this what caused many black people hair to fall out years later smh. afro era was the best. even now I'm happy its natural with locs and freeform afros. thank god.
That's where that answer is wrong. It was actually invented by a Black man by the name of Willie Morrow from San Diego, the inventor of the California Curl.
@@mm...food. I'm not saying that the Jheri curl is exclusively for Blacks. Yes, it's true that anyone can rock it. In fact, there are some White Jews that have the same texture as us Blacks and they have the ability to process their hair just like us. And yes, I also believe that some but not all Whites can get a Jheri curl as well. It depends on how the hair was naturally made when the person was born .
I heard it will be making a comeback! In all honesty it was not a bad hairstyle at all, I was not around during it's first run, but I am glad to be around for it this time.
Get ready for the smell...there's a distinct Jheri Curl smell...not bad ...just distinct... that comes with heavy presence of people with Jheri Curls. So much so....that just seeing the pictures makes me able to smell 1986 again.
Im just finding out a white man named Jheri...invented the Jheri curl. ...that blows my mind. For no reason, i just googled who invented the Jheri Curl , thinking how that black man or women must have gotten rich off of it....and then I see Jheri Reddings face 😂😂😂😂 just wasn't expecting that
How is a hairstyle a form of self hate? Hair is versatile especially black hair. Why not celebrate the versatility. I love how black hair can be tightled coiled and then straightened to create a whole new look. Stop identifying a change in hair texture with self hate. It's ridiculous.
Yes I had the Jeri curl in 1984 when I was 10. I got it the summer before I began fourth grade. That was the downfall of my hair. In 1985 it had killed it. I went to a press and curl for a few months until I got my first Dark and Lovely perm. It was over then. By 1996 I began to see people with dread locks and desired them. I was in Tennessee. I move to Seattle that same year and got all the perm cut off. I went natural for the first the with a short curly fade. I wasn't don't in 1997 I was in a perm again due to pressure of my boyfriend at the time. The end of that year I chopped off my hair again and was natural. In 1998 I put in a box Duke process to curl my hair. Then I entered another relationship with a guy who wanted me to get a wave nouveau. I rocked that and Jeri curl until December 1999. I was done and back in the natural fade. So in 2002 that fall was my last relaxer. I was 28 when I gave of the straighting chemicals. Since then I wear afro, locks, or twists. God is good I have my hair on the sides and edges. I stopped chemicals just in time. My advice to Black women is stop perming the hair by the age of 25. I had one grandmother who was 107 when she died. She never used perms or Jeri curls . Her hair was long until her 80's 90's. The other grandmother permed her hair often then got a press every week, because that was a sign of affluence to get your hair done weekly. But she had a huge bald spot in the top of her head that was not coming back. So her stylist should have warned her of what she was doing instead of taking her money.
Listen I got my first curl back in 85 by 1987 I was wearing press and curl by 1988 that when mom put an Relaxer on me By 1989 I went back to an jheri curl wore it until that late 93 and switch back to a Relaxer and Early 94 I switch back to a jheri late 95 I went back to an Relaxer I started wearing braids .
I was a teenager in the 80s and along with my tight Sergio Valente jeans, I rocked the TCB curl. Thinking a about it now, I can still smell the activator. I was real cute, too,
@@BlackExcellenceMedia Shame on you for not crediting or mentioning Classy Curl, especially when during this video the clips of the commercial was made famous back in the 1980's. Sure, Curly Kit was the first among home curl kits back then, but it's totally worthless if you're not mentioning Classy Curl-the official old-school sponsor of Soul Train back from 1980 to 1987.
The grown black man knows you can't clown him because he doesn't follow trends, he has his own style and moves to his own beat with confidence and women love confidence in a man!
Being I'm biracial, if I put a lot of gel in my hair it looks like a Jheri curl. Being the hard core Punk fanatic that was in the 1980s and 1990s I would try to transform my high yellow afro into liberty spikes by using a whole bottle of hair gel which would go back to curls the minute I stepped out of the house. Thank you Poly Styrene for being my Punk look alike.
Stoked to hear about you as a punk back in the day! Cool to imagine, and gin to imagine your wild hair! 😆 I was into the punk scene too, though probably started a little later.
My mother sure had a Jheri Curl back in 1984 when I was just the innocent age of 5 years old. And best believe me when I say so, she, had big, fluffy curls back then-and yes, she did had a Pro-Line Curly kit at that era, too. Did I run my fingers through my mom's hair back then? You bet I did. Now ,my mother is 63 (she will be 64 next month), and her hair is all natural, no need for chemicals. As for myself, I could never get a Jheri Curl, not even if it was still the 1980's if I went back in time. And the reason is for the excruciating chemicals,, the foul stench while processing, having to wear rollers, and most importantly, also having to wear a plastic cap every day, and every night. So, it would be a real pain if the chemically processed Jheri curls would make a comeback, but then again, it stll looks good on some people.
Does anybody else remember a high top fade being called a "box"? I lived in southern Florida in 1988 or '89 and was in high school, and every black kid in the school had a really tall box (like Kid n' Play). That's what they called it. I also remember that at the end of the jheri curl era, the antagonist in the movie would usually have one and be depicted as vain or even kind of dumb. The Good Guy would have natural hair.
@@pamulahwilliams1744 I loved it! It looked so cool. My white boy hair wouldn't do it, so I was just envious. I remember the salt n' Peppa line "I'm checking out the brother with the high top fade" and so even back then I wondered if high top fade and box were the same thing.
If this guy Jheri Redding invented the Jheri curl in the 80s, how is it that the s-curl was invented in the 70s. Also why would some European invent something for the American Indians. Something just doesn't sound right.
Really this Black Guy Name Willie Marrow from San Diego invented the jheri curl. But it was call the California Curl. He pass away earlier this year. Need to Read up on him
Decided to do research with perms because of my hair issues. This was good info. We're always the main targets we/me/us Melonated ones when it comes to pursuing us for money...Somebody's always in a master class, thinking. Take notes😢😢😮.
Ever wondered what brand name of jheri curls you folks used back in the days? Sometimes, back then it was hard to tell the difference because most Black people who wore the style and used the products were quite the same, if you can catch my drift.😁
my mother sd i was the only baby born on the block in 1980 that came out with a natural jheri curl 😂 chile and my hair still super curl i was always jealous of loc styles and fros my hair said nawl lol
definitely depends lololl its a spot in St Louis called the Drop Shop that still do em 😂 im sure anyone from St Louis who reading this know im not lying lol its the last and only place that still do it for the OGs who wont let go, they do all the old school styles , finger waves and all 😂
By the late 80's, the Jheri Curl became played out in NYC. Anyway, that hairstyle wasn't even making much noise in NYC during the 80's which is something others are still failing to realize.
Michael Jackson is always be best known to rock this hairstyle!!
He was the first to sport it on the front cover of Jet magazine in 1979
And that girl that was in thriller video. She was so pretty she made me want one.
@@hallierivers957 Ola Ray
Nah Eazy E rocked it best
this what caused many black people hair to fall out years later smh. afro era was the best. even now I'm happy its natural with locs and freeform afros. thank god.
Wow! Jeri curl invented by a white guy. That's crazy!
Sound like another weapon on the black community. Nothing to be proud of
I google all the time
That's where that answer is wrong. It was actually invented by a Black man by the name of Willie Morrow from San Diego, the inventor of the California Curl.
@@mm...food. I'm not saying that the Jheri curl is exclusively for Blacks. Yes, it's true that anyone can rock it. In fact, there are some White Jews that have the same texture as us Blacks and they have the ability to process their hair just like us. And yes, I also believe that some but not all Whites can get a Jheri curl as well. It depends on how the hair was naturally made when the person was born .
@@kalonjirivers8902 Exactly!! He basically just copied the California curl and gave it a different name
Its time to bring the Jheri back , stronger than ever
I got one lol
Hell no
You start wearing it then we will follow
I want to know where to get it cause S-curl is not the same thing 😮
I got one
I wore Jheri Curls all through the 1980's until 1993. Now I want to make a comeback!!
I heard it will be making a comeback! In all honesty it was not a bad hairstyle at all, I was not around during it's first run, but I am glad to be around for it this time.
It came back kids at my school be getting perms
s back people in my country wears it a lot
I’m here to report it’s back. Ppl ask for it at the salon 🤦🏾♀️😂
Get ready for the smell...there's a distinct Jheri Curl smell...not bad ...just distinct... that comes with heavy presence of people with Jheri Curls. So much so....that just seeing the pictures makes me able to smell 1986 again.
I must say, I've always been curious about this style and how it came about. Good video.
Thank you!!!
Im just finding out a white man named Jheri...invented the Jheri curl. ...that blows my mind. For no reason, i just googled who invented the Jheri Curl , thinking how that black man or women must have gotten rich off of it....and then I see Jheri Reddings face 😂😂😂😂 just wasn't expecting that
Originated from a form of self hate.
How about easier hair to manage
@@semoneg2826maybe if you wanna leave your hair dry and receding
How is a hairstyle a form of self hate? Hair is versatile especially black hair. Why not celebrate the versatility. I love how black hair can be tightled coiled and then straightened to create a whole new look. Stop identifying a change in hair texture with self hate. It's ridiculous.
Yes I had the Jeri curl in 1984 when I was 10. I got it the summer before I began fourth grade. That was the downfall of my hair. In 1985 it had killed it. I went to a press and curl for a few months until I got my first Dark and Lovely perm. It was over then. By 1996 I began to see people with dread locks and desired them. I was in Tennessee. I move to Seattle that same year and got all the perm cut off. I went natural for the first the with a short curly fade. I wasn't don't in 1997 I was in a perm again due to pressure of my boyfriend at the time. The end of that year I chopped off my hair again and was natural. In 1998 I put in a box Duke process to curl my hair. Then I entered another relationship with a guy who wanted me to get a wave nouveau. I rocked that and Jeri curl until December 1999. I was done and back in the natural fade. So in 2002 that fall was my last relaxer. I was 28 when I gave of the straighting chemicals. Since then I wear afro, locks, or twists. God is good I have my hair on the sides and edges. I stopped chemicals just in time. My advice to Black women is stop perming the hair by the age of 25. I had one grandmother who was 107 when she died. She never used perms or Jeri curls . Her hair was long until her 80's 90's. The other grandmother permed her hair often then got a press every week, because that was a sign of affluence to get your hair done weekly. But she had a huge bald spot in the top of her head that was not coming back. So her stylist should have warned her of what she was doing instead of taking her money.
Thanks for the life story
damn did you hire a biographer to follow you around or did you remember all that yourself?
Damn just read a full book
Listen I got my first curl back in 85 by 1987 I was wearing press and curl by 1988 that when mom put an Relaxer on me
By 1989 I went back to an jheri curl wore it until that late 93 and switch back to a Relaxer and Early 94 I switch back to a jheri late 95 I went back to an Relaxer I started wearing braids .
way too much god 😴💤
I was a teenager in the 80s and along with my tight Sergio Valente jeans, I rocked the TCB curl. Thinking a about it now, I can still smell the activator. I was real cute, too,
The 80s was the time!
@@BlackExcellenceMedia Shame on you for not crediting or mentioning Classy Curl, especially when during this video the clips of the commercial was made famous back in the 1980's. Sure, Curly Kit was the first among home curl kits back then, but it's totally worthless if you're not mentioning Classy Curl-the official old-school sponsor of Soul Train back from 1980 to 1987.
A bm gone get clowned perming his hair these day's, we love our afros 4c hair 💯
The grown black man knows you can't clown him because he doesn't follow trends, he has his own style and moves to his own beat with confidence and women love confidence in a man!
Didn't you need to keep applying activator to keep it from drying out? Can you make it yourself? I heard they stopped making it.
Being I'm biracial, if I put a lot of gel in my hair it looks like a Jheri curl. Being the hard core Punk fanatic that was in the 1980s and 1990s I would try to transform my high yellow afro into liberty spikes by using a whole bottle of hair gel which would go back to curls the minute I stepped out of the house. Thank you Poly Styrene for being my Punk look alike.
Stoked to hear about you as a punk back in the day! Cool to imagine, and gin to imagine your wild hair! 😆
I was into the punk scene too, though probably started a little later.
Naw he really didn't invented the jheri curl it was Willie Marrow from San Diego he came out with the California curl that white dude stole his idea
I guess Willie Marrow didn't have the business sense to patent his invention.
My mother sure had a Jheri Curl back in 1984 when I was just the innocent age of 5 years old. And best believe me when I say so, she, had big, fluffy curls back then-and yes, she did had a Pro-Line Curly kit at that era, too. Did I run my fingers through my mom's hair back then? You bet I did. Now ,my mother is 63 (she will be 64 next month), and her hair is all natural, no need for chemicals. As for myself, I could never get a Jheri Curl, not even if it was still the 1980's if I went back in time. And the reason is for the excruciating chemicals,, the foul stench while processing, having to wear rollers, and most importantly, also having to wear a plastic cap every day, and every night. So, it would be a real pain if the chemically processed Jheri curls would make a comeback, but then again, it stll looks good on some people.
Does anybody else remember a high top fade being called a "box"?
I lived in southern Florida in 1988 or '89 and was in high school, and every black kid in the school had a really tall box (like Kid n' Play). That's what they called it.
I also remember that at the end of the jheri curl era, the antagonist in the movie would usually have one and be depicted as vain or even kind of dumb. The Good Guy would have natural hair.
i remember that boy Nerlens Noel rockin that shit🤣Shump did too
Yes
Yes😂, I remember it the hair cut being called the box.
@@pamulahwilliams1744 I loved it! It looked so cool. My white boy hair wouldn't do it, so I was just envious.
I remember the salt n' Peppa line "I'm checking out the brother with the high top fade" and so even back then I wondered if high top fade and box were the same thing.
If this guy Jheri Redding invented the Jheri curl in the 80s, how is it that the s-curl was invented in the 70s. Also why would some European invent something for the American Indians. Something just doesn't sound right.
Really this Black Guy Name Willie Marrow from San Diego invented the jheri curl.
But it was call the California Curl.
He pass away earlier this year.
Need to Read up on him
Anyone who had a Jheri Curl back in the day is bald today!
🤣🤣🤣
Follow da drip 🚿 used to get clowned a lot for wearing them. I got my first one at age 10
The drip and the marks on shirts
We all got clown 🤣🤣 but we had hair
Boy it BURNED 🔥 like dickens
😂😂😂😂
That garret morgan guy also modernized traffic signals and created a suit that could withstand harmful fumes in a fire
Now i know to take offense to this when blacks ask me if i have a jherry curl...im mixed race hispanic
Hope that Jheri Curl era is over and never returns --- gooey mess!
No I have it. Never getting rid of it.
Jerry curls never left lots of people are doing it as q dry curl now....only using A moisturizer in it
I'm growing my 1970's hairstyle now...."NATURAL."
That's the way to go!
Collyflower nappy.
So the jheri curl was invented by a Caucasian jew.
I'm getting them to be like ice cube
@@skinhead5aww, skinhead boy can't spell
Decided to do research with perms because of my hair issues. This was good info. We're always the main targets we/me/us Melonated ones when it comes to pursuing us for money...Somebody's always in a master class, thinking. Take notes😢😢😮.
Ever wondered what brand name of jheri curls you folks used back in the days? Sometimes, back then it was hard to tell the difference because most Black people who wore the style and used the products were quite the same, if you can catch my drift.😁
Anything to differ from everybody walking around with dreadlocks, its like that's all the 2010's gave us dreadlocks and tattoos 😢
I'm Rick James.
Who cares about being judged, it's still a kick ass hair style today 🎉
It was a white guy who invented a black hairstyle lol!
my mother sd i was the only baby born on the block in 1980 that came out with a natural jheri curl 😂 chile and my hair still super curl i was always jealous of loc styles and fros my hair said nawl lol
Ha! So you will always be in style whenever the jheri curl is back in style
The Jheri curl is S tier. Been wearing it since 2012. Cheap, easy to maintain and looks good. Legendary.
The double head curl has a clove inside it aka ball so it becomes a arch back
Curls wasn’t popular in the 90’s unless you from down south.
definitely depends lololl its a spot in St Louis called the Drop Shop that still do em 😂 im sure anyone from St Louis who reading this know im not lying lol its the last and only place that still do it for the OGs who wont let go, they do all the old school styles , finger waves and all 😂
They were popular in South Central LA also.
@@UNDFTDGordon 💯
Please come back Jeri! we need you now more than ever!.
Its never really left..people in my country wears it a lot
Pronounced SILVER! Edmund Sylver!
This is an essential African American factoid!
The Jheri curl hairstyle era starting from 1982 to 1991 💇✂️ then years later it came back in style
Nope!! Never had it!!
That might be for the best lol
I still use CurlMax curl activator, or Carefree gold for moisture, on my natural hair and Blue Magic Castor Oil hair grease
I love this hairstyle
By the late 80's, the Jheri Curl became played out in NYC. Anyway, that hairstyle wasn't even making much noise in NYC during the 80's which is something others are still failing to realize.
In the late 80s where i live some people was still wearing jheri curls I know I had one.
But I remember when the men wore the
S Curl with the fade
@@sarahsimpkins1311 I remember that
This Christmas
My mother had a Jheri curl til she gave birth to my older brother and 18 months later she gave birth to me
I used to have long as hair and tried to get Jheri curls.
Me too bro, I got the jheri curls but I had to cut my hair real short, worth it tho
@@damn1134 yo how you get them? What do u buy?
Awesome 😍💋 💝💖♥️❤️
But why do people always laugh at this now?
Groupthink. The style is cool and never changed. The groupthink changed.
Nope.
I had one in the mid 80s when I was a kid
Oh hell yeah 😂😂drip drip
Look white don't it?!
JERRRY CUUUUURRLLLLLLLLL
Cup of beans
is he jewish?
Jaboody dubs
That’s dope God is good
So Nice 💘💘💘💘💘💘
OMG 😍💋 💝💖❤️
Why did you say that? Was a Jerry curl a bad thing?
I have a jerry curl
Still rocking mines
got one done last week
Same.
Still rocking mines