Where she should have been going to whole time

They are the best when it comes to hair. I was always jealous and wanted a black mom so my hair could go into more than a ponytail. I always have been impressed with all the things black women (and men for that matter) can do with their hair.

@@MomeGnome why do u sound rude af

A Black salon taught me a lot. I'm mixed (Japanese, Black, Cherokee) and always hated my frizz. When I was young, my father (Black & Cherokee) would only mask the frizz with gel. I hate that feeling of scratching a spot and coming away with product on your hands. A Black salon told me about acidic hair masks and how they relax the hair scales, smoothing and eliminating frizz. I've been doing that since, and now my hair texture feels like my mom's (Japanese). No other product is needed now besides a heat protector when straightening ❤.

@@MomeGnome…Okay, and?

I kept looking at her hair thinking what’s wrong with it ? Girl , I’m 4C all my life. Long hair and don’t care. Praise Yah for my CROWN

That’s exactly what it reminds me of, a fresh blow out. It’s beautiful

I came to make the same comment and saw yours. That's what I was thinking throughout the video.

Just like blown out, thick, luscious 4C hair, lol. She needs to check her ancestry

@@sharonbaird2671 As a black woman, I would love to have her hair. It's so full and thick. I would braid when wet and take it out. Racial expectations are crazy.

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

That's what I'm thinking. Her mom should've been moisturizing and braiding her hair. It's literally just light textured hair

Absolutely. I had no idea how to handle my hair until I read a book on black hair care. It was like 💥💡. You grow up thinking that's not for me, and then the reality is: That IS for me.

The bless her heart and lemme finish watching TOOK ME OUT! 😂😂😂

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You are not crazy. It’s normal thoughts 💭.

I taught so too...I taught it was lovely long thick hair

Her hair is beautiful, and thick.

Her hair is a little frizzy just like mine

The Caucasian Midwest is hella oppressive when it comes to beauty standards

I agree 💯I have fine hair and would trade with her any day!

I wish I had that amount hair!!! My hair is so thin and lies flat by head

I know I wish I had my thick hair back. Her volume was so nice and I could tell her hair is beautiful it just needed moisturizer and some extra care.

Right?! I thought so too. She's so gorgeous and gorgeous crown. I hope she gets to love herself just the way she is. I hate they say it's a 'condition' .

I’m sorry, but she really triggered me. She should walk around with hair so thin that you can see your scalp and have to put hair shadow products on to cover it up.

That’s right

LOL SHE WENT 40 YEARS WITH UNCOMBABLE HAIR

Facts !! 💯💯💯💯💯

exactly

It's part of complex syndrome that also causes problems with teeth and nails, and can even cause blindness if not treated. The syndrome is simply named for the most distinctive and easily identified feature-- when a doctor sees that hair, they should look for other symptoms.

Thank you❤❤❤

@shivauncorry268 doesn’t change the fact that all her hair needed was some moisture and a black person could have told her that. That’s why there’s so many reactions from black people in the comments. It’s literally a lack of diversity in hospitals and in her personal life that has caused that woman’s suffering in social settings.

Well it is a mutation that could occur specifically to one group of human. Mutation can sometimes be negative and positive. This one isn’t harmful tho.

Right?! I completely agree. Horrible.

I have something called Turner Syndrome. They said "it's the three S's, short sterile and stupid and she'll never be a beauty queen" to my mom when I was diagnosed as a baby. When I got older but still quite young my mom told me this and wish she hadn't. It was stressful raising me but that Dr's words made it worse for her and then the stress made it to me

@@magroves I’m so sorry you had to grow up like this. People don’t understand how much words can affect people and weigh heavy on the mind. Hugs to you. ❤️ I’m sure you’re a beautiful person inside and out.

@@magroveshow awful for that dr to say that, and then for your own mother to tell you?!😭 She likely was striking out. I'm so sorry. You are none of those words! Sending you lots of love and support.💐❤️

​@@outoftheklosset I've a cousin who already suffers major depression from childhood trauma. My great aunt (her mom) told her that she tried miscarriaging her but it failed & that she didn't want anymore kid's that's why she didn't do the best raising her. This tore my cousin up. Her sister encouraged the mom to tell her for some reason saying she was helping my aunt heal... But it placed a hurt on my cousin & she cried to me about it. She's never told them but it hurt her.

Right, and she needs a bonnet or satin pillowcase too

Natural hair? She hated her natural hair and wanted it to be more manageable. We haven't even seen how it is in its natural state, as she said that it takes about 5 hours for her to prepare for going out. So what we saw was AFTER the five hours. That's not my definition of "natural" if it takes so much effort.

@@irmar indeed, what you described is exactly what many black women experience, especially those that starting getting hair relaxers at a very young age. Some are able to transition to wearing their natural hair and embrace it while others do not. Learning how to manage it is usually what makes the difference.

⁠@@irmarliterally what black women go through lol… still natural

@@irmarThat’s just not true. She said it used to take her 6 hours to get ready. The stylist taught her how to style her hair and hydrate it within a 45 min block. What they mean by “natural” hair community is that her type of hair really shouldn’t be exposed to chemicals, silicones, and other junk that’s in most commercial hair products. She needs natural products that will hydrate and use techniques largely found in black and curly hair communities. It’s a completely different way of treating hair than most straight white hair types. The end result you just saw WAS her hair’s natural state. She has curly, coarse hair. But if curly hair isn’t hydrated the curl falls out and the frizz/volume issues happen (which was her before state). That final result was her hair finally being treated properly to allow for the curl pattern to set.

As always and we don’t need to brag about how great we are

@@DanaSimmons might as well, hardly given the accolades deserved from others, so brag all day. Make the world see you and your worth.

Chiiiiiilllllleeee, always 😫

We in the world don't deserve them, but are beyond lucky they're here!

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Yes, my mom was her same color...but knew she was Black by hair and features. That hair diagnosis was because she's only been to white salons.

@@ronnieking3848EXACTLY!!

Yaki straight

Right!

​@ronnieking3848 it's a chromosomal thing but yeah mother nature showing us she knows best

Why not? It's like if makeup artists only knew how to deal with one type of skin. I don't get it

why’re beauty school doesn’t…. Paul mitchelll etc… black owned schools definitely go above and beyond in south carolina

Empire did. And had all the girls braiding😂 I went in 2014

Huh… my school definitely did.

Her hair seemed similar to crimped hair but her natural crimping is much closer than any crimping tool would have.

I think the strands of hair are triangle

My husbands cousin has this. When I met her I sent her to a black hairstylist who was able to help her. It feels like 4c hair but it's very fragile. So you have to treat it even more gentle.

Also, she's very lucky that it grew that long. Most of the time it's so fragile that it breaks easily.

I do belive this woman has black ancestors...thats why her hair are like that.

Me too! I was so confused. I honestly thought this might have been a parody video.

Definitely thought it was a joke until the doctor confirmed.

That’s what I thought too

Just goes to show how deeply ingrained European beauty standards are in her, having textured hair is beautiful

She is suffering from a black hair problem 😊

It’s quantifiable, meaning you can actually SEE the difference under the scope.

it's literally a genetic mutation

​@@SeminarioMAEso is white skin. Yet it's seen as the most desirable, thanks to yt people creating an asinine pseudoscience, that having a genetically mutated skin color which is more suseptible to environmental damage is superior. So it's absolutely ridiculous that because a Caucasian woman has a genetic mutation that gave her hair the texture of the original humans (black people) is just absurd.

​​@@codename495African/black people's hair looks different under a microscope than people of other races, so that's a moot point. This woman was made to feel less than or ugly by other Caucasian people, because she simply had different hair from the typical Caucasian person. And she's allowed to cry about it, and be understood about how bad she was made to feel. When her only, and extremely easy solution was to get her hair done by a black woman, who doesn't see having anything but pin straight Caucasian hair as normal or better. Caucasian people created a BS syndrome for hair that looks different under a microscope from their hair, because of the self inflicted psychosis of thinking anything with proximity to blackness being wrong. Unfreakingbelivable, and sickening! White supremacy is a detrimental ideology to have, and it harms mainly black people, but we can see it harms all people eventually. She needs to get over it, and just follow the black woman's hair care regimen.

@@SeminarioMAE and so are blue eyes, your point?

hahah RIIGHT?! When she said “I just want to walk into a room without everyone looking at my [‘ugly’] hair.” I was like 👀👀👀 WHO’S LOOKING AT YOU GIRL send them my way.

What this video failed to convey is what "Uncombable Hair Syndrome" is. It's a medical condition in which the actual hair shaft is triangular-shaped rather than like a round tube, and goes out in different directions. It's a genetic anomaly and is not related to race in any way. Typically, it tends to change and eventually grow out like everyone else's hair as the child ages into adulthood. Children with UHS tend to have very fine, fair, thin, and wispy hair that sticks out like a halo. Hair products can thicken the hair to give it weight and manage it better. But it's not "black" hair, which is perfectly normal.

Damn, that really puts it into perspective. Her hair really isn't that bad to where she needs to cry about it either. 🤦🏻‍♀️🙄

Stop this. She doesn't have black hair and it's not the same in the slightest. Her hair and hair follicle has a whole different structure than normal hair types

​@sillycheese301 yeah it is. And that's how we fixed it. 😊

Yes. Many comments say same thing as you say.

Yes

YES!❤

Yes absolutely

I think it was just as beautiful before as it was after. Just a different look. Either way, I am glad that it helped her. How we feel about ourselves is important.

Yea, that was crazy

Doctors can be horrible people. I had one sexually assault me.

I audibly gasped at that. People can be so cruel. And to a child. Children are like sponges they soak everything up. Especially negative comments and behaviour Not to mention unprofessional I'm really hoping they just added that in to make the episode more dramatic and that doesn't really happen to her

@@mendmywings7238 I was an adult, but I had such bad depression one time I went to a walk in clinic. I was trying to explain my overwhelmed feelings and unorganized thoughts, and the psychiatrist actually asked me if I’d ever thought about being blonde. Unfortunately I can see it actually happening.

​@christinamann3640 It definitely happens! I came in with depression the doctor asked if I was in a romantic relationship 😵‍💫. When I said "no" he said,"There's your problem".

Me too, as a child, then as a teen, I went to live with my father (black) side of my family, and i learned as a early teen how to take care of my hair.

Agree!!!

Thank YOU, ❤❤❤❤

As a white girl who went to a predominantly black high-school, I am so much better a person for all the strong black women who were around me in those years. They showed me what real confidence and passion looked like.

It's funny how ppl can only admit how "amazing", black women are only when we're benefitting other races of ppl. It's really insulting. They knew exactly what they were doing by sending a nonblack person with "uncombable hair syndrome", which is an offensive name btw, to a black person, especially since in the past decade black women have created the NHM to learn to do our own hair. It's okay for her to cry over her hair, but when black women tell their stories of hair discrimination, ppl say "ugh, it's just hair, stop pulling the race card"

But she’s not black I’m so confused well, I haven’t finished the video yet but to me she looks white nonetheless I love the frizzy hair

RIGHT!! She’s a 4C with a silkier than average texture… I’m a 4B and my hair doesn’t even behave like hers did when it was wet 🫠🫠🫠

It's way, way more fragile than regular hair. It's very brittle.​@@mwhite4976

Her hair is crimped and extremely brittle in nature, more so than any other hair type.

That's what I thought, as soon as I seen her hair! 🤦🏽‍♀️ Like...Girrrl, you're just walking around with Black people's hair. Get a hot comb and some Blue Magic! 🤷🏽‍♀️ Just jokes, but... I think her natural hair is beautiful! 💯🥰

@@mwhite4976you can have coarse loose/straight hair

What's the best way to find someone skilled with texturing? Or what questions would you ask the schedulers?

Yeah, especially when you're paying $20,000 at a "world renown" academy.

I agree! I’m a hairdressers kid but my mom has poker straight hair that throws a fit reaction to certain products and has only worked with a perm once in her life. While I have wavy curl texture. Not only do I feel like I need to learn my hair for me but also to help my mom style it more so. Sadly I mentioned that I thought I could benefit from the wavy girl method more than the curly girl one and she had never even heard of the latter. The other thing is while she is very good with color, cut, and corrections and does well to make a customer happy, her shortcomings with curly hair shouldn’t be heavily criticized when we each have a hair texture and when you can’t learn certain things off your own head then obviously one has to try elsewhere. It’s also why I’m often her Guinea pig for curly hair styling products 😆

It's been like this for centuries with us. white people having this texture of hair is seen as "odd" 🙄. In our community, most will shame you if you don't fit the standard so if you have different hair or skin, you will be singled out. The black community has this same issue with each other as well, along with skin color. People just need to accept that everyone is different and that's a GOOD thing.

Smh because it’s really touted in racism 🤷🏽‍♀️ I’m sure it was almost all wht life’s

Its a genetic mutation

Her hair is not curly, it's stick straight. You can see her hair goes straight out, it's not coiling around itself, and there is no shrinkage. UHS makes the hair shaft physically different than normal hair (that includes 4c kinky hair). Normally the hair follicle is round in shape, with UHS it's triangular or kidney-shaped. UHS also causes brittle bones and teeth, it can cause problems with skin and even eyesight.

She was probably wanting to work with a white stylist or only seeking help from white folks

Its because she thinks the “right” hair is supposed to look straight so it doesnt occur to her to look for those things. So many people who hated their curly/wavy hair never learned so they always thought they had “puffy” hair.

That’s what I’m saying! Gorgeous.

lol 😂 EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS!!

It's not the same, and she's literally diagnosed - DNA tested.

It's not really curly though

@@HulklingsBoyfriend they just gave it a diagnosis cause the only other thing to say was girl you got they hair… but they don’t want that stigma… so let’s just call it this instead… 🤨

Omg yessss! I was thinking that too. All she needs to do is go to the Brazilians, Dominicans, or the black stylists

Exactly what an insult to black women women

I agree

I'm pretty sure people started making a rule about combing hair back when we had a lot more of a problem with lice and nits. There's nothing wrong with the word "syndrome". It just means a group of symptoms.

@@throckwoddle That makes sense with the nits!…Syndrome also typically indicates something negative or unwanted, so it is typically something we do not want. So the symptoms are not being able to easily comb out your hair and what else?🤔

Yes its wrong because it had negative undertones. Had she been atound black people she would have known how to care for her hair better.​@@throckwoddle

I did, her hair is amazing . I don’t think she realizes how beautiful it is naturally. It’s a good example of how damaging bullying can do to giving a poor self image .

It’s soo thick too, love it .

Yes, but it was probably tough to manage.

wow, you're really self centered and insensitive. She said doing her hair could take up to 6 hours to manage. The this new look is better maintained at around 45 minutes. And she's beaming with confidence and happiness. No one cares that you or anybody else liked her hair before. She loves it now.

me too 😅

Taínos didn’t have 4c hair. But a lot of todays Taino are mixed with African and have 4c because of that. Anyway 4c hair is sooo beautiful. I love how thick it is. I have 2b & 3b hair but it’s fine and strong.

It's not the same as 4C, it's talked about in the video. It's extremely fragile and brittle hair resulting from a hair shaft mutation, and is tighter and more crimped than 4C hair.

Tainos definitely DID NOT have type 4 hair… 😂 that’s the hair of your African ancestors…

@@lalaland2107 i mean true but i guess some people don’t know that. It’s all good. Most people today who have Taino blood/heritage don’t know much about the Tianos as we were nearly all wiped out. Taínos were from the Amazon and resembled much of todays Amazonian tribes. So yes deep skin tones and usual straight jet black hair. Until they mixed with African, Spaniards, and in some islands Italians or French. A lot of the surviving Taínos moved to the US and formed part of the Seminole Tribe. There are is a small tribe in PR as well left. the majority of us Taínos left are no longer in tribes. a lot of the history and traditions are unfortunately dead.

The woman doesn't have 4c hair texture. She has different hair from the typical Caucasian person, but it's not 4c hair.

The stylist said her hair is porous.

She has high porosity hair. That's why it gets dry so quickly.

@@marshabrown8343Ugh story of my life

If I brush out my hair, it looks just like hers; big, poofy, & straight. I don't even have that mutation, I just have well over 3ft of wavy hair that I don't know how to care for, as I didn't grow up with a mother, & she didn't have the same texture anyway.

It looks like the same girl I saw many years ago. I’m betting it’s her.

I was thinking that this MUST be a joke 😂😂

Yeah... All this drama for normal hair

😂😂❤

Issue is shes white so her family didnt know what 4c was. They dont know how to comb it.

Facts

This is an imitation of life moment. She needs to do her ancestry test, she might get so surprising results and maybe clarity.

That’s exactly what I said

No

Yeah, no

Oh yes from Boy Meets World and I always loved that hair

It’s so sad that our hair is making this lady have a nervous break down 🙄

Right! Her hair is just a day in the life of a 4C. Actually, she’s got a silkier texture even though it doesn’t coil….

FACTS! Same thing I thought!

Nope, not quite. It's tighter and more curled than 4C and extremely crimped, but it's super super brittle and fragile.

People speak all the time about black women wanting wigs and shaving their head and yet this lady has wanted to do a similar thing with her that isn't as curly.

If its a wig or clip ons etc than its not really impressive

@@III-mu4yneveryone that’s black doesn’t wear weave or fake hair there’s a lot of us with natural long hair without being mixed

That’s what I thought too! I was like ummm am I missing something here…? 😂

I totally understand where you’re coming from (and agree), but just so u know, her hair *is* different from black/kinky/coily hair! Like was mentioned in the video, it’s a genetic mutation that literally does make it extremely difficult to care for, her hair is quite literally shaped differently from any other hair types. It’s typically extremely brittle and can cause other health problems as well. It actually is not uncommon for people with this syndrome to go see black stylists and for them to be unable to help bc it literally is different from Afro hair, although presumably the woman in this video hadn’t.

What's NHM? Something something method?

I agree. Black women have faced hair discrimination for centuries and no one cares. It's seems this white woman was able to somewhat walk in our shoes (in relation to hair) and feel how hurtful it is to be seen as less than for something you were born with.

​@@jenniferpearce1052natural hair movement

Stop gaslighting this woman. HER HAIR IS GENETICALLY DIFFERENT