WHOOPEEE DOOOO.

IM NUM 1 ITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CHRIS ROCK IS HILLARIOUS!!

Alrighty then! Oprah is too good to have topics like this on her show. I guess she really has lost her luster and run out of things to talk about. Leave these topics to lame hosts like Tyra.

Chris must be talking from experience, because his wife definitely rocks some weave.

Oprah’s hair is beautiful. I think when black women getting extra lazy & started using hair adhesive’s & glue, it damage it to the point of no repair. Look at what these lace fronts are doing to rich black women like Naomi Campbell and Tyra. I remember when I got my 1st sew in. My hair grew so much from being braided that when I took the weave out, my own daddy thought I had on a full wig. In college, I saw a girl thin her hair out the black hair glue. I vowed never to use any glue. When ever I have a bad hair day, I stick to pony tails. It’s quick & doesn’t damage my real thick shoulder lenth hair.

thought the show was very funny. oprah has very healthy hair but you figure with all her money…. So the story is good hair = healthy hair.

I have coveted that woman’s hair for years. Real or Fake, I always love her hair.

But I’m more in love with it now….I need to know what she does for it to be so healthy and full.

1st lol

Oprah for years has said she wears her real hair.

@ Mz Truth…

I AGREE… GOOD HAIR IS HEALTHY HAIR

Good hair is healthy hair and Oprah has nice hair, nice length and thick. i would never use glue on my hair and i have shoulder length hair and if thats not good enough .. oh well~ CR was right it aint about always the length, sometimes i think woman do it for other women , men dont give a damn about no hair length~!

Chris Rock’s wife wears a weave. Malaak Rock has 2 or 3 different weaves on her head at the same time. Maybe that is how he knows about the beat up scalps.

Oprah has had the same hair dresser from Chicago (andre) for more than 20 hears~!

This is so lame. Chris Rock is the least bit interested in black womens hair as much as he is interested in the money in black womens pockets to gain his way back in the spotlight. How many more times can we be exploited for something as insignificant as hair? Get an education and some dignity black women. Whats on your head doesn’t matter as much as whats in your head and heart. SMDH!

damn all this time i thought Oprah was rocking a weave

This was a great topic. People always mocking the sistas for weaves when the whites are just as guilty, just not as obvious about it.

@Khalisa,
you are right. My husband tells me all the time he wants my hair to look good and he doesn’t care about the length, but when I leave to get it done, he always says, “don’t let them cut it”, lol.

Some guys do care about length of your hair I found. Rather it’s b/c of the hair type the women in their family had, it’s a factor.

I do also agree women make weave or hair length choices based on competition among other BlACK women. But at the end of the day, most men seem to prefer your real hair.

I may have to start getting on guys asses about they hair….

@ Shun…

Natural as in un-relaxed I assume.

Some people get their hair relaxed to help it be more manageable.

Braids are nice, but not a personal choice to have done.

I’m happy Oprah cleared that up.

It’s annoying how people think that everytime a black woman has long hair, it’s gotta be fake.

Newsflash. Some of us have long hair and never wear weaves. Get over it.

Oprah always had a thick long hair. If you look at her high school and college photos, you will see this; especially, when she won the beauty contest at a Memphis college. However, it was nappy and thick then. Now, that she has money…her stylist can take the kinks out. Again, some women have naturally thick, long healthy hair (genes)like some of my family members. Whereas, others in the family members did not inherit the same thickness or fullness of hair no matter if we use the same stylist, etc. It is a 1-2 punch. In addition to caring for you hair, you are in a better position if you inherited good/strong hair genes which determines how your specific hair will grow from inside out. Again, Oprah always had a head full of thick, lengthy hair. A number of women struggle with thin, breaking rather it has chemicals or not. Oprah has chemicals and so does many women in my family with long, thick hair. I say rather than agonize over problematic hair that will not grow (chemical or natural), that’s what weaves and extension are for.

Look on youtube and in everyday life Black Women have long hair now there are so many black women with Beautiful Waist Length Hair.

Both of my grandmothers had long beautful curly hair and so do my mother now me and my daughter have the same beautiful long natural curly hair or we can wear it bone straight we have no perms in our hair.

It’s just called good genes.

Black women are really taking care of there Exotic Texture hair now it’s so amazing.

Black Women are doing the D*mn thing….

he has got to be the corniest m.f. alive. how the hell does anyone find him funny?

WHAT IS WRONG WITH BLACK WOMAN WHO WEAR WEAVES.

It is not just a “black” thing anymore, most celebrities and a lot of white women are wearing weaves too. Why does weave have to have negative effects? What about the fact that they promote better self esteem and just make you feel good. What about people that are bald with cancer or other things that makes hair fall out? It’s not good to talk about weaves in a bad way all the time. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with wearing weaves and it should be nobody’s business but your own!!

i dont rock anything fake in my hair never have never will.nothing wrong with those that do but its not for me.my hair is just like oprahs and i get the feel test question all the time.um people,black women have natural long hair that hasnt been sown in,glued in,braided in,wigged in,etc..and yes they are dark brown skin just like oprah,sheesh..

I really don’t think that most men care about hair length. They just want it to look good.

The problem with short haircuts is that you HAVE to maintain them for it to look good. If you don’t, it can look awful.

Long hair can always be pulled into a ponytail on bad hair days. So I don’t think that men hate short hair. But you’re more likely to see short hair cuts that look bad because they aren’t maintained than you are to see long hair that looks bad.

The most honest thing about hair that I’ve ever heard a man say is this “Men don’t care if a woman’s hair is short, as long as it’s short by choice and not because she can’t grow it.”

It sounds messed up, but it’s honest.

Is Chris Rock gay now???

Although I laughed at what Chris rock said, i felt pain. I am a man and I did not know the depths that black woman went thru for “good hair”. It is sad that black woman are prepared to damage their scalps for a “look”. folks, this is not funny, it speaks to a deeper image of self hate, and we need to address it and move forward. I will never refer to any black woman again as having “good hair”.

@ Its6amHoGetOut

LOL… Stop hating.

if you wouldn’t eat a meal with someone elses hair in it, why would you put it on your head?

if you wouldn’t pour gas on your hand and set it on fire, why would you put something on your head that could cause the same amount of damage?

if you don’t like when people call you racist terms, why do you idolize looking like those people who demean you?

and natural doesn’t mean unmanageable or rocking braids all the time…. learn your texture, work with it.

alot of our (black women) hair “problems” are psychological, not rooted in reality at all. We fear our natural hair is not good enough, but spend all day in church praising a glorious, perfect god, forgetting he gave us PERFECT hair, skin, bodies… Solange is an excellent example. I know I am not the only one who did not realize how beautiful that woman is until she chopped the hair and revealed her natural texture. How can we say we believe in God and then f*** up our natural endowments? Brainwashing is a mother*****

They did a pre-screening of this at the NABJ convention in August and I heard it was just OK, nothing news breaking or anything like that and not very deep. I still think it’s a good topic and Imma check it out either way.

While I know Chris Rock started this because his daughter asked about her hair, I wonder how easily it would be accepted if a female comedian like Monique made a documentary along the same lines about men? I think not…just sayin.

Chris needs to know you can’t run your hand thru a black womans weave because it’s weave and whats the point of playing with the braids and tracks under the fake hair.
Oprah’s hair is gorgeous and that is because she stayed with the same stylist for 24 years, Andre. She stated that she has a relaxer. Some of those stylist will have your hair breaking off so if you can find one with good hands and you keep up with regular visits your hair will be at it’s best too. Not everyone will have Oprah’s body and length but that’s just the way it is.
When I used to go to a Dominican girl I would get compliments from men and women all the time. Yall know they can hook some natural hair up.

Does anyone see that smiley face when they are typing?????

@ GoodKarma4Me

Hit the two dots : on the keyboard, and then press the ) button for a smiley faces. And press ( for a sad face.

i love oprah’s hair. why do people have to study your hair, ask what you’re mixed with and still ask if it’s yours??? then people swear that it’s a weave because you are black with long, real, healthy hair.

doesn’t Oprah have anything better to talk about besides “hair issues”???

Geez…Americans are strange!!! The country is in a recession for Christs sake.

Oprah can talk about what she wants to talk about she earned the=at right gotdammit! White folks always talking about black folks hair and black folks dont give 2 sh-ts about white folks weave and dye lobs, so good for oprah for bringing it all to the light~~1

White male…like u of all ppl should understand…ANyhow…

@ GA
Tell me about it..i dont know why ppl are brainwashed to believe that if u are black ur hair cant be past ur shoulders, unless u are wearing a weave…I mean how ignorant is that. That black women ppl see poor quality hair, its because their lack the knowledge on how to take care of their hair…that’s all…..

I have a couple of japanese friends from college. They straigten their hair all the time. In fact no body can straigten hair like the Japanese. Its very much a part of the Japanese culture. So see its not just Black women.

Actually i like black hair better than white haire, becuase you can style it 100 different ways , its goes up goof in a bun or braids or many other ways, white hair is so flat and stringy and the curls they go for fall out , they are basically stuck weith a ponytail and how long can you rock a damn ponytail~!!

GoodKarma~~` you know white folks are brainwashed to believe anything bad about blacks, but in reality its the worst things for them < their hair is awful , their skin is awful ,, well i wont even get into the long laundry list of their awful things~!!

This is more a GENDER issue than it is about race.All women of all colors just fall into a rabbit hole about their hair & body issues.There is no cure.

I started blog about this..www.itsmyreal.blogspot.com. It doesn’t matter what way a woman chooses to wear her hair but its just annoying that when you do have nice hair people always want to know if its real.

My friend is in this. Hey Nelly! Love ya!

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My daughter was born with a head full of hair and hates it. When she came into the world she had more hair than most grown woman. She had to have chemical in her hair afte awhile because her hair is so thick her head would be sore trying to comb it. She is now 18 and announced that she wants to go natural. It is her decision and I’m pleased with it. I have not worn chemicals in my hair in almost 5 years, and recently cut my locs down to the scalp. Hair don’t impress me one way or another, and if any man that I come in contact with has a problem with how I wear my hair he can keep on steping because at the end of the day you can be diagnosed with cancer tomorrow and all your hair can fall out. We need to love ourselves the way we are. If you want to spend all your money on weave don’t complain when you can’t pay your bills. I see so many woman he spend hundreds of dollars on fake hair and nail, and they don’t have a dime in the bank. Sisters, please get your priority straight. Hair or poverty?

@Equinox~~ i know the feeling when i wear braids white women always want to know how long it takes and want to touch it and im like .. please dont touch me, what do i look like a person in a wax museum! What the hell is this fixation with white women over black womens hair, lips, butt and anything else we have. Damn if you sexing a black man do you white woman but please keep your hands out of my hair. I have never seen a black woman even care or want to think anything about a white womens hair or nose job or fake boobs or any other fake thing they have~!!

Known.

Most African Americans have to use weaves… they have bad or no hair… so?

@ rose by any other name

Laughing at the wax museum comment. Even when I had long, beautiful locs they did the same thing. Of course my response was usually “no”. After all, you can’t just let anyone touch you. It’s the equivalent of a total stranger walking up to a pregnant woman and asking to rub her stomach. It’s just intrusive and inappropriate.
I feel the same, if you want to date a black man, fine, go ahead, it dosen’t matter to me, but many white women who do this would never admit that psychologically this is the closest they can get to being a black woman. Not trying to start sumthing, but this is what’s up.

Now if they could only find a way to find out the secret of my p@@@#y!!! Sorry all but it is patented and highly potent! Can’t copy that!

@Equinox~“ROTFL at you , girl i know what you mean and i even have a Belizean man friend who once told me ( and he has a 8 inch ponytail) that never let a woman touch your hair, especially if yours is long and hers is short or if she is of another race~! but i saw a couple of females on here who says their man wants long hair, im so glad my man accepts my hair the shoulder length that it is and he is more into me than wanting me to have long hair down to my ass! plus he said he once dated a girl with the horse hair weave and he use to itch all the time and spit hair out of his mouth~! I think a man is very superfictual if he thinks a woman is made by the length of her hair~!!

@rose

Stop, you got me laughing down! I dated a white man once (for almost 2 years) who was obsessed with my natural hair, when I cut it off he was upset! Same with me too, it turns me off if a man is more interested in length of hair than it looking flattering. That tells me we just do not mix.

@ GoodKarma

You know what you got a point, sometimes they can be a bit slow on that. There was once some comedian, I can’t remember who, who was like “at least TRY to fool me “… Has anyone here ever had the experience of being in some public place feeling a white person staring at the back of their heads, trying to gauge whether it is real or not? It feels like they’re going to burn a hole in th back of your head with their eyes. Whoa, now!

@rose by any other name.

Did the man tell you why you shouldnt let someone touch your hair? I ask because it sounds like they would put a spell on you or something. I know it evasive and rude it just seems he had another reason in mind.

Why the hell did an add appear in my post?

JoJo~~ i didnt rerally get into why , but he did say that when you have nice hair and someone with evil intent touches it it breaks off. I dont know he is belizean so maybe they have some underlined witch craft beliefs~! i asked a few island folks and they said never let folks run their hands thru your hair.. no no child~!!

@rose- it is true- dont let no body touch ur crown

oprah is up to 800 pounds now

Its bad enough that white folks think you got weave but when your own race of people doubt your hsir is real, thats tells you something right there~~ ny sister said 2 black guys wealked up to her and said ‘ can we see if your hair is real” and she let them touch her scalp and they said we are just not use to seeing blasck girls with their own hair and yours looks real!! i dont know folks do some crazy things but after i told her what the belizean guy said she stopped letting folks run threw her hair~!!

@goodkarma,all the time.they are so bewildered that black women have long real hair.not just black women,,DARKSKIN BLACK WOMEN.. but what is so sad is that you have other BLACK WOMEN who do weave up their hair telling you what you have isnt yours until you do what oprah did yesterday then they are sitting their dumb founded.its amazing how the media can brainwash folks.
what oprahs grandmother said about dont let anyone touch your hair because its your crown and glory is true.my grandmother told my mother and my mother told me.my mother was and at my age of 31 now,she is the only one I let do it if I dont.plus,its a spiritual thing for some of us.

if you perm your hair then its fake lmao POINT BLANK and Women in here that are talkin and are proud of their hair are just pathetic

proud of mine..keep your crown and glory ladies..not for anyone else,but for yourself..

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People saying Oprah is too good to have this topic. Uhm, she is a black female and anyone on here who is really a black female-we all know hair is an issue. Hours in salons and spending tons of money to get the hair we want. Chris Rock was on to promote his film he made about “Good Hair.” So how is Oprah too good to have this topic on her show? She is black and it will help some young and maybe even older black women.

Oprah’s hair may be real in lenght but she has the best hairstylist to keep it up, relaxed, and styled.

@Shun.. i know thats right and what ever im glad they had the show but the main thing is to take care of your own hair unless you got Oprahs money to afford the best all the time! i cant afford oprahs hair stylist Andre so read up and eat right and take good care of my own hair and it thick and long ( shoulder length is considered long) but if it was short i would still get me a Kandi burress hair do and keep it moving~! my hair is done for me not my man or any other person, he just happens to like it the way it is~!!

The problem I had with the show was Oprah/Chris Rock making a big deal out of the fact that her hair was real. I think that just reinforces the stereotype that it’s rare for Black women to have long hair and that any of us with long hair are wearing weaves. I thought her behavior and need for approval was beneath her.

And I always get nervous when we speak in such sweeping generalizations about Black women. (Chris Rock,some of us DO like our hair touched. And Oprah, some of us DO swim and work out. Please don’t speak for me.)

Final note: Asking if someone’s hair is real is RUDE.

I agree with what Chris said. Yeah the money is cool but all that hair. Hell yeah that’s rich. Looking good O.

Oprah’s hair is GORGEOUS!

I remember I told my ex-boyfriend(over the phone) that I was washing my hair. He asked me what type of shampoo did I use? I answered with “Mane and Tane”. He said that I couldn’t use it on my hair becuase it [my hair] was synthetic. He proceeded to go on about me reading the label to see if it was okay. I never told him that my hair was real, any way, that relationship didn’t last long.

So, I think some men care what their partners hair look like. I care about what I see in the mirror.

I hope Oprah keeps her hair like that for a long time. At one time she was rocking shorter hair during the 90s.
I don’t regret going natural. My hair isn’t always perfect but those relaxers were tearing my head/hair up and broke it off often. It’s just below the shoulders when I have it pressed/straightened and VERY thick.
A lot of women across color lines are sensitive about their hair but whether you keep your hair looking nice or not says a lot about you.

ummm….the issue is that regardless of “who” is chemically straightening and dying their hair…it is always to look more “European”

I have on a weave now.

Team Alicia you are right on point. At the end of the day it’s just hair.

Oprah’s hair has come a long way…Ask anyone from Baltimore who remembers when she was here on People are Talking a local talk show…The tv station that she was on WJZ sent her to get a permanent(for white women)and it burnt all her hair out…After that she rocked a curly fro because she had no choice…After she left Baltimore and moved to Chicago is when she found a good stylist and stuck with him…So she knows all about having tortured follicles…I myself like natural hair but every now and then I may feel like doing something different and so I wear a wig nothing wrong with that…in the words of india arie i am not my hair….

Im thru with this hair crap, weave it , braid it , whatever, just take care of it and know that somebody somewhere is envying you~!

There is nothing wrong with a weave it is just that you have to take care of your hair.All different races of women where clip ons, extensions, and full on weaves so I don’t knwo why black women are always the center of synthetic hair issues.

I don’t think it’s a matter of a hairstyle. I think it’s a matter of a “beautiful image”. and oddly enough, European features, including hair has always been the bench mark to define that beauty is. I mean think about it, black women are not moving in herds to get an African Look (locks, afros, etc..) Instead, they are moving in droves to get a European look. Although there is a market for fake locks and natural styles, it is a drop in the bucket compared to straight European looking hair! (or even “curly” for that matter)

I have locks and I love them. But these tend to look bad, quick. Especially if you work out like others said. I have soft hair at the roots and it won’t lock quickly. I acutally died my hair early on to strip the moisture to help it lock. I have had them for 5 years. But they are getting heavy and twisting them too often helps them to break off. So I twist them like once every few months (maybe like once a quarter). Perms and relaxers burned the hell outta my scalp. Basing it did nothing. I just got tired of the braids.

it’s a damn shame ….SMH

Black women go and get your hair fixed by Dominican’s they have your hair bouncy and straight even if you wear it natural…they also use good product’s and conditioner’s.

I guess Chris Rock can include his wife’s head as a beat up highway, since she wears weaves also.

if you cant grow it sew it.. thats what some guys say and some say if you got it flaunt it and im flauntimg mime~!

yes, this was a good show.

I think Oprah’s hair is so healthy because she has nutured it instead of touturing it with excessive heat and chemicals month after month.

personally; I love my hair natural and enjoy seeing people rock the varying natural styles.

it cost’s absolutely nothing to be natural and healty.

OH MY GOSH!!!!!

Lol

HAIR IS NOTHING BUT FUR ON YOUR HEAD. IT’S THERE TO PROTECT YOUR BRAIN, JUST LIKE ANIMAL FUR IS THERE TO PROTECT THEIR SKIN AND KEEP THEIR ORGANS WARM!!! NOT A BIG DEAL! WHITE FOLKS GET THEY SHYT CHEMICALLY TREATED TOO, BLONDS TO CURLY TO COLORS!

News flash black women can grow hair too wit the proper care…and when u got dough like oprah getting the proper care is easy.

Anyone can have Oprah’s hair. All you have to do is have a personal hairstylist on call to do your hair EVERYDAY for the past 20 years…..see, easy as pie

@ I’m just me
I have locks and I love them. But these tend to look bad, quick. Especially if you work out like others said.

I also have locs (sisterlocks). I maintain my locks by the latch hook method. They look good all the time if maintained. I can work out as much as I want. I don’t have to worry about locks breaking off. You might want to investigate this way of retightening locks.

Hair is hair. Who gives a shit!

I am a darkskinned haitian american who used to wear my own thick permed hair way passed my shoulders and walked into a barber shop and had it shaved bald. Now it is all natural for about a year. My baby sister has long thick healthy permed hair just like Oprahs. Now ladies please stop saying Oprahs hair is healthy because she has money. That is such nonsense. Educate your self and find a reputable hairdresser and together you can grow your own healthy hair. My hair is gorgeous and natural and healthy. I don’t have a stylist, I am my own stylist. I wash my hair once a wk with ACV and sage tea. I moisturize with organic coconut oil shea butter almond oil or carols daughter products. As a result a experience noticeable new growth on a weekly basis. Let’s stop being surprised when we see our beautiful darkskinned bellas with long healthy hair. We are all amazing women, let’s focus on that and get a grip. You don’t have to be rich or have the same stylist for over 2 decades to maintain a healthy mane. You just have to create good Karma by making the right causes in your life and all will work out. ” Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo ” peace to all of you my brothers and sisters try chanting to change some of that negative energy in some of your lives I do it every mornning and evening and I have alot of benefit and fortune in my life with plenty more on the way!

get it out your dreams. it is all genetic. oprah is part native american/asian per her DNA results. ethiopians are mixed, per theirs. virtually all blacks who have long hair are mixed to some degree with something, because tightly coiled black hair dont grow.

for the record, dreads are NOT NATURAL and neither are those fake arse braids if its not your hair thats braided.

I’ve been with black women who alternated between their own beautiful hair natural or treated and wigs or extensions. Clean, healthy hair is GOOD hair. Oprah is super-rich so she’s gonna buy the best product out there. Chris Rock is running low on ideas. But he’s still my boy. Measage to black women; men want women with solid minds, hearts and souls, not one wearing a lot of stupid looking cosmetics: make-up, nails, super weaves, etc. All “style” no substance. And economically look at all the money thrown away.

Weaves and wigs are not really a necessity. We can grow our hair as long as we want once we learn what our hair needs to thrive. If you are interested in growing long, healthy hair check out hairlista.com or any of those other hairsites.

to the Dummy who said DREADS aren’t natural…of course they are… its ur hair, dummy!!!