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.
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 ❤.
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.
Tbh, her texture just reminds me of a blow out on Black hair. If she was surrounded by more black women, she probably would have been complimented more on her glass hair.
@@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.
I kept thinking "if only people knew this is exactly how they make our black children feel about their hair and why it is so important to teach our kids early that their hair is beautiful just the way if grows out of their scalp".
As a guy with hair loss from transition who wears a wig, I wish everyone can be confident in their hair before the hairline goes, and in that case learn about finasteride and minoxidil.
You’re absolutely right. My hair is thick like this when I get a blow out. But I’m a 4b/4c chick. It takes time to love yourself when you’ve been knocked down and insulted about your appearance. Hubs and our kids have lovely curls and health in their tresses. I take the time to show them and explain how it needs to be done etc
Shes a white woman with black ppl hair of course she's depressed they don't want ANYTHING like us frfr unless they get complimented for it and that's based on my experiences with whites.
People with spun glass hair have hair similar to 4c. It's corse and thick, yet fragile. People who get it don't know how to treat their hair properly. Once they are given the tools to do their hair, their confidence is boosted, and their inner beauty radiates. She is a gorgeous woman, and I wish her well.
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.
Even the name uncombable hair syndrome is awful, not to mention misleading. It says to these persons that something is wrong with them when all they really need is a different hair regimen to what is considered conventional for Eurocentric standards . It doesn't surprise me that a black hairstylist would have had the know-how and the patience to deal with the woman's absolutely gorgeous tendrils.
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.
@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.
African American woman, with long, thick 4C hair, here. The hair on the woman in the video is absolutely gorgeous. It looks just like mine, except mine is black. It seems as though she didn't have women of color around much, for she may have grown to love her amazing hair. 🫂
As a kid of mixed ethnicity I totally relate to her experience. A whole lot of people touching my hair that didn't know what to do with it. Now I am in my 40s and am finally in love with my hair
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.
I don’t understand why non-black women have kids with black men and never bother to learn how to do their own child’s hair. It’s like they can’t bring themselves to go to a black woman for help.
Ooh you said a mouthful! I'm a bit older than you (50s) and biracial (black/white). My father taught my mother how to braid my hair, then I figured out how to do it myself. No one knew how to handle washing my hair, I also figured that one out for myself (comb through with conditioner in it before rinsing it out). I would say part of the reason it took so long is because the products and tools didn't exist, although that's definitely not the only reason. It doesn't help that the hair texture from one biracial person to the next can be different, even in the same family.
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.
My takeaway is that its so reductive and offensive to call it uncombable hair syndrome when it can also affect the eyes, kidneys, teeth. The hair is maneageable with the right products. I'm so glad she got the help she needed, I think her hair is so beautiful and has so much volume.
Leave it for doctors for naming diseases in a reductive way so it misleads people. For example chronic fatigue sendrome(It is a multi system problem that goes with mitocondrial disfunction,mfs there do articles about how walking improved the sendrome %10) or conversion disorder(More than %70 of the conversion disorder is not a conversion and non psychogenic). We dont even have a medical name for long covid but I am sure it will be a shitty reductive shit like covid related inflamation or someshit. I am a doctor myself but learning medicine would be 100x easier if doctors knew how to name things.
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.
Man, at the beginning her hair is so long and luscious with so much beautiful volume!!! I'm also so glad she found people who could help her feel more comfortable and confident
As a black woman with highly textured curly coily natural hair I thought this was a spoof at first. The entire time I was thinking “ she needs to go to a black hair stylist “ . Glad she was directed to someone that could help her.
Exactly!!! Friends, coworkers, teachers, doctors, professors, ANYONE!!! I know diversity is demonized by many people, but we’re all human in the end and we need to support each other.
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.
Even as a stylist, texture was not addressed properly in school. I had to learn what I did from friends with heavily textured hair. I learned more from several clients over my years as well. I think texture needs more focus in beauty schools so stylists can have that info from the beginning of their careers. Even at 53, I'm still learning how to style my curls properly!
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 😆
I love how she acknowledged the doctors hair when she walked in immediately. You can tell she admires textures that have the ability to shape and curl. That’s why she got a nice wavy style at the end. Looks great
I knew it was going to be a black hair stylist and she didn't disappoint. She nailed that job and made sure to TEACH her client in such a compassionate manner. 10/10.
6:24 When she talked about wavy hair ... That's true. I grew up in Chile and they had a very binary way to see hair. It was either straight as a pin or curly-curly. My thick waves were invisible. The hairdressers talked about frizz and that I had to fight it with anti-frizz products or chemical straightening. I was so lost. 7 years ago I came across a black woman on UA-cam doing her hair and then, I found out that I coukd wear my texture if I change the regimen. I'm so grateful.
@@1726Meoweveryone's not the same. What works for her might not work for you. Most of the time though, what I see is people drying their hair out, using stuff with alcohol and silicates, or washing it too often or not conditioning it. Don't do that.
That Md is so kind and generous to gave her the infos about this hairstyle specialist. She really understand the needs of this young lady. She look so beautiful! Both of them look splendid! 💖
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"
How is this a syndrome? It’s just course straight hair…her hair is beyond beautiful! I knew visiting a black salon would give her the confidence she needed.
@@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.
Why am I tearing up, I haven`t had such struggle 😭I feel bad she had no idea before about the care her hair needed. Love, love how she can finally be more at ease
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".
It's wild to me that people make fun of her hair. Her hair is sooooo pretty... thick, voluminous, awesome color with really nice blonde highlights. Things that many people go to a salon or buy extensions for. Both the before and after are nice but I really loved that voluminous high pony tail that she wore before.
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.
I cried... she's so sweet. She has such a shining soul and I absolutely loved the way those queens took care of her and allowed her to share while being cared for.
Beauty school does NOT give the education for us to know all hair textures. This story is amazing and warms my heart. I love when I can help someone in my chair and I’m glad she found the resources she needed.
You are totally right. White people salons (and in white saying this) don’t know how to deal with textured hair. She found her stylist and she knocked it out of the park!! ❤️❤️❤️
This is what beauty schools need to teach whole courses on textured hair. Black hair stylists are versatile because they encounter all types of hair textures. There should be no reason she should’ve gone this long not understanding how beautiful her hair is.
Her hair was thick and beautiful in the before. I understand that she didn't like it because she was teased by her peers, which is the same reason black women wear wigs. She experienced some of the discrimination that black women have dealt with for decades. All hair textures are beautiful and should be treated equally.
She spent 5 hrs to get it to look the way it did in the before footage. That said, having a triangular, grooved hair shaft, which is not how other hair types look under a microscope. I'm very grateful that the stylist was able to cut down her hair care/styling to under an hour. The other common phrase for this disorder is "Spun Glass Hair," which is a bit more descriptive. One of the medical terms for this hair condition is pili trainguli et canalculi, which is a moutful.
Having a formal diagnosis can be SO validating. Then being guided through maintenance for incurable conditions is such a wonderful next step. I am SO happy she was able to get help 🥰
It’s not a syndrome! It’s her natural hair texture and it’s similar to black people. All she needed was a black beautician to educate her on her hair. Unfortunately, when something is too ethnic or not understanding-we like to label it a syndrome . There is young white woman with curly course hair that went through similar experiences. Through much research on her own, she developed a hair regimen. Consequently, this hair regimen is exactly what we (black women)do to our hair. She’s on UA-cam . I’m so glad she got help!🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾❤️
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! 💯🥰
The service this doctor and tis hairstylist gave this beautiful girl is soul changing. Just knowing what she can do to help herself and to have the hair she wants gives her the confidence she has never had before. They have truly changed her life.
not us black people side eyeing. i think this is just a result of racism framing it as a problem than like , just another variant of hair texture. she is beautiful and unique and just needs a different kind of maintainance
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.
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
If you think your hair is "straight but puffy/frizzy" it's probably curly. Her hair is thick and coarse and low porosity, but there are products and techniques to help with all of that.
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.
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 .
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.
When she said she wish she could cut it off and wear a wig......man 😭 thats exactly why alot of black women wear wigs its so hard to maintain our hair everyday 😭 its easy to just throw on a wig and go to work/school
This confirmed what i thought about this syndrome. I remember watching this tv show with 3 little girls with the same syndrome and thinking that it looks like my hair when i blow dry it. They just need to go to a black salon and learn how to take care of it.
Poor girl. This is why I became a hairstylist, to help people who have always hated their hair. There’s nothing wrong with her, different is beautiful.
When she showed her hair in the beginning… I was like girl bye that’s our texture.🤦🏽♀️ that diagnosis threw me off a bit. Her hair is beautiful! Before and after.
@@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… 🤨
I have hair just like that, but because I am a Taino, it’s not considered uncombable hair syndrome…. It’s just 4c hair texture. Who knew all her mom had to do is seek help from an African American to understand and learn how to’s on her textured hair. It could have saved this lady years of her self confidence.
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.
@@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.
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 started 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.
@@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.
My daughter suffers with same problem but me and her dad are mixed race but a bit of taming oil and straighteners after shower does trick...be proud of what you have been given.❤
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.
Fr, people are jumping to alot of conclusions, its called uncomfortable for a reason☹️ it's very hard to maintain because of how thin and electric it can be
It’s also not curly, it just frizzes. Straight hair has a round shaft, curly hair is flattened, but uncombable hair is triangular. So a lot of the things that might work with very curly hair don’t always work with glass hair.
I remember seeing a show of a child with this condition many years ago and I wondered if her hair would respond well to being treated like black hair. The mother said they couldn’t get a comb through it. I have 4c hair. I was so curious about a comparison of this type of hair and 4c. I wish they could have told us if they are similar. Seeing this was so satisfying because it proved that help is possible. ❤ Edit: I’m also wondering if this might be the girl I saw on the original show many years ago.
I appreciate how this clip is a great example of the need for diversity in the workplace. This lady has been seeing doctors for years. I'm guessing that her previous doctors and stylist were not Black women or women with this hair texture.
As i was looking at her hair i said to myself “it seems like she just needs a moisturizing hair care routine” and look at that ! Shoutout the stylist she did an amazing job !
This poor sweet lady, you can tell how much she internalized the bullying she received as a child. ☹️ It kept her so focused on her hair that I doubt she realized how pretty she actually is, and has always been. I hope her confidence continues to bloom.❤️
I'm so so so glad we got products for textured hair nowadays and information to help us. When I was a kid, we had literally like one shampoo and one conditioner for all textured hair and like a million products for straight hair 🤡 and curly and wavy haired would always been considered untidy or having a "bad hair" 🤡 I used to cry so so so much with my wavy hair, and nowadays its one of my favourite traits. Girl looks amazing and so happy! All the 3 women in this video are absolutelly gorgeous 💖💖
The term “UNCOMBABLE HAIR SYNDROME” is offensive and suggests that ppl whose hair is more difficult to comb and/or detangle, is problematic, bad, or wrong, when it simply means that it takes more time and requires a certain skill. That name MUST BE CHANGED! Edit: Who made the rule that hair MUST BE combed anyway?!😉🧐
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
As a cosmetologist I knew right off that no one ever showed this woman how to care for her hair type. So glad she saw an informed professional to help her feel comfortable in her skin.
Yes, afro hair is that fragile if you damage it to that point for years. It ended up wavy but as she transitions and treat the root hair growth properly, is very very likely type 4 and stronger.
As soon as the doctor said "I'm sending you to a hair specialist", I knew she was heading straight to a black salon. 😂
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?
My first thought, I said “she just needed some black friends with black moms growing up”. Bless her heart. Lemme finish watching.
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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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Tbh, her texture just reminds me of a blow out on Black hair. If she was surrounded by more black women, she probably would have been complimented more on her glass hair.
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.
I kept thinking "if only people knew this is exactly how they make our black children feel about their hair and why it is so important to teach our kids early that their hair is beautiful just the way if grows out of their scalp".
i never understood how people could shame a person about this beautiful hair
Exactly
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As a guy with hair loss from transition who wears a wig, I wish everyone can be confident in their hair before the hairline goes, and in that case learn about finasteride and minoxidil.
You’re absolutely right. My hair is thick like this when I get a blow out. But I’m a 4b/4c chick. It takes time to love yourself when you’ve been knocked down and insulted about your appearance. Hubs and our kids have lovely curls and health in their tresses. I take the time to show them and explain how it needs to be done etc
4:12 “something I was born with that they would hate me for something I can’t control” you preaching to the choir sister. ✋🏼✋🏽✋🏾✋🏿
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The ponytail she had in when she walked into the doctors office
It looked really good to me!
Yes. Probably took a lot of work though
People pay THOUSANDS to get their hair to look like that smh 😭
Shes a white woman with black ppl hair of course she's depressed they don't want ANYTHING like us frfr unless they get complimented for it and that's based on my experiences with whites.
Same I thought her hair was beautiful the way it looked long now as a child it did look wild but long it's beautiful to me😍
Yeah I would pay a lot for my ponytail to look like that, as someone who’s dealt with hair loss.
Grass is always greener!
People with spun glass hair have hair similar to 4c. It's corse and thick, yet fragile. People who get it don't know how to treat their hair properly. Once they are given the tools to do their hair, their confidence is boosted, and their inner beauty radiates. She is a gorgeous woman, and I wish her well.
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.
Even the name uncombable hair syndrome is awful, not to mention misleading. It says to these persons that something is wrong with them when all they really need is a different hair regimen to what is considered conventional for Eurocentric standards . It doesn't surprise me that a black hairstylist would have had the know-how and the patience to deal with the woman's absolutely gorgeous tendrils.
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.
African American woman, with long, thick 4C hair, here. The hair on the woman in the video is absolutely gorgeous. It looks just like mine, except mine is black. It seems as though she didn't have women of color around much, for she may have grown to love her amazing hair. 🫂
Yup. It's amazing.
Question: why does she NEED women of color to tell her this? Why do we always have to build everyone else up?
@ElleMercier seriously?
@@ellebaby825 yes, seriously
@ElleMercier oh God, the answer is simple and logic, because of their hair type! 🙄
As a kid of mixed ethnicity I totally relate to her experience. A whole lot of people touching my hair that didn't know what to do with it. Now I am in my 40s and am finally in love with my hair
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.
I don’t understand why non-black women have kids with black men and never bother to learn how to do their own child’s hair. It’s like they can’t bring themselves to go to a black woman for help.
Ooh you said a mouthful!
I'm a bit older than you (50s) and biracial (black/white).
My father taught my mother how to braid my hair, then I figured out how to do it myself.
No one knew how to handle washing my hair, I also figured that one out for myself (comb through with conditioner in it before rinsing it out).
I would say part of the reason it took so long is because the products and tools didn't exist, although that's definitely not the only reason.
It doesn't help that the hair texture from one biracial person to the next can be different, even in the same family.
What the dermatologist said to her when she was a kid was so inappropriate.
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.
My takeaway is that its so reductive and offensive to call it uncombable hair syndrome when it can also affect the eyes, kidneys, teeth. The hair is maneageable with the right products.
I'm so glad she got the help she needed, I think her hair is so beautiful and has so much volume.
Leave it for doctors for naming diseases in a reductive way so it misleads people. For example chronic fatigue sendrome(It is a multi system problem that goes with mitocondrial disfunction,mfs there do articles about how walking improved the sendrome %10) or conversion disorder(More than %70 of the conversion disorder is not a conversion and non psychogenic). We dont even have a medical name for long covid but I am sure it will be a shitty reductive shit like covid related inflamation or someshit. I am a doctor myself but learning medicine would be 100x easier if doctors knew how to name things.
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Dude, people would kill for that volume. Her hair is beautiful from start to finish.
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.
Man, at the beginning her hair is so long and luscious with so much beautiful volume!!! I'm also so glad she found people who could help her feel more comfortable and confident
Her hair looks absolutely gorgeous. Thank you to the wonderful women who lifted this woman up!!
As a black woman with highly textured curly coily natural hair I thought this was a spoof at first. The entire time I was thinking “ she needs to go to a black hair stylist “ . Glad she was directed to someone that could help her.
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 😊
I must be crazy for thinking her hair just looks nice and thick???
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
As soon as I saw her hair, I said "she has a black person's hair texture", gorgeous and full of body. Nothing wrong with that!
That’s right
She does not have hair like an African American person. You must not know any 🙄
Its a bit more than that, its far more fragile than 4c hair
but its not
No she doesn't.
why is it soooo god damn hard for people to see different kinds of beauty and just fkn appreciate
Her hair is beautiful - before and after. I hope she's learned to love it because it's really gorgeous!
This is why people should always have friends that don’t look like you, I would have gotten her all the way together years ago!
LOL SHE WENT 40 YEARS WITH UNCOMBABLE HAIR
Facts !! 💯💯💯💯💯
expanding horizons always FTW
Facts
Exactly!!! Friends, coworkers, teachers, doctors, professors, ANYONE!!! I know diversity is demonized by many people, but we’re all human in the end and we need to support each other.
Anyone else looking at her hair thinking it looks amazing?
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.
Even as a stylist, texture was not addressed properly in school. I had to learn what I did from friends with heavily textured hair. I learned more from several clients over my years as well. I think texture needs more focus in beauty schools so stylists can have that info from the beginning of their careers. Even at 53, I'm still learning how to style my curls properly!
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 😆
Hearing how hair stylists would talk to her when her mom was looking for professional help was sad.
What a beautiful woman, inside and out. It shows how support and kindness can change someone's life.
She has gorgeous hair. I'm not sure what other people see but at 1:20 it looks incredible. Full of volume. Looks amazing to me *shrug*
Exactly! That was the moment I was like, "Her hair is so full and beautiful!"
Because 5-6 hrs is too long to get her hair tamed
I love how she acknowledged the doctors hair when she walked in immediately. You can tell she admires textures that have the ability to shape and curl. That’s why she got a nice wavy style at the end. Looks great
I knew it was going to be a black hair stylist and she didn't disappoint. She nailed that job and made sure to TEACH her client in such a compassionate manner. 10/10.
6:24 When she talked about wavy hair ... That's true. I grew up in Chile and they had a very binary way to see hair. It was either straight as a pin or curly-curly. My thick waves were invisible. The hairdressers talked about frizz and that I had to fight it with anti-frizz products or chemical straightening. I was so lost. 7 years ago I came across a black woman on UA-cam doing her hair and then, I found out that I coukd wear my texture if I change the regimen. I'm so grateful.
Me pasa igual
What’s the regimen?
Hola! Me dirias el nombre de la chica que viste?
Can you share your regimen?
@@1726Meoweveryone's not the same. What works for her might not work for you.
Most of the time though, what I see is people drying their hair out, using stuff with alcohol and silicates, or washing it too often or not conditioning it. Don't do that.
That Md is so kind and generous to gave her the infos about this hairstyle specialist. She really understand the needs of this young lady. She look so beautiful! Both of them look splendid! 💖
The stylists hair is sooooo cute. So is the drs!!!
She looks amazing. Im glad she was guided to a great stylist.
Her hair is so thick and pretty. She shouldn't be washing it everyday because she is taking all of the natural oils out of it.
Black women are so amazing. Look at how much confidence these amazing women put back into this GORGEOUS woman.
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
How is this a syndrome? It’s just course straight hair…her hair is beyond beautiful! I knew visiting a black salon would give her the confidence she needed.
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?
Why am I tearing up, I haven`t had such struggle 😭I feel bad she had no idea before about the care her hair needed. Love, love how she can finally be more at ease
I love her hair. I've never heard of that condition. I hope she feels better about herself & her hair. She is beautiful & her hair is just wow!
OKAY SO KINKY STRAIGHT?
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
The dermatologist told her as a CHILD ‘he hoped she had a good personality because she’s going to need it.’ 💔
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".
It's wild to me that people make fun of her hair. Her hair is sooooo pretty... thick, voluminous, awesome color with really nice blonde highlights. Things that many people go to a salon or buy extensions for. Both the before and after are nice but I really loved that voluminous high pony tail that she wore before.
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
Yeah but as a kid her parents didn’t know how to style or take care of her corse hair. She probably looked a mess in school
@@kaileymo yeah. Poor baby just had SUPER THIRSTY hair.
She looks stuuuuuunnning and to see her *so happy* and her doctor also be so excited *for* her is amazing!
I think her hair is absolutely gorgeous!!! The color is sooooo beautiful too.
I cried... she's so sweet. She has such a shining soul and I absolutely loved the way those queens took care of her and allowed her to share while being cared for.
Beauty school does NOT give the education for us to know all hair textures. This story is amazing and warms my heart. I love when I can help someone in my chair and I’m glad she found the resources she needed.
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.
@@emilyc9380it’s fairly new that beauty schools are teaching how to take care of kinky hair. You’re lucky.
Her hair is actually very beautiful
That’s what I’m saying! Gorgeous.
I almost cried when she thought of how different her life would’ve been had she just found someone in her younger years to teach her about her hair.
The final reveals of the waves are GORGEOUS
Her pain was palpable. I’m happy for her that she was treated with so much empathy and has great support now.
She just needed a black salon....black women have so many textures and sometimes extremely thick. They would have gotten her together real quick.
You are totally right. White people salons (and in white saying this) don’t know how to deal with textured hair. She found her stylist and she knocked it out of the park!! ❤️❤️❤️
This is what beauty schools need to teach whole courses on textured hair. Black hair stylists are versatile because they encounter all types of hair textures. There should be no reason she should’ve gone this long not understanding how beautiful her hair is.
Yes!!! Product diffuser and not brushing after it’s dry…her natural color is really pretty too
I absolutely LOVE her hair.... it's sooo beautiful!!!
Black women save the day again
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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Her hair was thick and beautiful in the before. I understand that she didn't like it because she was teased by her peers, which is the same reason black women wear wigs. She experienced some of the discrimination that black women have dealt with for decades. All hair textures are beautiful and should be treated equally.
She spent 5 hrs to get it to look the way it did in the before footage. That said, having a triangular, grooved hair shaft, which is not how other hair types look under a microscope. I'm very grateful that the stylist was able to cut down her hair care/styling to under an hour. The other common phrase for this disorder is "Spun Glass Hair," which is a bit more descriptive. One of the medical terms for this hair condition is pili trainguli et canalculi, which is a moutful.
Having a formal diagnosis can be SO validating. Then being guided through maintenance for incurable conditions is such a wonderful next step. I am SO happy she was able to get help 🥰
This is why diversity is so important.
It’s not a syndrome! It’s her natural hair texture and it’s similar to black people. All she needed was a black beautician to educate her on her hair. Unfortunately, when something is too ethnic or not understanding-we like to label it a syndrome . There is young white woman with curly course hair that went through similar experiences. Through much research on her own, she developed a hair regimen. Consequently, this hair regimen is exactly what we (black women)do to our hair. She’s on UA-cam .
I’m so glad she got help!🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾❤️
Awwww bless.... Ginger hair can have a lot of texture and I've told many a red head to go to black hair salon!
If this is the case, all of my friends and I have uncombable hair. 😂😂 Babbbyyyy.
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
The service this doctor and tis hairstylist gave this beautiful girl is soul changing. Just knowing what she can do to help herself and to have the hair she wants gives her the confidence she has never had before. They have truly changed her life.
she radiates beauty and kindness
She just needed someone to show her what products to use on her hair. Her hair looks like mine after a blowout. It is absolutely gorgeous!
not us black people side eyeing. i think this is just a result of racism framing it as a problem than like , just another variant of hair texture. she is beautiful and unique and just needs a different kind of maintainance
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. 😊
If you think your hair is "straight but puffy/frizzy" it's probably curly. Her hair is thick and coarse and low porosity, but there are products and techniques to help with all of that.
The stylist said her hair is porous.
She has high porosity hair. That's why it gets dry so quickly.
@@marshabrown7777Ugh 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.
I really liked her hair better the way it was. Did anyone else notice how gorgeous her ponytail looked in the beginning?
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 😅
When she said she wish she could cut it off and wear a wig......man 😭 thats exactly why alot of black women wear wigs its so hard to maintain our hair everyday 😭 its easy to just throw on a wig and go to work/school
This confirmed what i thought about this syndrome. I remember watching this tv show with 3 little girls with the same syndrome and thinking that it looks like my hair when i blow dry it. They just need to go to a black salon and learn how to take care of it.
Her natural curl pattern was beautiful with the right products and care. That's all she needed.
Meeting with black women would have helped much earlier on I think...
Poor girl. This is why I became a hairstylist, to help people who have always hated their hair. There’s nothing wrong with her, different is beautiful.
When she showed her hair in the beginning… I was like girl bye that’s our texture.🤦🏽♀️ that diagnosis threw me off a bit. Her hair is beautiful! Before and after.
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
Such a heartwarming story. She is a beautiful woman. Her confidence is soaring. She knows how to care for her hair now. Great team!
The fact that she's crying over my blow out is wild. Hurts my feelings
I have hair just like that, but because I am a Taino, it’s not considered uncombable hair syndrome…. It’s just 4c hair texture.
Who knew all her mom had to do is seek help from an African American to understand and learn how to’s on her textured hair. It could have saved this lady years of her self confidence.
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.
It’s amazing how empathy works.
Welcome to the natural hair community!
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 started 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.
8:38 wait can I touch it. The story of my life and my sons life lol
My daughter suffers with same problem but me and her dad are mixed race but a bit of taming oil and straighteners after shower does trick...be proud of what you have been given.❤
She has beautiful hair... a lot of ppl would be happy to have hair half as beautiful as that 😊
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.
Fr, people are jumping to alot of conclusions, its called uncomfortable for a reason☹️ it's very hard to maintain because of how thin and electric it can be
It’s also not curly, it just frizzes. Straight hair has a round shaft, curly hair is flattened, but uncombable hair is triangular. So a lot of the things that might work with very curly hair don’t always work with glass hair.
I remember seeing a show of a child with this condition many years ago and I wondered if her hair would respond well to being treated like black hair. The mother said they couldn’t get a comb through it. I have 4c hair. I was so curious about a comparison of this type of hair and 4c. I wish they could have told us if they are similar. Seeing this was so satisfying because it proved that help is possible. ❤
Edit: I’m also wondering if this might be the girl I saw on the original show many years ago.
It looks like the same girl I saw many years ago. I’m betting it’s her.
I find this woman super inspiring
😂😂😂😂
Forgive my 4c african haired self for laughing.
Uncombable hair syndrome. I'm dying. Like what can i say?
To have that hair.... oh lord! A GIFT from God.
The baby pics of spun glass hair are hysterical BUT I hate that the kids are brutally bullied for it.
OH WOW! She treated it like 4C hair!!!
Issue is shes white so her family didnt know what 4c was.
They dont know how to comb it.
Whoa her hair is gorgeous
She is glowing both inside and out! So happy for her!!
Wow! So happy that she has a solution! What a wonderful stylist and doctor. Gorgeous hair! Beautiful.
I appreciate how this clip is a great example of the need for diversity in the workplace. This lady has been seeing doctors for years. I'm guessing that her previous doctors and stylist were not Black women or women with this hair texture.
As i was looking at her hair i said to myself “it seems like she just needs a moisturizing hair care routine” and look at that ! Shoutout the stylist she did an amazing job !
It just looks more like black hair !
This poor sweet lady, you can tell how much she internalized the bullying she received as a child.
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It kept her so focused on her hair that I doubt she realized how pretty she actually is, and has always been. I hope her confidence continues to bloom.❤️
I hope she becomes an advocate for others like her and ALL women that society has shunned for how the hair naturally grows out of their head!
She’s got black hair… was my first thought… glad she was happy with her results. Great job!
Me too!
She’s so beautiful! What lovely hair… it’s terrible she spent her life being so sad when she looks gorgeous to everyone else!
I'm so so so glad we got products for textured hair nowadays and information to help us. When I was a kid, we had literally like one shampoo and one conditioner for all textured hair and like a million products for straight hair 🤡 and curly and wavy haired would always been considered untidy or having a "bad hair" 🤡 I used to cry so so so much with my wavy hair, and nowadays its one of my favourite traits. Girl looks amazing and so happy!
All the 3 women in this video are absolutelly gorgeous 💖💖
Omggg, there is nothing wrong with her hair…it’s actually gorgeous…she just needs to go to a black salon.
Her and her hair are absolutely gorgeous ❤
Yes black queen knew just what to do ! God bless the amazing women
This is amazing!!!! Y'all literally changed her entire outlook on life.
The term “UNCOMBABLE HAIR SYNDROME” is offensive and suggests that ppl whose hair is more difficult to comb and/or detangle, is problematic, bad, or wrong, when it simply means that it takes more time and requires a certain skill. That name MUST BE CHANGED! Edit: Who made the rule that hair MUST BE combed anyway?!😉🧐
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
As a cosmetologist I knew right off that no one ever showed this woman how to care for her hair type. So glad she saw an informed professional to help her feel comfortable in her skin.
I am crying for her. ❤❤❤❤ Stunning.
She should think about doing an ancestry dna test. She might find a lil chocolate in the blood.
No, it's a genetic mutation. 🙄🤦♀️
@@moonluna464science made it a disorder, it is not. That means I have have a disorder as well. Sign me up for a grant.
@@ginamm7393 she needs to moisturize it, mine is fragile when dry
@@ginamm7393uhm no, fine hair is the most fragile type of hair
Yes, afro hair is that fragile if you damage it to that point for years.
It ended up wavy but as she transitions and treat the root hair growth properly, is very very likely type 4 and stronger.