Julie incisively exposes the racialized double standards of the beauty industry, where colonial legacies dictate which forms of exploitation are marketed as luxury and which are stigmatized. This critique effectively highlights how systemic racism continues to shape global commerce and our internal perception of value.
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Buying Impoverished Asian Women's Hair= LUXURY. ✅ Buying an African Woman's locs= EVIL. ❌Added:
for 22 24 in bust down middle part. I posted this dreadlocks yesterday and I had a lot of comments and a lot of people having a lot to say about this dreadlock. Now, Nigerians are very, very weird people because we buy foreign donor hairs and we sell them human hairs and a lot of us we buy without complaining. But when it comes to black women hair, a lot of you suddenly have a lot to say.
>> Hey guys, it's Julie here. How are you doing? Oh, we have a juicy one today because catching hypocrisy and straight up clownerry in real time is, you got to admit, entertaining. But let's buckle up because this is also eyeopening. So, the other day I was doing a little doom scrolling on Twitter. You know, I should really stop doing that. It's why I have the attention span of a fly and the patience of a bush rat these days. But yeah, I was doing that and I saw this tweet by a Nigerian lady advertising locks for sale. Not faux locks. No, the real deal. Like actual locks of the hair of another woman, a black woman. And let me tell you, the moment I saw it, I just heed a big long sideigh because I knew I knew the sisterhood of the closure colonist will be wilding in the comments. It's sad how I see certain posts now about hair and I can already smell the weird funky smell of texturism and ignorance before I even open the comments. And I am always usually right.
I'm not new to the game. The wig warriors are gaining worldwide notoriety. Inf famousamous for their shamelessness. Now, not only two scrolls away, I saw another post that was quoting this first post by saying, "Dread from African women, evil spirits and ancestral curse. Hair from foreign women and impoverished Asian kids.
Luxury."
I just knew it had to be done. So, I went on to watch the video of the girl that was selling the locks, and this was what she said.
This dreadlock is over 25 years old, and this dreadlock is 101 pieces. I have 101 pieces right here. Now, this dreadlock is from a donor. We cut the dreadlock from my auntie right now. She wants to sell the dreads. It's measuring 36 almost 37 in. and it has been on her head for years. She has she has had this dreadlock for more than 26 27 years. So she caught this dreadlock and now she wants to sell it. How much do you think this dreadlock this dreadlock is worth?
If you want it, you send a DM. She wants to sell it, right? 101 pieces almost 37 in and it is her hair like her direct human hair. She did not add any extension.
This is it. If you want it, send the DM.
>> We all know, or if you don't know already, hair off real people's heads being sold is not in any sense a new concept. We've known about human hair for a while. We've talked about human hair quite a few times on this channel before. But usually, when we see hair being cut off other people's heads to be sold, it's hair that is cut off impoverished Asian women. That's what we're used to. Straight, silky, homegrown hair that was bought really cheap and bundled off to the factories to be packaged as luxury and sold to the people who can afford them. Yeah, real human hair ain't cheap. They now make good synthetic hair that that are very soft and durable. But real human hair that come off other people's heads and respond to water and products the way that real hairs would are not cheap. And women, especially black women, flock to buy them. We know this. It's like a badge of honor to own hairs that come off the scalps of impoverished Asian women from third world countries liberously for it. Then when they finally wrap their fingers around the shiny paper bag and bring the treasure home, they know that they have accomplished something. So let's read through this post and then we'll go on Tik Tok to the original post and read through some more comments. Now the post on Twitter said, "Can you buy this dread cut off someone's head?"
God forbid. Just straight up. God forbid. I don't have anything against dread, but I can't touch it. Sing. My locks are homegrown. I feel like the only reason I'd wear someone else's lock on my hair is if it was from a loved one. God forbid. Whenever I decide I'm not going to do dread again, I will burn it.
Buy one, get one free evil spirit.
Seeing them saying, "God forbid, but they wear human hair." Is it because this one is not from oub means someone that is not black?
>> Yes. Black women are only willing to buy hair if it has been cut off from the head of an Asian girl child.
>> Yeah.
>> So, yeah, you get the gist. Most of the comments were just, "Oh god, I can't touch it. Ew, get it away. Why is someone doing this? Why would you buy someone else's hair?" And it's just the irony is glaring at these people right in the face and they keep avoiding eye contact. Why is it suddenly a strange and unsettling and even disgusting practice to buy someone else's hair when it is a culture at this point for black women to aspire to buy the hair off a woman from a different race and own it?
Why do they suddenly have a new tone when the black women have made themselves millionaires out of buying and selling and shipping bundles of real hair from real people around the world?
Many women proudly declare their hairs to be original and purely raw donor human hair and demand to be set apart from the gullies who have human hair but you know the low budget type. The blends that are mixed with other not purely human hair strands to make it cheaper and more affordable. So they most definitely do not want to be associated with the girlies that own synthetic wig.
They enjoy sitting at the top of the wig chain as the apex predator in the hair luxury world. So what changed now that it is a black woman that is selling a black woman's real human hair?
Let's read some more comments of the Tik Tok original post. Make I buy bad luck put for my head. Abby dreadlock 26 years with 26 spirits. An offi problem put for my head. I refuse to carry bad luck.
this among a sea of other comments attributing the hair to something dark, creepy, and diabolic were flooding the comment section. So, you get the gist by now. But let's actually talk about the irony. So, I'm going to start off with this point, which is the idealization of non-African hair, skin, and features. If you walk down the street and ask the average Nigerian if they can buy someone's lock, these are pretty much the same answer you'll get. Now, if you walk down the street with locks in one hand and silky straight bundles in another and tell people that they both came off people's heads and ask them which one they would pick, they will forget that they just said, "H, God forbid. I can never touch someone else's hair and wear it to my head." Oh, nothing will make me buy this hair. This is just evil. This is not our culture.
We never They'll forget that they said all that. They will forget that they almost just threw up at the prospect of putting someone else's hairs on their head and make a wild hungry grab for the Asian silky straight hair. A lot of the outrage and shock and alarm from this post are fake, unfounded, and unreasonable. And the sad part is that the people making this argument don't realize the hypocrisy in their own comments. Because to them, this is a very logical, levelheaded take to have.
Not willing to buy someone else's hair that came off someone else's scalp. They see it as logical and balanced until they are presented with Asian bundles.
Then all logic and reservations fly out of the window. Then they stretch their hands forward and look like they are reaching out for their blessings.
Colonization did a big number on the African mind. Many Africans will forever see themselves as inferior and their features as undesirable and continue to strive to look nothing like themselves.
And this has been the mindset for many generations. Black women don't want to have natural hair. Don't want to have dark skin. They don't want anything that ties them to being black. I saw this video of this girl that went on vacation in Santorini and she made this video saying that the sun has made me turn black like [ __ ] That's what she said.
And she was just acting disgusted at being a few shades darker due to the weather. As though there are not people with that skin tones watching that video that she's offending by calling that skin tone black. Like mind you, she was never light-kinned in the first place.
>> I went to Maddie. I'm black. Is this someone that is giving me color? I'm black like hell. P is not black like [ __ ] P shitty black. I can't even see him in dark. Me my skin. If you look at my chest e just have the back of your mind that if you go there to enjoy you coming back you come back with opposite cuz imagine you're going to m you travel to m I'm enjoying you now come back how you want to explain say you go enjoy you not you're living fake life if you go somewhere and start getting lighter due to the weather people will say oh you're living the good life but if you go somewhere and you start getting darker due to the weather people will start getting concerned and telling you to take care of yourself meanwhile she's is literally living the good life on a luxury trip enjoying beautiful sceneries and food. But just the skin tone changing for darker is a source of concern that makes her unhappy because it looks like she's suffering according to her. With the idealization of non-African features comes the demonization of black features. Nobody wants to be too black or too dark. Blue eyes are more covereted and that's why you see some black people wearing colored contacts all year even though they look like that one Mileyus picture.
Nobody wants dark gums even though it's just a depiction of the melanin in your skin. And nobody wants to have super coily hair. That's why black women can spend their lives chasing after the so-called luxury hair that ironically have stories of poverty and struggle attached to it. But they scorn and scoff at the idea of an African woman selling her locks just because she wanted a new hairstyle. Not necessarily because she's hungry or she's poverty stricken or she's going through it. She's just selling her locks because she decided to do something new. Nine out of 10 times Asian women are not selling their hairs because they love to cut their hair and keep a bob. They are selling it to make money to survive. But it becomes luxury once it comes in that paper bag and that barcode to scan to buy more. Right? When it comes to demonizing black features, our elders are so good at it. It's passed down. If you're a guy with locks and you're a Nigerian, you already know that your mom is disappointed in you.
Nine out of 10 times, she thinks that you look irresponsible with your locks, like a thug or a criminal. Where did that thought come from? The day that you cut your locks is the day that your mom starts posting you again on her WhatsApp status and telling her friends that she does indeed have a male child. Even girls are not spared. Many older African people simply do not like locks or afro hair. But people have been selling their locks and for good money too. Believe it or not, it's not a new concept. They are biased for these things, believe it or not. Now, let's talk about the dehumanization of non-black women. This inadvertently happens while black women put their hairs on a pedestal. When you look at these comments, many of them are coming from women who have no problem with wigs. We have seen videos of black women saying or no joking right about cutting off non-b blackack women's hair to wear it like a costume. I don't want to say Asian hair because I've seen this happen with different races. As long as you're not black with [ __ ] hair, they will joke about cutting off your hair if it's long, even if it's in a bob. Case in point, because of how much desensitized black women have become to the idea or just to the gravity of the idea that they are indeed wearing another human being's hair when it comes to women that are not black, they tend to be removed from the realization that buying hair you paid for that comes in a box may be okay, but seeing a random Indian girl brushing her hair on Tik Tok does not warrant going to a comment section and asking her how much her hair costs. Case in point, they're taking features that literally belong to another human being and treating it like it's on an auction. You don't see how creepy and dehumanizing that is. They made this creator so uncomfortable she had to tell them to stop being racist to her. You see videos of children getting scalped to provide hair for these old ass women like sheep being shed for it wool. And this woman wants to think like, hm, you know, maybe this is not right. This makes me feel something like maybe what we're doing is not right. I mean, a literal child, a baby, a minor, because I want to wear a wig to cover my own hair and boost my status among my fellow wig worshippers.
I don't really care. That's the mindset of a wig warrior. They're instead in the comments like, "M, oh yeah, I need that bob. Make sure you get everything." Mind you, a child or a minor cannot consent to these things. Their parents or guardians are making them do that for money. Now, let's talk about the fake superstitious outrage. The average Nigerian is very superstitious. It's quite annoying. I can't stand it. The worst of it is how Nigerians can be superstitious only when it costs them nothing. An example how older Nigerian people especially believe that giving them anything with your left hand is a sign of disrespect and that left hand touching their wares can also bring bad luck. Even if you're a naturally left-handed person, you have to train your brain to go against its nature and use your right hand so you don't offend a Nigerian elder. But give them free money with your left hand. Put your hand in your pocket. Bring out money and say, "Take it. It's yours." With your left hand, as long as they know that they are gaining from that, they will suddenly forget how it's disrespectful to give money with your left hand. They will bow down and worship you. Oh, okay. So now you want my left hand money. A lot of it is hypocrisy and being too intellectually lazy to analyze things.
How are you only superstitious about the same issue only when the skin color changes? A long time ago, I remember reading a quote from Chimamanda Adichi in her book, We Should All Be Feminist, a feminist manifesto. She says, "If you criticize X in a woman, but not X in a man, you don't have a problem with X, you have a problem with women." Yeah, let's apply that to skin color. If you criticize selling and buying of human hair when it comes to black women, but you praise it when it comes to non-black women, you don't have a problem with buying human hair. You have a problem with black skin. Period.
How are you suddenly scared and worried about evil spirits when it's locked, but not when it's Peruvian bundles?
Suddenly, hair is no longer sacred and it can't bring bad luck and evil spirits into your life. You can only do that if your skin is black.
Now, this lady had to make a follow-up video because of the influx of comments she got. And she said, >> I said this dreadlocks yesterday and I had a lot of comments and a lot of people having a lot to say about this dreadlock. Now Nigerians are very very weird people because we buy foreign donor hairs and we sell them human hairs and a lot of us we buy without complaining but when it comes to black women hair a lot of you suddenly have a lot to say. Now this particular dreadlock I'll be attaching pictures of the owner way back from 2010. This particular dreadlock is almost 40 ines and it is 100% human hair. It was treated. It was strained. It was grown to this extent. Right now you guys ask the reason why they cut this hair. This hair started sweeping the ground.
Whenever the owner is working is always sweeping the ground. It is too long.
>> Comment under this where that comes with spirits into this world for a specific reason. Now for those who don't know some people refer to locks as d in Nigeria. Another person said for your hair someone said show us the picture now they want to see the picture of this aunt that she's talking about. People are asking for a picture of the person that had the hair before before they can even feel comfortable with the idea of buying it. But they don't care where their silky straights come from. Now they worried about destiny and bad luck.
But they threw a party to celebrate buying their first bow straight wig.
Somebody said it means that you're not supposed to be selling it. It is very spiritual. Now you never understand why.
So the destiny of an impoverished woman from a third world country selling her waist length hair for $9 and a half dollars is bright. But from an African woman whom are not even sure of the background, the destiny is definitely soiled and tainted and diabolical.
Bust that math ladies and gentlemen. And this is not the first time someone would try to sell human hair locks online and black people will go there and absolutely shred them. They'll pour in on mass to insult or poke fun at it.
This is another girl that posted a video a while ago trying to sell locks. The comments, am I the only one who can never put this on my hair? The fact that I know it is someone here. I can never use it. Someone is suggesting that they use the locks to light fires in stoves.
Very progressive. Another comment. Can't hold it or even put it in my head. To which someone responded, "But you're wearing wigs." Somebody said, "Before I proceed, why she cut them?" They want to know why she cut it. But do they care why the last owner of the bone straits that they have cut it even when it's been talked about so many times about how many women cut their hair to get rid of bad luck and bad energy and to cleanse their aura. Why do you put on Indian human hair? Can I ask? You know how we get that hair? When nothing goes right in the life of a Hindu person, they go through a ceremony called tancho where the priest in the temple incantates all the bad luck they are facing onto the hair because for them to cut hair is such a taboo. But so that they it indicates a new face of metamorphosis.
They shave the hair clean. They used to bend that hair because they understood they're burning all the bad luck until they realize the stupid African woman wants to put it on their head. So, you buy your own bad luck and you put it on your head. So, I think I'll I'll leave it there. If that's not scary and doesn't send a chill down your spine, then you have no business being worried about where the locks came from now, do you? I think that it's okay to not want to wear someone else's hair, but why does it only apply when the skin of the it came from is black? And this brings me to my last point. I've said this before and I'll say it again. Black women are the worst marketers of their own hair. If you're confused as to what that statement means, I made a whole video talking about it and dissecting the issue surrounding this statement.
But a summary is when it comes to promoting anything black or African as wanted, beautiful, desirable, valuable, worthy, etc. Black people fall flat.
They will go all their lives showing out with their Asian bundles indirectly telling women with hairs like this.
Like, see, I admire you so much and I wish I look like you so much that I bought a part of you that I now proudly wear. And all the other black girls that cannot afford to look like you are jealous of me. Look how much I'm willing to spend just to get a taste of how it feels like to have your hair type. Other black women want what I have, which is basically what you have naturally. What I naturally have is not good enough. So I have to hide it with what you naturally have.
They said this in so many different ways. Then when it comes to their hair, it's oh a tale of struggle, strife, and suffering. Setup camera, snotty nose, and swollen eyed. Guys, we don't talk enough about how ugly fy hair is. Yes, you do.
Yep, you do every day. You literally made a video yesterday in your maid outfit and your eyes were just as red as they are today. We're actually tired of talking about it. Please stop. Please.
Also, notice how they never tell black women with long hair that they want to cut their hair off and wear it because one, like I said earlier, they know it's dehumanizing to straight up say to another person, "How much for your hair?
How much for your hair?" And two, they simply don't coveret afroextured hair, no matter how long and healthy it is.
So, you could be a black Rapunzel and the wig warriors will not be thirsting for your hair. They're not checking for you. It's not about how long or healthy this woman's hair is. It's just the texture and the status boost they feel that having hair that looks like that would give them. But yeah, I want to hear you guys thoughts about this. So, let me know below. And if you've made it this far, as usual, thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe. And do subscribe to my membership if you haven't. I posted an in-depth video of my funy donut hairstyle, and more content will be coming soon your way. I can't wait to share it. And yeah, take care of yourself, loveies. Bye.
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