By The Numbers: Beauty Supply Industry

[↓R↑LYB]

Probably shouldn't be saying this on here but fukk it....

You can order weave from Aliexpress.com. Its not as cheap as what the Asians can get for over there but you can still turn a profit off of it if you buy it from Ali and flip it over here. Only problem is finding a legit plug. But I think if you search enough you can find a decent one.

Do you sell hair care products to stores in the US?

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Get your loser ass off the Internet for a change, go try and find a woman to have a kid with if you want someone to chastise.

I have a girlfriend and a puppy. Is that good enough for you sir or should I try harder ?

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

I do find this surprising as setting up a small beauty shop in the hood or even a majority black suburb would seem pretty easy for a black woman, or male if he is so inclined, to do. Nail shops too.

 

[GunRanger]

The Koreans follow them around and talk shyt to them in their stores, then call them nikkas as soon as they're done paying. Black women I love y'all, but your entrepreneurial skills are fukking garbage. Sistas y'all have to do better

Melony Armstrong just wanted to earn an honest living. Armstrong had learned how to braid hair, and she had the drive to open her own salon in Tupelo, Mississippi.

What she didn't have was a state license to practice cosmetology.

Before Armstrong could open her business, the Mississippi State Board of Cosmetology required her to attend a board-approved school for a 18 months at a cost of about $10,000.

Without the money to get a license, Armstrong took her passion and channeled it into a legal challenge against the cosmetology board. Her successful struggle would permanently change the way business was done in Mississippi, removing arbitrary barriers that stood in the way of hundreds of other aspiring entrepreneurs who wanted to enter the business of braiding hair.

The documentary film, 'Locked Out: A Mississippi Success Story' traces every step of Armstrong's long fight to change the law, from her humble hair salon to the statehouse. Reason TV's Nick Gillespie spoke with filmmaker Sean Malone and Melony Armstrong at FreedomFest in Las Vegas about how she sparked statewide reform.

 

[Gravity]

I have a girlfriend and a puppy. Is that good enough for you sir or should I try harder ?

You damn sure should try harder. 20 posts a day here is a pathetic look. Get some shyt popping in your life before trying to school someone else.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

You damn sure should try harder. 20 posts a day here is a pathetic look. Get some shyt popping in your life before trying to school someone else.

Do you have any suggestions on what I should do with my life ?

Will you be my mentor breh

 

[↓R↑LYB]

I do find this surprising as setting up a small beauty shop in the hood or even a majority black suburb would seem pretty easy for a black woman, or male if he is so inclined, to do. Nail shops too.

Honestly entrepreneurship is something we really need to push amongst our people. My GF invited me to talk to the kids in her Sunday school class about entrepreneurship and the importance of it (6-8th graders) since I decided to work for myself. I couldn't go very deep into, but I explained to them the importance of owning our own businesses and we had a discussion about what kinda business they could start and they had a little Q&A session with me. It was actually pretty fun hearing them kids talk about what kinda business they would like to start.

 

[Family Man]

Jesus Christ you nikkas man . We have a thread about a black man who saw the disrespect and racist practices of Koreans when it came to black consumers and black business owners and decided to do something about it and teach black people how to own and control our own shyt and y'all still wanna take these bullshyt cheap ass shots at black women

We all suffer from self hate breh. It wasn't too long in the distant past that black men were also straightening our hair to look white. Have any of you actually ever sat down with a black women and asked them WHY they perm their hair? Why they wear wigs? Why they spend so much on hair care products? Why they never went natural or what obstacles they faced (from both black men and women) when they considered wearing their hair in it's natural state?

Do y'all even care about black women's hair and how it affects the self esteem of our women or do y'all wanna take these little bullshyt jabs at OUR women? This is actually a serious economic and psychological issue for our community that we can fix, but trying to throw shade at our women is not the fukking answer brehs

Brother man...imma put it to you like this. fukk these coli nikkas. Its a shame that productive discourse can't be held on a website that's supposedly mostly black. Connect with a few like minded people offline and fukk the rest of these nikkas.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

this seems pretty interesting

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Brother man...imma put it to you like this. fukk these coli nikkas. Its a shame that productive discourse can't be held on a website that's supposedly mostly black. Connect with a few like minded people offline and fukk the rest of these nikkas.

you right breh. I've been invited to a couple groups talking about these types of issues on here but I've been ignoring them. I should really start posting in those areas instead. Forgive me breh

 

[Will Ross]

If you go to a non black wal mart the black hair care section is the smallest so they are Bullshyting these numbers.

 

[KinksandCoils]

This is pretty much the exact same story I've heard from every black women who had their hair permed (they got their hair straightened as a child and they never learned how to properly care for their own hair). My GF has been natural for about 4 years now and she said that it wasn't until recently (mostly thanks to YouTube) that black women had an outlet to know about how to care for their own hair. She said before that trying to find a beauty salon that would even touch natural hair was pretty damn difficult. Of all the women I met who went natural, none of them did it for some afrocentric fukk white supremacy tip (which was shocking to me).

What percentage of the black women that you know have went natural?

Well I wouldn't say that I didn't know how to care for it. I didn't know how to style it. If I was good with cornrows and braid styles then I probably would never have kept relaxers. U don't see most people saying anything about going natural cause of white supremacy because that's not really why black women would get relaxers for real. It's mostly manageability. Imagine if every morning u had to wake up and do your hair if u weren't good at styling? U might say no big deal but it's exhausting. When I was getting relaxers I would just flatiron it and wrap it. In the mornings all I had to do was un wrap it and comb it down after I got dressed and I could be out the door. My hair didn't necessarily have to be straight it just needed to be easy to take care of.

Right now I have been doing braid outs and by the 3rd day my hair needs to be done. It takes about an hr and a half to do it. Why do I wear this style? Well I got heat damage and mutiple textures in my hair. The back is curly most of the sides are wavy and I got straight hair up in the front(heat damage). So I have to style it or it will look ridiculous.

Most of my friends are natural now but will do styles with weaves or wigs as well.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Yall wonder why so many foreigners come over here and have businesses? They don't have to pay taxes for the first 7 years on them and when those 7 years are up they just transfer ownership to another family member and the cycle repeats itself. Our government actually gives out info in S. Korea on how to do this and what types of businesses they can start that will be lucrative. You wont ever see me eating soul food from some Asian owned spot where the chicken wings taste like fukkin wontons and the collard greens taste like pork fried rice

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Well I wouldn't say that I didn't know how to care for it. I didn't know how to style it. If I was good with cornrows and braid styles then I probably would never have kept relaxers. U don't see most people saying anything about going natural cause of white supremacy because that's not really why black women would get relaxers for real. It's mostly manageability. Imagine if every morning u had to wake up and do your hair if u weren't good at styling? U might say no big deal but it's exhausting. When I was getting relaxers I would just flatiron it and wrap it. In the mornings all I had to do was un wrap it and comb it down after I got dressed and I could be out the door. My hair didn't necessarily have to be straight it just needed to be easy to take care of.

Right now I have been doing braid outs and by the 3rd day my hair needs to be done. It takes about an hr and a half to do it. Why do I wear this style? Well I got heat damage and mutiple textures in my hair. The back is curly most of the sides are wavy and I got straight hair up in the front(heat damage). So I have to style it or it will look ridiculous.

Most of my friends are natural now but will do styles with weaves or wigs as well.

Regarding the bolded, and this is a serious question, why not just put your hair in the little afro puff thing (not sure what the style is called). When my girl don't wanna fuss with her hair, she throws a rubber band around it and keeps it pushing. I've never actually seen her do it (as a man, somethings I don't wanna know ) but I'd imagine that style doesn't take a long time to pull off if you're natural.

 

[Data-Hawk]

Get your loser ass off the Internet for a change, go try and find a woman to have a kid with if you want someone to chastise.

This clown is always angry.