The Obsession With BABY HAIRS
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- Today I will be discussing the obsession with baby hairs in the natural hair community🤎
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0:00 Intro
1:10 Orgin Of Baby Hairs
2:50 Perming Edges
5:08 Lacefronts Wigs
8:10 Alternative Options & Solutions
10:25 When Are You Too Old For Babyhairs?
11:45 Coily Hair Community
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I would like to make a correction, BW created baby hairs/edges as a style. Hispanics, and biracials, learned how to style their natural baby hairs, after watching BW style/create theirs. They did not create the style of baby hairs/edges.
Thanks for commenting and I agree I should have specified black women did not create baby hairs but we did create laid baby hairs that the Hispanic and biracials use to this day…that’s just another way we are the blueprint…I did a video on this topic. Be sure to check it out and let me know what you think 🤎🤎🤎
Black Women Are THE BLUEPRINT
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As a black person I don't thin we did invent it I believe it came from gypsys in Spain.
yes maam because that close promixity to blk ppl be having ppl thinking they are the creators too just because they participated
@@thewordsmith5440 hells no lol. they probably got their own version but our method aint spain baby. as we assimilated to yt beauty standard we put our twist on our hair and that created a sub culture
@@thewordsmith5440how would black Americans have come in to contact with romani people enough to copy that style from them?
I used to be obsessed with baby hairs when I was texturist. One day I realized that I never felt a black hairstyle was "finished" unless it had baby hairs and natural edges were "unfinished". When I came to that realization, I decided to stop laying my edges for a year as a challenge to face that insecurity.
3 years later, I don't lay my baby hairs anymore at all. I think that natural edges, even if they're sticking up look more beautiful now and I prefer them. There is nothing unfinished about unambiguous natural black beauty.
The baby hair trend is just ridiculous now. They be having them gelled down near their eyebrows 😂
Thanks for commenting and I agree 🤎Have you seen Erica Banks and Ari Fletcher? That’s way too extreme smh 🤦🏾♀️
I think lightly brushed edges are cute, but the excessive baby hair is just crazy. Some of her baby hair ruin whe styles, especially with the braids. I don’t like overly brushing my edges. I feel that would cause hair thinning or hair loss.
Totally agree. A little hair jam or eco styler, nothing too crazy. Brush it a bit. Tie it down and that's it. I like a clean simple look. Not too overexaggerated. Simplicity is everything.
I agree. I just smooth mine down but brushing a bit is the most I would want to do and it looks nice without having so much hair slicked down. Edge controls and gel never worked for me anyway. Lol
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It’s a style get over it
I have literally been thinking this 😮. Also, an unpopular opinion I've said sometimes, I think baby hairs are to enhance the appearance of mixed women with curly hair or black women with a looser hair texture. It just isn't the same for people with 4c or 4b hair.
I have 4b and silky, straight baby hair so this isn’t always the case.
@@skankhunt-zo4fm yeah, it depends on the hair type. I have 4b and 4c hair and gel ruins my hair 🙃
I have 3c/4a hair (a bit of 3b in the back) and I’m fully black. I do use my baby hairs to enhance my hairstyles, but I’ve helped my family members with theirs and they have tighter curl patterns than me and it still looks good on them. The key is don’t DO TOO MUCH. Just lightly brush the hairs in a cute swoop, don’t have them all on your eyebrows.
@@honks9484 I only put a tiny bit of gel in my hair, it still banished my edges 🤣. And the fact that it happened in a week during my first time putting gel in my hair ever.
@@yetundethesketcher542 do you let your edges sit under a wrap?
I hate baby hairs. They just don’t look sophisticated to me. Maybe I’m being classiest or it’s respectability politics but I just don’t.
In my opinion is a manifestation of texturism and self hate for some people. The whole style is to give the impression of looser/ more “slick” “baby like” texture. It looks odd on those growing type 4 hair due to how out of place it looks. I understand it’s a “cute style”, but you have to ask why that is. I feel the same way about black men’s waves obsession. It’s all to give the impression of a different hair type and is circled around presentability politics, texturism, and lil bit of self-hate
Saw someone doing a perm for baby hair with dreads and have never ever been so confused 😮
Wow 😮
Parting edges and calling them baby hair is wild. And all of these "baby hairs" are thinningand receding their hairlines
I know we started it, but the practice seems rooted in european beauty standards and even if it isn’t 🗣️my fluffly edges are my blackness and NO ONE touches my blackness🗣️
I just like doing mine bc I don’t do too much, just a little brush and edge control that’s it. But putting full grown adult hairs on your forehead is crazy. Plus, it makes my hairstyles look better too.
And to add, I don’t need to perm my edges. Mine automatically lay down easy
I think another solution is growing oust your edges because some people do baby hair to hide their receding hair line
Thanks for commenting and sharing your solution and I agree I mentioned that when I said when black women get perms they often break out the edges so they use baby hairs to conceal them …that’s why I speak against perms. I will give out tips to grow edges back in my next video…thanks for the idea🤎
I was afraid this trend would become a thing again. I grew up in the 70's when being "Black and Proud" was represented by sporting the biggest afro/afro puffs you could grow. By the early 80's afro's began fizzling out and the cornrows with beads were becoming popular and so began the baby hair trend. Now don't get me wrong there were baby hairs on display with afro puffs but for some reason the look of baby hairs just seem to go better with cornrows.
Soon after relaxers like dark and lovely, and cream of nature began popping up (SMH) Women would get a hair style called the DA (go look at the show the Jeffersons Weezy wore it) The style was still afro like but with straighter hair, a relaxer was needed to get the look.
And then the mother of all baby hair styles reared it head! THE JERRY CURL! lawd have mercy there's not a pillowcase on earth that survived that era!🤣😂 By the late 90's early 2000's the "Natural hair movement" was picking up speed women realized what all that manipulation was doing to our hair ( hair breakage to traction alopecia 😒) and so we began to embrace our God given coils once more. Now here we are full circle and the baby hair trend is back. Little sisters learn from our mistakes don't go down that rabbit hole you just might lose your crown.
I didn't discuss weaves because I never got one but I know how they became popular I can share the story if you'd like. Until then remember beauty comes from within. Take care and be blessed.
It never went away. I don't remember not seeing baby hairs.
I have type 4 hair and naturally have baby hairs that can lay if I want. It's not something I feel needs to complete a style but I feel it can add to the style depending on what it is. Also, I feel black women should be able to wear their hair how they want. But I can also agree if women are relaxing or damaging their hair for a certain/exaggerated look then that is a problem, and their reasons for it can be to look racially ambiguous like you said, or on the contrast that can just simply love the look
When I was growing up black girls used a toothbrush and gel to slick their baby hairs. Perms on baby hairs is just ridiculous lol.
I'm Dominican and i have frizzy baby hair. My edges dont lay. Don't use those glues on your actual baby hair. You are going to have receding hair lines.
I'd rather just wear leave in and let my curls do what they do
I started doing mine bc I LOVED Thelma on Good Times (an old 70s show) and wanted to style my hair like hers. She also had a little twirl in front of each ear that I copied. Hers edges weren't gelled down but they were definitely brushed forward.
Chiiile I did not know women were perming their edges like this!
If I’m getting my hair braided I don’t mind a small swoop da whoop. But… kinky edges all day. I just smooth mine down with my fingers and go. I don’t have to worry about laying edges with all that gel and sitting with a scarf before I leave the house. Embracing yourself gives you so much freedom!
How much baby hair we have around our hairline is mostly genetics! I’m a 4a natural and have quite a bit of baby hair around my forehead and temple areas that are a slightly looser texture and shorter length than the rest of my hair. My baby hair was still easily identifiable when I shaved my head. Some people like my friend have baby hairs around their entire head and some people don’t have much if any. Like you mentioned, a lot of this excessive baby hair comes from the prominence of wigs and closure over the past decade or so and it’s over done versus what happens naturally. And others have taken up several notches perming or flat ironing just their edges for a look and I wish more people took time out to find styles that work for them rather than risking the health of their hair for a style. In the same vein I don’t want to punch down on women who feel they have to do their hair a certain way because their texture isn’t deemed as beautiful in the communities they are in. But trends come and go so well see what comes next
Laid baby hairs is part of African American culture but it does have origins in texturism. So I’m comfortable not wearing baby hairs but it also annoys me a bit when I see non AA people participating in a cultural practice that has roots in oppression. I’m very proud of my African American heritage so I will always participate but the commodification of black American culture has made this get out of hand tbh. I’m seeing white women do it now
WW have always had baby hairs. Look around most ww have them they just don’t style them and WW have always called them baby hairs. Bc they don’t grow long with the rest and they’re very fine like a baby’s.
@@2particlesinapodcast442 please stop. WW have never laid baby hair. They just wore their natural baby hair. Didn’t have to swoop it with gel. Balck women were called ghetto for doing this. For many years. Laid baby hairs is AA culture like I said
I do not know where "baby hairs" originated from however, I do know they are apart of both the African american community as well as the Hispanic community in terms of beauty trends. As for body hair....I think that's more so due to genetics than race. Beauty is what you make it, and it's always changing. If you find something that makes you feel good and it's not causing harm to anyone then c'est la vie. And saying that is not to dismiss anyone's feels, but it's just a beauty trend to be loved or hated
@@_toritoritori_ Thanks for watching 🤎🤎🤎
I’m 49 and have always wore my hair in that way with baby hair that’s been going on forever black women have always styled their hairs with baby hairs
Thanks for commenting and I feel black women created laid baby hairs but we are not the only race of women with baby hairs. Also our hair is coily and grows vertically and we are typically not as hairy as other races of women so the excessive baby hairs you see today are not the natural way our hair grows🤎
I have natural baby hair im black i dont know know baby hair that goes to your forehead 😂 I think americans are into that huge unatural baby hairs ive never seen mixed women have baby hair that long natural either but black women do have baby hairs also not like those ones😂
I have. Latto and Lauren London are good examples, and H.E.R. has done them, too, IIRC. Of course _Chilli is oft_ considered a blueprint, and ppl forget that she is mixed.
@@BL3SSed-Blissthey’re all mixed
@@Opinionatedcancer
Where is your confusion?
I love ur voice💖💖💖
I do not wear them because they won’t lie down 😂😂😂😂😂
This is wrong, black women are known for “baby hair” particularly as it is a different texture to the rest of our hair, just like black babies… non-blacks with “baby hair” isn’t really the same thing. Also a lot of 4c sisters have baby hair, if they have healthy edges, just because it’s not exclusively drastic swoops or dead straight like what people are wearing nowadays doesn’t mean it’s not baby hair
Thanks for commenting and I’m not saying we don’t have hair at the perimeters of our hair that’s why I stated it’s okay to groom the perimeters of your hair but like you stated we typically don’t have the drastic swoops you see today🤎
I don’t know how to do baby hairs😅,but seems like some gotten too strick with it.
@5:05 but fr if they were going to perm they baby hair they need to do that before they actually braided their hair - like there is some perm that you won't be able to get out of some of them braids, and the hair right behind the edges is going to fall out
And sometimes I believe the way that black people view race is too simplified. Sometimes a person that identifies as black, that is mostly black that might not be mixed with indigenous or white-will look at people and consider them just Hispanic when in the Hispanic race they come from they are considered afro Latino or still black. It makes it really complicated, because someone would consider themselves just as black as any other black person, but there's like a nitpicking about whether someone feels like you belong based on the way you look. My grandpa is Puerto Rican and he experienced racism from Latinos. My grandma is black and she's from Arkansas she's a southern black woman and they were married for at least 30 years. My grandma just passed away like in January? And it's like the meshing of cultures can be really complicated because I remember my cousin whose first language was Spanish came back from school one day and told my grandpa in Spanish to stop talking to her she didn't want to hear it she didn't want to hear Spanish no more. My cousin is chocolate complected. It's almost like she internalized this brainwashing,to me it's all Willie Lynch theory it all comes from slavery and I'm tired of people and internalizing stuff like that
Omg to each its own let ppl LIVE. It’s just something that enhances a hair style or look of a person face momentarily …what’s wrong with that. Ppl enhances all kinds of other things on the body. I see no wrong love.
I did not know women are out here relaxing their edges 😱 me personally, I love a good baby hair to finish my looks since my hair is naturally wavy at the root. I swear by crème of nature’s edge control!
The problem for me is women are taking actual hair and slicking the strands all down their hairline. I don’t care for the cartoonist baby hairs at all
I’m one that relaxes my edges even though I’m natural.Baby hairs are small. I don’t like the large baby hairs. I also color my hair so some people say I’m not natural 🙄)I don’t lay them everyday because I’m cool with kinky edges too. I’m probably not going to stop. I’m just to stop relaxing
@@jasminscarbrough2596 you don’t have to stop laying them! I know I’m not 😂 but like you I don’t do it everyday either. But definitely quit the relaxer. That stuff is toxic frfr
Baby hair/laid edges comes from Jazz era aesthetic. Be careful assigning our culture to others. Black people love embellishing and ornamentation. We've always expressed that through hair. We definitely were not copying mexican girls hair. They're already running with this narrative saying we're copying them. Please don't help spread that nonsense. We especially weren't in the 1920s which is when finger waves via Jazz became very popular. Some women/girls may be expressing themselves through self hate but not every aspect of our expression has to be rooted in self hate or trauma. It's ok to say black people just love being extra.
Thank you for adding this because I wasn’t aware…I did state in a follow up video black women did not create baby hairs but we did create laid baby hairs🤎
@@CoffeeCuties777Why keep up a video full of misinformation? It's irresponsible and can be weaponized against the very women you're trying to help. I say this gently. You post good work but this video isn't culturally or factually appropriate.
@@Ferrist1 This video was referring to the history of baby hairs from my perspective which dates back to the 90s. I don’t feel it’s misinformation when the statement I made that black women are less hairy and don’t typically have excess baby hairs is accurate…laid baby hairs was created by black women but baby hairs itself was not. I’m open to doing another video about the in-depth history of baby hairs to give more context to the conversation. Please email me at coffeecuties777@gmail.com with the information I should add to the video🤎
My baby hairs is very curly and lays and swirls naturally when I brush them down. The obsession women with kinkier coil patterns have with baby hairs is disturbing. Fight for your life and stress under my comment 😂🤣🍿🍿
I honestly didn't know that black women permed or relaxed their baby hair for like braids styles and stuff... I literally just thought my hair was thicker than everybody else is.... Like before my hair was locked, and before my hair really started growing my baby hair was like thinner and would fit in, but as my hair has grown my baby hair has gotten thicker-but that might be from using stuff like Chebe which grows your hair but thickens it as well ... But yeah like the only time my baby hair lays all the way down and looks socially exceptable is if I'm wearing a bandana
And when it comes to like Chebe powder, when I say it thickens your hair I just mean that it restores your hair to its natural state... Like as black women are hair when wearing like elementary School unless your mom like press your hair at a young age or put a perm on your hair before Middle School, our hair was thick. Chebe gave me back my hair from a kid, because it isnt like I didn't go through a perm phase or straightening phase
U so corny dawg 🤣. U deleted your other comment, commented the SAME THING & added on the last part . U still a pick me & on top of that a narcissist now , thinkin that shit is going to deter some one from commenting .. nobody stressing more than u covering ur tracks 🤡
lol u deleted the replies bcs u were getting clowned 🤡
Congratulations you’re better than everyone else😂😂 here you go 🍪
I'm sorry, but baby hair is rooted in P...phila, the fact that it is called baby hair is very questionable.
It literally means it’s too short to braid or be added in a hairstyle so they are BABY hairs and the ones that are long enough to be braided or brushed back are called ADULT hairs. Use your brain.🙄
Thanks for commenting 🤎and I never heard of that perspective before…I thought it was called baby hairs because it mimics infant hair…thanks for adding your insight to the conversation 🤎
🙄🙄 it’s called baby hair bc the small hairs around ur hairline are literally fine in texture like how a baby’s hair is, no other reason than that. yall love a conspiracy theory.
Please tell me this is a joke and you’re high
It has nothing to do with actual babies. Idk why she said that. It's baby hair because it's new growth. The literal shorter baby hairs. Every race has baby hair. Black women just decided to be creative and sculpt them. We don't have to crap on our creativity all the time.
Idk of course im black but im not 100% African so I can't necessarily say that it's incorrect that black people are less hairy, but I just want to point out that I have seen men who are black that have chest hair and back hair so I don't really know.... Like I guess black women don't have as much hair on their arms, I can agree with that
Also, I think the fetishization of other races of women or mixed race women is really dangerous and unhelpful, because it's like when you have multiple you just have more things going on, like I am predisposed to bacne like my dad and I've been that way since I was a kid. I haven't had bacne in a long time because I washed my back a lot but it's like my back sweats my hair will sweat out, and my legs are pretty hairy because the leg hair is dark like my dad's hair but my arm hair is blonde like my mom's so you can't really see the hair on my arms; but sometimes it seems like black women feel the need like to kind of be subtly derogatory towards like mixed race people or other races when it's like just because a man might be internalizing self-hate or be colorist that doesn't mean that we like need to find stuff wrong with others
Young lady some of your info is wrong regarding black beauty. You really are pushing false info on some subjects regarding black hair and history. Go back and study. You also have an accent. I agree on the truth but some statements your making regarding black hair is bias and incorrect. Read.
Thanks for commenting and please let me know what information is incorrect so I can look further into it…and yes some people say I have a accent but I’m not sure how that implies to my talking points…and I have no problem reading and understanding different perspectives if you have something you would like me to look into please email me at coffeecuties777@gmail.com 🤎
BW created baby hairs and edges like what are you talking about
Thanks for commenting 🤎Black women definitely created the concept of laid baby hairs but we did not create “baby hairs” aka excessive hair growing at the edges of your hair because we are not as hairy as other people and in large don’t experience the same about of hair around our edges🤎
Girl bye
No one wants to look like Mufasa
I never said nothing is wrong with styling the perimeters of your hair but the excessive baby hairs and perming the edges to achieve a unnatural baby hairs look is what I’m referring but even without styling my edges don’t look like “mufasa”….this is a coily hair channel that encourages black women to embrace their natural hair in all states 🤎🤎🤎
@@CoffeeCuties777 I’m a black woman too and you natural head gang members bully black women to look one way and you will be the same gaslighters ten yrs from now wearing straight hair bc you tired of your natural hair. I’ve witness this to many time. You are demonizing blk women for a world and system they didn’t create. Your channel is trash and your nothing but a bully
This is wrong, black women are known for “baby hair” particularly as it is a different texture to the rest of our hair, just like black babies… non-blacks with “baby hair” isn’t really the same thing. Also a lot of 4c sisters have baby hair, if they have healthy edges, just because it’s not exclusively drastic swoops or dead straight like what people are wearing nowadays doesn’t mean it’s not baby hair
@@maximel77 Thanks for commenting and I never said we don’t have hair around our edges aka baby hairs but we do not typically grow excess baby hairs the same way other groups of women do🤎