominican and I wish I was but I’m actually Mexican.

This is such an inspiring, heartfelt video. Beautiful job, Julissa!!

I’ve been to MissRizos and fell so I love with it!!! I go every summer when I visit DR and was so happy to have a space where I felt my hair was acceptable in the middle of the oldest cities of America. Being natural in DR is a struggleee because of humidity and heat but also because of cultural in acceptance of curly hair but with a salon like this it’s all slowly being changed. All of the ladies are so knowledgeable and the atmosphere is so welcoming that you leave feeling like you can do anything in your natural state bc you can!! Every year I go back I see more and more girls with their natural kinks and coils and I couldn’t be more proud

Have goose bumps watching this video . This is great a salon that embraces our natural curls instead of trying to colonize it by perms and blow drying 😍😍👏🏼👏🏼

In this salon I started my curly hair journey in May of 2017 (I have a video on my channel about it), unfortunately at the moment my self-esteem was on the floor and I didn't want to cut my hair, so I started my "transition" process, one month goes by and I got the impulse to go to a salon and just cut my hair, I didn't go to Miss Rizos and went to another famous curly hair salon in DR and the lady that cut my hair was JUST learning how to do it, so basically i was left bald lol Cutting my hair taught me so much about myself and about self-acceptance. I love what this salon is promoting in my country and I feel proud that every day more people in my very judgeamental country are coming to their senses that the hair that comes out of our head is perfect just the way it is.

This is a BEAUTIFUL video! Thank you 😊👏💕

Wow this has made me cry, you guys are amazingly inspiring the real us Dominicans. Learning how to embrace our culture is a bless. Thank you 😊

Ugh the beginning brings me back to when I was in El Salvador this summer! 🇸🇻 ugh my Spanish is rusty, but the people are so accepting. I LOVE LATINO/ HISPANIC CULTURE

I relate to this on so many levels. You ladies are dope! 🙌🏽🙏🏽👏🏽🇩🇴🖤🙋🏽

I love this! Thanks Julissa for all of the love you show the culture.

This is amazing I am half Dominican and barely know much. Ofcourse when the music play I am pure Dominican. You both are inspiring hope gadiel was there it would be funny. If you could give a tour of D.R in a video. Of some awesome hiding places would be so cool.

Personas que quieran resaltar toda la belleza que somos es muy lindo e importante! Me alegra mucho ver cómo personas jóvenes tienen empoderamiento de sus raíces, llevándonos a un mejor camino lleno de amor y de mucha identidad. ¡Los dominicanos somos súper mestizos y debemos de ser orgullosos de ello! No todos tenemos el pelo lacio ni todos tenemos el pelo rizado. Hay que dejar atrás esa mentalidad que para verse bien/profesional hay que siempre tener el pelo lacio porque eso no es cierto. Así como aceptamos y nos amamos por nuestra diversidad en tonos de piel, aceptemos la diversidad de nuestro pelo ❤️

Great video and wonderful intentions and significance behind the launch of Miss Rizos! I waited too late to get an appointment there when I was in SD this summer so I went to another natural hair salon called Go Natural Caribe and got a nice cut! Love this channel and the content is 👌🏽 La Zona Colonial was hot as hell in July 😁 beautiful place!

When Julissa started crying 😩😭

OMG freaking love this video. Growing up in DR always found curly hair so beautiful but been called moño malo and you should get a perm. Worst decision I ever made. Thank God i came to USA where people don’t give a fuck how you look (especially NY people really don’t care) but my family were so unsupportive even my mom, I don’t really blame them I mean we were taught that in DR but I keep going not giving a damn of what my family say and guess what 3 years later almost all of them are transitioning to their natural hair even my mom. Miss Rizos help me a lot to found my identity and not be ashamed on how I look cause God made me like this. So proud to be Afro-Dominican 🇩🇴

This is so inspiring & heartwarming. I wish you both only great things. Keep Changing the world!

I loved this so much Julissa! Thank you. 🙏🏽

I love this!! Thank you!

I'm so motivated. Many tell me to not even think about having a life in DR. But this is a prime example that it's possible. She represents what I aspire to be. I too made that transition from having my hair straightened and relaxed to going completely natural. It's been 6 years now and I don't regret it. I'm so proud to see a fellow Dominican woman be successful and be an activist of change and progress for the culture. Loved this and thank you Julissa for sharing ❤❤❤🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴

Thank you for sharing her journey! Great messages!

I love Julissa! Her energy, humor/quick wit, warm personality, all bring so much joy to me, I love this channel. Julissa's is my best friend in my head hahaha

I would have never imagined that DR would be open to the idea of natural hairstyles. I am so glad to hear about this salon, thank you Julissa for bringing us this amazing video. Growing up and still now around my Dominican family and friends I constantly hear negative comments about wearing our hair naturally. I don’t have curly hair, mine is on the wavy side but I am still being told to straighten my hair when I go to family reunions or parties. Finally, I just want to say thank you for this video. There is still hope for change in this world! ❤️ I feel very hopeful after watching this video.

Im Puerto Rican but this touched me very special beautiful souls. I follow Miss Rizos since 2013 I big chopped, shes a huge inspiration. Blessings to you both. Preciosas! 💕

Julissa I’m crying with you ❤️❤️❤️ love love love her and what she’s doing

I can relate to Carolina so much it’s so heartbreaking to feel like a place and a culture are such a part of your identity and the second you get there they reject you I’m Mexican American I speak spanish and I’ve lived in Mexico city for 7 years and people everyday still ask me if i’m a tourist just because I’m güerita and speak a little different but at the end of the day I know who I am and couldn’t be more orgullosa de ser Mexicana y latina ❤️

I am speechless. Sending all the love to Carolina and to you, Julissa. You are both doing so much for your communities. I really have no words.

So touching 😭❤️❤️ thank you ladies!

Julissa! You are a beautiful soul! I am neither Dominican nor curly haired but my God this moved me! You and Carolina were amazing together. To see two such passionate people with so much positivity made me feel so good to see and hear! When you began tearing up I felt it as well, you will accomplish what you are dreaming of . This was a wonderfully made video! Thank you Julissa and Carolina! Good job ladies! ❤️ HUGS

I love seeing women be there authentic selves . This is so beautiful 😍

This is absolutely beautiful, I love it!

I LOVE THIS!! DR IS SOO BEAUTIFULLL!!

Beautiful!! Julissa gurl you made me tear up!!

This is so beautiful! Thank you for sharing 💖💖

No pude evitar volverme mocos y lágrimas al final 😭 me encanta Carolina , el salón, lo que hace , me hace sentir orgullosa como mujer natural , como dominicana ♥️

I cried watching this. Thank you 🙏

This is sooo inspirational!! Thank youu.

Anyone else here who is not Spanish or Dominican or American but loves the content.

WOW this video was so beautiful , it made me cry. You go sister!

Every time I watch this, I am in tears🙈🙈. It is so beautiful and I love ❤️ message behind this video🙂. I hope someday to visit the salon 🙂. Best wishes to you both

Such a real and lovely video!!!

This is great bro I grew up hating my hair in my Dominican family after I came to the U.S I learned how to take care of my natural beautiful pajon thanks to black women and KZfaq videos.

Thank U. Women of color around the world embrace Ur roots and natural hair. So proud of you!

Me encanto este video! Gracias de verdad!

IT IS SOOOOOOOOOOO BREATH TAKING TO SEE AFRO LATINAS EMBRACE AND NOT SHUN BEING FROM THE DIASPORA OF AFRICA! MY GOODNESS! Sis is so beautiful and this was a very special episode, true to the heart. No Mas Pelo Malo y Pelo Beuno, come as you are in all of your natural beauty because all of you is a beauty.

Extremely Inspired. Gracias

Wow. Just wow. Such an impactful video.

Min. 3:08 that's me. I've paid a lot of money to go into the salon and walk out and have *un pajon* minutes later that's why I hate going to the salon in D.R. 'cause it doesn't last. I was in Baní once walking down the street with my long curly hair and I heard how another female was laughing and commenting negatively on my hair cause it was frizzy. I just couldn't understand that much ignorance. Yo felicito tu iniciativa!!! D.R. was definitely not ready for this one, but it needs to get with the program.

LOVED this!

Carolina is the bomb💞 Beautiful people like her can only spark joy and growth wherever they go!

Amazing!!! Beautiful inspiration 💖

I have never seen a natural salon I the DR, I lived there for 12 years

Tears.....just beautiful

oh YESSSS i'm loving this . i'm going to this salon when i go to DR next year for sureeee!

Yeah!!! un video en República Dominicana y de rizos... Congratulations Carolina 😊

Omg, this video got me all teary eyed. I'm Dominican and I decided to wear my curly hair proudly almost 9 years ago. My mom and some of my cousins have actually followed suit, which makes me so happy. I'm teaching my daughters to love their curly hair as well. It's a wonderful thing. #MoñoMaloDonde 😌

I am visiting my home country,Sudan in a few days and watching you having fun in DR makes me excited

This was so wonderful!

This is such a beautiful video thank you for making it

I loved every bit of this video!! 😘😘💋

It's about time. Excellent.

music made me wanna dance lol