00:00The time spent trying to manipulate my hair into some, you know, straight fashion just
00:10completely took out so much time that we could have been doing things together.
00:25Growing up, getting my hair done was pretty dreadful for both myself and my mom, and I remember
00:32very vividly that we would always do my hair on Saturday, a Saturday afternoon, and there
00:39was always a buildup from Monday to Saturday.
00:43My mom would be reminding me that she was going to be doing my hair on Saturday, so just
00:48prepare yourself for that.
00:50Everything hurt basically getting my hair washed, combed, especially being braided.
00:56It just hurt so much.
01:02I just was very embarrassed throughout having a natural hair style.
01:08When I got into college and I went natural, and I looked back at it, I sat in my dorm room
01:14and I cried.
01:15I cried for the child that didn't get a chance to live her entire life with natural hair.
01:23There's a huge influence with images in the media.
01:26It always has been that way.
01:28So what I try to do is just really emphasize, are you being unique, are you being a rock star,
01:34are you having big hair, are you being different?
01:37And not wanting to look like everybody else.
01:43Although I know that the intentions of my grandmother and my mother were good, I have
01:48to remember, you know, my mother had me when she was older, so she was an older parent who
01:53experienced some things during her childhood that I can't even imagine now.
01:57I don't want her to feel, you know, discouraged or self-conscious about her hair.
02:04Everything about her is beautiful in my eyes, and so I want her to know that she's beautiful.
02:07I don't ever want her to say, I don't know who I am.
02:14The one thing that I am adamant about instilling in Kari is that this is what you have been given.
02:27Embrace it, love it, and be confident about it.
02:32And for me, it extends, you know, so much more, you know, so much further beyond the hair.
02:39From the very beginning, I was telling her how pretty her hair was, and just going over
02:44and above about her big, pretty hair and how different it is.
02:48Because I did not want her to feel different in a bad way.
02:52I wanted her to embrace that difference and own it.
02:55And she definitely has done that.
02:57I want her to step right into what God has blessed her with.
03:01This beautiful head of hair that's healthy, that's hers, that is maintained.
03:05And I want her to just say, this is me.
03:08I'm proud of who I am.
03:09I'm proud of every curl.
03:11I'm proud of every nap.
03:12I'm proud of everything that I have.
03:15And this is me.
03:16I love it.
03:17As a mom and a developer, I want children to be confident about their hair.
03:21As a mom, I instill in my daughter's confidence and to let them know that regardless of what
03:26anyone says, you're beautiful.
03:28And I let them know to embrace their natural texture of hair, regardless of what anyone
03:32says about them.
03:34We want to use gray products.
03:35We want to use greener products because we want to be healthy overall.
03:38I like my kids to be free and to play and not to worry about, well, I'm going to mess
03:43my hair up.
03:44And now moms are starting to embrace their daughter's natural texture of hair.
03:48They're conforming to what we define as beauty.
03:51And we're embracing our hair texture, whether it's kinky, curly, or whatever our texture is.
03:56We're starting to let our daughters know that that's what's beautiful and not what society
04:00thinks is beautiful.
04:02You should let your daughters know to be confident that mommy's going to do my hair and I'm going
04:05to be beautiful.
04:06It's going to be beautiful.
04:26Enjoy.
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