00:00We should be proud of our texture because our texture is beautiful.
00:04Hair is about owning yourself and who you are.
00:08Hey everyone, my name is Suzy, also known as African Creature, and I'm the owner of Hair by Suzy.
00:15I'm Nyelma, but you can call me Ni, and I'm a content creator and comedian.
00:18So today we're going to be doing a cornrow box braid style in the shape of a bob.
00:24And guess what color we're going to be doing? Red!
00:27So today we're going to be working with My Black is Beautiful.
00:30It's a brand new line specifically made for us kinky and curly hair girls.
00:36All of these products are created with honey, turmeric, ginger, coconut milk, and coconut oil.
00:45We're going to start by spraying the hair with water.
00:50Then we're going to take our Tangle Slayer, which is good to moisturize and definitely detangles the hair
00:56because you want to have the right product to prep your hair before you install the extensions.
01:01Lather the product in your hands and start to put it and apply it all over your hair.
01:09And she's getting a protective style, so you got to use the right products.
01:14Smells good.
01:17All right, now that she's all moisturized, we're going to start by blow drying her hair out.
01:28How do you help people feel comfortable in rocking their hair and trying new things?
01:34I have to have a lot of self-love for myself and my hair.
01:39See, hair is spiritual.
01:40Hair is spiritual.
01:41It's deeper than hair.
01:43It is.
01:43Because it's like you're building a relationship.
01:49Let's talk about texturism and what it means to us.
01:53Hair is deep.
01:54Hair is deep.
01:55I mean, a couple of years ago, at least for me, I had no idea that there were different ways
01:59to label your hair texture and your hair pattern.
02:01There was no such thing as, oh, my hair's 4A, my hair's 4B, my hair's 4C.
02:05Your hair was either kinky or curly.
02:07Yeah.
02:12When we didn't talk about what our hair textures were, we had a lot of brands and companies make products
02:18just for the 3A girls, the 3B girls, and say,
02:21Hair, natural.
02:22Use it.
02:23And that's what I think is actually pretty cool about My Black is Beautiful because they actually have products dedicated
02:28to that texture.
02:29Because when you don't acknowledge the texture, there are no products or conversations dedicated to that.
02:34Girl.
02:35And then we feel like, oh, my God, our hair is bad.
02:37We don't know what to do with it.
02:38There's a lot of conversation right now about good hair, bad hair, pretty hair.
02:42But what is good hair?
02:43What is bad hair?
02:44Exactly.
02:44So for me, I think good hair is healthy hair.
02:51When I started going to school, they would make fun of my rainbow beads and me being dark skinned, which
02:57I don't understand why.
02:58You know, because I love my skin.
03:01I then started to realize I can't let people's expectation and what they think get to me.
03:08We're a lot further than we were before.
03:10Yeah.
03:10And I think that's something to celebrate because we're all in this together.
03:12We're a lot better.
03:13We're a little more stubborn, but the other thing can't let them see.
03:14Let them see.
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